Capacity Building and Development

If God were to propose and the Human beings were to dispose, would human beings dispose of all the gods at the first instant???

2011-12-29T07:39:00.000-08:00

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If God were topropose and the Human beings were to dispose, would human beings dispose of allthe gods at the first instant???

Not a very human thought, I know

But, would that mean a peaceful world for all of us???

It could perhaps, if we look at recent history, we will findthat most of the wars have been fought in the name gods faiths, religion, andbeliefs. Inter and Intra religious differences have resulted in both civil& military wars, in turn resulting in huge loss of innocent human lives.

Please read further Here

Help make Christmas merrier for us,Help us bloom and Blossom

2011-12-24T09:42:00.000-08:00

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Merry Christmas to everyone everywhere on this planet and beyond.

HELP US BLOOM AND BLOSSOM

HELP MAKE CHRISTMAS MERRIER FOR US

THERE ARE NO VICTORS IN A BLOODY WAR, LET US NOT MAKE THE HUMAN RACE EXTINCT

WE ARE TOO YOUNG TO DIE

PLEASE READ THE COMPLETE MESSAGE HERE

INCOMPLETE STORY.....Vaikuntha Lata & " The Battle of Bulge"

2011-11-30T05:17:00.001-08:00

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THE INCOMPLETE STORY

Vaikuntha Lata and the "Battle of the Bulge"

Excerpts

"Ranjit was impressed with Daigi dedication and slowly started entrusting him with larger responsibilities. One such responsibility put both Daigi speechless."

" Slowly Ranjit raised his head and started slowly, “I have an idea Daigi, an idea that would get both entertainment and conversion” "

"Ranjit began slowly and hesitatingly, in an almost inaudible tone he asked."

“How about Vaiki for the last item”

Glossary: Vaikuntha: Paradise,Lata: plant climber or creeper.

Vaikuntha Lata:A medium through which a person can experience Heavenly pleasures

Please read the Incomplete Story

Management+ on Vidya Nidhi 10-13

2011-10-13T07:42:00.000-07:00

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Students in Graduation, enjoy free participation into virtual class room organized by Vidya Nidhi. Pay just Rs. 200.00 for registration per class.

“Management +” on Google+ from Vidya Nidhi, direct to your computer.

We are conducting series of management classes relevant to the students in their degree or post graduation including MBA. These classes will make the students more management savvy and help them to perform better in interviews. These classes are applicable to the students of all streams of management, and other graduation streams. more...

Guest Lectures through "Vidya Nidhi"

2011-09-16T06:43:00.000-07:00

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Guest Lectures often end up consuming huge expenses for theB-Schools in the form of travel costs, Hotel and Hospitality costs and waste ofconsiderable time for the Professionals delivering lectures in the form of timespent in travelling. Unfortunately a Professional spends more time in travelthan in actual delivery of lecture.

This is something that is discouraging both theprofessionals and the B-Schools from organizing more number of lectures andproving detrimental to the quality of the output of the B-Schools.

We at “Vidya Nidhi” have devised a way to cut on time andmoney for the B-Schools.

We will deliver one virtual classroom for the B-schoolinterested to test the platform. Just “one off lecture” for the institution to see and decide.

This will cost theinstitutions a small amount. (No free lunches at Vidya Nidhi) more

Collaborate with Vidya Nidhi

2011-09-08T00:01:00.000-07:00

google-site-verification: googled8cb12c78271c415.html“Vidya Nidhi”would now like to collaborate with Universities-Schools, Academies, ofinternational repute located preferably in USA. The minimum pre-requisite is adecent global ranking and respectable ranking in USA from the prestigiousRanking institutions like US News, Bloomberg, Financial Times, and others. Weare only looking at Tier One Institutions. India has a wealth of talent of andis a warehouse of quality content, however these are already accessible to theIndian Institutions and Academies, We are looking at premium content andimparting technologies not presently accessible to the Indian Institutions. more...

Strategic Planning & Operations 08-26

2011-08-26T07:51:00.000-07:00

Strategic Planning and Implementation for an organization, is akin to supply of oxygen to a Living Organism. The wherewithal’s and Tools for Strategic Planning and Execution.

This is an article positioned at the CEO, COO, CXO, and other senior management executives. The students can also read this article, but it is quite possible that they may find it confusing. I have tried to detail all the tools and implements that could be helpful in this process. Indians would be happy to know that an Indian PSU Hindustan Petroleum Corporation LTD has made it to the list top twenty organizations in the world, who have entered the BSC Hall of Fame Report 2011.They have for company, FBI, Abu-Dhabi Government, City of San Fernando Philippines and others. more....

Academy or Aca-Dummy 07-30

2011-07-30T11:54:00.000-07:00

You are an Educational Institute alright, but…

Are you an Academy or an Aca-Dummy?

I feel, we have more of the latter…..

Last month I had written an article, which was a comparative one between the two of the world’s most famous B-Schools in the world “Harvard Vs Wharton a comparative study”. It is all about how an educational institution has to be, & the parameters and the metrics, against which the institutions have to be evaluated. Of course we could also do the same comparison between IIMs & ISB or IITs & the BITS. But the data available is not sufficient for carrying out a full analysis on all the relevant parameters. Some rankings that are being carried by the highly respected magazines are honest no doubt, but they lack the in-depth analysis. Even that is viewed by a very few parent. Usually the parents fall for the high claims made by the institutions in their ads. Hardly any institution is asked to substantiate its claims with documents.

We need a set of highly demanding parents to make the institutions more responsible in their thought and actions. .....more...

Please also read my other well accepted article on Educatio

Let us take the campuses to the corporates..

Harvard vs Wharton a comparision

2011-05-17T23:00:00.000-07:00

Wharton vs. Harvard Business School

At the most simplistic level, you can think of Wharton as the school of facts and Harvard as the school of stories. Wharton is a numbers-driven, fact-craved MBA institution. Harvard is a story-driven place, as evidenced by its near total reliance on the case study method of teaching. As J.J. Cutler, deputy dean of Wharton’s MBA Admissions and Career Services, puts it, “We are a fact-based and data-driven school. We do not have a charisma-style approach. We let the data drive us and help lead us to the solutions.”

That sounds like a disguised knock on Harvard, and it might very well be. Yet, it gives you a clue as the basic difference between these two great MBA schools.more...

2011 Alumni Achievement Awards at HBS View Video

Elite Institutions & Eluding Parent Patronage

2011-04-20T18:00:00.000-07:00

Educationand its quality is one factor that decides & impacts the quality of socioeconomic life a person leads. Naturally every parent aspires forthe best in education for his children,especially in India where there isvirtual hand holding till at least the graduate level. Now if you think, thisis the trend only amongst the educated parents, you are in for surprise.

Ina survey conducted in the Hyderabad slums, it was found out that 65% parentssent their children to private schools. This fact was more or less corroboratedby my own experience, while interviewing post graduate students (MSc) in theprestigious Andhra University campus at Vizag. I found that a large number(almost majority) including girls hailed from small villages and whose parentswere laborers surviving on daily wages. The grit, the determination, and themindset of these uneducated parents make the thinking of pseudo intellectualslike us look pedestrian.

Nowwho is a real intellectual? The uneducated intellectuals more than deserve thefew lines that I have dedicated to them. more...

Live Projects, Employment,Imparting,Curriculum, Whose responsible??.................. India Jai Ho

2011-04-03T11:25:00.000-07:00

Anyarticle on education draws considerable attention and even controversy.

Lastyear my article on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) drew somuch attention, that it made it to the home page of WikiHow. Anything reachingany wiki home page is bound to become controversial. A substantiated statementthat, US ranks 29^th in the world in the math literacy, amongthe 15 year olds, brought huge protests from the Americans. The brickbats arestill there for all to see in the discussions section of the article.

WhileI write this article, I have just received the highest honor the wiki communityawards to its members. “The Barn Star” award for my contribution to the wikiHowcommunity in the form 15 articles to “make the world better". more...

The Barn Star Award

2011-04-02T03:16:00.000-07:00

Barn Star Award for 2011 for Shyam

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Is Money Everything???

2011-03-26T10:04:00.000-07:00

I feel it is not wise to either agree or disagree with either. It is all a case of circumstances, environment, Karma and Dharma.

What if the lure of money was not there?? Would people still work?? One’s need for money is fulfillment of some other need for other. Is earning money also societal??

How much of it is societal, and beyond which point is it greed??

Now what is greed??

What is right and what is wrong??? more...

Please also read Shyam's article

The Path Lies Within....

Astute Strategy Formulation for sustenance in Balance Score Card Implementation

2011-03-23T02:13:00.000-07:00

The Balance Score card was defined clearly in terms of process and methodology in the early nineties by Dr. Robert Kaplan and Dr. David Norton, and subsequently Balance Score Card software was developed. It is a well known fact that dramatic results were obtained by the organizations with the implementation of BSC.

However it was observed that after initial euphoric response, there seemed to an inertia and uncertainty, when it came to the ability to sustain the process. This often dealt a severe blow to the process of optimization of production cycles and processes.

The authors felt the need for creation of an independent office which could on permanent basis take care of sustainability in the implementation of the Balance Score Card. They devised a process for the sustainability and gave a simple nomenclature to define it. They christened it as Office of Strategy Management (OSM).

The last five years have seen a heavy wave of organizations adopting the OSM. In a recent survey of Hall of Fame organizations, over 85% have already built this organizational capacity (the OSM) to make strategy execution.

Why OSM is needed??

We know that there is continuous churn at the top of the organization. With the change in positions, changes in personnel, the inevitable change in perspective is brought about. The new perspective is likely to treat the Balance Score Card implementation as a lesser priority, resulting in continuity being a casualty.

We have independent offices for Finance, HR, Marketing and others, why not one for the strategy. Strategy is one office that drives all other offices towards optimization by providing real time evaluation.

Now let us have a look at the functioning of the OSM.

In the October 2005 Harvard Business Review, Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton introduced the concept of a new enterprise function to coordinate and integrate all strategy management processes. Through a $5 million research effort involving over 60 organizations (25% of which are in the Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy®)

They learned that sustaining a performance management system like the Balanced Scorecard requires two components:

1. A clearly defined process that is customized to fit into the existing Governance cycle of the Organization.

2. Establishment of an independent entity to oversee the implementation of BSC, an entity that coordinates with other departments and oversees the implementation of BSC everywhere and provides real time evaluation reports. This will facilitate path corrections for the departments in the initial stages itself.

Thus a new integrative system was evolved for strategy management named Office of Strategy Management (OSM).

OSM plays three important roles.

The Architect

The Office of Strategy Management

Process Owner-------------------------------------------------------Integrator

Roles:

The Architect:

Define and clarify the philosophy

of performance management

and the processes required to

execute.

The Process Owner

Define, develop and oversee the

execution of processes required to

manage the strategy.

• Develop the Strategy

• Translate the Strategy

• Align the Organization

• Plan and Fund the Strategy

• Review the Strategy

• Test and adapt the Strategy

The Integrator

Insure that processes owned and

run by other functional executives

are linked to the strategy.

• Human Capital

• Strategy Communications

• Initiative Management

• Financial Resource Management

• Key Process Management

OSM imparts a sustainable competency; one that can survive churn at the top of the organization as well as changes in ownership and disruptive changes in the marketplace. In fact, organizations with an OSM in place

have been better prepared to weather the recessionary storm that has buffeted the global economy over the past three years.These organizations have reported stronger performance over the past three years and are much more optimistic about their chances of success in the coming years compared to organizations that are not so equipped.

I will be pleased to give a detailed presentation on OSM to corporates and the B-Schools

Best wishes,

Shyam

Lataji

2011-03-08T06:51:00.000-08:00

Lata ji good at anything she does...

At Music, At chopsticks

Sher shared by Lata ji

गाहे गाहे (कभी कभी) इसे भी पढ़ा कीजए, दिल सी, कोई किताब नहीं

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तुम ज़माने की राह से आये,वरना सीधा था रास्ता दिल का

I wish you enough...

2011-02-15T07:25:00.000-08:00

Stolen from Paul Coelho's blog

I wish you enough

Published on February 14, 2011 in News.

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(today a received an email from a very close friend of mine. I asked her if I could share it here, and she agreed)

Feb 14, 2011

Dear Friends,
Amongst all the activities I enjoy in London (shows, galleries, big parties etc…), the moment I enjoyed and cherished most was spending time with my 86 year old neighbor, who always took time to make me his own special coffee with a plate of cookies so graciously served to me on a white linen We used to spend hours talking…primarily me talking and he listening… with his advice whenever I asked.
Yesterday, I sent an email to him (the text is not mine) which was bounced back to me, and after having my husband (who is presently in London) check on him, I received a call to tell me that he had passed away on Jan 28th. My message of appreciation to him was a bit too late…
Below you find my message
Love
I.C.

Recently I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure.
Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the father said, ‘I love you, and I wish you enough.’

They kissed and the daughter left. The father walked over to the window where I was seated. I tried not to intrude on his privacy, but I could not refrain from asking:
‘When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, ‘I wish you enough.’ May I ask what that means?’

He began to smile. ‘That’s a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone.’
He paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail, and he smiled even more.
‘When we said, ‘I wish you enough,’ we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them.’
Then turning toward me, he shared the following as if he were reciting it from memory.

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more..

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.

I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting…
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.

I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good- bye.

The path lies within........

2011-02-13T19:09:00.000-08:00

If eternal Bliss is destination, then he path lies within. You need to surrender to your inner self to conquer the world

You cannot seek an acquaintance with the world when your inner self is a stranger to you.

Peace of mind is something everyone aspires for, and yet nobody seems to know when, where, and how to get it. Over a period of time, term “peace of mind” has undergone a transformation from a qualitative entity to a quantitative entity. People now a days speak in terms of “some peace of mind” to describe their aspiration or achievement. It can no longer be equated with the total tranquility of mind and the body. Peace of mind or lack of it can be the result of conquest over or conflict with self.

“In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.”

Dalai Lama

Now this seemingly complicated entity can be related to simple activities like retention and release, self-protection or surrender. Or may be getting a bit out of touch with yourself? You are the problem and the solution. The destination is yourself, and the path lies within you.
Then how to go about it? What is retention and what is release? What is an Armour and what is a surrender?

Frankly speaking, I am also an explorer, not a conqueror, still traversing, still finding my way out of the maze, knowing fully well that destination is not the culmination of the journey, but the beginning of the next. It is an oasis all right, but chasing it is so fulfilling experience, that you never give up.

There is continuous stream of healing, love & good will flowing through us continuously. All we have to do is join it willingly & whole-heartedly, and make it a part of us.
How to go about it?

Release and heal what hurts mentally, physically, emotionally, & spiritually. Said easily than done, I know it. But then there is a way to it. We can always try.
It is important to build a relationship with your inner self. You have to discover yourself, and align with the spiritual source. Every one has inner guidance factor. We just need to get in touch with it.

Vulnerability is strength not a weakness as it gives us access to true strength. But it hardly happens. Right from our childhood, we build Armour of self righteousness, which comes in the way of retention and acquisition of good values and release of the ones not so relevant for us.

Awareness of this is a big step forward towards freedom and ignorance of it is the cause of all our adulthood sufferings.

It is absolutely necessary to break free of the shackles of childhood learning, which portrays vulnerability as a weakness. It is just the opposite. It is surrender to love, which gives all the strength in the universe that comes from that – true strength. We need to be open to feel love. Vulnerability is openness. The greatest challenge in this life has always been to let down the walls of self-protection and release the energy that created them.

And may be when we implement this difficult but certainly impossible practice. We can feel peace of mind once again as a qualitative experience rather than quantities entity.

I would like to conclude with a Marathi shlok from great saint poet from Chatpati Shivaji era Samarth Ramdas’s “Manache Shlok”.” The prescription for eternal peace.”

मना सज्जना भक्ती पंथेची जावे
तरी श्री हरी पाविजे तो स्वभावे
जनी निन्धीयते सर्व सोडूनी द्यावे
जनी वन्द्यते सर्व भावे करावे
(समर्थ रामदास )

(Oh Holy mind, you should proceed in the direction of devotion. Then you can visualize the god in your nature & seek his divine blessings. The Act, which attracts criticism from people, should not be pursued. The act which gets reverence from people and is liked by all should be pursued.)

I would like to conclude with the following sloka from Vishnu Sahasranaman

na krodho na mAtsaryam na lobho nAsubhA matih |
bhavanti kRta puNyANAm bhaktAnAm purushottame || (13)

" Neither anger nor jealousy, neither greed nor evil thoughts haunt
the minds of those people who are devotees of purushottama (The
Supreme Being) and who have acquired merit by virtuous deeds " .

Best wishes,

Shyam

Here is an interesting question and my attempt to answer it,I invite my friends to join the and improve upon my answer, and also raise other pertinent questions.

Bhupinder Singh Salva • The message is great, however, how to one understand the self to remove life's conflicts & achieve peace of mind? Is it through passive observation of thoughts, emotions, actions, etc. or is it achieved by stop comparing with the success of others?

Please keep us posted with your enlighten thoughts.

Thanks

Shyamsunder Panchavati • Thank you very much for your comments. Farhat Raza sir, and Bhupinder sir. How to understand the inner self to remove life's conflicts & achieve peace of mind ?? . Very few have been able to find the answer to this question. Those who have understood it completely and implemented are great seers and saints we follow today.

But those that have done to a major extent, have also been great successes in life.

Now to answer Bhupinder ji's question. Passive observation of thoughts and actions of others should be followed by an astute judgment of their suitability to our situation, nature. All good actions may not be all that good for everyone.

Dr.A P J Abdul Kalam for whom I had the good fortune of working, feels that in a day, the individual should devote at least two hours for himself, and do things that do not bind him to anything earthly or heavenly.

My feeling is that an individual always works for a cause that benefits others (others includes kin, family members, physical, satiations and infatuations.). At least two hours in a day a man should live for himself, contemplate. Meditate, and do things that do not give results physically, mentally, or spiritually, should not expect any satisfaction and well being out of it.

He should just shut himself from the outer world and slowly he will start hearing from inside. His actions during that time may sometimes border on or be close to lunacy. But that imparts considerable amount of sanity to his rest of the day’s activity.

Best wishes,

Shyam

The CEO's Shakespearian Dilemma

2011-02-12T06:14:00.000-08:00

CEO’s Shakespearian Dilemma….

To be or not to be, (or how much to be) that is the question…

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

This famous soliloquy more or less describes the dilemma the information  overload and

 multitasking has imposed on the CEO’s of the day. Of the enormous amount information;
desirable, undesirable, solicited, unsolicited, important and trivial, often presents
dilemma for then CEO of what is to be considered, what is to be ignored, where
action is to be taken and where it is to be left alone.

Technology advance brings with it the evils of its own. The speed with which the information is received and decimatedand the tremendous amount of information flow through all the channels of communication, is making multitasking essential and inevitable, especially for the senior management and “C” level executives.

There is a feeling that the speed and diversity is causing an information overload. Is this overload reducing the efficiency and adversely affecting the quality of delivery of the executives.

One might think that constant exposure to new information at least makes us more creative. Here again, the opposite seems to be true. Teresa Amabile and her colleagues at the Harvard Business School evaluated the daily work patterns of more than 9,000 individuals working on projects that required creativity and innovation. They found that the likelihood of creative thinking is higher when people focus on one activity for a significant part of the day and collaborate with just one other person. Conversely, when people have highly fragmented days—with many activities, meetings, and discussions in groups—their creative thinking decreases significantly.

These findings also make intuitive sense. Creative problem solving typically requires us to hold several thoughts at once “in memory,” so we can sense connections we hadn’t seen previously and forge new ideas. When we bounce around quickly from thought to thought, we know we’re less likely to make those crucial connections.

While Human beings have worked to continuously increase the quality and speed of the communication in terms of distribution, reception and decimation, the communication mechanism in the Human Body has remained constant. In case of multitasking, while the executives switch from one task to the next quite fast, it takes longer for the brain to switch off from one task and switch on to the next. Hence the productivity of the executives is less in each of the multiple tasks they handle, when compared to the output when they are handling single tasks.

In a recent study, for example, participants who completed tasks in parallel took up to 30 percent longer and made twice as many errors as those who completed the same tasks in sequence. The delay comes from the fact that our brains can’t successfully tell us to perform two actions concurrently. When we switch tasks, our brains must choose to do so, turn off the cognitive rules for the old task, and turn on the rules for the new one. This takes time, which reduces productivity, particularly for heavy multitaskers—who, it seems, take even longer to switch between tasks than occasional multitaskers

This is like a scourge for the “C” level executives. They need long uninterrupted hours in order to synthesize the information flowing in from different directions, different sources, They need time to reflect on the possible implication it could have on the organization and its bottom lines, they also need to deliberate on the quantity of the quality time that needs to be allocated, make judgments, work on possible trade offs.

This is not a new problem, although the intensity has been increasing by the day. Peter Drucker in his sixties famous book “The effective Executive” has dealt with the problem in detail.

In the ancient Indian scriptures there is a mention of an art and profession named “Avadhanam”. This art is related to an act of absorbing large amount of information from number of sources (from eight to thousands), Ashtavadhanam (8), Shatavdhanam (100), Sahasravdhanam (1,000), and reproducing it back from memory any time during the event which runs for days together, amidst disturbances deliberately created by ringing of bells, and topic deviation, others. There are still some practitioners of this art in South India. And we remain awestruck by their skills memory power and knowledge.

(From Wikipedia) View Demo video

Avadhanam is a literary performance popular from the very ancient days in Sanskrit and more so inTelugu (అవధానం) and Kannada languages. It requires immense memory power and tests a person's capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously. All the tasks are memory intensive and demand an in depth knowledge of literature, and prosody. The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random. No external memory aids are allowed while performing these tasks except the person's own brain, not even so much as a writing utensil.

Avadhani (Telugu: అవధాని) refers to the individual who performs the Avadhanam; the group who queries the performer are the prucchaka(One who asks questions, Telugu: పృఛ్ఛకులు). The first person to ask the question is called "Pradhana prucchaka;" he is the same as any other prucchaka except that, he asks the first question. The Prucchakas put forth questions to the avadhani, which are primarily literary in nature. The Prucchakas can optionally place additional constraints. Though it is not stated explicitly, conformation to Chandassu (Poetic Meter) is mandatory. Avadhani should answer them in the form of a poem. The literary questions generally consist of a description given in prose and the avadhani has to express it as a poem. The additional restrictions placed by the Prucchakas can be anything like asking the avadhani not to use a given set of alphabetical characters in the entire poem or to construct only a particular type of poem etc.

Most of the executives have a well-planned task schedule for the day, in the dairy. The problem is with the equally important unplanned unscheduled work that keeps creeping in throughout the day in the form of phone calls, emails, client meetings unscheduled travel, others. These are the greatest time eaters ever known. For every planned day’s work, you have two or three day’s unplanned work seeking your urgent attention.

In laboratory settings, researchers have found that subjects asked to multitask show higher levels of stress hormones. A survey of managers conducted by Reuters revealed that two-thirds of respondents believed that information overload had lessened job satisfaction and damaged their personal relationships. One-third even thought it had damaged their health.

After going through the case studies and examining the solid evidence that more than proves the negative impact on optimization, that multitasking has, It is better for the executives, managements, and the organizations to understand that quality work needs, quality time to be allocated, for quality delivery.

The senior executives need to be very discerning in selecting and ignoring the information according to its relevance to the task on hand. This is not easy because they need to go through every bit of information to keep them informed, and set aside the ones not immediately required. The senior executives should be able to develop a self-disciplined, monitoring and evaluation system by which they could apply almost every hour to check the quantum of delivery planned and the actual quantity delivered and make necessary amends immediately.

After perfecting this system for their work, the senior executives need to ensure that the same system is uniformly followed down the hierarchy. The executives down the line should be able to share bulk of the work of the senior executive leaving him with enough time to attend to the most important.

What is the solution to this problem?

A good filtering strategy, therefore, is critical. It starts with giving up the fiction that leaders need to be on top of everything, which has taken hold as information of all types has become more readily and continuously accessible. Rather, plain old delegation is as important with information as it always has been with tasks. It is very important to make people understand what information not to send. Especially the secretaries and assistants should be taught the astute filtering process. At the end of the day the secretary can send a small briefing about the mails received and not forwarded, so that the senior executive has the knowledge of the mails not forwarded.

There is no absolute solution to this problem. You cannot have a solution that is universal in application. In spite of the best solutions, the best executives may derive,

You will always have the executives pondering about

To be or not to be, that is the question

Probably Shakespeare created this famous soliloquy with today’s executives in mind. I already visualize the great playwright turning in his grave and having good laugh. at today's executive's predicament .

Please share your thought

Best wishes,

Shyam

Leadership is beyond clichés & rhetoric’s,

2011-02-07T05:39:00.000-08:00

Leadership is beyond clichés & rhetoric’s, it has more to do with Professional Ethics and Human Values that win you hearts and bring Transformations.

We people in the marketing have seen many mangers repeating often repeated clichés, & rhetoric’s. Most of the times without understanding the meaning and consequent hurt that may cause to the person being addressed. These generally are picked up by the first line managers from their middle management bosses, who in turn pick it up from their senior managers who again get it from “C” level managers. This negative percolation down the order was very much in vogue in the good old sixties and seventies when the “C” level managers were from a different country. Certain clichés are not taken affront off in certain countries,, but down the orient especially in India, these are not considered gentlemanly (more specifically some four letter words.)

I can quote an instance from the seventies, that relates to a large multinational organization from USA .in Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Healthcare. The Country Head from India was giving a presentation to the Chairman and other board members. He spoke eloquently about a product, which had registered an extra ordinary growth during the year gone by; suddenly the Chairman, who made the following statement, rudely interrupted him.

“There is no greatness in selling this product, our brand is like “Rolls Royce “ which sells on its reputation. Even a dog with a brochure tied to its neck can sell the product it does not need any human effort”.

It is needless to enunciate how the country manager would have felt

When the country manager returned to India, you could well guess what would have happened. The message faihfully percolated down the line to the last executive. The last executive did not have any one to transfer it to. He faithfully used it on the retailer with added native flavor. Would a retailer tolerate any such nonsense???

You can well imagine the loss caused by this to the organization.

So leadership is all about taking values from your senior. Managers. The negatives, even if they travel up to you, the buck should stop there.

Now let me cite an example of the positives percolating down.

The Japanese culture and their management method including “Kaizen” are worth emulation by all everywhere in the world.
I cite a small example.

A leading Japanese multinational, which is into electronics and infrastructure, systematically, breeds high levels ignorance in their staff right from the stage of initiation, simultaneously imparting highest level of knowledge in the area of their work. I was surprised to find a senior Japanese technician totally ignorant about his company info like turnover, manpower count, he didn’t even know the name of his chairman. He innocently admitted that he only remembered the person he reported to, and people who reported to him. Yet he had contributed constructively to the infrastructure aspects of the power plants, his company built in many countries.

Now just have a look at his bosses extra intelligence or lack of it.

My friend wrote to this man ( A senior executive) to get a Sony car stereo for his BMW, whenever he came to India next. The man wrote back. “Ok I will get the car stereo, but what about the car.” It took a while for my friend to understand the message. Now the perception of the Japanese was, to get a car stereo, you had to buy a car, pluck the stereo out, and…. What to do with the car? Now he could be excused for the ignorance of the fact that car stereos were available separately in the market. Because this ignorance led to the expertise in his own field.

Nothing except work or work related information.This is what, I call positive percolation.

Now compare this to a senior executive from west. He will not only remember everything about his chairman (down to the scandals). He will give you all info (including personal) about other heads like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Warren Buffet et al.

(These incidents from early nineties when internet had not invaded our lives.)

Qualities that make a good leader

Attitudes towards goals & goal setting for the team

It is important to take a personal and active look when setting the goals. Get into the shoes of the team members. Think analyze & understand the likely thought process of the team members the moods the attitudes, the fears, the resentments. Allow them to express & justify. Understand and agree with their justification. Bring them into totally non-combative mood. Appeal to their human side.

One thing every one appreciates in a leader is honesty. One thing everyone hates in a leader is duplicity. If duplicity is a part of professional leadership, then it is better to be a personal leader than a professional one.

Explain to them how each member can help save a few jobs, or create a few jobs at the junior most level by reaching the goals. How many more can he help create by exceeding it?

Arouse the philanthropist in him and see how he suddenly becomes pro-active in goal setting process. The leader has to relate to the team directly intuitively & emphatically .the focus should clearly be on the substance of the decision including the repercussions.

Implementation & Work Pattern

It is important to understand that every member has his own approach to goal attainment listening to them in fact increases the options for the leader. So long as they go with the organizational policy, ideas should be encouraged. The best way of making most of the opportunity is accommodating the members thinking, even if it involves a little risk. This will ensure an involvement of heart soul & body into the task.

Human values require the leader to have a sense of self, an ability to profoundly alter the human, emotional, and economic relationship, the ability to feel separate from the organization. Here the order of preference is the team member, team, and organization.

I know the management purists may not agree with me. But as I said, when nothing works, it is the human values that get you through.

Your opinion on this, as always, is very valuable for me.

Best wishes,

Shyam

Reverse Innovation, is it fair to use the term for India & China

2011-02-05T08:49:00.001-08:00

Is it fair to use the term “Reverse Innovation” for the technology emanating from India & China, especially when these countries are emerging as technology super powers????

There was a time when the Innovation was considered to emanate from the rich countries like USA, Germany, & Britain and spread to the rest of the developed world and then when it became obsolete in the developed world, it used to slowly drip down to the developing world as new technology. This was considered the process and procedure for the better part of the 20^thcentury, and was closer to the reality of the times also.

In India, the protectionist attitude and the populist policies were responsible for that, on account of the over dependence of the political parties on the industrialists for party funding, which allowed the corporates to mint money by selling outdated technologies and products to the people. Government also on its part, to protect the interest of Indian Business House, did not allow new technology into India except for defence, where also India availed the rupee payment option for the bulk of the imports from Soviet Union.

Add to this, the grim financial situation borne out of the 1971 Pakistan war, compelled India to protect its precious, precarious, Foreign Exchange Reserves. Which prevented the import of foreign technology, even in the priority sector like healthcare. Bulk of the foreign exchange was used to import petroleum products and of course for the luxury trips of Ministers and bureaucrats under various pretexts.

In China too, strong communist policies prevented the country from opening up to the latest in technology from the west. Its progress was limited to the defence and aerospace.

This was certainly not an ideal situation for Innovation & development of technology in India & China. Though it was in the eighties when both India & China started the liberalization process under Rajeev Gandhi and Deng Xiaoping, It was in the nineties that both the countries opened the gate to technology, progress, & prosperity.

Turn of the century saw India slowly but firmly getting a foothold in the development of technology in IT & ITES so much so that there was a reverse trickle of Innovative and cost effective technologies from Asia to the west. India and China could now boast of the best in Human Resources and Technologies. Successive Prime Ministers in India, Jiang Zemin & Hu Jintao in China propelled these two countries towards unparalleled Economic Growth.

Deprivations the west was suffering from were the assets the Asia was leveraging to usher in this revolution.

The west was taken aback by this sudden upsurge from Asia and sent them thinking. It was in this situation that in 2005, a phrase “Innovation Blowback” was coined to describe this process, by John Hagel III and John Seely Brown in their 2005 McKinsey Quarterly article titled “Innovation blowback: Disruptive management practices from Asia." It was called Disruptive Management policies because it tried to disrupt & reverse the trend of trickle of technology from the developed countries to the developing ones.

This process was used intelligently by GE in its process of globalization and was given a respectable name “Reverse Innovation”. Professors Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble and GE’s Jeffrey R. Immelt first used this term.

Management Guru Late C K Prahalad had this to add “There are five ways in which resource-starved developing countries lead rich nations: 1) affordability, 2) leapfrog technologies, 3) service ecosystems, 4) robust systems, and 5) add-on applications. These very deprivations are catalysts for reverse innovation.”

Recession, and the Research Shrinkage in the West.

Continued and unrelenting recession has forced corporates in west to shift or outsource their Research and Development to Asia. All the large corporates are using the “Reverse Innovation” to keep themselves afloat amidst the stiff competition and the reducing bottom lines. GE has used it effectively for is globalization effort & other are also getting into the mode. Flow of regular technologies up west, is now a regular feature rather than an exception.

This being the situation, is it correct to use the term “Reverse Innovation” for the technologies emanating from India & the developing world???

Please express your views.

Best wishes,

Shyam

Examples of Reverse Innovation:

Tata Motors – Tata Nano

While companies like Ford set up its global automobile platform in India and catered to the niche premium segments in India, Tata introduced the Tata Nano for the price conscious consumer in India in 2009. Tata plans to launch Tata Nano in Europe and U.S. subsequently.

GE – GE MAC 800

GE’s innovation on the GE MAC 400 to build a portable low-cost ECG machine to cater to the rural population who cannot afford expensive health care was launched as an improved version a year later in 2009, in U.S. as MAC 800.

Procter and Gamble (P&G) – Vicks Honey Cough – Honey-based cold remedy

P&G’s (Vicks Honey Cough) honey-based cold remedy developed in Mexico found success in European and the United States market.

Nestle – Low-cost, low-fat dried noodles

Nestle’s Maggi brand – Low-cost, low-fat dried noodles developed for rural India and Pakistan found a market in Australia and New Zealand as a healthy and budget-friendly alternative.

Xerox – Innovation Managers

Xerox has employed two researchers who will look for inventions and products from Indian start-ups that Xerox can use for North America. The company calls them as ‘innovation managers’

Microsoft – Starter Edition

Microsoft is using its Starter edition’s (targeted at not so technically savvy customers in poor countries and with low-end personal computers) simplified help menu and videos into future U.S. editions of its Windows operating system.

Nokia – New business models

Nokia’s classified ads in Kenya are being tested as new business models. Nokia also incorporated new features in its devices meant for U.S. customers after observing phone sharing in Ghana

Hewlett-Packard (HP) – Research Labs in India

HP intends to use its research lab to adapt Web-interface applications for mobile phones in Asia and Africa to other developed markets.

Godrej – Chotukool Refrigerator

In February 2010, Godrej Group’s appliances division, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co Ltd test-marketed a low-cost (dubbed the world’s lowest-priced model at Rs 3,250) refrigerator targeted mainly at rural areas and poor customers in India. The product runs without a compressor on a battery and cooling chips. The company wants to use a community-led distribution model (as an alternative channel of distribution) to push for product growth.

Tata – Swacch – World’s cheapest water purifier

Swacch means clean in Hindi. Tata launched the water purifier – Tata Swacch targeting the rural market in India with the cheapest water purifier in the market. The product does not require running water, power or boiling and uses paddy husk ash as a filter. It also uses silver nanotechnology. It can give purified water enough to provide a family of five drinking water for a year. The company feels it will open a whole new market.

Pepsico – Kurkure and Aliva

Pepsi is planning to give developed markets (particularly West Asia) a taste of its salted snack Kurkure (and also another snack Aliva). The product enjoys huge success in India and has become a Rs 700 crore brand within a decade of its launch. The success is attributed to product innovation and a good marketing strategy. E.g. Made from corn, rice and gram flour, zero per cent trans fats and no cholesterol, Rs-3 small packs for pushing sales in the lower-tier towns.

Bharat Forge – Maintenance Management Practice

The best practices group at Bharat Forge, a large Indian manufacturer and exporter of automobile components implemented a maintenance management practice it developed in India (developed over 15 to 18 years) in its units it acquired in countries (known for sophisticated engineering) in Germany, Sweden and U.S. The maintenance management process focused on minimizing downtime during machine maintenance and has an advanced information system that predicts problems before they happen. Consequently, Bharat Forge plants globally are very efficient and have an average down time of less than 10 per cent.

KFC – Taco Bell – Yum! Restaurants

KFC test-marketed Krushers, a range of chilled drinks in the cold beverages segment in India and Australia and plans to introduce it to other markets. The launch in India was very successful as ‘Krushers’ accounts for 8 per cent of KFC’s beverage sales in India.

Yum! Restaurant’s Tex-Mex chain Taco Bell has one Indian-designed dessert (tortilla filled with melted dark chocolate) on Taco Bell’s US menus.

Husk Power Systems

In India, Husk Power Systems brings light to rural population (over 50,000) by using locally grown rice husks to produce electricity (a unique and cost-effective biomass gasification technology). The company has also received seed capital from Shell foundation in 2009 to scale up operations.

LG – Low-cost Air Conditioners (AC)

South Korea based LG Electronics (LG) planned to develop low-cost air conditioners targeting the middle and lower-middle classes in India. Their goal was to manufacture air conditioners at the cost of air coolers which were very common.

Renault – Logan

Renault designed a low-cost model of its brand Logan for Eastern European markets. It also sold in the Western European markets later on.

Better Place – Smart Grid of Battery charging/Swap terminals

In Israel, Better Place, a electric vehicle (EV) services provider (creates systems and infrastructure that support the use of electric cars), created an intelligent grid of battery-charging terminals and battery-swap stations. The company is now present in many countries like China, Japan, Australia, the U.S., Canada, France and Denmark.

GE India – Steam Turbines

In 2010, GE’s Indian arm tied up with Triveni Engineering and Industries Ltd to manufacture steam turbines in the 30-100MW range. The company plans to then take advantage of lower input costs incurred in manufacturing and export these products to markets in West Asia, Indonesia, Europe and Latin America.

PS: Please also read my article on WikiHow about the deterioting standards of imparting in Science & Technology (STEM) education in United States, wherein 15 year olds in USA ranked 29^th in the world in terms Math Intelligence

"How to Impart STEM Education to Your Children"

View HERE

Tablets will reach 25 million globally in 2011. Oh, No, I am not talking about Medicine

2011-01-19T06:25:00.000-08:00

courtesy Computer world

iPad leads way as 'media tablet' business grows 45% in Q3 2010

First IDC report on 'media tablet' business expects devices running Google's Android and other OSs to lead to further growth in 2011

By Matt Hamblen

January 18, 2011 03:02 PM ET

Computerworld - If it wasn't already obvious, Apple's iPad has led the way to explosive growth in the so-called "media tablet" business. The device almost exclusively led the way to a strong 2010 third quarter that grew by 45% compared to the second quarter, IDC said Tuesday with the release of its first report on the new tablet computer market.

About 87.4%, or 4.2 million, of the 4.8 million media tablets shipped in the third quarter were iPads, IDC said. IDC said that 3.3 million media tablets of all kinds shipped In the second quarter of 2010.

IDC estimated that nearly 17 million media-focused tablets shipped in all of 2010, and predicts that 44.6 million will ship in 2011 and 70.8 million in 2012.

Much of the enormous growth in 2011 is expected to come from a number of media tablets based on Google's Android as well as other operating systems that will add price and feature competition to the market, IDC said.

At the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, more than 80 different tablet models were introduced, including theMotorola Xoom based on Android 3.0 and the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook based on the BlackBerry Tablet OS.

IDC distinguishes the "media tablet" category from single-purpose e-readers and traditional slate or tablet PCs, which often use mainly pen-input and have been used to generate content more than to consume it. According to the researcher, media tablets include devices like the iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which runs Android.

IDC said that media tablets have color displays ranging from 5 inches to 14 inches in size, and run lightweight operations systems such as Apple iOS and Google Android. Media tablets are often based on x86 or ARM processors, while tablet PCs run full PC operating systems are are based on x86 processors, it added.

The separate e-readers market grew by 40% in the third quarter compared to the second quarter. Some 2.7 million e-readers were shipped in the third quarter, IDC said. About 75% of e-readers are sold in the U.S.

IDC estimates that 10.8 million e-readers shipped in all of 2010, and that the total will grow to 14.7 million in 2011 and 16.6 million in 2012. Added digital content from books and magazines and other periodicals, as well as color displays, will drive growth, said IDC.

Amazon's Kindle device led the e-reader market in the third quarter with 1.1 million shipped. The Amazon device held a 41.5% market share globally.

Pandigital's Novel e-reader came in second with 440,000 shipped globally for a 16% share in the third quarter. Barnes and Noble, selling only in the U.S., shipped 420,000 in the quarter, or about15.4 % of the total shipped. Sony and China-based Hanvon effectively tied with about 230,000 each, for about 8% of the market.

Barnes and Noble introduced the Nookcolor in the fourth quarter of 2010, which IDC said will help produce good results for the bookseller.

Let us take the campuses to the corporates..

2011-01-16T06:42:00.000-08:00

We have seen that, the boom in IT outsourcing saw a boom in increasing number of corporates visit the campuses in the last few years.However with the recession and the downturn refusing to take an upturn in USA and the west, the drying up of the campus programmes was the natural result.

We are noticing that the few campus programmes, that are still there, are going to the colleges with clout amongst the employers. and unfortunately most of the campus programmes are going to the colleges located in the metros or the large cities. The colleges in the rural areas are being starved of the opportunities.

Does this mean, that, only institutions located in the large cities can supply quality candidates??

For an outsider or an employer the picture more or less appears like that. However it is not true.

I have had the privilege of conducting campus recruitment programmes in large number of colleges and some reputed University campuses in 2010.

My observations are open to dissent,disagreement & discussion by my learned friends on social networks.

Some of the reputed University Campuses in Andhra Pradesh that I visited, and the interactions I had the privilege to have with the learned professors, gave me a strange sense of fulfillment, the one that one gets after visiting shrine or a place of worship. The calm and controlled personalities with the knowledge flowing in torrents were a revelation to me. I wondered, how, how could so much knowledge and humility co-exist in an individual and so much serenity in an institution.With such being the quality of Faculty, the quality of the Pupil could be no different.We got the quality that we wanted..

There were no surprises.

However there were surprises when we visited some of the Institutions located in the districts of Andhra Pradesh.(in all the three regions). Here of course our expectations were low in terms of quality and the quantity.

However here we were in for a shock. A pleasant one of course.

The quality of education and experience of the faculty were comparatively less than that of elite institutions.However the sense of responsibility,ownership for delivery, and sense of belonging for the institution were great. The students there performed much better than the so called famous and much hyped institutions. Of course, they did not know much about the social media,Linkedin,Facebook, or Twitter as did their colleagues in the cities.Their English communication was comparatively poor, but the subject knowledge, they were very thorough in both written and oral.

What does this prove?

It proves that for years on, these brilliant students have been unjustifiably denied the opportunity, the opportunity they deserved no less.At the same time the corporates have been deprived of the quality inputs.

That is the reason, I say, that we turn the process around and devise a way where we could take the campuses to the corporates.

I suggest a neutral procedure for grading of the colleges in according to the student quality.The student quality assessment should be on the basis of a procedure which could be similar to process of ISO certification. University exam results, distinctions do not portray a correct image of the student quality. this is evident from the feedback received from the corporates. It is better to not discuss AICTE or its methods of recognition. The evaluation of the colleges should be done on the basis of certain fixed parameters, with sufficient leverage in accordance with geographic, demographic, and economic conditions of the people there, and results should be assessed against the available resources. On this basis the institutions should be ranked and ranking released and made public. This ranking data should be updated every academic year. This will allow the corporates to make a proper assessment of the quality of the institutions, and also enable the process of the best students getting jobs and corporates getting the best talents.

This is just a loud thinking, based on my limited experience,My colleagues can however suggest better alternatives. Once some neutral foolproof system is in place.Both the institutions and the corporates will be happy to invest money to run it.

Just as RBI has CIBIL to evaluate the quality of a borrower, and just as this system is being supported by the Banks and Financial institutions,We can have on for the educational institutions.

This would be almost virtually taking the "Campuses to the Corporates."

I would be happy to have the feedback from my learned friends.

Best Wishes,

Shyam

Shyam's note 2011-03-30

I am being approached by a number of educational institutions with a request to help them with campus recruitment or projects.I would like to select a few deserving institutions and coordinate with agencies like CII and Surgeforth.the only problem is, I am not convinced about the SOP of the managements

While the students and faculty work overtime to produce,create,Exchange and imbibe knowledge.The attitude of the Managements and owners is very lethargic.The unfortunate fact being,most of the educational institutions are owned and run by the politicians,who use these institutions to get popularity among masses or as off season business to take care of their sustenance when not in power,or as a post retirement income source.

Students and academics are nowhere in their perspective.

In India you hardly have Academic Institutions being run by Academicians, and those that are there, are setting an excellent example in imparting.I have had the proud privilege of visiting a few of them, and found positive vibes everywhere among the teachers,taught, and the management.

Compared to this the situation in the politicians owned institutions, which also have an academicians as head only for name sake.His/Her position is akin to a boxer fighting a bout with both hands tied together at the back.

This being the situation,I laud the efforts being put in by CII in the form of employment bridge. with the support of its members and entrepreneurs.

It is for the institutions to wake up and take advantage.

Best wishes,

Shyam

Suadi Arabia captures Isreaeli Mossad spy Vulture

2011-01-06T20:04:00.000-08:00

The large bird, which was carrying a GPS transmitter and a tag bearing the identification code R65 from Tel Aviv University, strayed into rural Saudi Arabian territory at some point last week, according to a report in the Israeli daily Ma'ariv.

Residents and local reporters told Saudi Arabia's Al-Weeam newspaper that the matter seemed to be linked to a "Zionist plot" and swiftly alerted security services. The bird has since been placed under arrest.

The accusations went viral, according to the Israeli Ha'aretz newspaper, with hundreds of posts on Arabic-language websites and forums claiming that the "Zionists" had trained the birds for espionage.

The incident comes amid growing paranoia among Israel's neighbours over the nation's growing military might.

Several weeks ago an Egyptian official reportedly claimed that a shark that attacked tourists off the coastal resort of Sharm el Sheikh was also acting on behalf of the Israeli spy service.

2011 the Walk Year for India

2011-01-01T08:11:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year

2011 Brain will "Go For A Walk" for Politicians

सन २०११ में नेताओं के दिमाग जायेंगे हवा खाने

In other fields it would be a great walk towards glory for India

Happy New year 2011.Double one or eleven represents walk ( Two Legs ) More sportsmen will walk towards glory.more athletes will walk towards the victory stand.Science & Technology will walk into the next orbit of excellence & creativeness.

For politicians their brain will go for a walk (view the image)

They will continue to behave irresponsibly, and walk towards their extinction.

There will be more walkouts than walk ins in the parliament.While their personal health will improve with this walkouts, country's political health health will continue to cause worries. Movies will continue to be creative in spasms. but still they will refuse to run,they at the best will walk

Jokes apart,

The year does promise things extremely enthusiastic for India in terms of economic growth,advancement in Science and Technology specially IT & Software. BPO and KPO are taking a huge surge forward. Campus recruitments are back. There is a huge promise of heavy recruitments everywhere in almost sectors.

Economy will continue be a talking point in the rest of the world. raised eyebrows that we saw last year will remain raised throughout this year.

Let us hope innocent lives that were lost in meaningless wars and and acts of terrorism throughout the world will be spared this year.

Let us hope that the countries and leaders will not only talk peace, but also walk the talk.

Best of everything to everyone,

Love,

Shyam

Thus Spake Kalam

2010-12-22T09:37:00.000-08:00

Small aim is a crime

By Shyamsunder Panchavati

Former President of India Bharat Ratna Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam speaking at the mass training programme organised to ignite & train 50 thousand students by the TTD Devasthanam Tirupati Andhra Pradesh India.Working with him and for Lead India 2020 Foundation has been a proud privilege and a great learning experience,I will always cherish till the end of my life.

Please read and comment,

Shyam

No youth today need to fear about the future

Small aim is a crime

Friends, when I see you all as Lead India team many scenes come in front of me. What are the scenes? As boys and girls below 15 years, I see you all trained by Lead India to be good students of your teachers, lovable child of your parents and good citizens of the nation.

I am happy that lead India 2020 Foundation with the motto “Aap Badho – Desh Ko Badhao” is facilitating conduct of training programme in different parts of Andhra Pradesh. I appreciate Dr. KV Ramanachari for taking the initiative in training large number of school leaders and lecturers from TTD institutions and creating a base for value based education to the students of this region. Shri Ravichandra, Collector of Chittoor district has also played an important role in inculcating Lead India concepts in maximum number of schools of this region. This type of action will definitely enable promotion of removing the illiteracy of the state and building of knowledge society.

You will succeed

This lead India training is a beautiful lifelong experience for you. With this background of training for the youth, what type of India you will make? After all India needs ignited minds of the youth which is the most powerful resource on the earth, above the earth and under the earth.

When I was a young boy of your age I had few concerns in my life. Will I ever go out of my village for high school studies? When I reached the high school in small town and saw my colleagues well dressed, good at speaking English, I used to ask myself, when will I enter into their company? When I reached 9th class I had a concern, will I get good marks to go for higher education particularly engineering science or medicine? When I reached 10th class definitely all these concerns vanished, because of the company of great teacher. He gave me the vision for my life. Definitely the members of Lead India movement have great teachers who will provide the Vision for the youth.

Let not thy winged days, be spent in vain

As you all know, the earth rotates on its own axis once in a day having 24 hours or 1440 minutes or 86400 seconds. Earth itself orbits around the sun. It takes nearly one year for an orbit. With the completion of one rotation of earth around the sun, your age is added by one year as you are living on planet earth. Seconds fly, minutes fly, hours fly, days fly and years fly. We have no control over it. The only thing that we can do is, while the time flies, we can navigate the time.

“Let not thy winged days, be spent in vain”.

Building Confidence

The next important quality required in you is building confidence. Building confidence comes out of company of great human beings, great teachers and great books.

When I was studying in the 5th standard, many of us used to get less than 40 marks in mathematics. My mathematics teacher asked us when you are getting more than 80 marks in other subjects, why are you getting low marks in mathematics. Immediately, he evolved a method of teaching and creation of confidence for the whole class. How did the teacher inject the confidence in us. He conducted a class and gave us an exercise of 10 problems. In that exercise, more than 90% of the class including me got 100 out of 100. We were bubbling with happiness. Then onwards our maths performance improved much better. After few years only, we realized, that our teacher injected the confidence in us that I can do it by his teaching and also formulation of the problem to make us succeed and promote self-confidence. So friends, to succeed in life, each one of you have to cultivate the confidence in you that “I can do it”. The nation will build the confidence that “we can do it”.

Gandhiji’s mother’s advice

When I am with the students of TTD Institutions, I am reminded of the advice given to Gandhiji by his mother.

She says,

“Son, in your entire life time, if you can save or better someone’s life, your birth as a human being and your life is a success. You have the blessing of the Almighty God”.

This advice has made a deep impact in the mind of Gandhiji, which made him to work for the humanity throughout his life.

I had another unique experience, a few years back, that reveals how a single leader can inspire a large population. I happened to meet, in Delhi, the grand-daughter of Mahatma Gandhiji, Mrs Sumitra Kulkarni. She narrated to me an incident about her grandfather, which she personally witnessed.

Nobility in Mind

Each day, as you all are aware, Mahatma Gandhiji used to have prayer meeting at a fixed time in the evening. After the prayers there will be a collection of voluntary gift for harijan welfare. The devotees of Gandhiji used to collect whatever was given by the people of all sections and this collection wouldcounted by the supporting staff of Gandhi family. The amount so collected would be informed to Gandhiji before his dinner. The next day, a bank man wouldcome for taking this money. Once the bank man reported that there was a discrepancy of few paise in the money given to him and the money collected. Mahatma Gandhiji, on hearing this, went on fast telling that this was a donation for the poor and we have to account for every paise. Dear friends, his act of righteousness should be practiced by all of us.

On this day, let us rededicate ourselves to practice righteousness in all our thoughts and actions. Now I would like you to recite with me the divine hymn – Righteousness :

“Where there is righteousness in the heart,
there is a beauty in the character.
When there is beauty in the character,
there is harmony in the home.
When there is harmony in the home,
there is order in the nation.
When there is order in the nation,
there is peace in the world.”

Friends, we can see a beautiful connectivity between heart, character, nation and the world. Now I would like to share some examples of transformation which has taken place in TTD Institutions and other schools due to Lead India Training.

Respect to elders

I was studying the transformation which has been brought among students who have undergone the Lead India training programme in Tirupati. Miss M. Suguna studying in 10th class in Sri Padmavathi Girl’s High School, daughter of M. Lakshmi Devi working as a labourer and who had lost her father in a young age had undergone this course. Prior to attending the course, Suguna was not respecting her mother and elders. She used to remain isolated and never used to talk anybody. The training programme made her realize the value of her mother. She started taking her blessings everyday before commencing any work. She had become courageous and had started taking deep interest in the study. In her spare time, she has started educating her neighbours. Also, she is explaining the evils of drinking and gambling among the neighbourhood members. Suguna is being recognized as a Lead India social reformer in her locality.

Truthfulness

I would like to share with you another example of transformers through Lead India Training. Master Nitish Kumar is studying in class 7th of Zilla Parishad High School, Shatham Baakam, Penumuru Mandalam. He was famous as a naughty boy always telling lies. After attending the Lead India training programme, Nitish Kumar has realize value of truth and has become self-disciplined. One day when he was traveling in a bus, a person called Gangadhar belonging to Nellore, Eguvakaaluva lost his mobile. He searched for his address and returned back mobile. As a complement, Shri Gangadhar sent Rs.200/- to Master Nitish Kumar. But Master Nitish refused to accept the money sent by Shri Gangadhar that “we cannot purchase truth with money”.

Conclusion

Friends, as a Lead India team member, I suggest to the teachers, parents to ensure that the Lead India young members have three unique characteristics of life. (1) Realising the importance of present that is today (2) the confidence that I can do it and (3) building righteousness in the heart.

Friends, India today has a mission of transforming itself into a developed nation with value system. This is a great challenge. This can be achieved through our youth power. Youth has got the power of ideas, ambition and ability. This resource of the youth is an important building block for transforming India into a developed nation. No youth today need to fear about the future.

May God bless you.

I would like the youth take an oath with me.

Oath for the Youth

1 I will have a goal and work hard to achieve that goal. I realize that small aim is a crime.

2 I will work with integrity and succeed with integrity.

3 I will be a good citizen of the country, a good member of my family, a good member of the society, a good member of the nation and a good member of the world.

4 I will always try to save or better someone’s life, without any discrimination of caste, creed, language religion or state. Wherever I am, a thought will always come to my mind. That is “What can I give?”

5 I will always protect and enhance the dignity of every human life without any bias.

6 I will always remember that “Let not my winged days, be spent in vain”.

7 I will always work for clean planet Earth and clean energy.

8 As a youth of my nation, I will work and work with courage to achieve success in all my tasks and enjoy the success of others.

9 My National Flag flies in my heart and I will bring glory to my nation.

Thanks for reading,

Shyamsunder Panchavati

Design The Life You Want..........

2010-12-21T06:14:00.000-08:00

There’s an old German saying that goes, “You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.” Are you planning to just let life “happen” to you or do you plan to play an active part in designing the life you want?

Some of you may say, yes, I would like to do that, but trouble is, I don’t know how to get started. So you just go with the crowd, or take the path that’s most hassle-free. Unfortunately, more often than not, the crowd may not know where it is going, and if so, then everyone ends up like everyone else, wondering what has happened to their life many years down the road!

A lot of people tend to take life for granted. They think that by the time they are in their 40s or 50s everything will fall into place by itself.

Are you willing to take that chance? Remember, you only have one life, and you can’t turn back the clock. Life is not a full dress rehearsal; it’s only going to happen once. You can’t say, “Cut, let’s start it all over again.”

The truth is, for most people, after 20 or 30 years of working, they only discover what they do not want, without a clue as to what they really want in life.

We all know we want something. Words like financial freedom, wealth, lifestyle, are catch words everyone is using. But do they know what it actually means? Do they know what it takes to achieve that? Do they know how or where to get it?

So my advice is: take the time right now to work out a design for your life. If life was a movie, and you are the producer and actor, what role would you want to play and how would the plot unfold? Designing your life is like making a movie. You have to be able to see the end at the beginning. It may start off a little hazy, but as you continue working on it, it would become clearer and clearer. You’ve got to write the script, put in the characters. Use your imagination, let your creative juices flow.

Does it mean that what you have designed is going to be set in concrete? Certainly not. You are the producer of your life. You can change, delete, or add in anything you want in your project. But at least by doing this exercise of designing your life, you are in control of your circumstances, rather than become a victim of them.

Here are some simple steps to help you get started!

1. Find a nice quiet spot where you will be undisturbed for at least 20 minutes.
2. Equip yourself with a pencil and a new note pad that will become your “Life Book”.
3. Draw a time line across a page, from now to say five years on.
4. At the left end of the time line, write “Present State”; at the right end, write “Desired State”.
5. On the left end, describe as accurately as you can your Present State. Ask questions like:
a. What am I doing now?
b. What is my income, if any?
c. Do I like what I do?
6. On the right side, under Desired State, describe as clearly as you can what you would like to see five years from now. Ask yourself, if I can’t fail…
a. What do I really want to be?
b. What do I want to have?
c. What will my life be like?
7. Between the Present State and Desired State mark on the time line
a. What must I do to get what I want?
b. Who can help me?
c. What skills do I need?
d. What resources do I need?

The first time you may not get all the answers you want. If you do this exercise daily for some time, I can guarantee you that you will end up with a pretty good design for your life. You will know where to get what you want, what to do, who can help you and so on.

You don’t stop working on your project to design your life. I recommend you keep going back to the “Life Book” you have created; it’s a “project in progress”.

Take charge of your life now. If not now, when?

Wikileaks prompt Japan to plan tougher security for classified info

2010-12-09T22:53:00.000-08:00

Tougher rules on protecting classified info eyed

Kyodo News

The government vowed steps Thursday to toughen the law and current system for managing classified information in the wake of recent leaks of investigative data at home and U.S. diplomatic cables on WikiLeaks.

The decision was made by the first meeting of a government panel tasked with improving the handling of classified information, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku said.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan set up the panel after the release onto the Internet last month of sealed video footage showing September collisions involving a Chinese trawler and two Japan Coast Guard cutters during a run-in near the Senkaku Islands that reignited a territorial row between Asia's two largest economies.
The meeting was also held at a time when Japanese officials, as with many others around the world, are concerned about the release of thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables by the confidential information-divulging WikiLeaks website.
"In recent years, information technology and the (digital) network society have been developing significantly and there is a question about whether the government has appropriately responded to this kind of changing environment," Sengoku, who heads the panel, said at the outset of the meeting, which was opened to reporters.
The panel plans to put together proposals by next spring, according to government officials.
After the meeting, Sengoku told a news conference the public's right to information and freedom of the press are "the basics of modern society but it may well be that a certain amount of restrictions are necessary."
Critics are concerned about possible actions by the government to impose stricter discipline on officials regarding information management, saying this could run counter to the public's right to know.
Video clips running for about 44 minutes, taken at the time of the ship collisions, were posted on YouTube in early November by a Japan Coast Guard navigator not involved in the run-in but who had internal access to the footage.
The collisions, which led to the brief arrest of the trawler's captain, strained diplomatic ties between Japan and China.
Sengoku, who strongly opposed disclosing video footage of the Sept. 7 collisions, shot by the coast guard, has been under pressure in recent weeks to leave the Cabinet, with opposition parties criticizing him for infringing on the people's right to know and others trying to hold him responsible for the guardsman's video leak on You Tube.

The New Poor

2010-12-09T03:28:00.000-08:00

The New Poor (Reproduced from New York Times Article)

The longer people stay out of work, the more trouble they have finding new work.

The longer people stay out of work, the more trouble they have finding new work.

That is a fact of life that much of Europe, with its underclass of permanently idle workers, knows all too well. But it is a lesson that the United States seems to be just learning.

This country has some of the highest levels of long-term unemployment — out of work longer than six months — it has ever recorded. Meanwhile, job growth has been, and looks to remain, disappointingly slow, indicating that those out of work for a while are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Even if the government report on Friday shows the expected improvement in hiring by business, it will not be enough to make a real dent in those totals.

So the legions of long-term unemployed will probably be idle for significantly longer than their counterparts in past recessions, reducing their chances of eventually finding a job even when the economy becomes more robust.

“I am so worried somebody will look at me and say, ‘Oh, he’s probably lost his edge,’ ” said Tim Smyth, 51, a New York television producer who has been unable to find work since 2008, despite having two decades of experience at places like Nickelodeon and the Food Network. “I mean, I know it’s not true, but I’m afraid I might say the same thing if I were interviewing someone I didn’t know very well who’s been out of work this long.”

Mr. Smyth’s anxieties are not unfounded. New data from the Labor Department, provided to The New York Times, shows that people out of work fewer than five weeks are more than three times as likely to find a job in the coming month than people who have been out of work for over a year, with a re-employment rate of 30.7 percent versus 8.7 percent, respectively.

Likewise, previous economic studies, many based on Europe’s job market struggles, have shown that people who become disconnected from the work force have more trouble getting hired, probably because of some combination of stigma, discouragement and deterioration of their skills.

This is one of the biggest challenges facing policy makers in the United States as they seek to address unemployment. Its underlying tenet — that time exacerbates the problem — means that the longer Congress squabbles about how to increase job growth, the more intractable the situation becomes. This, in turn, means Washington would need to pursue more aggressive (and, perversely, more politically difficult) job-creating policies in order to succeed. Even reaching an agreement over whether to extend benefits yet again has proved contentious.

Several factors lead to this downward spiral of the unemployed.

In some cases, the long-term unemployed were poor performers in their previous positions and among the first to be terminated when the recession began. These people are weak job candidates with less impressive résumés and references.

In other instances, those who lost jobs may have been good workers but were laid off from occupations or industries that are in permanent decline, like manufacturing.

But economists have tried to control for these selection issues, and studies comparing the fates of similar workers have also shown that the experience of unemployment itself damages job prospects.

If jobless workers had been in sales, for instance, their customers might have moved on. Or perhaps the list of contacts they could turn to for leads is obsolete. Mr. Smyth, for example, says that so many of his former co-workers have been displaced that he is no longer sure whom to call on about openings.

In particularly dynamic industries, like software engineering, unemployed workers might also miss out on new developments and fail to develop the skills required.

Still, this explanation probably applies to only a small slice of the country’s 6.2 million long-term unemployed.

“I can’t imagine very many occupations and industries are of the type that if you’re out for nine months, the world passes you by,” said Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research organization. “I think this erosion-of-skills idea is way overplayed. It’s probably much more about marketability.”

Many unemployed workers fret about how to explain the yawning gaps on their résumés. Some are calling themselves independent “consultants” or “entrepreneurs.”

Mr. Smyth has been working on his own documentary film and trying to develop ideas for new TV shows with a friend. But with financing for such projects scarce, he says he is still looking for a full-time job.

Employers are reluctant to acknowledge any bias against the jobless, and many say they try to take broader economic circumstances into consideration.

“Generally speaking, when the economy’s good and someone’s been out of work for a year, you might look at them funny,” said Jay Goltz, who owns five small businesses in Chicago and contributes to a small-business blog for The Times. “These days I don’t know if you can hold it against somebody.”

Even so, old habits die hard, especially because unemployment has been unusually concentrated among a smaller group of workers in this recent recession than in previous ones, meaning that fewer workers bear the scarlet “U” of unemployment.

“From what I’ve seen, employers do tend to get suspicious when there’s a long-term gap in people’s résumés,” said James Whelly, deputy director of work force development at the San Francisco Human Services Agency. “Even though everyone on an intellectual level knows that this is a unique time in the economy, those old habits are hard to break with hiring managers and H.R. departments who are doing the screening.”

It does not help when job seekers are repeatedly rejected — or worse, ignored. Constant rejection not only discourages workers from job-hunting as intensively, but also makes people less confident when they do land interviews. A Pew Social Trends report found that the long-term unemployed were significantly more likely to say they had lost some of their self-respect than their counterparts with shorter spells of joblessness.

“People don’t have money to keep up appearances important for job hunting,” said Katherine S. Newman, a sociology professor at Princeton. “They can’t go to the dentist. They can’t get new clothes. They gain weight and look out of shape, since unemployment is such a stressful experience. All that is held against them when there is such an enormous range of workers to choose from.”

Though economists generally agree that getting the long-term unemployed back to work quickly is necessary to keep people from becoming unemployable, the mechanism to do so is unclear.

Most forms of stimulus try to create business conditions that foster the nation’s output growth, which encourages companies to hire. Output has been growing slowly, however, and has not stoked much job creation. There have also been other indirect incentives, like a small tax break for hiring unemployed workers, but as yet their effectiveness is unknown.

Direct employment programs — like the public works projects of the New Deal and World War II — may be the fastest way to put people back to work, economists say. But those raise concerns of crowding out businesses and displacing other workers. Also the approach, which smacks of socialism to some, seems politically untenable at the moment.

One possible compromise might be broader-scale retraining and apprenticeship programs, suggests Lawrence Katz, a labor economist at Harvard.

“That’s better than having more people just go on disability as a last resort, and then basically never return to work in their life, which many will do,” he said. The Obama administration has recently thrown its support behind an effort to overhaul community college retraining programs.

“One of the reasons to focus on training for workers, even if you’re not training workers for new jobs, is that when you have workers who have not been in a job for a long time, you need to do all you can to get them to look and feel job-ready when the openings do eventually come back,” said Betsey Stevenson, the Labor Department’s chief economist.

The real threat, economists say, is that America, like some of its Old World peers, may simply become accustomed to a large class of idled workers.

“After a while, a lot of European countries just got used to having 8 or 9 percent unemployment, where they just said, ‘Hey, that’s about good enough,’ ” said Gary Burtless, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “If the unemployment rates here stay high but remain relatively stable, people may not worry so much that that’ll be their fate this month or next year. And all these unemployed people will fall from the front of their mind, and that’s it for them.”

Best wishes,

Shyam

Please Read the original New York Times Article

Wikileaks server move into Nuclear Bunkers

2010-12-04T08:07:00.000-08:00

Internet service providers often tell their clients that they offer “bullet-proof hosting.” Whistle-blower organization Wikileaks, it seems, will settle for nothing less than “bomb-proof.”

Some portion of Wikileaks’ servers have been moved to the “Pionen” White Mountains data center owned by Swedish broadband provider Bahnhof, as first reported by Norwegian news site VG Nett last Friday. That data center will store Wikileaks’ data 30 meters below ground inside a Cold-War-era nuclear bunker carved out of a large rock hill in downtown Stockholm. The server farm has a single entrance and is outfitted by half-meter thick metal doors and backup generators pulled from German submarines–fitting safeguards, perhaps, for an organization that raised the ire of several powerful military forces last month when it released thousands of classified Afghanistan war documents.

Here’s a video tour from the IT organization Data Center Pulse filmed in 2008, showing a super-secure facility it describes as worthy of “a James Bond villain.”

Earlier in August the copyright-flouting Swedish Pirate Party began hosting Wikileaks’ IT operations, and it’s not clear exactly why it’s chosen to move Wikileaks’ servers to the Pionen facility. The threat of law enforcement physically seizing or destroying the organization’s equipment, after all, is much less likely than a legal attempt to gain direct access to Wikileaks’ data. Last year the Swedish government put a crack in the country’s strong free speech protections when it passed a controversial law allowing surveillance of Internet traffic by the FRA, a law enforcement agency.

But Stockholm-based Bahnhof executive Jon Karlung tells me in an interview that the company’s data center is “a kind of metaphor” for Bahnhof’s commitment to resist any sort of intrusion, physical or legal. “We’re proud to have clients like these,” he says. “The Internet should be an open source for freedom of speech, and the role of an ISP is to be a neutral technological tool of access, not an instrument for collecting information from customers.”

Karlung says Bahnhof has not yet complied with Sweden’s new FRA surveillance law. “We have an unbroken chain of fiber-optic cables that cover 2,300 kilometers,” says Karlung. “We’re positive that [government agencies] haven’t installed any equipment yet. That day will come, and when it does we’ll inform all clients that they’re surveilled by the Swedish government.”

Wikileaks has likely spread its servers well beyond any single data center, including other facilities in Sweden and Iceland, and it’s also posted an encrypted file labeled “insurance” on its site, potentially to be used as a threat of further data spillage aimed at preventing attacks on the site or its volunteer staff.

In the coming weeks, Wikileaks has said it will release another 15,000 documents related to the war in Afghanistan. As the controversy around the site mounts, it may need every protection it can find.

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मील का एक पत्थर हूँ मैं,

2010-12-02T20:13:00.000-08:00

Feelings of a Milestone

People put everything they have and beyond to achieve a milestone,but immediately after, forget all about it and proceed in the pursuit of the next one.

How does the Milestone feel about it, hero one moment, and totally forgotten the next,Please read my humble,feeble,but creative attempt at Hindi Poetry and express yourself.

Capacity Building &amp;amp; Development

मील का एक पत्थर हूँ मैं,

मुझ तक पोहंच्ना,हर कोई चाहता हैं क्यो

पोहंच कर,हर कोई आगे जाता है क्यों

दोबारा नहीं कोई आता है क्यों

मुझ तक पोहंचने की चाह,होती है सब में

कृषी और संकल्प,बस होतें है कुछ में

पहुँच पाना मुझ तक आसन नहीं ,

दिन में दिखा देता हूँ , तारे नभ में .

मील का एक पत्थर हूँ मैं,

मुझ तक पोहंच्ना,हर कोई चाहता हैं क्यो

मुझे पाने की चाह में, अपने पराये हो जाते हैं,

रात दिन में अंतर नहीं होता,

अभ्यास पुनर अभ्यास ही,परम लक्ष्य,हो जाते हैं .

स्वर्ग पाने की आस में,यम यातना के आदी हो जाते हैं.

मील का एक पत्थर हूँ मैं,

मुझ तक पोहंच्ना,हर कोई चाहता हैं क्यो

जब मैं दूर से नज़र आता हूँ , मन में एक आस जगाता हूँ .

प्रण में दृढ़ता,प्रयत्न में नव उतेज्ना,और आशा की चिंगारी जगाता हूँ.

हर कदम एक कारनामा, और हर कारनामा

एक अफसाना बन जाता है.

असंभव से संभव का सफ़र,

दिक्कतों से भरा, पर सुहाना प्रतीत है.

मील का एक पत्थर हूँ मैं,

मुझ तक पोहंच्ना,हर कोई चाहता हैं क्यो

और जब मुझ तक पोहचता ही कोई.

संतोश और सारताक्ता का आभास दिल्लाता हू मैं.

ख़ुशी और प्रेम से आलिंगन करते हैं मेरा,

मानो जैसे माता पिता और दैव से भी उच्च स्थान हो मेरा.

मील का एक पत्थर हूँ मैं,

मुझ तक पोहंच्ना,हर कोई चाहता हैं क्यो

लेकिन अगले हि पल......

मुझे भूल कर लोग बढ्ते हैं अगले कि और,

क्या यही हैं आज, जिंदगी के तौर,

क्यों कोई दुबारा आता नाही ,

क्या मैं किसी को भाता नाही

मील का एक पत्थर हूँ मैं,

क्यों कोई दुबारा आता नाही ,

क्या मैं किसी को भाता नाही

लेकिन फिर भी ...

रंजिश हि सही दिल को बहला ने के लिये,

इक बार फिर पास आ जाओ, फिर दूर जाने के लिये.

वक़्त गर थम जाता यही,धुंधली यादें तजा करने के लिए,

बस याद कर लेते एक बार हमें,फिर भूल जाने के लिए

रंजिश ही सही ,दिल को बहला ने के लिए

मील का एक पत्थर हूँ मैं.

दोबारा क्यों कोई आता नहीं,

क्या किसीको, मैं भाता नहीं

Hum na rahe to kya 08-19

दर्द हल्का सा है,सांस भारी हैं, जिए जाने की रस्म जारी हैं.

हे मौत मुझ से पर्दा ना कर, अब तेरे आने की बारी हैं

ना गिला मौत से हैं, ना ज़िन्दगी से,ना ही बेरुखी हैं,खुदा के बन्दे से

बस रब का बुलावा है,सब छोड़ जाने की तयारी हैं

Please Read the Full Verse

CEO

2010-11-01T10:07:00.000-07:00

CEO's that successfully fail

CEO'S THAT SUCCESSFULLY FAIL ! ! ! !

The myth that surrounds the persona of a CEO as a person who never fails has been blown away by the adversities that continuously affected theindustry during the past couple of years. The supposedly best have bitten the dust, while some so called non entities have not only proven equal to the task but they have also successfully steered their organization out of the turmoil and put it back on the growth track.

Now what is the factor that separates the successful CEO from the ones that fail?

It's rarely for lack of smarts or vision. Most unsuccessful CEOs stumble because of one simple, fatal shortcoming. Here's what we aren't saying: That failed CEOs are dumb or evil. In fact they tend to be highly intelligent, articulate, dedicated, and accomplished. They worked hard, made sacrifices, and may have performed well terrifically for years.

Nor are we saying execution is the only reason CEOs falter. Sometimes they adopt a strategy so flawed that it's doomed, or they refuse to confront reality in their markets, or they antagonize their board. And when a CEO really goes down in flames, there's almost always more than one reason.

It's clear, as well, that getting execution right will only become more crucial. The worldwide revolution of free markets, open economies, and lowered trade barriers and the advent of e-commerce have made virtually everybusiness far more brutally competitive. The frantic spread of information through technology is making customers everywhere more powerful and pushing toward the commoditization of everything. Institutional investors who now own a substantial portion of equities relentlessly demand results.

One important area of failure for the CEO’s is the failure to put, the right people in the right job, and of course the relative failure to fix problems in time..

Selection &; Retention factor.

Sometimes strange anomalies not strictly related to merit become the criteria for selection and retention of an employee. A relatively less confident CEO would avoid recruiting a highly accomplished deputy for the fear that the latter would attract the attention of the governing board and present a viable alternative to the incumbent CEO. A sense of insecurity within often dictates such decisions.

On the other extreme is the highly overconfident CEO, who thinks that he can mentor and coach anyone to exacting delivery levels. My man theory comes in to effect here. Here he selects a person who he thinks will remain loyal to him in adversities and not turn tables on him. The philosophy of “I would rather take the devil I know, rather than the one I don’t.

Other less important but influencing factor could be, the person creates a positive vibe in the social media, hence a good individual to be around. The person may be more acceptable to the majority of the members of the governing board. He has successes in a different field, and hence would succeed here also. Sometimes these people are selected in preference, to the home bred executives who have contributed positively to the organization. Sacking important executives may or may not impact the organization negatively, but retaining non performing ones would definitely, waiting indefinitely in the hope performance will definitely impact the organization negatively.

More often than not these deemed success turnout to be reasons for doomed bottom lines & careers.

The CEO’s role extends beyond the bottomlines. It pays to treat employees as stake holders.
Making the bottom line your top priority may not be the best way to improve profitability. Recent research shows that CEOs who put stakeholders’ interests ahead of profits generate greater workforce engagement—and thus deliver the superior financial results that they have made a secondary goal.

This finding is based on survey data gathered from 520 business organizations in 17 countries, many of them emerging markets. If a CEO’s primary focus is on profit maximization, employees develop negative feelings toward the organization. They tend to perceive the CEO as autocratic and focused on the short term, and they report being somewhat less willing to sacrifice for the company. Corporate performance is poorer as a result.

But when the CEO makes it a priority to balance the concerns of customers,employees, and the community while also taking environmental impact into account, employees perceive him or her as visionary and participatory. They report being more willing to exert extra effort, and corporate results improve.

Inspiring Vision

Jack Welch, the legendary former CEO of GE was well known for cultivating a breed of successful CEO’s from within, who were not only great success but also contributed to GE for more than a decade as CEO’s. The continuity factor at the top often creates the comfort , and puts them ahead of organizations that don’t have this factor.

It is important to create a vision that inspires and directs the organization. And ensure that, it is broad enough to allow great flexibility. Communicate your vision to everyone in your organization and create an innovation-adept culture environment that encourages entrepreneurial creativity to make the vision a reality.

"Leaders inspire people with clear visions of how things can be done better,“ writes Jack Welch “The best leaders do not provide a step-by-step instruction manual for workers. The best leaders are those who come up with new idea, and articulate a vision that inspires others to act.”

All said and done, it is still not possible to lay down the formula for the success or the reasons for the failure of the CEO’s. People with early setbacks in life like Steve Jobs have turned out to be great success in later part of their lives & career. "Lee" Iacocca's story of the turnaround in Chrysler Corporation is a folklore people never tire of singing. Adversities sometimes throw up leaders that normal circumstances may not.

Hope you have enjoyed reading this article. Please come out with your valuable views.

Best wishes,

Shyam

work ethics

2010-11-01T10:04:00.001-07:00

When work is virtual, Why should physical presence be insisted upon????

Work from Home or at home at work place

I do understand that work from home is not possible when you are working in a manufacturing unit or you are doing a work which requires your physical presence at the work place.However if you are working out of your laptop, and the organisation is in a position to offer you the facility of home login, then I feel the work is more important than the workplace. Several multinational organizations operating in India have realized this, implemented it and found appreciable increase in productivity levels for the same man-hours and the efforts.
In fact in the recession hit United States and Europe, certain organizations are contemplating the implementation of the norm for everyone to work at home at least one day a week. This single step could raise productivity, save energy, decrease pollution, reduce traffic congestion, cut household expenses, increase quality of family life, and keep educated women in the work force.

In this fast moving and fast growing jet age, everything including technology, thinking, people, processes, and policies have changed to more dynamic pattern. Yet one thing that hasn’t changed and refuses to change is the rigid workplace of the last century. It is amazing in the digital age that most work is still associated with industrial age work rhythms and the symbolic chains that tie workers, knowledge and otherwise, to fixed locations. Flexible workplaces with flexible hours and days are long in coming. This I tell you is a very mild understatement in relation to the present situation. This is because of the business owners who while using latest in technology and machinery,are very primitive when it comes to work pattern. I have seen managed family managed conservative organisations managing to remain as as small as thinkng even after years of existence They are of course encouraged by the overenthusiastic HR managers fresh from B-Schools, and yet to get into the unlearning process.

I can give a classic example of a Indian Corporate with more than hundred years of existence. The chairman of the corporate had his chamber at a location from where he could view the senior managers’ cars entering the building. He used to call the senior managers coming late and discuss with them.

A good one hour used to get involved in this exercise. One hour loss at senior management. Apart from this the other loss was that the senior managers used their time, resources and ingenuity to work ways to avoid detection. Leave alone the loss in productivity & optimization levels, if the attitude at the senior management is such just imagine what would percolate to the down line managers and thousands of workers in the organisation.

One thing is very clear. When the management is fixed mentally on the entry time the employees are fixed on the exit time. productivity and work take a back seat, tasks are left uncompleted, manager can no longer influence the workers to stay back and complete the tasks. Production and productivity suffers.Discipline at cost?, self extinction?, certainly not I hope. I would always manage with a little less discipline if it ensured a better cash flow for my organisation.

Now let us take a look at the situation in USA

Many U.S. cities have become commuter nightmares as urban sprawl sends people across longer distances in their cars every week day. According to the 2008 U.S. Census estimates, 84 percent of the U.S. population lives within 363 metropolitan areas that spill over central city boundaries and, in some cases, over state lines. Jobs within central business districts have been declining, while jobs outside a ten-mile ring have been growing. Vehicle miles traveled have increased twice as fast as population growth.

Now does this remind you of cities in India ? Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad,Mumbai, Chennai and of course “Oh Kolkata”.

Choosing how long to work and on what schedule has long showed productivity benefits. People are less stressed when they can adjust their hours or days to family or personal needs. A greater feeling of control is associated with more energy and better health, studies show, making those workers more productive. Some savvy senior executives stay out of their offices occasionally even when not traveling, because they get more done in a setting with no interruptions, at home.

For many working parents, the chance to work remotely is the primary way to achieve work-life balance. Many women leave high-powered corporate and professional careers when they have children, frequently starting their own businesses they can run from home, because there is no flexibility and no middle ground between the all-out grind at a workplace demanding physical presence or opting out. A norm of remote work for everyone would ease the strain.

Technology exists to make remote work feasible and effective. Cell phones have liberated people from desks. The need for high-speed network connections is another argument for universal broadband and wi-fi access, with tax deductibility or reimbursement to employees for the connections to their home, as IBM and many US multinationals do in India.

The barriers are the usual human ones. Without a culture of strong accountability, collaboration, trust and personal responsibility, remote work doesn’t work. That culture is missing in too many organizations. Managers don’t always know how to coordinate and communicate with people they do not see face to face; they must value the work product and not the face time. Leadership is important. People need clear goals, deadlines, and performance metrics.

I know there is a huge other side to this also, the disadvantages. I leave it to my friends to argue and debate. As of now, I thank all my friends for their patience and allowing me a few lines about my work.

Regards,

Shyamsunder Panchavati

Some of the recent comments on this post from various forums.

Hello Shyamsunder,
Appreciate your insight. A position we both share.
In all of history, never before has communication devices and technology existed like the ones that exist today. This comment for example, physical location is becoming less important for the conveyance of information.
It has been my dream to enlist a ‘virtual’ workforce, void of physical constraints, and opportunity to embrace knowledge held by professionals in various locations, by the retired, physically challenged, and home workers to name a few.
It is my understanding that your question (captioned above) continues to be challenged, and the response will continue to weaken, to the point we all can work more remotely.
It will become the ‘norm’, help me re-engineer this future.
Change is in the air my friend.
-Harley
Shyam,
I see two separate and distinct separate issues being addressed in your article. First, are there drivers begging the facilitation of greater use of virtual work places. And second, is the specific workforce ready and able to adopt and accept responsibility for participationion the virtual workplace.
You aptly address the drivers for remote / virtual workplaces. I think most of us can identify with these issues and can draw from experience the many times we’ve been responsibly and productively engaged in working from remote sites. Although somewhat more elusive and greater challenge is in identifying the personality characteristics or traits of those who adapt to this model versus, what I see as the majority of individuals, those who need the structured workplace in order to remain engaged, productive and focused on their 8-10 hour daily assignments or unstructured tasks as they may be.
I’m not yet convinced that the 80-90 percent of deskbound workers are at the work maturity level at which they can thrive when working sans office. While automated call distributors insure that work is kept queued and measureable for remote call center personnel, the same is not true for knowledge workers or ‘meeting bound’ program team members.
I believe that driving success for this larger mass will come thru improved use of integrated video/telecommunications services and social networking tools which will spur an alternative social fabric to the office coffee station. The immediate next step being adoption and integration of these services into common work protocols.
Ron
We do a lot of “virtual” work and I find it that it is good to have it when you have very “proceduralized” work flow. Long project when all people know what they do etc. When nature of business is very dynamic we find it is very hard to have “virtual” work force.
Here is an example, one of our clients have a server performance problem that results in service unavailability. Server are up and down. When they down you need react right away and mulitple people have to work together to response quickly. If they all remote it is very inconvenient.
Posted by Michael Petrov
Many US companies are way behind in 21st Century management/HR with regards to the “work from home” opportunity that exists for both the company and the employee. Not all employees are equal in their job descriptions, skill sets or abilities – therefore, no outdated mandate should be given that no one can work from hom – when some can and should. I would greatly appreciate any further testimony from US that promotes the work from homeopportunity.
I’m in sales – primarily by phone and email – there is absolutely no reason for me to drive 50 miles a day to come to an office when I can do the same job and work longer hours from my home office.
Any persuasive facts or thoughts that I can send along to my management?
Thank you.
Posted by Le Anne Dolan

Mind Tattoos

2010-11-01T10:00:00.003-07:00

Body Tattoos are Exhibits,Mind tattoos, Are They Inhibits

Few more University degrees than others does this make you a better educated person than others????

Humility born out of knowledge is divine,
Confidence born out of knowledge is good welcome and acceptable.

Arrogance born out of knowledge is Ignorance magnified.
Ignorance is trait born out of captive mind set.

Kupastha Mandukam are we one?? (Frog in well)

As Intellectuals, well we are not expected to be one.
ARE Mind tattoos, the responsible factors for captive mind set????????

People are led by the captive mindsets which lead to inhibition and inaction
Mind tattoos are the responsible factors for captive mind set

Dr Norman Vincent Peale the famous author was walking by a tattoo shop when a confused looking young man came out of the shop with a tattoo in his right arm that read “Born to Lose”. Dr Peale asked the tattoo artist about it and the tattoo artist replied…. “ I did ask the young man if he was sure that he wanted to state “Born to lose” in his arm and the young man was pretty stubborn in that. A surprised Dr Peale asked the tattoo artist – “Is’nt that surprising?” For which the artiste replied “Not really!

"Much before he tattooed it on his arm, he has firmly tattooed it in his brain, and his body tattoo act is just a reflection of his mind tattoo”.””

But what we tattoo on any part of the body for others to see is not as important as what we tattoo in our minds…. And positive, successful, energetic mind tattoos are a must to attain success…

So, it should be our conscious and subconscious endeavor to keep tattooing our mind with thoughts that are ONLY about winning, what we want to be, want to reach, want to achieve, that perfect day as desired, ALL THAT IS SOUGHT BY US FOR A GREAT LIFE.
A few degrees less or more doesn’t decide whether you are intelligent, Creative leader.

How do you differentiate creative people from others?

Creative people are full of curiosity.
Creative people are wonder struck. They are tickled by the newness of every moment. They have lots of questions. They keep asking.

what, why, when, where and how.

A questioning mind is an open mind. It is not a knowing mind. Only an open mind can be creative. A knowing mind can never be creative.

A questioning stance sensitizes the mind in a very special way and it is able to sense what would have been missed otherwise.

Problems & the blame game

When there is a problem, some people can be seen wringing up their hands. Their first reaction is to look for someone to blame. Being faced with a problem becomes a problem. Such people can be called problem-averse.

Intelligent people, on the other hand, are problem-friendly. They just roll up their sleeves when faced with a problem. They see problems as opportunities to improve the quality of life. Being faced with a problem is never a problem.
Value ideas and suggestions from the colleagues.

Creative people realize the value of an idea. They do not take any chance with something so important. They spot an opportunity in the ideas suggested by their colleagues. Delegate and define responsibility to make them accountable & responsible.

Allow them controlled discretion & inculcate a sense of responsibility & accountability in them. A responsible and winning team can only make you a winning leader.

Visible enthusiasm for achieving set goals
Effective leaders are enthusiastic about their goals. This enthusiasm works as fuel for their journey, propelling them to their goals. This is also extremely contagious and spreads fast in the team.

Perennially dissatisfied?

Leaders are acutely aware of their dissatisfaction and unfulfilled desires. However, this awareness does not frustrate them. Their frustration never reflects in their behavior with colleagues. As a matter of fact, they use this awareness as a stimulus to realize their dreams.

Be an optimist, regardless of adversities & constraints.

Creative people generally have a deeply held belief that most, if not all, problems can be solved. No challenge is too big to be overcome.

This doesn’t mean they are always happy and never depressed. They do have their bad moments but they don’t generally get stumped by a challenge.

Creative people make positive Judgment.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn. It can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a right man’s brow – a businessman Charles Brower

The ability to hold off on judging or critiquing an idea is important in the process of creativity. Often great ideas start as crazy ones - if critique is applied too early the idea will be killed and never developed into something useful and usable.

This doesn’t mean there is no room for critique or judgment in the creative process but there is a time and place for it and creative people recognize that.

Academics excellence should not bring about arrogance of Endemic proportions

Your having more knowledge than your colleagues is the most natural thing and that should not make the other person less of a human being. If that knowledge gives you a sense of arrogance and self righteousness, You are endemically diseased, get yourself cured immediately. Your superior knowledge should be used to help build ladders out of ignorance for lesser qualified colleagues & students.

Great people are good at reframing any situation.

Reframes are a different way of looking at things. Being able to reframe experiences and situations is a very powerful skill.
Reframing allows you to look at a situation from a different angle. It is like another camera angle in a cricket match. And a different view has the power to change your entire perception of the situation.

Reframing can breathe new life into dead situations. It can motivate demoralized teams. It helps you to spot opportunities that you would have otherwise missed.
It does not mean that excellent academics make you less educated. It only means that excellent academics & education are not interrelated directly or inversely. We had great academicians who were also excellent human beings. Dr. Rejendra Prasad, Dr.Radhakrishanan, Dr.Zakir Hussain, and Dr.Kalam. Remember our word & action directly impacts the destiny of the future generations. Our actions should help to mould the youth to become future leaders and fulfill Dr.Kalam’s dream to lead India to lead the world by 2020.

Best wishes,

Shyam,

STEM USA

2010-11-01T09:53:00.000-07:00

STEM (Science,Technology,Engineering,& Math) education in USA, The initiative, The interest, The action.

STEM Education in United States

STEM (Science Technology Engineering & Math) education has again come into limelight suddenly with everyone concerned including White House taking initiatives in this direction.

I very vividly remember almost a year back in 2009 when this issue was raised by my favorite author, Harvard professor and former editor of HBR Prof. Rosabeth Moss Kanter raised this issue in one of her articles during her India visit to attend Nasscom seminar. She said

“America will create new jobs by tapping the inventiveness of entrepreneurs who can draw on a large pool of talent with so-called STEM skills – science, technology, engineering, and math. I wish that the federal stimulus package included less money on banks and more on investment in higher education and companies of the future.”

Nice words spoken, but no concrete action in that direction. A typical case of ‘intent and action’ going in opposite directions. Industry at least seemed happy building their empires outside United States ‘CISCO’ CEO John Chambers prided in his Indian talent acquisition. He said at same conference.

“Cisco CEO John Chambers, who spoke before I did with his usual charm, repeated his company’s investment in Bangalore as its second global headquarters because of the 600,000 engineers a year that India produces.”

Is it a preference of convenience over construction? STEM education is a huge construction work involving the Government the industry and the intelligentsia. Till now none of them seemed to have taken it seriously.

It however is a happy augury that people have suddenly realized the importance of it. Let us hope this new found enthusiasm results in some concrete action being taken in this direction.

However the implementation of STEM is not as easy as people think. For the student perspective to change, it is essential that the changes are brought in the teacher perspective, the parent perspective, and teaching institutions perspective.

The role of Institutions

The institutions need to make the science curriculum more down to earth. It is should be relevant and related to day to day applications. The indifference to science & math should in a gradual process transformed in to interest, love and finally to passion. A sufficient dose of practicals, puzzles, & games could help, but more importantly it should be related to the happenings and applications around us.

The natural affinities

Another reality that parents & the teaching community should take note of is that if one scores less in math & science, it is not the student who needs too be blamed. It has to be understood that, Science, Math, humanities learning are related to different but overlapping functions of the brain. Each individual has a circuit naturally designed for a particular steam and a profession. The Bio-individuality of Human beings needs to be respected. This has been proved by many neurophysiologic studies and has strong empirical evidence in its support.

However on the positive side is the Neuro-plasticity, which states that every one can learn, only thing is some of us just need to be Re-Booted More often than not, it requires that we start from the ground up

The quotients IQ, EQ & PQ

STEM education is just not the case of IQ (Intelligence Quotient). It also involves EQ (Emotional Quotient), & PQ (Physical Quotient).

First factor is the PQ. The physical ability to learn, which includes the ability to hear, see, feel, move, and have the energy they need to learn.

Second factor is the EQ. Children need the right attitude to be able to learn. Without a good attitude learning becomes almost impossible. EQ includes attitudes about themselves, others, their work and the future.

Last but not the least is the IQ. The cognitive ability to learn which includes the ability to attend, understand, imbibe, process, recall & reproduce when required.

Pedagogy & Content connection:

There needs to be a symbiotic co-existence between the pedagogy & the content. “The Process & the Produce”. Iteration is an important prerequisite in any teaching process, more so in STEM education. The second most important requirement is for the teaching to come out of its linear mindset. A non linear spiral process could be a better alternative.

The faculty and the Involvement

The whole above process can be accentuate or negated by the most important factor, the faculty and its involvement. What is need is, informed teachers who are passionate about the subject and who show how the content is relevant to the real world. Strategies and gimmicks are secondary.

We need strategies that allow students to write, discuss, create visual representations, and organize concepts meaningfully. The majority of students coming through public education are not naturally doing this. Strong learners are. But we need far more teachers teaching kids how to think than ever before.

I would like to see more about the connections between content and active learning.

Let us hope that the initiatives taken by the Government and intellectuals transform themselves into concrete action plans which are implemented with all sincerity & in not so distant future, United States starts producing sufficient number of STEM graduates.

Let us toast to the bright future of United States of America

Shyam

Social Entrepreneurship mode and methods

2010-11-01T08:24:00.001-07:00

Text and the power point presentation of the lecture delivered by me at Young Indian Entrepreneurs on 31^st October at Hyderabad India on the topic.

"Social Entrepreneurship: A Change in perspective, from “Not for Profit” activity to a "transaction" towards Social Assets Accumulation"

“I am extremely happy to note that so many young entrepreneurs have taken time today to attend my lecture on Social Entrepreneurship. I hope this will probably help in removing misgivings in the minds of the youngsters about Social Entrepreneurship.

Social Entrepreneurship is an entrepreneurial effort like any other business. Only difference is, it is wholly or partially cause driven and more often than not, it complements in terms of increased brand equity to the brand that supports it.

The debate about the capitalism and “All Truism” is eternal and will continue till eternity. We arenow looking at a model that is a combination of the two. “All truisms” is a noble concept, but it is too noble a concept to sustain. What is an ideal combination depends on geographic, demographic and other factors. However there has to be a flexibility and scalability in action & approach as per the need and situation.

Social commitment and Business ethics can co-exist as has been shown by many social entrepreneurs. Prof. Mohd. Yunus’s Grameen Foundation has been doing it since 1980s in Bangladesh, where 95% of Bank’s Capital is owned by poor farmers and 97% of the borrowers are women. The people who were borrowers at one time have settled down in their business have now become investors in the same bank. “A unique case of beneficiary becoming a benefactor”

Social business as Prof. Yunus would like to call it, does not entail working without profits. The organizations do make profit, but the investors only get back their investment when the organization becomes self-sustaining. They do not take back any profit.

Any normal entrepreneur can invest an amount that is easily dispensable for him in to the social business and continue with the rest in his normal business. Prof Yunus also does not advocate social business at the cost of self-survival.

The marriage of capitalism and altruism is never very comfortable. One is about making money. The other, though often indirectly, is about giving money.

In India, which still has a socialist ethos, there is distaste for extreme monetary objective behind social lending, and what some might even perceive as greed.

The Difficulty of Being Good

Globally, the social development model accounts for about 90% of microfinance organizations, but 10% of profit-oriented providers are very large and account for over half of the industry assets.

The nonprofits lend more to the bottom of the pyramid while the for-profits tend to focus on a slightly higher tier. Also nonprofits are more likely to go for group-lending while for-profits go largely for individual-lending.

India is a land of unlimited human capital; can human capital be leveraged to build social capital?

550 million youth and still counting…. These need to be transformed into Young Indian Entrepreneurs, and their dreams need to be converted over a period of time into solid, tangible, successful business propositions.

China is the fastest growing economy in the world. It has now replaced Japan as the second largest economic power. All this because they have adopted the social model and excellently leveraged their human capital assets.

Dr. Kalam feels that there is much more to business than investment and capital. It is the commitment to take India forward to leadership position in the comity of nation. For this he feels that the youth need to be ignited to work for self-development. When an individual develops, nation automatically develops. It has been has been proved true in India‘s case.

India today is the second fastest growing economy in the world. Now this represents phenomenal growth. This growth is contributed to by small entrepreneurs located in more than 600,000 villages in India which delves its rural economy. More than 65% of the population is dependent on rural agriculture or agriculture related business.

This is the strength of the rural work that has to be leveraged. Varghese Kurian in 1946 started the movement by mobilizing the farmers in Khaira district. He formed a confederation of small farmer cooperatives into a farmer’s movement. The movement slowly spread across to all the districts of the state and transformed itself into a revolution “The White Revolution” and created a brand “Amul”, and when Amul calls itself “Taste of India”. It is not only justified, it also reflects people extreme association with the brand that has madeIndian farmers famous throughout the world.

Social Entrepreneurship should not be considered to be a giveaway. It is a value enhancer in more ways than one to an enterprise.

Let us briefly examine how it helps in various domains.

Business and academia

There are many instances where associations were formed between the two benefiting both immensely thus promoting the cause of education.Some of them being

Google and Stanford

DRDO & IIT

Progressive software and Cambridge University

NGOs and Entrepreneurs

Change in perspective from adversaries to partners. There was a time when the businesses used to avoid the NGOs and were very protective in revealing information to them. Now the times have changed international organizations like Oxfam and Greenpeace, have forged associations with the corporates and are complementing each other’s efforts in serving the social cause.

Each day represents a success conquering a new horizon in the entrepreneurs commitment towards the social cause. This is a new augury for the future of social entrepreneurship.

Let us hope and pray for the development of this domain, because in it lies the upliftment and development of millions of young, energetic, and ignited youth the world over.

Thanks for your patience in listening to me.

Best wishes to Young Indian Entrepreneurs.

Shyam

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Lead India 2020 photos

2010-11-01T08:15:00.000-07:00

View various Lead India movement albums for the events during 2007 - 2008

Dr.Kalam Launches 2nd National Movement from Sanga Reddy Medak Dist. 15th August 2007

Dr. Kalam addresses the Trustees and special invitees at Hotel Novatel Hyd. 27th September 2007

Dr. Kalam launches 2nd National Movement in Karimnagar Dist. 14th November 2007

Dr. Kalam informally meets the Lead India Movement volunteers at Medchal Hyderabad 22nd November 2007

Dr. Kalam address the awareness programme on Fundamental Duties on 26th January 2008

Lead India training in West Godavari Dist 2007-2008

Lead India training in Karimnagar Dist 2007-2008

Dr. Kalam's Speech

Dr Kalam's speech

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Dr. Kalam's Speech complete Text

Speech Text

Karimnagar dist

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Lead India training in Karimnagar Dist.

West Godavary

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Lead India training Programme in West Godavari Dist

Fundamental duties

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Dr. Kalam addressed a programme conducted to create awareness among people about fundamental duties.of an Indian citizen

Medchal Meeting

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Dr. Kalam spending some time with the Lead India 2020 movement volunteers

2nm Kmnr

2010-11-01T07:36:00.000-07:00

Dr Kalam launched the 2nd National Movement officially in Karimnagar dist.

Novatel Photos

2010-11-01T07:32:00.000-07:00

Dr. Kalam addressed the Trustees and special invitees at Hotel Novatel Hyderabad

Lead India 2020 photos

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On 15th August 2007, Dr.Kalam officially launched Lead India 2020 as the 2nd National Movement from Sanga Reddy Medak dist.

Social Entrepreneurship Presentation

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