** Amarnath Land Row **

Amarnath Land row, as like all other issues in India, has taken political colours - leaving it with NO possibility of a solution. J&K Govt allotted a few acres of forest land in the Amarnath pathway (Amarnath is a holy Hindu shrine situated in the Himalayas) to the 'Amarnath Shrine Board'. Plan was to develop some structures to facilitate easy movement and better security cover for the thousands of pilgrims who visit Amarnath every year. What looks as an innocuous deal has erupted into a volcano. Kashmiri Muslims do not want permanent structures in Kashmir for the 'Hindu' cause !! The J&K Cong government has become a minority as the coalition parner PDP withdrew support. Lot of lives have already been lost. The battle still rages on. Due to the pressure from Muslims and from the politicians supporting muslims, the transfer of land to Amarnath Shrine Board has been revoked. My doubt is, will the present Govt, both at the Centre and at the State, take the same stand had only the Amarnath been a Muslim shrine and the agitators were Hindus ??? The answer to this simple question will make you understand all about Indian politics. Jai Hind.

Moments of Bliss - 19 ::: "Too many moments to share"

Dear Gowri
It is time to record the moments - aplenty - today at the Sunday Class. I am sure I am going to lose in this proposition.....because I may not really gather and pile them up in this posting....BUT, I am sure you will appreciate with a wide smile that I dont make this statement in agony......!!
Well, There is some uniqueness in the composition of this class week after week....there are atleast 40 % of the people abstaining every week and the beauty is that it is not the same people who keep abstaining repeatedly..... Even the Chief faculty admitted that this has not happened to him until now...and today he was sharing few words with me in private.....and he was quite puzzled about this factor though the group as a whole is quite enthusiastic....and are doing quite well...(By the by, I am getting quite close to him....let me catch it up later)
Well, I have been interacting and exchanging smiles with most of the participants....and considering the number of absentees every week, really not sure what is the total strength if all of them decide to come on a particular sunday (should be between 35 to 35)....but every weeek we see only 30....!! I at least remember 6 - 8 very good active participants who have not come for the past 3 weeks continuously !! (Excluding the talkative man who is not to be seen after the first class !!)
I got connected the magic of Isha program where a commitment is taken to attend all the 13 days as a part of FIRST day syllabus....and the importance of having such self improvement programs in short span of time.....8 week ends....spread over makes all the reason for such failing absenteeism and to me naturally it (that is the current average strength) is quite justified....and the complaining tone of the MD alone is quite puzzling....(Perhaps he keeps lamenting like this...taking into account that I am not sure about the average strength of previous batches !!)
LETS leave it there any way...
Every week I keep talking to at least 3 - 4 new people quite systematically..there is one little girl who has just finished 10th standard but physically appears to be quite big (looks like a college girl)...whom I keep playing lot of pranks....(Her father was a student of the MD's Father 25 years back...and he was there on the first day...introducing himself to all of us....he is a DGM in one of a leading corporate houses of India). There are two old aunties in their early fifties...or late forties...both are extremely friendly and warm with every one around .... one is a school teacher and another is supporting her husband in his business...Infact one of them acted as my wife in today's session of Drama.....!! (I kept calling her by name...and Eendi !! as many times as I wanted to !!)
Further there are 5 - 6 boys finished their +2...every one is quite familiar to me....the only sore point is that these thugs call me as "uncle"....!! I had to warn them before it becomes a disease....!!
There are few other people like me...one working as a manager in some IT company, two / three software engineers, 2 people in big positions of HR team of some small company....one self financed business man.....and half dozen boys who have finished MBA and waiting to join their first employment....
It is a very good mix of people....and fortunately or unfortunately I think I am in the toppest rung in terms of social exposure - rather - having MNC experience...and contributing mightily when ever there was an opportunity for me to mingle with people...and showcasing myself during the practise session...
Today, in particular, I was in full flow as I had set a target to inspire every one to join the cultural events which I am supposed to organise next week for 1 - 1.5 hours.....and did not want to leave any one who is interested but feeling hesitant....!! With this goal in my mind, I ensured that I sat bit casually with most of the people...for the past two weeks, but I need to peak this particular sunday and the responses were overwhelming.....!!
Many of them got very closer to me today.....and since after the session today, the MD handed over the mike to make planning for the culturals....., before he left for the day, the entire group remained in our hall to decide upon few aspects of the culturals....I had rehearsed the points to be clarified and told them the info about few people who have already appraoched with their ideas..and welcomed for any further items / suggestions to me.....!! All of them observed me while I spoke and they all noted down my contact number as we had to leave the hall in short time....
The MD has welcomed us during next saturday to their resi cum office at Adyar, for having practise sessions....and during the course of next 5 days, I am supposed to keep following up the people on their items...and also have told in clear terms that they will reach the venue next sat for a thorough rehearsel and we cannot come on the stage without having a rehearsel on saturday in front of me and the core team....!!
Half dozen of my organising committee mates stayed with me at the reception sofas of the hotel where I consciously spoke about few things to be taken care...and ensured that each one is clear
about their roles......I am sure they are all charged up now.....very similar to how I got charged up 2 weeks back itself for this occassion.....the moment the MD requested me to coordinate the whole of culturals....and told me its for 1 hour.....but it should be "professional"...
That brings this posting to the fag end..., the MD with whom I did not share much words during the first 5 classes and could not even recognize me by name until then, slowly started taking note of me....and today when we had lunch (at venue itself), he was talking lot of things to me himself.....telling me about few nuances of the classes and his earlier experiences...While I was all ears in front of him...
A man who is perhaps in late 40s or early 50s, father of a girl who is doing CA (forgot to tell, he has suggested to make use of his daughter for training people in dance.....seems she is good at it !! I need to get introduced and talk to her too ...& to book her time for next saturday...too many things to do) and another teen age boy.....!! This person hails from Palakkad basically and due to his Mumbai brought up in his childhood speaks Hindi just like Tamil....This man though a qualified finance professional, decided to take up his father's legacy out of the reverence that he have for him (& of course to maintain the huge demand for his fathers' classes), involving his mother still who has completed 4 decades already in this type of programs and also his wife.....!!
I started loving this man...his spontaenity...simplicity and most importantly, his sincerity..(appears he had learnt Telugu himself during the course of his career...just to be informal with the participants in the classes that he conducts in and around Hyderabad !!).
During today's video shooting, at a particular moment of break, there was an interesting dialogue that I heard between him and one of the participants.....This man was giving feedback to a particular participant who completed his video shoot...he was telling that the participant did very well.....and asked for opinion with a senior lady who is another participant like us...!! In an emotional voice, she told back to the MD that she really had learnt a lot from the class and admire a lot about the manner he gives a positive feedback to every one.....She was vocal in thanking him right in front of all of us.....telling that she will remember him for ever for such positive qualities of appreciating people....He candidly responded to this quite simply without wasting much time...."You should only thank God..."......!!
A great connector I am, I got the message straight......YES......!! I wish to become another GOD like him....as soon as possible !!!
suchoo
ps:- forgot to tell, I did quite well in 3 1/2 minutes video shoot....The topic is not some thing that I wasted much time in choosing....making a sequel to my earlier speech on SILENCE, today I spoke about SPEECH !!.....Vallavanukku pullum aayudham, right ???

Transcendance - 17 ::: I speak JUST ADEQUATE

Dear Gowri
The whole of yesterday went at our relatives' home where there was a death of our old grand mother.....In fact she was in critical condition for quite some time but the time of demise was quite unexpected and made us really feel bad.....I personally feel it was a perfect manner to die to leave all of us a sense of sudden-ness though she was getting ready for the inevitable...very slowly....!! This person is an extra ordinary human being....being widowed at a very young age (she had been a widow for half of her 85 year life), she had virtually killed herself putting herself into long hours of hard work to bring up 5 of her childern (4 sons including my own FIL). forgot to tell, she had been an extremely good manager of every thing about life...people, time, her own tongue and also money matters....& also had been optimistic to the core inspite of adverse situations...It appears she had never cursed any one or passed ill comments on any one behind their back....Most of the people of old generation have many of the above positive qualities but I am not sure if many will qualify and match her in terms of the last line stated above.....!!
That was extremely important to record about a wonderful soul (whose face was like a kid.....when her body was lifted up to go to her ultimate destination) .... by which I think this blog gets sanctified to a great level...MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE...
Well, I am quite an ardent admirer of concept of death...and human psychologies around it.....and dont mind stating that I have specialised this subject in a very strange manner.....!! You may get find it getting oozed out here and there in any subject that I talk about.....and its not a wonder, Lord Shiva became my favourite God as of now......!!
I was observing utter silence for quite some time (close to 2 hours)...and then was talking to some one of the relative after a point of time.....after helping out on few basic things that was needed out of me....! This person is in a very high position in corporate world and I never got an opportunity to have such long time with him....He infact was accompanying me when I left close by for organising few things....and think was quite happy to have my company too.....!!
Needless to say, I vented out my passion on my future career and he suggested me few support (name of few books on leadership...., giving contact of people whom he knows in the field...., inviting me for any programs that he conducts in his place - for that matter 3000 people report to him ....globally)..The most heartening suggestion that he gave me was his invitation to his home so that we can talk in leisure.....!!
After 2-3 hours, he left and I was in a band of circuit who was talking about ISHA...and I was there too...participating nicely...
Now, Does it appear to be contradicting my title ?? NOT AT ALL, I kept my decibel level during the talk extremely low considering the occassion for which we gathered there...and ensured that I did not talk too much unless and until it was warranted ......!! I was always there doing little little helps when I was called...but managed to come back quickly as I was not part of the core group involved in ceremonies.....!!
During the evening, after people proceeding to the cremation ground, I was blessed with an opportunity of sprinkling sacred water and purifying the home....and I was suggested not to join the group to the Grounds....I was the first one to take bath to do this important task....and also took a bath once again after finishing off a simple but a fitting task in the memory of deceased....!!
So...you see, my friend, some times I take bath twice too.....!! Dont ask me, how many minutes I had my bath.....!!
Cheers
suchoo

Making of Managers - 16 ::: "Champion" versus Championship TEAM

prelude :: I was not able to log on to our forum last week with the advent of next spell of inertness....I tried to not take cognizance of it BUT I think it lasted for 3 - 4 days during the course of the week but it kept growing....I was back to cheers on Friday only....But I could notice that this time, it was not growing so fast as it used to be !!
Dear Gowri
Today at my class was again a wonderful experience....As I have been expressing time and again, I am surely going to miss this class after next sunday.....it is so entertaining as well as testing.....learning value for me as well as offering opportunities to help out others in need.....I could see a huge improvement in not only my public speaking skills but also my inter- personal skills & how I handle relationships with every one around me....!! In fact I am already putting to practise & admiring the power of few of the personality development tools that I have learnt during this class (like Transaction analysis - which was a mind blowing concept.....I may record it seperately....some time later).
Today was an interesting session of enacting small Dramas amongs us....each of us were divided as 5 member team and we were given particular situations and we did a short play for 8 - 10 minutes.....There was a week earlier when we practised extempored speech, one week when we had debate, one week on technical presentation......every one was exciting.....!!
In fact this particular practise session (on Dramas) went on for close to 1 hour only...and then we had a video shooting of our speech in our second half....which was slightly longer than usual.....!! This particular musing is on the immense learning that I had during the DRAMA session.....
In our group, we had a old man (50 + ... he is a industrialist in Ambattur Estate...self made man), One Girl, one boy (both are quite young.....), myself and one mid aged woman.....We were given a situation of house and having "generation gap" as the theme of our play...
Since the time was short for preparation (just 10 minutes was given), when I looked around the others, and got started naturally taking the lead....we decided upon the roles almost immediately and unanimously...>The old man is the OLD father for me....and the mid aged lady was my wife & the two were our children...( natural choice...isn't it ??)
Considering the theme, I quickly suggested that we need to have an extempored rehearsel after we decide upon a "one line" for each one of the character...which all of them agreed....!! I should talk about this old man here...He has not missed a single class until now and quite participative...but is a man of limited words...and never takes initiatives himself....!! Think that was a perfect description (how naive I am !!) and I suggested him that his role will be to simply irritate my wife to keep calling her for coffee with this head down in newspaper....(we also agreed that he will be deaf....to add to some comedy !!). All of us except this old man were quite excited about the roles that we were going to play....and we made a quick mock session....that my wife is kept in household pressure of serving coffee to her old FIL and my son glued to computer screen....!! While I enter from office - after 2 j/3 minutes of their roles, I try to pacify her....and treating my father with lot of respect....and also balancing between mother and son.....I too lose my temper when my daughter enters home very late..and speaks very curtly and disrespectfully.....The drama was supposed to end with every one shouting at each other.....
We did a practise session...I kept pumping lot of ideas when people stammered.....kept telling that they can keep thinking on their dialogues until we were called to the centre of the stage.....!! I think I did a good job as a facilitator allowing every one some freedom and creativity....also giving my support when it was needed...Every one was quite thrilled with the mock session...the only tragedy is that we underestimated....OR did not guage the old man...
This person who was given a role considering his normal appearance and the way he behaved with all of us, did not have any complaint during our practise session....just was doing what was suggested to him by me so respectfully (I mean both of us)... IN the moment it maters most, he showed what a champion he is....!!
I really enjoyed his humour sense.....and the way he cracked lot of timing jokes...but I am really at loss to understand how he can take an individualistic stance on the flow of the drama....when my wife was supposed to speak some thing, this person is cursing the entire home (urupudaatha viidu......) and telling at us that he is giving us his pension....!! I dont deny that he had a big round of applause...but it would have lot more helped me and the entire group if only he cared to be participative during our preliminary discussion....I repeat, he was supposed to irritate with his call for "coffeeeee!" once a while....and keep glued to the paper......!!
The one who was most affected in his over doing was of course me....!! inspite of planning the whole thing totally balanced between all the team members, I was really not ready to face this old man...and his extempored dialogues....!! I still managed quite well and converted my stance of being a flexible and adaptable person trying to reach out to every one.....I made myself quite furious out of helplessness......and inability to improve the situation....!!
When we completed (incidentally all others except our group - the 5 other teams - dragged it too much more than 8 minutes.....making many of us yawning ) ours was to the time..and also extremely entertaining...Soon after it was over, I told the audience that the old man delivered lot of dialogues quite extempored...and satisfied his ego....!!
This put me in deep thought ..... for quite some time.....!! Why dont people really understand the spirit and the common goal....and try to avoid getting individual attention ? This particular musing will not be in this place if only this person gave an insight to us that he is capable of being in full flow too.....!!
Any way, that was just one more feather to my wisdom cap....!! Never assume things !!!
suchoo

** Election and Freebies **

Following the style of our octogenarian Karunanidhi, Congress(I) too announced too many free sops for people in Karnataka if they were voted to . Fortunately, they got defeated. I wish that this puts an end to the most absurd practice that the 'Tamilian' community had given to the world. Before his tenure ends, Karunanidhi, is sure to take the TN economy position well into the red. Its just not too far away for us to witness.

** OIL **

Hike in the cost of pertrol/diesel/LPG cylinders is inevitable. All the political parties know this and yet they are calling for agitation and 'bundh' - This is a perfect example of 'opportunism'. Now we have this new trend of every party calling for a "bundh' on different days - like we had in Kolkatta, which resulted in 'bundh' on two successive days !!! Politicians are raking up the emotions of public only to garner cheap publicity and that too at the cost of people's sufferings.

** Gujjars **

The Gujjar community in Rajasthan has been fighting against the Govt seeking reservation for their community. The agitation been happening going on for a while. Few lives have been lost, rail and road traffic have been blocked. Gujjars are fighting it tooth and nail. All these started because of the 'stupid' election promise made by the BJP. This time, Gujjar community took the election promise very seriously and are asking for what they have been promised for (how silly of them!) ! Atleast now, all the parties should learn on from the folly of BJP. But that is not going to happen. After all, this is India and cheap politics is a very commonly available commodity. If the Govt is going to concede to the demands of Gujjars, many more such castes/groups are going to line up seeking quota for them under the SC/ST or a special quota !! However, all these things are only is going to leave the most deserving without any benefits. But allowing the most deserving to benefit is the last in the minds of our politicians - havent we learnt this the hard way?? All these happenings only goes on to show that the biggest threat to India is not from Pakistan or China - its from our own 'stupid' politicians!!! Jai Hind !!

** Nepal **

The Communists are all set to take charge of governing Nepal. Well, after such a prolonged fight - dont they deserve that? Haven't people voted them to rule them? Cant the communists give a stable government to the hapless people of Nepal?? Well, first of all, communists have not got an absolute majority through ballot. They need support to form a Govt. And there has been lot of bullying tactics by the maoists during the elections. And thirdly, the 'maoists' had caught the imagination of peoply by acting as 'Robin Crusoes' - robbing rich and paying the poor. And this is the very fundamental classification that make them unfit to rule a country.

Nepal, henceforth, is going to hold the 'China' card in front of us - and thus is going to be a big 'pain in the ass' for India. Nepal is going to become the breeding ground for terrorists (the present day legislators were groomed on these grounds and they would not mind much). Nepal is going to serve as a main channel for all sorts of unwanted elements (both men and material) to gain access into India !! When the decision making is going to be in the hands of legislators, who where terrorists till a few days ago, India is in a tough situation. As usual, the Indian (Congress) Govt, till date, have not taken a strong stand on the Nepal issue - because of the fear of 'China'. To put the whole complex issue in simple terms, Nepal - for India, is just another Pakistan in the making.
Well, without seeing Nepal through an 'Indian' glasses - Will the coalition Govt in Nepal help its prosperity and growth? Doesnt India survive and grow with coalition Govts?? The difference between India and Nepal is - India had a very stable Govt and great leaders during its formative stage. Nepal does not. And we are only witnessing the steady 'destruction' of India - because of coalitions governments. A coalition Govt - importantly, a coalition Govt with Communists at the helm - is always going to be trouble some. We can only wish that Nepal goes on to prosper under the communists regime.

** IPL **

IPL - T20 cricket, for the past one month, had taken most of my time (no... no regrets). I was wathching almost all the matches with lot of interest. I am of the view that the abridged version is going to be the future of cricket. 'Rajasthan Royals' - under the leadership of Shane Warne won the tournament and they were the team that deserved victory the most - based on its performance right from the beginning of the tournament. Chennai, the runner-up was not even fit to get into the semis and sheer luck had carried them to the finals - thankfully, they did not win the tournament. Atleast now the euphoria surrounding Dhoni should subside - lets see. He was the costliest player of the tournament and just was only an average performer. It would be interesting to see on how the players will be rated for the next years episode. For now - IPL is over and I am back to blogging.. :)

Transcendance - 16 :: I am as natural as I am....during Public Speaking

Hi Gowri
While I have vomited tons and tons of words until now on how I am improvising in public speaking, here there was another live experince in office circuit to prove the point once again to myself (such a doubtful creature I am.... still having silly doubts about my skill set !!)
Having a weekly meeting with entire team (just for some general presentation, updates to be given by the manager and some fun activities) have become a basic culture of my organisation these days...and every team has their own schedule / pattern on this meeting.
At our team, we have this (standing) meeting on thursdays...but there are some teams which meet on Friday...I was invited by one of the team (which is closely connected to us in terms of operations...it is the audit team which ensures the quality of our processing) yesterday as a "chief guest".....Incidentally I learnt that they call some other supervisor / manager / any other member from other team for a crisp speech / sharing with their team....(I was quite happy when it was explained to me....as we dont do such things at our team !!)
So, here I went to their team at 4.50 PM (they told tentatively they expect me around 5 PM)...as they did have other agenda stretching between 4.30 PM to 5.30 PM.... I shared smiles with few known faces and nodded my head with the Manager whom I familiar with....! I was introduced as a great "speaker" and also THE communication trainer by the Junior Girl who works with our team closely !!
That gaves me a natural way of starting off.....I told with a smile that I just "talk" and never make any "speeches".....and also gently corrected the girl who introduced me that I am a part of the training team in which there are 26 other people too....so I am not THE trainer.....!! It was an enviable start for any one who is called for speech...I then checked for few of the members who have attended my training sessions... half dozen hands got raised...and I acknowledged them.....
Then, I spoke of a particular process improvement that we did at our team which is of special signficance and use to this team (audit team) and told them the logic behind doing this....I also managed to have a quick q & a session after I finished talking for 7 - 8 minutes, and it was nice to handle those half dozen questions....
I was given a momento (parker pen) and a spot card (this is a recent introduction in our company...where we have been supplied a bright looking oval shaped card which we can give to each others writing the names and details of acknowledgement.....we have it stuck up at our work station.....this really works magice since last its introduction last year march...I think) and I came out gracefully by 5.15 PM.
This can very well qualify for moment of bliss too....BUT, there are more compelling reasons why I am posting it here...?? During my talk, I was observing with delight that I was so simple and natural.....without sounding too informal and disrespectful.... I cracked some jokes and got into a big hearty laughters myself, acknowledged the noddings of people as I spoke, casually scratched my itching nose...handled my hands properly....and was quite conscious when I closed my talk on some thing that I read in my course material of public speaking......
"A good speaker is one who closes the speech when the audience wants him to continue"
Krishnaarpanam
suchoo
ps:- No posting is being made for Moments of bliss series today / for the week....due to two reasons....(1) it is quite difficult to isolate a specific moment of bliss when I have them aplenty; (2) eager to read some postings of Bhishma before I ooze out some more......I prefer to "wet the bed" holding my stuff to myself until you are going to have a huge orgasm with the blog !!!
Am I becoming too dangerous with the vocabulary ??? so it be !!

Making of Managers - 15 ::: Evolving as a strong personality

Dear Gowri
I am sure I will have some experiences tomorrow to be posted in this series if I attend my Public Speaking class.....I really shudder at the thought that it is going to be 6th class and I am just left with 3 more classes.....I have immensely enjoyed and got benefited with these 5 classes that has happened already.....and the whole web world may not suffice if I start verbalising my each and every thought, feeling and emotions about the class & record each and every learnings that I have undergone until now....
Still, I am compelled to make this posting right today as I got a strong signal of becoming a strong personality at office..... To make it bit brief and not appear bit boastful, the team which works under me do not try to argue much with me...when I give any instruction (I rarely order them...make it like a friendly chat and end with a request .... which yields only vigourous head nods ....I mean YES nods...), they are carried out AND when I consciously enter into some socialising or casual talks at canteen, they just enjoy my humour and quick wit....and there too they are pin drop silent only...till I get out....of the canteen. I normally excuse myself very naturally from the canteen after taking my coffee....with a feeling of empathy towards them - let them enjoy and have fun amongst themselves.....isn't it//
Now,the beauty is that with my recent elevation to one more market to be handled since Jan, I am practically out of touch from lot of meetings with my earlier team as the supervisor is quite an efficient guy and has a daily Team Leaders meeting....(I used to have it weekly with all TLS...Daily I just met my direct reportees during last year)..... and keeps me out of most of the operational things... Such change of working may irk people at my position, but with my macro level thinking and maturity, I really enjoy these exclusions and keep chatting only to him (the supervisor) on exceptions that he put forth to me....some times as an information, few times seeking my view on it....
So, coming back to the main point, I dont have much operational duties these days and just spend time in II quadrant (things which are important but not urgent) ... and just do follow ups on pendancies that I follow up personally....Yesterday, there was an escalation mail that was cced to me too...and it was a silly mistake of sending mails to wrong person.....!! The supervisor of the team was away at Tirupathi and Quite impulsively I nominated one of the Team Leaders to organise a Brainstorming session amongst the TLs (including few senior members) and get me a list of all situations leading to wrong mails....It should be noted that the mails that I am talking about is not some occassional ones / administrative nature, but the team,as a part of process, raises 100 - 150 mails each day to follow up on pending invoices (we handle payments to be made...and not all the invoices are perfect and ready to be processed....lets not get into details)
I gave her (this TL resembles Swetha...and really grew up rapidly tremendously under my special grooming.....also she got married on 29th apr last year (2007)....which is my own 10th wedding anniversary......I had taken both Anoo and Madhoo to her marriage at Vadapalani...the marriage hall was just 1 kilometre from Hotel Saravana Bhavan) some instructions on how to handle a typical Brainstorming session and told her role quite clearly (she needs to shut up..), gave her a format in which I wanted the output and assured that I will join in the 55th minute of the 1 hour session...
She dutifully went inside the Board Room with lot of tension and excitement....and I got deep into few other chats and discussions of my other team. When I entered the Board Room, I found friendly smiles of my team...and they looked at me stopping their discussion... Calmly I sat next to the facilitator girl and just glued into the computer screen without a word....then the discussion continued for 5 more minutes......and I interrupted only when there was a pause....and it appeard when they have dried out completely.....!!
I thanked the team telling them that it is quite important they should have such sessions amongs themselves without waiting for supervisors / managers to barge into every thing.... All of them were in ununiform (me too) and this casual and fresh mind on friday is apt for such sessions....I added...
I requested the TL to mail the excel sheet to me which I forwarded to my personal id.....and today morning I completd the exercise at home.....Going through the various points captured, and grouping them properly, look at ways and suggestions to avoid them in future...and the action plan for the future to eliminate it completely.....I mailed it back to my office id just now spending 1.5 hours exactly....which complimented to the teams 1 hour (it was 8 member team which generated all the points
What is the bottom line of this elobarate explanation of the whole episode with never tiring finger tips of mine ?? YES, there are some fools who are labelled as supervisors and managers who wrongly think being strong...and strict is a pre requisite to drive the people under them towards the goals.....!!
Here I am joining the limited group of the universe who believe in being strong personality and ability to act thru others...and providing opportunities for the team to evolve by their own self learning.....and being a personal example of how they can be when they move to top.....
Krishnaarpanam....
suchoo
ps:- I am giving below my mail exchange for safe custody and future reference...

--- On Sat, 7/6/08, suchoo wrote:
From: suchoo >Subject: RE: 'BSC=001-386-510'REQUEST URGENT PAYMENT FOR BCRDB-EUR23.46-VI T05 Elec Eltrec
To: Anonymous
Saturday, 7 June, 2008, 6:55 AM
Hi TL
I spent exactly 1.5 hours at home....(I literally clocked it)

Please circulate this to the TLs......(with abc and def ofcourse). I would like each of them to go through the expanded excel sheet carefully....

We may spend together max 15 minutes after our DER meeting and share some thoughts / doubts in this excel......

Thanks for your support on this...

Leads,

Think abc Team is already matured enough to organise such sessions from now on....Not necessarily every initiative should come from the supervisor / manager !!

Rest in person...

Regards

suchoo
--- On Fri, 6/6/08, Surendran, Suren (S.) wrote:
From: suchoo
>Subject: RE: 'BSC=001-386-510'REQUEST URGENT PAYMENT FOR BCRDB-EUR23.46-VI T05 Elec Eltrec
To: TL
Friday, 6 June, 2008, 4:07 PM
Great….Thanks…I am sure you had a good quality time…

Suchoo

Ps:- keep this mail safe….There could be some occasion you may need to send some document to my personal id...xxx and yyy knows….but still it is better you too have it….

From: TL
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 4:06 PM
To: Suchoo
Subject: RE: 'BSC=001-386-510'REQUEST URGENT PAYMENT FOR BCRDB-EUR23.46-VIT05 Elec Eltrec

Suchoo,

I am attaching the file on wrong mails for your reference.

Regards
TL

From: Suchoo
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 8:23 AM
To: TL
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TL
You may use the enclosed format for your discussion….Please log into the computer at the Board room and just start filling up this excel sheet to make the time more qualitative, focused & memorable…

THE LAST TWO COLUMNS CAN BE FILLED UP AFTER I JOIN YOU PEOPLE….As I have told earlier, I want to join only after you prompt me….

Please talk to me before you go to Board Room. I will tell you few more things on how will handle the meeting…

This Brainstorming session should happen even if some of the TLs are on leave today…..Please feel free to include some hard nuts / experienced in the team to arrive at the comprehensive list…(like abc, def, gef…..)

Regards

suchoo

Transcendance - 15 ::: I wear Rudhraksh once again !!

Prelude ::: watch out for the para towards the end of my previous posting in this series....I am pasting it once again below.....THIS HAS A SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE for the current posting.....& hope it will be clearly understood and appreciated at the end of this posting....
Needless to say, I could see my boss getting slightly jittery in the past two days with some "avoidable" comments to me.....It was a surprise to me when I first heard it...and then started telling myself....that after all he is also human only.....its just a mistake that I had a larger than life opinion on him...People get insecured wheen some one starts becoming more effective... ..!!
Dear Gowri
I did the first SILENCE program at Isha in the year 2000. To be very honest, I had felt some thing very deep in each and every Isha iniatitive that I took upon myself (be it basic program, the second level program, Bhavaspandana, Hata Yoga Program, Green Hands participation, Isha Basic Classes Volunteering, Dhyana Yatra.....Think this is an exhaustive list) BUT the only program that I attended by returned back baffled AND without much of deeper experience was the SILENCE program - which is a week long program and it is said to have lot of deeper spiritual significance (Sadhguru says, it is a fast forward way to wipe out our Karma.....and so many have got completely transformed after this program...even I have seen it)
In my own case, I would say that I never experienced or understood the significance of this program....and I remained as usual even after the program. But I should admit that I am lot more mature than few of the people who pride themselves about a "miracle" that they kept quiet for 1 full week !!... I could sense that some thing more than being silent verbally should have happenend and perhaps I did not have the "skill set" to really enjoy it fully....!!
I was not the one to give up...I attended the same program 4 more times... (2002, 2004, 2005 and 2007) - as this is a program (perhaps the only program) which Sadhguru allows us to do the class as a "participant" any number of times...There are veterans who have done this program 18 - 20 times ever since Sadhguru had it first time during 1995 !!
I really feel slighly evolved (please note, not TRANSFORMED) after so many attempts with a capability to appreciate lot of subtler aspects.....and would like to go once more if I am offered a chance (faint possibility.....as I am out of volunteers circle.....!! wish I will be allowed inside during 2009...I skipped current year class....).
Now, coming to the TITLE, I got a Rudraksh during 2000 Silence program and wore it with lot of emotions ..... but over a period of time, with my own self experience, I realised that I did not have the maturity to wear it.....!!
A little about what this simple seed is all about.....There are three states possible for any human being....Haraa (Child Like state), Rudhra (intense and active....) and sadaasiva (uninterrupted blissful state).....and when Shiva was in Rudhra state once, his tear drops fell down in the earth and it grew up as rudrakha...(meaning shiva's tears.....).
These seeds, as told by sadhguru, has the potential to retain the energy and act as a cucoon to preserve our aura...and is of great benefit to any spiritual seeker...Those days, shaiva monks use to wear this just to test the food given to them as alms.....as a rudhraksha mala has the ability to identify any poisonous substance (it rotates anti clockwise.....just in case the food is mixed with poison).These days such situations dont prevail, but it helps a spiritual seeker to retain his energy level where ever he goes...and he can get benefited with a peaceful sleep where ever he goes regardless of the conditions / temparaments of other places.
Now, me wearing this is more out of "imagination"...and at a point of time this became a mere ritual to me...and I used to remove it during night time (which need not be so....it can be around the neck all the 24 hours).... as I had tied it around using silver..and it was a discomfort in sleeping posture...
Some thing good happened....to it 4 months back...I tried to season it (24 hours in ghee and 24 hours in milk...followed by one more 24 hours in viboothi) and without knowing much about it, our faithful servant maid used all the power of ther hands to wipe out the fatty residue on the rudhraksh....making me really upset....It was my own fault that I kept it at kitchen and its just the reverance that she did it for me .... Poor me.....!! (she claims that she never used the pril / vim to clean it....)
I did not want to wear it once again.....with this level of man handling by some body (its not about silly thoughts about pollution.....!! its just that this is some thing in the nature of belief and such personal belongings...like rudhraksh and ring.....are not supposed to be transferred....amongst us....)
I remained without any rudhraksha mala around my neck for past 4 months. I got a new one when I visited Isha a fortnight back....this one was much more sleek and slightly costly to my earlier one....I got this one as I intend to wear this through out the day...!! I particularly need this external pyschologoical support considering my exponential growth at my profession and the anticipated situations that could happen at office (refer to prelude).
Unless I become a hard nut and appear quite firm and confident, inspite of my mental age, I could be misinterpreted and misunderstood... as my energy levels are bit abnormal and can make anyone get amused....!! So, like a cricketer wears the abdomen guard and wears lot more of guards in his thies, elbows and over the head, I am getting ready to face some tough external situations......performance appraisal that I am going to have in next 20 days could be a decider on my future role at my office. Thought I am not desparate to reach the next level, with a clear understanding that I deserve to operate from that position, I dont want to miss it.....and regret for my life time....!!
Yesterday night, I visited Kpuram and on the way back to home, I took anoo and madhoo to Vibhuthi Baba temple....and got into my peak meditative mood being there asking for his support.....to keep me hooked to my fullest potential...Reaching home the first thing I did was to wear the new rudhraksh in my neck which was ready after having it seasoned it during the course of last week.....!!
When I woke up today morning, an unusual sense of a foreign object around my neck was felt by me...I wish I get used to this very soon.....and also to get used to handle every encounters / challenges at official front....

After all from now on, I am going to consider all my official experiences as some extra learnings for my future profession....
Its uust slog overs for me at office and I wish I meet the ball with my heaviest bat..every time when it is bowled over me.....!!
suchoo