You're Born Extra-ordinary!

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“Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.” – Douglas Adams

You're already an extra-ordinary person, because you're born extra-ordinary. But, unfortunately, you don't realize this fact and do nothing to take its advantage.

You can do wonders, but don't believe so; you're capable of making it big in life, however, you never believe in self; you are the reflection of your thought processes, but you never think that you're extra-ordinary.

Why You Must Live in the Moment

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The world is ruthless! It neither remember your past achievements, nor go by future predictions. For the world, you're, what you stand today. If your past achievements don't carry forward any tangible benefits, you're conveniently forgotten and ignored as intangible liability.

If you're a crest-fallen professional, you're completely forgotten as if you had never existed. If you're hugely successful today, the world don't remember what your past was. You're always assessed on the basis of your current standing in social hierarchy.

Likings Never Die!

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When you start liking someone, do you ever try to find out the reason behind: Why you like that person? No, you don't. Because, liking is the manifestation of a unique shade of your emotional existence and it doesn't follow a definite criteria.

Well, over a period of time, through mutual interactions, you may find that person to be quite different than what you initially thought about. Still, in all probability, you continue with your liking, because, frankly speaking, you don't know why you do so.

The degree of liking or emotional attachment that you develop with that person is mostly determined by your initial assessment of his/her personality and, in most of the cases, it doesn't undergo any major change even if things go wrong in course of time.

Be Open in Every Life Transaction

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'If you have a good intention, sooner or later you'd become successful in life.' Said one of my creditors, whose money I returned a month after the due date but, during that period, never failed to return his call whenever he gave me a tinkle.

The fact that I didn't avoid him, even though I was unable to honor my commitment, was what inspired him to make this statement. My frank admission of the inability to stick to my words, for some compelling reasons though, happened to impress him a bit.

Destiny's Torture: God's Agent on Planet Earth!

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Sandip has always tried to live, more for others than for himself. However, in that process, while trying to keep others happy, he, perhaps, even surrendered his own legitimate claims on a minimum happiness that humans need to remain emotionally alive.

It is true that he is physically alive but I could clearly make out that, emotionally he is almost dead. Because, he has donated his own share of happiness to his near and dear ones.

Well, he belongs to a rare breed of people who value others' happiness more than their own. They just give away, everything, and unconditionally, without any expectations of returns whatsoever.

True Friends Are Forever!

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Nothing really matters in life than a positive response to a call made in distress to an old friend, whom you haven't met for more than a decade.

I don't know about your experience, but, in last few years, all the calls I made to my old friends - trust me, I must have made quite a few - were answered positively with genuine concern, making me realize that I'm not that unsuccessful in building and maintaining a few long term relationship.

No Fear, No Regret, Live Life King-Size!

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My life is an open book, is what I believe in and follow too. What's wrong with it, as long as my self-respect remains intact?

Crying over the mistakes and smiling through the success are what make me comfortable, and I don't find anything wrong in sharing those moments with a few thousand.

Destiny's Torture: Giving Up is Never An Option!

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After a long tine Sandip called up, and the gist of what he told me is as follows:

After a long time Sandip called up, and the gist of what he told me is as follows:

There was a time, when I used think that the success I had achieved would remain with me, and forever; nothing could take it away. But, I was wrong!

Today, while struggling to rebuild my business from ground level, I have realized that being complacent with my achievement was the biggest mistake of my life and I have no option but to pay the price.

Success: Being in the Spotlight?

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What is meant by success? Is there an universal definition of success? Can we pin point, yes, reaching that particular milestone is called success?

For an animal, primary success is all about being alive: For a predator, success means achieving the daunting task of killing her prey for the next meal; for a prey, success is the manifestation of her ability to stay away from those killers on daily basis.

Talent Management: Why is HR Failing to be Proactive?

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Hey Recruiter, you must know that your priority will never match that of your clients; however, if something goes wrong, you would be held responsible for what you have no idea about.

That's what, is, perhaps the darker side of an amazing - love and hate - relationship between a recruiter and her clients.

Is Luck Factor, Only A Myth?

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Some people, who are the normal delivery of FORTUNE, proudly decline the role that luck must have played in shaping up their destiny.

They claim that, it's their hard work and a perfect planning that have contributed to making it happen in life.

They may be right, or wrong. But, I must ask my readers:

1. Is it only our efforts and and planning - independent of luck - that make us successful in life?

2. Doesn't luck play any role in making it happen in life?

3. Is luck factor, only a myth and has no practical relevance?

4. Can we produce the best results through hard-work and dedication, even if the luck is deadly against us?

Please share your own life experience in that regard - not just theoretical assumptions and hypocritical demonstrations - and make a clean statement either in favor or against.

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6 Ingredients for Success!

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The foundation and building block of any successful person is Ambition, or the desire for personal achievement. -- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan

Yes, I'm writing again, after a gap of more than a month. Because, while being away from expressing myself in black & white -- I was getting suffocated.

How to Design A Recruiter Friendly Resume

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Most of the recruiters, who are hard pressed for time for delivering results to their internal and external clients, never look at any Resume for more than a couple of seconds to dig out the information relevant to the assignment under consideration.

So, while designing a Resume, the first and most important thing for you is to make relevant information visible to the recruiters and within those few seconds.

Being a recruiter for more than a decade and half, some of the strategies coming to my mind are:

If An Animal Could Defy the Law of Nature, Why Can't You?

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When you are down in life, like a prey in the battle field of Masai Mara, with a pride of human lions targeting you for their next meal, don't run away from them but charge against them without fear.

Several episodes that I have watched on 'Animal Planet' channel, depicting some unbelievable real life developments, highlight an amazing beyond-just-survival power that turns the prey into a predator.

An Amazing Story of Leadership Connectivity

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If you're not able to connect with key people in your professional circle, emotionally, I don't think you would ever make it happen as a leader. And that's exactly what I just discussed over phone with HR Head of a large Indian corporate -- and he agreed.

By connectivity, I mean, building emotional connection with professionals in your domain of operation: Team members, Suppliers, Service Providers, and keep them sufficiently motivated to maintain and improve upon their current performance level.

Make Others Feel Comfortable!

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Today, during a meeting with the Director HR of a highly reputed MNC, when I tried to grab the business from another firm which has been enjoying the MFR (Most Favored Recruiter) status for a long time, he cut me short by saying that his comfort level with them in terms of performance is unquestionably reliable.

The Tsunami of Success

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It was 2 O'Clock in the morning and I was still in the factory, leading a team of a few dozen engineers,  supervisors and workers to execute an order, which, if not completed by the dawn's early light, would attract a huge penalty, in addition to a distinct possibility of being blacklisted, by one of the biggest customers of the company.

The factory being located in a remote place, had an adjoining  full-fledged residential colony, and the top leadership including managers and most of the supervisors and workers used to stay inside the premises.

Be A Leader, Not A Ruler!

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Scientifically, yes; but conventionally, no -- the path that the sound of your voice would travel: All directions. Nothing, including the sound of your voice, travel in all direction but downward. Everything, that you produce, goes down -- digest it or not!

While spreading a - positive or negative - message: People would listen to you only when you stand above them; people would laugh at you, when you stand on the ground and try to make them understand a point.

You know why?

Come out of the Domain of Duality!

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All of us are living a dual life, full of contradictions, pretending to be virgin innocents in public and acting otherwise in private. We falsely show the world how committed we are towards maintaining the sanctity of human values, but....

Why Didn't They Give Me A Single Chance to Explain?

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A year ago, when the MD of a growing company - whom I serviced for more than 8 years - sacked me from the association of identifying senior level candidates for his organization without any warning, it was a painful surprise for me because I'd never expected it to happen at all -- and in such a ruthless way.

A few months ago, when a wonderful person I met on facebook and with whom I got much closer than even my real-life friends - and shared a few secrets that I had never disclosed to anyone so far - abandoned me like removing a fly from the milk-pot, I was completely shaken because it was truly unbelievable.

Why I Sacrificed the Virtual Self!

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Sorry friends, for changing my blog's address. Frankly speaking, the reason is very simple: I don't have a credit card any longer, required to renew the domain through U.S. based domain provider GoDaddy.

So, I shifted this blog to another domain, that I had purchased from a local service provider a few months ago with cash.

You must be wondering, why did I get rid of my credit cards?

Right?

Why the Hell You Give It up in Life, So Easily?

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I don't know, how many of you watch this amazing program on Discovery Channel: "I Shouldn't be Alive."

It highlights some of the deadliest survival stories in the history of mankind, that one can't even dream of in dream.

The program recreates the struggle for survival of a few super human who, defying the verdict of destiny for embracing death, managed to make a come back -- because they failed to give up, when it was the most inevitable option.

Change Agent: Are You the Right Choice?

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The top leadership of every growing company are mesmerized with an idea of bringing on board a magician, who would bring about a much desired cultural change in their organization.

For them, money is not an issue for getting the best available talent. So, they pay hugely, quite often unreasonably, to pull the best reputed change agent in.

Recruiters: Fishing from the Same Ponds!

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With the advent and epidemic spread of job portals, the business of Executive Search in Contingency vertical has now boiled down to a set of Recruiters fishing candidates from the same ponds.

The only difference from real life fishing, in this case, is, that most of the fishes are very smart and they would invariably respond very positively to every fisherman, never sharing if another fisherman has already contacted them for the same buyer, inspiring him to submit their details to prospective buyers.

How to be Rich and Famous: Protect Your Self-Respect!

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What's the key to a huge success in life? If you ask, even a million, this question, there wouldn't be another answer than: Risk taking ability. Right?

Sorry, wrong! It's not the risk taking ability but, more than that, the ability to endure its consequence -- is the key to success.