Soft Skills

A nice poem from Kabir

2012-01-06T07:42:00.001-08:00

None tell me of this bird that sings within me.
It is neither colored nor colorless.
It has neither form nor outline.
It sits in the shadow of love.
It dwells within the unattainable, the infinite & the eternal.
And no one marks when it comes and goes.

Saint Kabir

Right to Lead

2011-12-22T18:47:00.001-08:00

The Right to Lead

What gives a man or woman the right to lead? It certainly isn't gained by election or appointment. Having position, title, rank or degrees doesn't qualify anyone to lead other people. And the ability doesn't come automatically from age or experience, either.

No, it would be accurate to say that no one can be given the right to lead. The right to lead can only be earned. And that takes time.

The Kind of Leader Others Want to Follow

The key to becoming an effective leader is not to focus on making other people follow, but on making yourself the kind of person they want to follow. You must become someone others can trust to take them where they want to go.

As you prepare yourself to become a better leader, use the following guidelines to help you grow:

1. Let go of your ego

The truly great leaders are not in leadership for personal gain. They lead in order to serve other people. Perhaps that is why Lawrence D. Bell remarked, "Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things, and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."

2. Become a good follower first

Rare is the effective leader who didn't learn to become a good follower first. That is why a leadership institution such as the United States Military Academy teaches its officers to become effective followers first - and why West Point has produced more leaders than the Harvard Business School.

3. Build positive relationships

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. That means it is by nature relational. Today's generation of leaders seem particularly aware of this because title and position mean so little to them. They know intuitively that people go along with people they get along with.

4. Work with excellence

No one respects and follows mediocrity. Leaders who earn the right to lead give their all to what they do. They bring into play not only their skills and talents, but also great passion and hard work They perform on the highest level of which they are capable.

5. Rely on discipline, not emotion

Leadership is often easy during the good times. It's when everything seems to be against you - when you're out of energy, and you don't want to lead - that you earn your place as a leader. During every season of life, leaders face crucial moments when they must choose between gearing up or giving up. To make it through those times, rely on the rock of discipline, not the shifting sand of emotion.

6. Make adding value your goal

When you look at the leaders whose names are revered long after they have finished leading, you find that they were men and women who helped people to live better lives and reach their potential. That is the highest calling of leadership - and its highest value.

7. Give your power away

One of the ironies of leadership is that you become a better leader by sharing whatever power you have, not by saving it all for yourself. You're meant to be a river, not a reservoir. If you use your power to empower others, your leadership will extend far beyond your grasp.

Great Leaders have done these same things and earned the right to lead others. Because of the courage they found and the character they displayed, other people recognized their admirable qualities and felt compelled to follow them.

The followers who looked to these leaders learned from them, and so can we. As you explore their worlds and words, remember that it takes time to become worthy of followers. Leadership isn't learned or earned in a moment.

A good leadership speech by Mr. Rahul Dravid

2011-12-15T15:42:00.000-08:00

http://www.mid-day.com/sports/2011/dec/151211-Rahul-Dravid-speech-Bradman-oration.htm

Just don't give up...

2011-12-12T03:26:00.001-08:00

Whatever might happen to you - Just don't give up still - Watch this amazing video -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlXWp6vFdE

80/20 Rule

2011-12-09T15:17:00.000-08:00

The 80/20 Rule is one of the most helpful of all concepts of time and life management. It is also called the "Pareto Principle" after its founder, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who first wrote about it in 1895. Pareto noticed that people in his society seemed to divide naturally into what he called the "vital few", the top 20 percent in terms of money and influence, and the "trivial many", the bottom 80 percent.

He later discovered that virtually all economic activity was subject to this principle as well. For example, this principle says that 20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results, 20 percent of your customers will account for 80 percent of your sales, 20 percent of your products or services will account for 80 percent of your profits, 20 percent of your tasks will account for 80 percent of the value of what you do, and so on. This means that if you have a list of ten items to do, two of those items will turn out to be worth five or ten times or more than the other eight items put together.

Number of Tasks versus Importance of Tasks

Here is an interesting discovery. Each of the ten tasks may take the same amount of time to accomplish. But one or two of those tasks will contribute five or ten times the value of any of the others.

Often, one item on a list of ten tasks that you have to do can be worth more than all the other nine items put together. This task is invariably the frog that you should eat first.

Focus on Activities, Not Accomplishments

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous. For this reason, you must adamantly refuse to work on tasks in the bottom 80 percent while you still have tasks in the top 20 percent left to be done.

Before you begin work, always ask yourself, "Is this task in the top 20 percent of my activities or in the bottom 80 percent?"

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you will be naturally motivated to continue. A part of your mind loves to be busy working on significant tasks that can really make a difference. Your job is to feed this part of your mind continually.

Motivate Yourself

Just thinking about starting and finishing an important task motivates you and helps you to overcome procrastination. Time management is really life management, personal management. It is really taking control of the sequence of events. Time management is having control over what you do next. And you are always free to choose the task that you will do next. Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work.

Effective, productive people discipline themselves to start on the most important task that is before them. They force themselves to eat that frog, whatever it is. As a result, they accomplish vastly more than the average person and are much happier as a result. This should be your way of working as well.

How to Build a Dream Team!

2011-12-01T20:05:00.001-08:00

How to Build a Dream Team!

What is a “Dream Team?” Well, here are a few behavioral examples of how a Dream Team thinks and behaves… attitudes and actions that define the “best of the best” organizational teams.

Team members share participation equally.
Team members listen to one another.
Team members support and encourage one another.
Alternative solutions are raised and discussed completely.
The team develops actions plans to implement decisions.
All team members take responsibility for those action plans.
Conflict is dealt with by searching for common ground and creative solutions.
Team members confront one another when behavior falls outside of defined team norms.
The team environment is calm, warm, energetic, involved, close, confident, competent, productive, trusting, open, supportive and innovative.

Lead well ... LEAD RIGHT

Communication Tips for Leaders at All Levels

2011-12-01T18:49:00.001-08:00

Communication Tips for Leaders at All Levels

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Let’s face it, when surveys are conducted and employees are asked “what is the biggest problem around here,” the number one issue is always communication! Effective communication is essential to both run a successful organization, but also enhance commitment, creditability and collaboration. In the bestseller “Peer Today Boss Tomorrow” author Laura Bernstein outlines some important communication tips and techniques for each of us to remember and apply:

Keep it real. Most people are turned-off by what they perceive as unrealistic claims, goals, and promises. There are no “cure alls” in the world … and your coworkers know it. When it comes to communicating your message, be positive and upbeat – tell it like you see it … just don’t “oversell” it.

Avoid “data dumps.” Narrow your verbal and written communication down to no more than three key points. Bombard people with more information than they can handle (or remember) all they’ll tune out.

Use a “what’s in it for you” approach. Nothing fosters support and acceptance better than personal benefit. Emphasize how the subject of your communication (a plan, policy, decision, etc.) will benefit the audience and you’ll increase receptivity for your message.

Find out how you’re doing. Have team members and colleagues critique your communications skills. Ask everyone to respond (anonymously), in writing, to the following question: “What two things can I do to be a more effective communicator?” Thank people for their willingness to provide you with input. And make sure you ACT on the information you receive.

Lead well ... LEAD RIGHT

What you want to be... ?

2011-12-01T18:35:00.001-08:00

"When we were five, they asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. Our answers were things like astronauts, president or in my case, a princess. When we were ten, they asked again. We answered, 'a rock star, cowboy,' or in my case, 'a gold medalist.' But now that we're grown up, they want a serious answer. Well, how about this: who the hell knows? This isn't the time to make hard and fast decisions. This is a time to make mistakes, take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere. Fall in love... a lot. Major in philosophy, because there's no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind and change it again, because nothing's permanent. So, make as many mistakes as you can. That way, someday, when they ask what we want to be, we won't have to guess. We'll know." ~ Jessica Stanley

How to Select the Best People for Your Organization

2011-11-27T15:28:00.001-08:00

How to Select the Best People for Your Organization

Hiring for Capability, Commitment, and Chemistry

Here are some powerful tips from Three-Dimensional Interviewing to prepare for an interview with a candidate that’s designed to help you select an individual with the best capability, commitment and chemistry.

Make sure you know what you’re looking for! Start the process by developing a profile of an ideal candidate that identifies the critical capability (skills and knowledge), commitment (personal motivation and attitude), and chemistry (work styles and values) needed for success in the job.

Prepare a variety of interview questions that explore each candidate’s fit with the job and your organization’s culture. Use open-ended questions that require explanation rather than a simple one-or two-word answer. And ask HR or an experienced colleague to review your questions to ensure legality and appropriateness.

If possible, avoid scheduling interviews “one on top of another.” Ideally, you should allow for at least one hour in between sessions. You can use this time to prepare for the next candidate, check messages, or just take a break. And knowing that you have a “buffer” will minimize the temptation to rush through an interview that starts to run long.

If others from your organization will also participate as interviewers, meet with them ahead of time to discuss the overall process and schedule, as well as specific roles and responsibilities. Consider conducting a mock interview so that you can practice working together. And have a contingency plan in case one of the interviewers suddenly becomes unavailable.

Lead well ... LEAD RIGHT.

Doing it right

2011-11-19T08:42:00.001-08:00

"If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
- John Wooden

6 truths about time

2011-11-13T07:39:00.001-08:00

Here are six terrific truths about time:

First: Nobody can manage time. But you can manage those things that take up your time.
Second: Time is expensive. As a matter of fact, 80 percent of our day is spent on those things or those people that only bring us two percent of our results.
Third: Time is perishable. It cannot be saved for later use.
Fourth: Time is measurable. Everybody has the same amount of time...pauper or king. It is not how much time you have; it is how much you use.
Fifth: Time is irreplaceable. We never make back time once it is gone.
Sixth: Time is a priority. You have enough time for anything in the world, so long as it ranks high enough among your priorities.

The awesome power of goals

2011-11-12T15:22:00.001-08:00

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Quotes of the Week

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby

"Thought is useful when it motivates for action, and a hindrance when it substitutes for action." - Bill Raeder

"A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements." - Bo Bennett

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope

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The awesome power of goals
by Gary Ryan Blair

Success is the intentional, premeditated use of choice and decision. Unless you choose – with certainty – what it is you want, you accept table scraps by default!

The world is plump with opportunity. With boldness and conviction, stick a fork into the goals you want by being decisive.

You are born with great capabilities, but you will not achieve your potential until you call upon yourself to fulfill it. You will rise to the occasion when it presents itself; yet, to assure self-fulfillment, you must provide occasions to rise to. Clearly defined goals allow you to travel toward another horizon that represents the end of one experience and the transition to a new and better existence. The objective is to choose the right goals, and then to create the necessary causes – the effects will follow!

The difference between what one person and another achieves depends more on goal choices than on abilities. The profound differences between successful people and others are the goals they choose to pursue. Individuals with smaller talents, intelligence, and abilities will achieve different results because they select and pursue different goals.

Each decision affects what you become. We form our decisions and our decisions form us. There is no escaping this; the smallest choices are important because – over time – their cumulative effect is enormous.

Never overlook the obvious: The nature and direction of your life change the instant you decide what goals you want to pursue.

Once you make a decision, you start down a path to a new destination. At the moment the decision is made, your decision to pursue a goal alters what you are becoming. Just one spin of the lock’s dial – a single choice – can alter your life, your destiny, your legacy.

Think about it – your goal decisions represent and express your individuality. You seal your fate with the choices you make. You define yourself by your decisions.

Your dialogue with success is ultimately a solo one. Decisions and goals made must be your own if you are to call your life a success.

Always establish the best goals you can. Goals are the seeds of success – you become only what you plant. The quality of your harvest is a direct reflection of the quality of your seeds-your decisions!

Indecision is the big eraser of opportunity and potential. Risks and costs accompany every decision; however, the price of decision is far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. When it comes to decisiveness, squatters have no rights.

Everyone has an official wish list of things they think are “reasonable”. What about the unofficial wish list? The one that common sense tells you to ignore? The list that exists deep in your mind, the list that keeps you up at night, that makes your toes wiggle when you think of it? Why not choose that list for a change?

How long have you dreamed of being, having, and doing what you really want? Think big, as when it comes to your goals, the size of your ambition does matter.

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Book Mark - "Great by Choice": Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

Author: Jim Collins & Morten T. Hansen
Price :11.99$

Will you choose greatness?

In Collins' new book he relies on the method you've seen in previous books like Built to Last and Good to Great. What's different in this one is he selected companies not just on their status or explosive growth, but because they succeeded in an extreme and uncertain environment. However, there's a caveat here: his research stopped in 2002, meaning there's no thorough analysis of how companies performed in the last 10 years. Collins and Hansen believe the future will be unstable and environments will be extreme for the rest of "our lives". So, they try to analyze company performance/greatness within the context of difficulty.

Summary of each chapter/section.

1 - THRIVING IN UNCERTAINTY
Collins and Hansen explain what the method for their book (what I described above), including the definition of a 10Xer, which is a company that beat their industry by 10 fold. Just 7 companies were selected as a 10X case out of 20,400 companies. The seven are Amgen, Biomet, Intel, Microsoft, Progressive Insurance, Southwest Airlines, and Stryker. They don't include Apple because their research lens of Apple vs. Microsoft focused primarily on the 1980s and 1990s (remember they stopped collecting data in 2002), which makes no sense to me. The present environment (the one in which Apple has exploded) is a far more difficult climate than the 80s-90s.

2 - 10Xers
Example of a 10xer is Southwest airlines, whose growth since 1972 is greater than that of Walmart, despite this period being a particularly harsh one for the airline industry. Anecdotes describe historic examples of 10xers and explains they aren't more creative, more visionary, more charismatic, or more ambitious, more blessed by luck, more risk seeking, more heroic, or more bold. The glaring fact that Apple is missing goes against this model, as Jobs and company were many of these things.

3 - 20 MILE MARCH
Here they introduce discipline as the key that sets 10Xers apart (hence the 20 mile march). 10Xers are focused on data with GREAT discipline and stick to their plan, like a 20 Mile March.

4 - FIRE BULLETS, THEN CANNONBALLS
10Xers were not more innovative than the control companies; indeed, they were considered less innovative in some comparisons. 10Xers scale innovation (firing bullets) and then the fire cannonballs once they know what's on target.

5 - LEADING ABOVE THE DEATH LINE
Explains "productive paranoia," the idea that you need to build cash reserves and buffers, bound your risk, and show flexibility in looking at macro and micro factors at play in your business and industry.

6 - SMaC
SMaC stands for Specific, Methodological, and Consistent. The more uncertain your environment, the more SMaC you need to be. A SMaC recipe is a set of durable operating principles and practices that create a replicable and consistent success formula.

7 - ROL (RETURN ON LUCK)
10Xers weren't more lucky or unlucky than comparisons. They had better ROL because they took full advantage of good luck and minimized the effects of bad luck.

Why some businesses succeed and why some don't?

This was a great business book to read if you are interested why some businesses succeed regardless of turbulent operational environment, global competition, economic depression, and fast pace of technology.
The author has taken some examples like South West airlines and Wall-mart to show why he thinks they succeed regardless of the economic hardship and unemployment situation. Some people and some companies seem to be able to predict the future and how to be successful.

Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Jim and coauthor Morten Hansen describe the principles how to create a great business regardless of the surrounding environment.

The chapters are: Thriving in Uncertainty, 10Xers, 20 Mile March, Fire Bullets Then Cannonballs, Leading above the Death Line, SMaC, Return on Luck, and Epilogue: Great by Choice.
This book has partly same topic as the previous one of the same author (Collins), except some new findings were introduced: (1 The best leaders are more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid.
2 "fast decisions" and "fast actions" are not good in today's world.
(3)Fast change is not always needed: The continuously successful companies changed less than the comparison companies even if the surrounding environment changed fast.

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Inspirational Words

"When the student is ready the teacher will appear." - Buddhist Proverb

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung

"Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." - Chang-Tzu

"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you donÂ’t have to waste your time voting." - Charles Bukowski

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment." - Barry LePatner

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupry

"He who does not long for joy in joy Will not suffer sorrow in sorrow. He who does not distinguish pain from pleasure Becomes so distinguished even enemies hope to pay homage." - Tirukkural 63: 629-630

"It is through not understanding, not penetrating four things that we have run so erratically, wandered on so long in this round of existence, both you and I. What are the four? Goodness, concentration, wisdom, and liberation. When these four things are understood and penetrated, craving for superficial existence is rooted out and that which leads to continued return to the same conditions is ended. There is no more constant journeying." - Digha Nikaya

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always." - Mahatma Gandhi

"True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess." - J.F. Wright

"Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life." - B.C. Forbes

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Spiritual Centre - Choices

It is very difficult to make choices in life. I think this is the cause: instead of choosing wisely, we choose with our desire; therefore things go wrong. Of course, there is also the spiritual idea, or opinion, which I consider to be true, that there is really no choice as long as we are bound by our samskaras, because they push us in the only direction they can, which is what we have created for ourselves in the past. So, spiritually speaking, until the samskaras have been cleaned off, the question of choice does not arise at all. After that, one must learn to choose wisely, and if both things are done, then the problem of choice is no more a difficulty.

(C) Shri. P. Rajagopalachari - President, Shri Ram Chandra Mission - http://www.sahajmarg.org

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Story Time - The most magnificent Mosque

The citizens of Cordoba lived in the most beautiful city in the world. They were extremely proud of the Great Mosque, which stood right in the middle of their city. Not only was the mosque wonderful, but it was surrounded by glorious gardens full of scented orange trees, sparkling fountains and flowers of every colour. The Cordobans used to sit in the garden and think they were in Paradise itself.
The only problem was three naughty boys: Rashid, who was a Muslim, Samuel who was Jewish, and Miguel who was Christian.

They ran in and out of the fountains, they jumped over the flowerbeds. They used to hide in the gardens and throw ripe oranges at anyone they saw. The gardeners Ibrahim and Yacoub tried to catch boys, but the three friends were too fast for them. One day, the boys were dropping oranges on people as they came out of the mosque. A particularly rotten orange dropped at the feet of a man in grand clothes.

“Oh no!” cried Rashid. “It’s the Caliph himself. Run for it!” The three boys tried to escape, but the Caliph’s soldiers grabbed them and brought them before the Caliph. “Caught at last,” smiled Ibrahim the gardener, “and by the Caliph’s men!” Yacoub rubbed his hands together. “They’re for it now. They’ll get ten lashes at least.” “So, young masters, you would throw oranges at your Caliph, would you?”
“We didn’t know it was you, O Great One,” whispered Rashid.

“Have you done this before?” asked the Caliph sternly. All the three boys looked miserably at their feet and nodded. “Every day, Your Magnificence,” cried the gardeners. “These three boys are the bane of our lives.” “Well,” said the Caliph, trying hard not to smile, “I can see you will have to be severely punished. I sentence you to work in these gardens every day for three months…” So the three boys spent three whole months planting and weeding and watering and trimming. Yacoub and Ibrahim worked them until they dropped. After work, the three hot and tired friends would wander through the cool mosque.

“I never saw such a beautiful building,” whispered Miguel. “It is much more magnificent than our church.” “Or my synagogue,” sighed Samuel. “Wondrous and fair indeed.” “Truly our mosque is a house of God,” said Rachid.

As the three friends grew up, they saw less and less of each other. Rashid studied medicine and became a famous doctor. Samuel travelled far and wide trading in spices and silk. He kept a diary telling of his travels and wrote poetry of great beauty. Miguel inherited his father’s farm. He became a great land-owner and was known for his kindness and the lively songs he sang. The Caliph grew old and enemies began to attack Cordoba from every side. In the end, he was defeated in a great battle by the Christian king Fernando.

Miguel, who was now the most important man in Cordoba, went to greet his new king. “Don Miguel,” cried the king, “take me to the Great Mosque, of which I have heard so much.” “With pleasure, Sire,” said Miguel. “It is the pride and joy of all citizens of Cordoba – Muslim and Jew alike.” The king looked at the mosque. “It is indeed a most magnificent mosque,” said the king, and he sighed. “But this is to be a Christian city and we shall build a great cathedral on this site. The mosque must be pulled down.”

That night, Miguel invited Samuel and Rashid to dinner. “My dear old friends, I have terrible news. The king plans to pull down our beloved mosque.” “What about our wonderful gardens?” asked Samuel and Rashid. “They too will go.” “What can we do?” cried Rashid, burying his head in his hands. “We three must go to the king,” said Samuel, “and tell him how precious the mosque is to everyone in Cordoba.”

The next day, the people of Cordoba packed into the town square to see the king. “I am here to plead for our mosque on behalf of all the Christians of Cordoba,” cried Miguel. Everyone cheered. “I am here on behalf of the Jews of Cordoba,” said Samuel. “Quite right!” shouted the crowd. “And Sire, I speak for the Muslim citizens. Spare our mosque!” cried Rashid. Everyone cheered even louder.

“Well, well,” said the king. “Three communities with one voice. I can see that I will have no friends if I pull down your mosque.” He thought for a moment. Then he said, “I will build a church in a small part of the mosque, but the rest of the building and the gardens shall belong to all of you good people of Cordoba.” Cheers echoed throughout the square.

So the Great Mosque was left for future generations to enjoy and wonder at. It is still there today, and millions of people visit it every year. Many sit in the gardens and enjoy the shady trees and sweet-scented blossom – and a few visitors say they have even seen the ghosts of three naughty boys running in and out of the fountains.

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Time to Smile - Life is Like That

What Did the Cannibal Say…
Q. What did the cannibal say when he came upon a sleeping missionary.

A. "Ah! Breakfast in bed."

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The End Is Near!
A local priest and a pastor were fishing on the side of the road. They thoughtfully made a sign saying, "The End is Near! Turn yourself around now before it's too late!" and showed it to each passing car. One driver who drove by didn't appreciate the sign and shouted at them, "Leave us alone, you religious nuts!"

All of a sudden they heard a big splash, looked at each other, and the priest said to the pastor, "You think maybe we should have just said 'Bridge Out' instead?"

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Courage Does Not Always Roar

2011-11-01T18:17:00.001-07:00

Courage Does Not Always Roar by Bobi Seredich

When life gets you down and the problems you face
are certainly more than your share...
When you run out of strength and you want to give up
because it's just too much to bear...

I want to remind you, my precious friend,
that you have what it takes inside...
extraordinary courage that may not ROAR
but it doesn't cower and hide.

It's the quiet voice inside you that says,
"Tomorrow I'll try again."
It's the courage to keep on going...
to see things through to the end.

You are not defined by this moment in time,
You are not what has happened to you.
It's the way that you choose to respond that matters
and what you decide to do.

Courage is not the absence of fear,
but a powerful choice we make.
It's the choice to move forward with PURPOSE and joy,
regardless of what it takes.

It's the courage that's found in ordinary women
who are HEROES in their own way...
exhibiting strength and fortitude
in life's challenges every day...

Valiant women of exceptional courage
with enduring power to cope...
taking each problem one day at a time
and never giving up HOPE.

These brave-hearted women have great resilience
and they lift each other as well...
bonded by a common understanding
each with a story to tell.

How to master the art of parenting

2011-10-30T22:27:00.000-07:00

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Quotes of the Week

"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." - Maimonides

"The Self is hidden in the hearts of all, As butter lies hidden in cream. Realize The Self in the depths of meditation— The Lord of Love, supreme Reality, Who is the goal of all knowledge." - Shvetashvatara Upanishad

"To fight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone." - David J. Schwartz

"I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness." - Elmer Diktonius

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Krazy Korner

AD'VAN'I!

The man with Built-in Van!

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How to master the art of parenting

The most important single role of parenting is to love and nurture your children and to build in them feelings of high self-esteem and self-confidence. If you raise your children feeling terrific about themselves, if you bring them up full of eagerness to go out and take on the world, then you have fulfilled your responsibility in the highest possible sense.

Why Parents Dont Love Enough

There are two major reasons for the failure by parents to love their children enough. First, the parents do not love themselves. Parents with low self-esteem have great difficulty giving more love to their children than they feel for themselves. The second reason that parents dont love their children enough is they often have the mistaken notion that their children exist to fulfill their expectations.

Children are Not Property

The starting point of raising super kids is to realize that your children are not your property. Your children belong to themselves. They are a gift to you from high above, and a temporary gift at that.

Children are a Precious Gift

When you look at your children as precious gifts that you can only enjoy for a short time, you see your role as parents differently. When you celebrate and encourage the special nature and personality of your child, he or she grows like a flower in sunshine. But if you try to get your child to be something he or she is not, your child's spirit will wither, and his or her potential for happiness and joy will shrivel like a leaf on a tree in autumn.

Love Makes the Difference

The most important consideration in raising super kids is the amount of love they receive. Children need love like flowers need water. A continuous flow of love and approval from the parent to the child is the child's lifeline to emotional and physical health. Love deprivation is surely the most serious problem that a child can suffer during his or her formative years.

Unconditional Love and Acceptance

Make it clear to your child that nothing he or she does could ever cause you to love him or her less than 100%. The most wonderful gift you can give your child is the absolute conviction that you love him or her completely, without reservation, no matter what he or she does and no matter what happens.

Praise and Encouragement

Give your children continual praise and encouragement for the positive things they do, even small things. Praise and reinforce what you would like to see repeated. Praise them to build their self-esteem and self-confidence.

Action Exercise

Ask yourself what it would be like to be your own child. Put yourself in the position of your child or your children, and then evaluate yourself as a parent. What are your strengths and weaknesses? What do you do well and what do you do poorly? What are some of the things that you do that might be causing your children to grow up with lower self-esteem than you would like?

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Book Mark - Demand: : Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It

Author:
Adrian Slywotzky
Karl Weber

Price :16.32$

Boosting Revenues in Difficult Times,

In "Demand", Adrian Slywotzky dissects the elements that turn a regular offering into an irresistible one.

Every business owners is familiar with a breakout of customers - some love the product and recommend to others, some buy but never say much, some try and don't buy, and some just don't bother. A 10-15% swing in proportions can have a significant impact on your business. So, how do you change those ratios?

Through telling stories about many modern day successes, Slywotzky breaks down many of the elements that contribute to that desired shift. Understanding the major purchasing triggers, building the correct "back-story", and establishing a successful trajectory are but a few of the levers to be pulled to increase the magnetism of your product/service such that you get your customers down off that fence.

This is not a "5-step" process manual - specific steps are precluded by the richness and complexity of the topic. But what you will find are stories that cause you to think about your own business and in the process lead you to successfully identify ways to drive increased demand and profits.

A unique and helpful look at the space between product development and marketing,

Demand by Adrian Slywotzky discusses the fundamentals of product development and marketing from a broad business basis. This leads to a book that is interesting, well thought out and insightful. Slywotzky has created a book that fits in well between these two disciplines - each of which already have extensive libraries written about them. Recommended for someone who has neither a product development, nor marketing background to introduce them to the ideas around building demand for your products or services.

Slywotzky organizes the book around the following basic aspects of demand generation:

Magnetic - how do you make products and services attractive to first time buyers, engender repeat business and build strong relationships.

Hassle Map - a good concept and tool to help identify the customer's needs and opportunities to position products and services that will create demand and deliver value.

Backstory - the elements beyond the product itself that make the product magnetic. These include things like infrastructure, ecosystem and business design.

Trigger - the aspects of the product or demand building effort that causes customers to take the leap from awareness to purchase, use and advocacy.

Trajectory - the notion of demand creation inspired by product and service innovation and change. Improvement can create its own demand as well as signal to competitors that they cannot compete.

Variation - the recognitions that one size fits all, actually fits no one and that segmentation and variance among customer segmentation is essential to create and sustain demand.

Launch - the moment of truth or `Achilles heel' of demand when and where your product goes to market.

You may have heard of these concepts before, but taken together Slywotzky paints a rich story of successful and not so successful demand generation activities. These ideas are relatively simple to explain and to his credit Slywotzky states them simply and clearly. This is welcome change as he seeks to expand on the points not by discussing them in abstract but by illustrating them through deep and descriptive case studies.

This is not a book on Marketing. This is not a book on Product Development. It is a book that discusses the principles and practices of creating demand, something that spans both disciplines and extends beyond them. There are better books on marketing or product development, but few that provide a solid grounding in what it means to create demand.

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Inspirational Words

"Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There is nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task." - William James

"The dharma is such that it cannot be attained by groping or searching about. In the realm of seeing, knowledge perishes. At the moment of attaining, mind is surpassed." - Dogen

"Wisdom is a weapon with which a man may ward off destruction; It is an inner fortress which no enemy can assail. Wisdom will harness the mind, diverting it >From wrong and directing it toward right." - Tirukkural 43: 421-422

"There is no evil like hatred. And no fortitude like patience." - Santideva

"Who could ever wish me to leave my loving, I would rather eat poison than hear such words. I have explored his beauty and found no shores, But the god at last is standing by me. I will fulfill my dream and let the rest go." - Chandidas

"I believe that good things come to those who work." - Wilt Chamberlain

"Don’t just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you." — Jim Rohn

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Unknown

"Passion persuades." - Anita Roddick

"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality." - Ralph Marston

"No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high." - Harriet Du Autermont

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein

"The only difference between paradise on Earth and hell on Earth is whether or not you believe your fellow man worthy of receiving your friendship and devotion." - L. Ron Hubbard

"True leaders focus less on their own self-interests than on the interests of the whole. They believe that the full well-being of one depends on the well-being of all. Leaders who focus on their own gains in running a company or other organisation are not true leaders.... they are leaders in name only. They command others only by virtue of their positions, not by the content of their character. They are so consumed with self-interest that they are blind to the well-being of others." - Warren Bennis

"The past does not equal the future." - Anthony Robbins

"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts

"It is yourself that must constantly be transforming. You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the
world to be new for you." - Deepak Chopra

"If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully
alive as you can be. You need courage to pursue the truth of your life and yourself." - Unknown

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Spiritual Centre - Perspective

My Master, used to tell me, "We should play as if we are working, and we should work as if we are playing." You know, there is another statement from another famous philosopher, who says, "Drink solids and eat liquids." That is, there should be an opposition, or a tendency to look at things from an opposite perspective. If you are too serious about serious things, as the English proverb goes, you may miss the forest for the trees. So, if you do correctly what you are to do correctly, the future is already taken care of. And to do correctly what you have to do correctly, you must be able to control your mind, regulate your mind, make it an instrument capable of revelation. And this we achieve through meditation.

(C) Shri. P. Rajagopalachari - President, Shri Ram Chandra Mission - http://www.sahajmarg.org

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Story Time - The Legend of the Rice

In the days when the earth was young and all things were better than they now are, when men and women were stronger and of greater beauty, and the fruit of the trees was larger and sweeter than that which we now eat, rice, the food of the people, was of larger grain.

One grain was all a man could eat; and in those early days, such, too, was the merit of the people, they never had to toil gathering the rice, for, when ripe, it fell from the stalks and rolled into the villages, even unto the granaries. And upon a year when the rice was larger and more plentiful than ever before, a widow said to her daughter "Our granaries are too small. We will pull them down and build larger."

When the old granaries were pulled down and the new one not yet ready for use, the rice was ripe in the fields. Great haste was made, but the rice came rolling in where the work was going on, and the widow, angered, struck a grain and cried, "Could you not wait in the fields until we were ready? You should not bother us now when you are not wanted."

The rice broke into thousands of pieces and said "From this time forth, we will wait in the fields until we are wanted," and from that time the rice has been of small grain, and the people of the earth must gather it into the granary from the fields.

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Time to Smile - Life is Like That

The Oldest Profession

A doctor, an architect, and a computer scientist were arguing about whose profession was the oldest.

In the course of their arguments, they went all the way back to the Garden of Eden. The doctor said, "The medical profession is clearly the oldest because Eve was made from Adam's rib, as the story goes, and that was an incredible surgical feat."

The architect did not agree. He said, "But if you look at the Garden itself, in the beginning there was chaos and void, and out of that, the Garden and the world were created. So God must have been an architect."

The computer scientist, who had listened to all of this said, "Yes, but where do you think the chaos came from?"

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Wisdom of Wolves: Leadership Lessons from Nature

2011-10-21T20:06:00.000-07:00

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In This Issue:
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Krazy Korner
Wisdom of Wolves: Leadership Lessons from Nature
Book Mark - Do the Right Thing
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Spiritual Centre
Story Time
Time to Smile
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Quotes of the Week

"It's wonderful to have a beginner's mind." - Steve Jobs

"When family life possesses love and virtue, That is both its essence and fruition. Among those who strive for liberation, the foremost are they Who live the blessed state of family life as it should be lived." - Tirukkural 5: 45, 47

"Before this happened to me there were 10 000 things I could do. Now there are 9000. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the 1000 that I lost, but I choose to focus on the 9000 that are left." - W. Mitchell, paralyzed, disfigured, inspired.

"Sooner or later Fortune or misfortune May befall you. When you know this, You desire nothing, You grieve for nothing. Subduing the senses, You are happy." - Ashtavakra Gita 11:3

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Krazy Korner

2G weakens the Centre of Gravigy (CG)

(ChidambaramG) of Cong!

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Wisdom of Wolves: Leadership Lessons from Nature

The attitude of the wolf can be summed up simply: it is a constant visualization of success. The collective wisdom of wolves has been progressively programmed into their genetic makeup throughout the centuries. Wolves have mastered the technique of focusing their energies toward the activities that will lead to the accomplishment of their goals.

Wolves do not aimlessly run around their intended victims, yipping and yapping. They have a strategic plan and execute it through constant communication. When the moment of truth arrives, each understands his role and understands exactly what the pack expects of him.

The wolf does not depend on luck. The cohesion, teamwork and training of the pack determines whether the pack lives or dies.

There is a silly maxim in some organizations that everyone, to be a valuable member, must aspire to be the leader. This is personified by the misguided CEO who says he only hires people who say they want to take his job. Evidently, this is supposed to ensure that the person has ambition, courage, spunk, honesty, drive – whatever. In reality, it is simply a contrived situation, with the interviewee jumping through the boss's hoops. It sends warnings of competition and one-upmanship throughout the organization rather than signals of cooperation, teamwork and loyalty.

Everyone does not strive to be the leader in the wolf pack. Some are consummate hunters or caregivers or jokesters, but each seems to gravitate to the role he does best. This is not to say there are not challenges to authority, position and status – there are. But each wolf's role begins emerging from playtime as a pup and refines itself through the rest of its years. The wolf's attitude is always based upon the question, "What is best for the pack?" This is in marked contrast to us humans, who will often sabotage our organizations, families or businesses, if we do not get what we want.

Wolves are seldom truly threatened by other animals. By constantly engaging their senses and skills, they are practically unassailable. They are masters of planning for the moment of opportunity to present itself, and when it does, they are ready to act.

Because of training, preparation, planning, communication and a preference for action, the wolf's expectation is always to be victorious. While in actuality this is true only 10 percent of the time or less, the wolf's attitude is always that success will come – and it does.

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Book Mark - Do the Right Thing: How Dedicated Employees Create Loyal Customers and Large Profits

Author: James F. Parker
Price :17.15$

Stories from the great Southwest:

Making no pretense of writing a 'how-to' framework for leadership, former Southwest Airlines CEO James Parker never-the-less delivers a delightful book of stories that show how authentic leadership connects with employees to deliver value for customers and shareholders alike. The stories are interesting, the style is comfortable, and the book is an easy and enjoyable read that will have you thinking about such things as your most memorable interviews, or those the times you showed your staff how valuable they are to you and your business.

This is the second book written by a former Southwest Airlines leader that I have reviewed - "HR from the Heart" by Libby Sartain is the other, and both attribute a great deal of Southwest Airlines' success to the way the organization connects people with the business by respecting and valuing them and their contribution. Sartain showed how Human Resource management (People department at Southwest) can be used to support the individual's connection with the business; Parker tells stories that show leadership's role in making and maintaining this connection. Parker defines leadership as follows:

"Leadership is defining and communicating the mission; providing guidance as to how it might be accomplished; equipping people with the proper tools (information, training, etc.); motivating and inspiring through selfless dedication and respect for others; providing both positive and negative feedback, including recognition for achievement; and, ultimately, getting out of the way and giving people the ability and authority to accomplish the mission, with the full confidence they will be supported."

Parker's stories all support this definition and his basic principle: When in doubt, just do the right thing. For Parker, and it seems for Southwest Airlines, the right thing is to put the employee first. When that happens, the employees will do the right thing and put customers first. When that happens, customers will do the right thing and put the company's shareholders first by giving the company their continued business.

Parker is clear that putting the employee first must be done within the context of your particular business sector and business model although most of the stories are about the airline industry - Parker's industry for 25 years. Because of his directorship role with Texas Roadhouse, Inc., he uses a few chapters near the end of the book to transfer the concept to the restaurant business, and he sprinkles the reading with a few sports and war stories to make his points. The stories connect and flow, so don't be surprised if you read this one in a single setting.

Useful lessons in corporate culture:

Vibrant and successful organisations are built on a culture of engagement, in which employees believe in the mission they are trying to accomplish and know that they are contributing to its success, according to former Southwest Airlines CEO James Parker in this book. The book contains lessons about corporate culture that the author learned from his time at Southwest.

The book makes it clear that Southwest's success was built on a hard-to-copy combination of factors which included low cost, high levels of operational efficiency, and recruitment of exceptionally friendly people. When other airlines tried to compete by matching the Southwest pricing structure, they failed because they were unable simultaneously to match the operational efficiency and customer service levels.

The overriding message that I gained from reading the book is that if you can get the people in your organisation right, everything else will flow. If the organisation is led by talented leaders, the mission is clear, and great care is taken to employ people who are keen about contributing to the mission, the organisation's success is almost assured, regardless of the industry.

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Inspirational Words

"What [a person] knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is not the knowledge of formulas or forms of words, but of people, places, actions—a knowledge gained by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love—the human experiences and emotions of this earth and of oneself and of other men." - Adlai Stevenson

"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." - Jack Welch

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader; a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill

"Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction." - John Crosby

"A dance with the mystery a dance with destiny I’m altared by this holy, wholly dance my dance the one that only I can do." - Jewel Mathieson

"It's not what happens to you, but how you handle what happens to you, that's going to make the difference." - Zig Ziglar

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one." - Benjamin Franklin

"Patient endurance: the foremost austerity. Unbinding: the foremost, so say the Awakened. He who injures another is no contemplative. He who mistreats another, no monk." - Dhammapada

"Banishing the folly of rebirth and thus beholding Perfection's True Being - that is wisdom." - Tirukkural 36:358

"The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul." - G.K. Chesterton

"There simply is nothing to which we can attach ourselves, no matter how hard we try. In time, things will change and the conditions that produced our current desires will be gone. Why then cling to them now?" - Master Hsing Yun

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Spiritual Centre - Obedience

"Let us learn to obey the only thing that we have to obey, which is to know that 'I have to do it'. The rest follows as easily, as the English say, as falling off a log. And everything is won in that one stroke of surrender, because that surrender makes you attend, that attention makes you do what you have to do in the proper way, and achievement is almost instantaneous."

(C) Shri. P. Rajagopalachari - President, Shri Ram Chandra Mission - http://www.sahajmarg.org

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Story Time - The True Meaning of Friendship
By Amber Curtis (From Chicken Soup for the Soul)

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. - Douglas Pagels

I couldn't believe that I was here again, starting a new chapter in my life. It had only been three years since I was in the same situation. But those doors were much smaller and so was the depth of my knowledge. I heard a ring and in I went. It was time to face it -- the first day of high school.

Compared to all the upperclassmen around me, I felt very small. It was honestly the hardest day of my life, and just trying to make it to class on time was difficult. I couldn't believe that so many people knocked over others to get to lunch. What happened to waiting in line? Looking for a lunch table was also tough. High school wasn't like middle school. It was much bigger and harder to make myself stand out. I was used to the attention and to people saying "Hi" in the hallways. Now all I heard was, "Move Freshie!"

The next week was better because at least I knew my locker combination. I hadn't gotten knocked over in the hallways and my schedule was coinciding with my friends'. All I saw around me was happiness -- the seniors catching up with each other and bragging about new loves and new adventures. And then I saw her. The prettiest girl I had ever seen: Emily Butler.

Besides the fact that she was ranked number two in her class, took part in numerous activities, was the prettiest and most popular girl in school and a teacher's favorite, and already had a full scholarship to the college of her choice, she had class. She was a role model to everyone and wasn't afraid to tell it like it was. She was so lucky to be so amazing -- I could only pray to come that close.

As she bumped me in the hallway, she smiled and apologized. Following her were numerous boys and girls. Her laugh could be heard for miles and her teeth were brighter than a cheerleader's positive attitude. I told myself that if I tried really hard, one day I could be just like her. She couldn't have always been perfect, right?

As weeks went on, I joined plenty of activities and got myself involved in numerous sports and volunteer programs. One club I stumbled my way into was Mock Trial. The captain, of course, was glamorous Emily Butler. She instructed and ran the meetings and was very nice to me. As time went on, we became close and she taught me a lot. She always hung out with me and put in the extra mile for me. It was weird, but she treated me like a little sister. The more we hung out, the closer I was to the seniors. I went to parties with them and even hung out one-on-one with them. I became more outgoing and well-liked.

In December, I became quite ill with mononucleosis and couldn't go to school for a month. After that, Emily and I stopped hanging out and again I felt alone. Then one day, she called me and asked me to chill with her. I gladly accepted. We began hanging out every day and I was more attached to her than I was to my own boyfriend. She lifted me up and again I became comfortable in my own skin. Each day, I found something more to love about her and myself.

When I would do something wrong, Emily would be there to pick up after my mistakes. When the year finally came to a close, we cried as we said goodbye. She had made my freshman year more than I could have ever hoped for. She said good luck and told me that I was beautiful and had a heart full of love. She told me that if I ever needed her, she would be there for me. She hugged me goodbye and left. Tears rolled down my face and I began to wonder how I could ever survive without her.

As my sophomore year began, I no longer heard people talking about Emily and how great she was, and I missed her loud laugh. We still keep in touch and I hope to become just like her one day. I have already vowed that I, too, will find a freshman to teach and treat like a little sister. Emily taught me that I can do whatever I want, and I will pass on her sweet lesson. She showed me the true meaning of friendship, love, and the courage to be myself.

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Time to Smile - Life is Like That

Mega Moron Awards

New York: As a female shopper exited a convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police had apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes Officer..that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."

Ann Arbor:The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 12:50am, flashed a gun and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.

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Diesel Price in India

2011-05-30T19:03:00.001-07:00

Diesel Price in India

What prevents the Indian Government from charging differential Diesel rates at pumps for Passenger cars?

Please look at the following points:

1) Historically, the price of diesel fuel at the pumps across the globe are actually higher than that of regular gasoline / petrol.

2) In the current scenario, the Government is footing a part the fuel bill of these diesel cars.

3) The Kirit Parikh committee recommendation (2010) suggests that you should tax the diesel usage for private use by charging upfront from the diesel car buyers (making the diesel cars more expensive at the point of sale) who buy for personal use. That way instead of deregulating diesel they can still control inflation to some extent.

4) How about diesel cars which are already on road? How about charging higher rates at the bunks for diesel sold to passenger cars alone (it will take some fine tuning by the oil companies and its agencies but can be influenced by providing higher commissions on Diesel sale to Cars - need to put a system in place though)? It would be better to do this than to make an across the board increase in Diesel price which will hit the economy hard as we are pre-dominantly a "Diesel driven economy". At any cost, being a "Socially sensitive issue", trucks / transport vehicles must be sparred the Diesel increase (by partly subsidising and partly by reducing the levies / taxes on Diesel which is exhorbitantly high in all States including the central tax component).

5) Government also has to bite the bullet of looking at the subsidies being offered on Kerosene & LPG. It would be better to handle Diesel first and wait for some time before touching the more sensitive Petrol & LPG subsidies.

If you support these views on the "Diesel Pricing" please post it on as many FB pages (giving link to that page through Twitter & other blogs) to mobilise opinion for a positive rationalisation of Diesel prices.

S. Prakash

31st May '2011

Success

2010-02-08T21:50:00.001-08:00

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
~William Feather

A friend

2010-02-04T07:15:00.001-08:00

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.
~Author Unknown

Impossible

2010-01-27T00:50:00.000-08:00

Impossible is a state of mind. The subconscious can't differentiate between what is real and what is imagined. Hence, Impossible is a term that conjures up from our past baggages & conscious mind's play on us. When we understand this we will achieve greater heights in life never imagined before.

S. Prakash

Success

2007-04-09T01:36:00.000-07:00

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure." - Colin Powell