I am feeling dejected what can I do? Can I take new responsibility in my personal life? Will I be able to perform my tasks? Will I be able to take more responsibility? Can I survive in this competitive world?
The single mantra for all the questions mentioned above and more similar questions is "Confidence". From my part experience and a keen analysis of other's experience I make the interpretation that a unique kind of core competence is "self confidence". The same will act as competitive advantage when passion to win gets added with it. A confident individual with a passion to win though is not specialised in a specific area will tend to do research in the area. There by the individual can gain theoretical knowledge. With a little effort the same can be converted into practice. However on the other hand a person with more experience and less confidence will likely to ruin the proceedings as there is always a factor of doubt and fear of failure remains as a barrier.

Ontology and Epistamology of my new year resolution

I wrote my first blog on this new year. The blog is about my new year resolution. After writing the blog I started thinking how I made these resolutions and how am I going to measure them. This thought made me realise the interesting facts about how I made my resolution.

I started the resolution with an apology. This is a typical way to make resolution as per Babylonian tradition. I read once that babylonians start the year with an apology resolution. A similar style is seen with the roman tradition. However, the romans make resolution not to hurt others. Hence, I adopted the style in my new year resolution. Another style is seen with the chinese where they start the year with a clean slate erasing all the old sins. Thus i my next inclusion is to adopt the style. Upon further reading I realised that majority of Indian population wants to perform something that they want to improve in life. This has made me to come up with the final two resolutions.

Now comes the burning question of how will I measure it. Is my resolution goals Simple. My resolutions are 1. not to repeat past mistakes, 2. Respect others, 3. Be organized, 4. Make efficient use of time. Thus I can say that my goals are simple. Can I measure them? ofcourse I can measure them as I know how many times I repeat the past mistakes. How many times I hurt others by not respecting their views. How many times I miss my target. How many times I waste time. Hence, I can measure them. Are they achievable? As the timeline is 365 days to acheive I can definitely achieve them to be a part of my habit. This again shows that I have got a time line which in this case is 365 days. Are they relavant to me? Yes as the goals can improve my habit in both personal and professional life.

My new year resolution.

Wish all d readers a very happy new year.

Hope I have started my new year blog with the right note. As a typical human being I would like to start this year with my new year oaths.

To start with I would like to apologies everybody if i had made any mistake in my past life. I would like to come out of my past sins and is willing to start my life in a clear slate. As majority of Indian say I would like to be more organized and make efficient use of my time in this new year. I hope I do not hurt any body. I wanna make others happy n wanna respect the feelings of others. I hope i can follow these resolutions and can make it a habit. I would request sincere help from all to make this resolutions a successful one.

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Society and human values

Today I had a chance to have a conversation with an Indian parent. This conversation triggered a series of thoughts within me. As a parent are we aware of our final goal? How are we going to identify the uniqueness within our child? Are we going to develop our child according to our interest? Is it right to impose our dreams into child's life? How are we going to identify the interest of child?

As an Indian parent are we really paying attention towards our child's interest? If we say yes, then why are we facing conflict in parent child relationship. If the answer is no, when are we going to change our attitude related to this? What ever we claim as our cultural values are they truely reflecting our culture or we are just looking at the outer layer that is visible to naked eyes and claim it as our culture? Are we not paying attention towards the root cause? Is it because of the educational system that we follow? If yes, when are we going to change this? Are we going to leave our kids the same environment or are we going to create a better world to live?

I am currently in the process of exploring these areas to identify atleast one solution that can improve the society for future.

Expectation as an interviewer

Once we all were worried about the job interviews. The department in my undergraduation used to arrange for mock interviews. These interviews are arranged by the senior batch for juniors. Mostly this occation is considered as a show off period or to embarrase the juniors. However, there are exceptions. Majority of the senior batch expects their juniors to perform at par with them. Hence they take this as an opportunity to mould the student to biz. scenario.

Today I am conducting interview for candidates with experience ranging from 5 years to 15 years. Having crossed the 50 interview mark, I am reflecting on what are the criteria I look for in a candidate to successfully clear the interview. The expectation varies based on the role and responsibility. However, there are few generic qualities that are expected. Reflecting from my experience I am listing them here.

Confidence, Assertiveness, Teamplay, clarity of thoughts, openness, lateral thinking, willingness to learn.

As the list is growing, I feel that I can write how I evaluate each and every quality in the subsequent blogs.

Original description of a project managed in a Fortune 500 company

Opposing Project Manager and his decisions.
Laughing against him at his worst humour sense.
Fight for employee rights in the organization.
Revealing the organizational politics created by Tech Lead.
Working when it is boring.
Checking yahoo and gmail.
Orkutting.
Reading various online News papers.
Playing blame games with Maintenance and Infrastructure and Outsourcing teams.
Encouraging those who are not interested to work to behave in the same way.
Checking cricket scores and following other sports.
Disturbing those who are trying to work.