The GIRL Power

        This blog is about some critical incidents which happened with me and inspired me to admire and desire,"Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo(I want to be a girl in my next birth)"                       

                                                              Act 1:

     I was standing in a kilometer long queue for ticket cancellation at Pune railway station with my friend,Richa.The train for which I was cancelling the tickets was about to depart in half an hour. I tried to persuade people standing ahead of me to let me cancel my tickets first, as my train was about to leave. But, with no effect. They just ignored me like a beggar. I was hopeless in getting my ticket cancelled for another three hours. Richa  continously yelled and disturbed me for not being able to get the tickets cancelled. Surely it was because of her feminine traits. She like, Queen Elizabeth wants everything right when she demands. Sudddenly a brilliant idea struck me. I asked her to try if she could get the tickets cancelled. Actually it was out of frustration and even an experiment. She took the tickets from my hands like an eagle.She went to an uncle aged boy to ask if she could get her tickets cancelled befor him as she was she had to catch a flight. Like all testesterone charged men, he obliged her and allowed her a place ahead  of him to get her tickets cancelled. I was totally amazed. The impact of the shock was like a full-fledged punch on my nose. I slipped into the great depression immediately.

                                                                 Act 2:

Since we missed the train to Ahmedabad from Pune, we had to come to Ahmedabd via Mumbai in a Volvo. If we were some 2 minutes late, we would have missed the volvo also and a complaint would have been lodged in the police station by Richa's parents against me for kidnapping her. But I guarantee, if somebody ever tries to kidnap her, he would repent it for his entire life. Somehow we boarded the bus for our destination i.e. Ahmedabad.The bus seemed to be maintained properly. We got the second last row.But the real nightmare was about to start. We felt like we were in Antarctica. The A/C temperature was strategically adjusted to -5 degrees (somehow they managed it). It was chilling. That night i realized the value of our blazers which we were required to carry as we had gone for a B-plan competition in Pune. All the passengers in the bus were definately jealous of the extra-advantage we had over the freezing temp. I even came up with a great biz-plan that if we sold our blazers to our jealous-shivering co-passengers, we would have managed to earn atleast Rs.10000/blazer. Anyway the scenario was pitiful as everyone in the bus tried to persuade the bus conductor to increase the temperature, but he was adamant. I was showered with caustic comments by Richa. So I challenged her to go and get it changed herself. She went and pleaded the conductor once and as usual he obliged. I felt very bad for being  born as a boy for the first time in my life.I felt like demanding the government to introduce special rights for the increasing population of under-priviledged boys.

After that I witnessed many partial and unjust  situations like standing in a queue for movie-tickets, making presentations in class and all these incidents just  assured me of one thing "GIRL POWER".  The "WOMEN"S RESERVATION BILL" has just elevated the power to these NINJAS. Women have a lot of potential in them. They should just learn how,when and upon whom to use it. Kabhi Socha Hai???

The Rise of "COMMERCIAL KINGDOMS"

      Till the eighteenth century, one would hear the names of kings and their kingdoms.They were the people who ruled the world.They were the governing bodies.They used to decide what was to be done by the laymen and the laymen followed them.Everything they did became the trend.They used to play multiple roles of  being humanitarians,rulers,philanthropists, saviours and many more.They were the ones who acquired the vast wealth and power.They could do anything as per their whims and fancies because of the wealth and power.People would admire them.And these monarchs were found in almost every part of the world.Each region had its own king,who enjoyed the supreme power.In the eighteenth century the central power was the "QUEEN".She had all the luxuries and power.  

     But after the dawn of the industrial revolution the entire picture changed.The kings and monarchs were no longer the central powers.They were dethroned.Today, a majority part of the world has its own government while the kings/monarchs are just the acting powers.They don't have any significant power in their hands.There are exceptions to this like in U.A.E.,Jordan, Brunei etc.

     Now the major power vests with big organizations.They rule the world.They decide the ethics and values.Their owners are just like kings.They enjoy an authority equivalent to kings.They decide the latest trend.They decide the official sport e.g. Cricket is the official corporate game of India.They have all the luxuries at their feet.There are governments but basically they run the governments externally i.e. quasi by playing a passive role.They decide the policies.Different parts of world have different corporate kingdoms like Reliance in India,Microsoft and Google in America,Toyota in Japan etc.

    In short monarchy has not faded away.It has just been replaced by a better version, the version 2.0 i.e. "CORPORATE KINGDOM".KABHI SOCHA HAI???

There is nothing called "CORPORATE CULTURE"

Nowadays you all must have been increasingly hearing this word "CORPORATE CULTURE". There are more and more theories being made about how to live and follow a corporate culture. A whole new field of study has emerged out of this i.e.corporate culture. People are asked to learn the corporate way of life. We,the unfortunate students are major victims of this so called "corporate culture". We are always taught in our classes to do this, do that, stretch yourselves and learn to take pressure and blah blah blah...In the name of corporate culture people are unneccesarily being forced to face unrealistic pressures and situations.
Yesterday night I was just thinking about this "corporate culture" and i came out with surprising opinion regarding this corporate culture. As per me there is nothing called corporate culture. It just doesn't exist. After recession since companies were forced to cut their human resources, they removed people by saying that they were not fitting their culture. The jobs for freshers were also drying up. So, the HR managers of companies began to discard the freshers on the basis of their suitability to fit to corporate culture.
What I found is that for being successful you need to be as simple as possible. Nowadays the most selling thing is the simplicity.It is the most desired quality in any individual nowadays.It is with simplicity only that you can connect with the laymen. Companies are following simplicity even in their advertising campaigns also.Take example of any successful brand like Fevicol,Nirma,Pepsi etc.All of them insist on just a simple fact "sidhi baat no bakvaas" i.e. simplicity. It just strikes the chords.You can't win people by making things complex, you need to keep it as simple as possible for attracting masses. Jargons are good but only for understanding. In real life it is the simplicity that matters.
The blind run by companies towards cost cutting is another example.It is nothing but just a switch to simplicity.The measures adopted by the companies show that they are just moving towards simple processes by leaving complex ones.
At last the most sought after word during recession i.e."INNOVATION" is also a move to simplicity only. By innovating new ways of accomplishing tasks that are fast and cheaper, the companies were just simplifying the processes.
So for succeeding in professional career you need to have a simple mindset and way of thinking.If you have this then it is definite that you will attain heights.Kabhi socha hai???

Jid karo aur duniya badlo

Yesterday night i was thinking something about highly successful people. I was thinking about the differences between successful people and unsuccessful people. I gave this thing a lot of thought and finally i came out with just two points of differentiation between successful people and unsuccessful people. The results which I came out with were very surprising. They were very simple things which all of us can easily apply but we generally never give them a thought or just ignore them. The results were:
1) Courage to say “No” : This is one of the habit which we generally lack unknowingly. We in the pursuit of pleasing everyone generally don’t say “NO” to anybody. Many a times you might have came out with the situation in which your closed ones must have demanded of something, which you don’t want to do. But since he/she is your closed one, you cannot say “no”. You fear that others might get a bad feel about you or may even feel bad. But this is a total wrong myth. If you say “NO” to a justified thing then it is always right. If others are sensible enough they will understand your view point easily and won’t feel bad. This habit of saying “NO” at justifiable point of time always helps and also brings you a lot of reputation. It makes other feel as if you are a straightforward and a responsible person.
2) The other effective habit is taking responsibility and ownership of things, you are liable to genuinely. The habit of taking responsibility and ownership always helps a person to be more sincere and determined towards his/her goal. We generally lack this habit. The advertisement of Future group with Dhoni also says the same, “Jid Karo aur duniya badlo”. Apart from our workplace, we need to be responsible about the things happening in our surroundings too. Then only we can change the world. Our country is in deep need of such kind of people. Then only we can change our country.
I would like to quote an example of a railway engineer at Jalore, a small district in western Rajasthan. There is a sewerage project going on in the main city. Like all other government projects it is also going on very slowly. In the outskirts of the city, nearby railway colony as the sewer lines were being laid, a railway engineer was passing by them. He saw that the sewage pipes were cracked. Not just one or two all of the pipes were having cracks. He immediately complained this to the government contractor around. At first the contractor refused to hear anything regard this but when this gentleman complained this to the local people, a lot of people got assembled. Then the contractor felt pressurized and he accepted that the pipes were cracked and he immediately replaced them. The people also checked the piped laid down earlier and found that they too were crack. They asked the contractor to replace those crack pipes and finally he did. Thus a simple citizen like you and me, by showing a bit of responsibility towards society and surroundings can also bring a lot of change.
Thus, many a times by taking the responsibility of the things, we can achieve great heights.

So, for becoming a successful person we need these two qualities like other qualities of a successful person. These small things can bring a lot of change.
KABHI SOCHA HAI???

Holi Dilemma

Today after 3 odd months i came to my home. We students usually go to our home at festivals.Since i am also a student so following this trend.Currently i am pursuing my PGP in management and we management students usually think from a managerial perspective at all point of time.We usually discuss about terrorism,recession,global warming etc. We also talk about the impact of most of the things happening around us on the business.In short in a short duration of two years we begin to think in a global and business perspective.But many a times we usually forget the small happenings around us which are of greater happiness and concern.In this whole process, we become selfish and usually forget our childhood.We also forget the small things which used to give happiness to us when we were small.We overlook them and usually ignore them in this whole process of becoming global and manger.
Today when i reached my home, i was very happy.Then i told all my family members that we would be celebrating a dry holi this year.As i spoke these words, suddenly i faced a protest from all the kids and my mom.They began to treat me as a devil's advocate.My brother said me, "why the hell you have come here,to spoil our hapiness..." I was shocked.I told them that we would save a great amount of water if we play a dry holi.We would also add to environment protection.But all my efforts were in vain.
I faced the same protest on Diwali when i decided to celebrate a pollution free diwali i.e. no crackers.
Finally i decided to give this a thought.I asked about this to my grandfather.I asked him about my brother's claim that how can i after celebrating "21 colourful holi" and "21 diwali full of crackers" would deprive them of his right in their 7th year only.My grandfather then asked me to think on the same statement only.I gave it a thought and finally concluded that we need to use different strategies to convince our younger ones.We need to think from a child mindset to convince them.
This was totally thought provoking and gave me a lesson that to convince others we have to think from others' mindset.
Well happy holi to you all.