The whole book is very illustrative with a lot of case examples and SIMPLY SPEAKING.... tips given everywhere drawing your focus to the core concepts.
Mission Statements:
Microsoft: We work to help people and businesses throughout the world realise their full potential.
Ford Motors: We are a global family with a proud heritage passionately committed to providing personal mobility for people around the world.
Infosys: To make a difference to the way people live.
ITC Limited: To enhance the wealth generating capability of the enterprise in a globalizing environment, delivering superior and sustainable stakeholder value.
Mahindra and Mahindra: We don't have a group-wide mission statement. Our core purpose is what makes all of us get up and come to work in the morning.
ADIDAS : All Day I Dream About Sports
Unique Elements:
Siemens - Where Technology touches lives
Dupont: Better Things for Better Living though Chemistry
Hyundai: Building a better world through innovative technology
Nokia: Connecting People
Xerox: The Document Company
IBM: Solutions for a small planet
Philips: Let's make things better
BPL: Believe in the Best
FORD: Built for the road ahead.
EXXON MOBIL: Taking on the world's toughest energy challenges
CHEVRON: Finding newer, cleaner ways to power the world
AT & T : Your world delivered. Connecting you to your world, everywhere you live and work
Marriott International: "REVIVE"
AVON Products: Ding-Dong, AVON Calling
FEDEX: Relax, It's FedEx
Walt Disney: I am going to Disney World
3M : 'Innovation'
NIKE: If you have a body, you are an athlete
ABBOT Labouratories: A Promise for Life
BOEING: For-ever new Frontiers
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
1857- Revisited A timeless journey: Myth and Reality
Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi rose as an epic figure out of the national insurrection. She was only 22 years old in martyrdom and death on the battlefield which added to her popular image of herosim, reistance, boldness and insurgency. There is a telling song in folklore on how she raised her revolutionary army from the common people and made soldiers out of them
'From clay and stones
She moulded her army
From mere wood
She made swords
And the mountain she transformed
into a steed
Thus she marched to Gwalior!
The genius of Rani in countering the mass terror of the British is also depicted in folk poetry.
'Fell the trees
Commanded the Rani of Jhansi
Lest the Firanghis hang
our soldiers on them
So that the coward British
may not be able to shout
"Hang! Hand them in the trees!"
so that, in the hot sun
they may have no shade!'
Rani's leadership and level of self-confidence is reflected in this folk song:
'Amidst tears from his eyes
Proud Hugh Rose spoke
I beg you for one pot of water
To quench my thirst
with the first potful
and ask for more'
Replied Rani:
'To get that coveted pot
Hand over the guns,
and ammunition
and also your sword'
Mirza Ghalib on the loss of lives in the 1857 Mutiny:
"Sab kahan kuchh lala-o-gul mein numayaan ho gaye"
Some have turned into tulips and roses, where are the rest?
"Khaak mein kya sooratein hongi ke pinhaan ho gayein"
What beauteous shapes lie concealed beneath the shroud of dust!
"Yaad thi humko bhi ranga rang bazm aaraeaan"
I too revelled in colourful sessions in days of yore,
"Lekin ab naqsh-o-nigaar-e-taaq-e-nisiaan ho gayein"
But now they only serve to deck the oblivion's gloomy chest.
The spirit of the masses to sacrifice willingly their lives for the cause is amazing. Here the menfolk are being exhorted to go and bravely fight the British and be ready to have their heads smashed or sacrifice their lives. The womenfolk were ready to wipe their sindoor, symbolizing widowhood, but not willing their men to refuse to pick up the gauntlet. "The object of the mutineers were to wipe out all traces of Europeans, and of everything connected with foreign rule.
ba jan ganwai ke nevta
Churl forwai ke nevta
Sindoor pochwai ke nevta
Jai ho hamar te math del
Jai ho hamar te sath del
'From clay and stones
She moulded her army
From mere wood
She made swords
And the mountain she transformed
into a steed
Thus she marched to Gwalior!
The genius of Rani in countering the mass terror of the British is also depicted in folk poetry.
'Fell the trees
Commanded the Rani of Jhansi
Lest the Firanghis hang
our soldiers on them
So that the coward British
may not be able to shout
"Hang! Hand them in the trees!"
so that, in the hot sun
they may have no shade!'
Rani's leadership and level of self-confidence is reflected in this folk song:
'Amidst tears from his eyes
Proud Hugh Rose spoke
I beg you for one pot of water
To quench my thirst
with the first potful
and ask for more'
Replied Rani:
'To get that coveted pot
Hand over the guns,
and ammunition
and also your sword'
Mirza Ghalib on the loss of lives in the 1857 Mutiny:
"Sab kahan kuchh lala-o-gul mein numayaan ho gaye"
Some have turned into tulips and roses, where are the rest?
"Khaak mein kya sooratein hongi ke pinhaan ho gayein"
What beauteous shapes lie concealed beneath the shroud of dust!
"Yaad thi humko bhi ranga rang bazm aaraeaan"
I too revelled in colourful sessions in days of yore,
"Lekin ab naqsh-o-nigaar-e-taaq-e-nisiaan ho gayein"
But now they only serve to deck the oblivion's gloomy chest.
The spirit of the masses to sacrifice willingly their lives for the cause is amazing. Here the menfolk are being exhorted to go and bravely fight the British and be ready to have their heads smashed or sacrifice their lives. The womenfolk were ready to wipe their sindoor, symbolizing widowhood, but not willing their men to refuse to pick up the gauntlet. "The object of the mutineers were to wipe out all traces of Europeans, and of everything connected with foreign rule.
ba jan ganwai ke nevta
Churl forwai ke nevta
Sindoor pochwai ke nevta
Jai ho hamar te math del
Jai ho hamar te sath del
Thursday, November 11, 2010
The Power of Managing Time by J D Tripathi
There has been a lot written about Time Management. But, when I read the reviews of Javed Akhter and Shobhaa De on this book, I knew this has to be special. I started reading and I could not put the book down. The treatise is succint and clear.
The Beginning: Voltaire's question: "What of all things in the world, is the longest and shortest, the swiftest and slowest, the most divisible and most extended, the most neglected and most regretted, without which nothing can be done, which devours all that is little, and enlivens All that is Great?" The answer is TIME
He has formulated a Time spectrum which focuses on Reducing -Unnecessary/ non-productive work/ Procrastination, Interference interruptions and Utilization of Thinking Time for planning/ meditation, productive work, recreation to recoup oneself. Idle time, waiting time and travel time needs to be managed with as much positive approach to make your day worthwhile.
The only reason for time is so, that everything doesn't happen at once". - Albert Einstein
"Of calculators, I am Time, the imperishable, world-destroying, grown mature, engaged here in subduing the world". - Dr. S Radhakrishnan quoting the Bhagawad Gita.
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity - Thoreau
Conclusion:
Story of Time: Somewhere in the far East, there lived a King who wanted to gift the most precious thing to his subjects. In one of this trips, he came across a Sundial which he brought home and installed it at the City Centre.
His subjects started to differentiate the parts of the day, they became time-conscious, produced more and prospered.
Eventually, the King died. The subjects wanted to pay tribute to the King and so they built a temple around the sundial andornated it with gold and jewels. It was a fitting tribute to the King who brought the Sundial.
The rays no longer reached the sundial: the shadow that was the source of prosperity was not longer in time/ they lost their orientation. The kingdom collapsed. (Source: I J T D, ISTD, New Delhi)
Now, give it a thought!!
The Beginning: Voltaire's question: "What of all things in the world, is the longest and shortest, the swiftest and slowest, the most divisible and most extended, the most neglected and most regretted, without which nothing can be done, which devours all that is little, and enlivens All that is Great?" The answer is TIME
He has formulated a Time spectrum which focuses on Reducing -Unnecessary/ non-productive work/ Procrastination, Interference interruptions and Utilization of Thinking Time for planning/ meditation, productive work, recreation to recoup oneself. Idle time, waiting time and travel time needs to be managed with as much positive approach to make your day worthwhile.
The only reason for time is so, that everything doesn't happen at once". - Albert Einstein
"Of calculators, I am Time, the imperishable, world-destroying, grown mature, engaged here in subduing the world". - Dr. S Radhakrishnan quoting the Bhagawad Gita.
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity - Thoreau
Conclusion:
Story of Time: Somewhere in the far East, there lived a King who wanted to gift the most precious thing to his subjects. In one of this trips, he came across a Sundial which he brought home and installed it at the City Centre.
His subjects started to differentiate the parts of the day, they became time-conscious, produced more and prospered.
Eventually, the King died. The subjects wanted to pay tribute to the King and so they built a temple around the sundial andornated it with gold and jewels. It was a fitting tribute to the King who brought the Sundial.
The rays no longer reached the sundial: the shadow that was the source of prosperity was not longer in time/ they lost their orientation. The kingdom collapsed. (Source: I J T D, ISTD, New Delhi)
Now, give it a thought!!
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