Sunday, February 27, 2011

Life is not About Giving up, but Living for Others!

Giving up; sounds so natural but with some devastating consequences: For self, and for all who are closely associated with our existence.

Trust me, I don't want to give up because I can't afford to; however, I think, I have reached the limits of tolerance.

Why You Must Have A Balanced Self-esteem!

One of the research findings I read today, highlighted the importance of maintaining a reasonably high self-esteem for unbiased assessment of people and situation.

Scientists, through an interesting study, claim to have proved that when we feel bad about ourselves we are unlikely to arrive at unbiased decisions.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Another Blow, Still I Won't Give Up!

Just because I have asked for a small amount of money from my mother, one of my brothers put his foot down declaring that if the money is given to me he would cut off the relations with her.

He is one of those fortunates, who have neither taken any financial help from anyone nor given.

Monday, February 21, 2011

How to be a Successful Recruiter

Personally, having worked with India's biggest corporates Bajaj Auto and Vedanta before venturing into entrepreneurship, I feel that the success of a recruiter depends mostly on his/her ability to create a niche in their clients' and candidates' value system through knowledge based performance.

Performance leads to developing confidence and confidence brings in more business, and the cycle continues.

I think, recruiters should never forget, even though money comes from the clients but, it happens only because the selected candidates honor their commitment.

So, a recruiter should extend equal importance to both: Clients and candidates, and try to work-out a win-win deal -- to the best of their abilities.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Poem: Don't Waste Your Life!

Just wrote a poem after a long time:



There is a face behind the face,
There is a crime behind the success,
There is an injustice behind the verdict,
But, there is nothing behind the naked truth.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

I Must Tame My Destiny!



Life is a roller coaster drive, but the extent of rise and depth of fall are different for different people -- I too know that, but, had never anticipated such a long hours of sufferings: 2 years.

During last 3 months, several times, the horizon tuned red announcing the onset of sunrise but every time it turned out to be a mirage, stretching my patience, further, perhaps beyond human tolerance level.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Attitude: Make It Happen in Life!

Who doesn't like or enjoy success? If you don't, go to a psychiatrist please.

But, the issue here is: Nothing comes fee of cost in this world -- including success.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Will God Embrace Me?

Infamously known as an atheist, I have never visited any temples with an intention to ask for some favor from the Almighty.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Comparing Fantasy with Reality May Help You Achieve A Goal

An interesting technique, that may help you achieve a goal, has been experimentally confirmed by the scientists and highlighted by a recent post at PHYBLOG

Thursday, February 3, 2011

How, Playing around with Multiple Job Offers may Ruin Your Career

Morning, I received a regret letter from a senior candidate who was supposed to join one of my clients sometime in the coming week.

Two months after receiving the offer, he has just sent us a plain mail casually citing some personal reasons for not taking up the assignment.

For him the matter ended there, but for other involved parties it's just the beginning of a nightmare!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Chal Ekela, Chal Ekela, Tera Mela Piche Jhoota Rahi Chal Ekela

Everything that you read and learn about relationship is a bullshit when you have only one option: Survive out of a violent domestic life, because the life of your own children is at stake.

If you behave normally, it wouldn't lead to a normal conclusion; if you behave abnormally, that would completely spoil the atmosphere at home. Then, what do you do?

Sunday, January 30, 2011

How to Extract the Best, out of the Worst

An Interesting article, highlighting a real life example, explains: How, fostering a positive belief system can help us extracting the best results out of the worst life developments.

"Your beliefs are causing you to assign meaning to events that are happening. If you hold a set of empowering beliefs, you will probably assign empowering meaning to the events of your life."

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Saturday, January 29, 2011

A True Story of Successful Innovation

An amazing story of unleashing the power of innovations, through employee empowerment, for multiplying business deliverables.

"By empowering employees to develop their own customer relationship breakthroughs, the Ritz-Carlton has earned two Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards and demonstrated how the killer app of trust fuels the sustainable competitive advantage of behavioral innovation."

Via: Business Week

5 Successful Leadership Styles

Art Gould explains: Recipes for Success: 5 Different Leadership Styles That All Work!

There's more than one way to skin a cat. Nowhere is this saying more true than in today's corporate world. The best way to find out what makes a company successful is to look at the top. And when you do, what you quickly see is that today's top executives are much more than bean counters. They are the founders and daily drivers of their company's corporate cultures. Of particular interest are those who have achieveda measure of prominence due to their accomplishments. The singular characteristic that they all share is their company's success. But when you look more closely and study their leadership styles, you tend to notice more differences than similarities. Here are examples of five different leadership styles that have all proven successful in various ways:

Via: CEO Blog

Thursday, January 27, 2011

War over Failures may Begin at Any Age

If, while looking back into your past during an intense introspection, what you notice is a dark cloud of failures -- there would be a natural compulsion to accept and give up, because you know you can't change your past.

Unfortunately you can't change your past but, can't you change our present for shaping up a better future?

Yes, you can, but the task is mammoth and requires a continuous flow of sustainable determination and hard-work being directed at repairing the evil consequences of wasted time.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Never Surrender to A Haunting Past

Nothing is more dangerous, in life, than a haunting image of self that you lived decades ago: Good, or bad!

Believe me, even a successful past could also be equally haunting if your current state of affairs is not so comparable.

Let me tell you, why I think so:

Monday, January 24, 2011

Business Mistakes I Committed, but You Don't

A few days ago CEO of a company told me the same thing what HR head of another company said today: Abhijit, are you adding any values to your core business? Don't you think, you're focusing too much on other activities which are not generating sufficient return?

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Are You Using Opera Mini Mobile Browser?



Opera Mini is one of best mobile browsers I have experienced so far. If you're still not using it, then you are surely missing a lot of web-actions on your smart-phone!

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

I Won't Give Up!



Very soon, I shall complete 2 years of blogging. But, looking back, I fail to see any accomplishments, except, may be, learning - to some extent - the art of writing sort of what you may call articles.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

How A Small Issue Can Negatively Affect Relationships



Since morning I've called him up several times on his mobile, and every time he would disconnect.

No, no, I'm not offended, because I've learned to "control my expectations without affecting the actions,' but this incident is a startling reminder of -- how casually we treat our relationships: Be it personal, or professional.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Is HR Losing Its Relevance, In A Competitive Market?



The heading of this post is a difficult question to answer.

However, let me share with you, what I feel about the role of HR as far as the current competitive recruitment scenario is concerned -- highlighting a few  real-life examples!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Sorry, I'm Not A Consultant -- But, A Recruiter!



"Sorry, I'm not a consultant!" I politely told a prospect after he finished a marathon lecture on how a recruitment agency must act and deliver.

Consultant, as such, is a prestigious title that we recruiters don't deserve since our scope of work is limited to -- and  far below that.

What we do, is, to identify the best available talents for our clients and convince those candidates to take up the assignments with them.

No way we ever extend any consultancy services to our clients or to our candidates, but for some strange reasons we are bestowed upon with the title: Consultant -- with a crooked smile.

Well, recruitment, in my opinion, is predominantly a marketing job that involves selling brand equity of the clients - whatever, it is - to potential candidates, through highlighting a few genuine USPs.  And, there's no space for any consultancy services, whatsoever!

Then, where the hell, from, is emerging this title: Consultant?

Hey corporates, please stop calling us consultants -- and, let us remain marketing professionals.

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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Your Children: Why You Must improve Your Present



History repeats itself, but when that history is dark and full of sufferings it brings along a powerful tornado, capable of destroying much more than what it did earlier.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Watching, Painfully, My Mother Dying

Is she my mother? I asked myself, while looking at her after a gap of more than a year and half.

The most powerful personality I've ever noticed and experienced so far, without prejudice, is lying on the bed -- helpless!

Reduced to half of her original size, and suffering from Dementia, she appears to be a skeleton of her illustrious past.

I don't know what would be her future; however, I'd would try my best to make her penultimate days as painless as possible.

But, watching her helplessness, did trigger the volcanic eruption of an emotional outburst, since, without her efforts I wouldn't have been there where I stand today.

The stories of devoted mothers, from across all the living species, are the same -- not in terms of making their own life better but that of their children.

However, watching your mother dying a painful death, is perhaps the worst experience for you, as you know and admit the limitations of being the puppet of destiny.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Mom, I'm Coming Home, Soon



At last I'm travelling to Guwahati - day after - where my ailing mother is counting her days, comforted by Dad - who's 84 years old, but active - and 3 brothers with their family members.