Wednesday, March 31, 2010

More quotes

"Anger is never without reason! More often than not, it's just without a good one."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Never put anything off until tomorrow when you can avoid it completely, today."
- The Regmeister

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" - Robert Kennedy/G.B.Shaw

"Due Dates Are Closer Than They Appear"

"If the dream is big enought, the facts don't count"

Charley Marsh
X - Cop

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his/ her homework"- Thomas Edison


"The ability, the will to win, the will to excel are all that matter. These are so much more important than the events that occur." Vince Lombardi

"If you don't ask, you don't get"
"It's not what you know, it's who you know"

"If you cannot impress them by brilliance, dazzle them with bullshit!"

“Set the bar low and you’ll overachieve. Set the bar high and you’ll make a difference.”

"To laugh often and much; to win respect of intelligent people and the affection of children . . . to leave the world a better place. . . to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A quote for all seasons: "You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results." -Mahatma Gandhi

"Heroes are rebels with a cause. Rebels because they challenge the traditional ways of thinking and refuse to follow the herd. They have a cause, a vision, that's larger than life." - Sharif Khan, author of "Psychology of the Hero Soul"

"If an egg is broken by an outside force....... a life ends. If an egg breaks from within....... life begins. Great things always begin from within"
-since the above is a fact, it does not need my explanation as to why it is my favourite quote.

"One who wants to do something will find a way, one who doesn't will find an excuse"

Many of the things you can count don't count. Many of the things you can't count really count.

"Branding: what people say about you when you leave the room."

"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something."
- Anonymous

"Some folks are wise. But some are otherwise."
- Tobias Smollett

“With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too” - Old Yiddish Proverb but especially true in the modern context where money is the one common denominator that cuts across everything and is many times considered the only measure of success, tatent, culture, strength etc.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." - Carl W. Buechner

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

"Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal" - Earl Nightingale.


Don't lower your goals to the level of your abilities,
Instead raise your abilities to the heights of your goals..

The most important things in life aren't things.


“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing”.


"If it is difficult it will be done, if it is impossible it will take time"

If it smells like poop, it's poop. --Grandma Lind

"The most powerful drive in The Ascent of Man is his pleasure in his own skills. He loves to do things well. And having done them well he loves to do them better." Jacob Bronowski

There are two ways of spreading light: to be a candle, or to be a mirror that reflects it by Edith Wharton

"If it doesn't launch nukes - don't sweat it"

If the path is beautiful, first confirm where it leads... But if the destination is beautiful, don't bother how the path is. Keep walking...

"Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a Pig, he just looks you straight in the eye and treats you as an Equal"- Winston Churchill

“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love”.
---MLK

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them”.

"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It is something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming"

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care

Delay is preferable to error.
-Thomas Jefferson

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.

Henry Ford, 1863 1947. American Car Manufacture

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life" Confucious

"We can't do great things but only small things with great love"(Mother Theresa).

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

Eric Hoffer - 1973

It is nice to be important, but more important to be nice...

"worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere"

Some people let things happen. Other people make things happen. Too many ask 'what happened'?

"If you're early you're on time. If you're on time you're late. If you're late don't bother showing up."

Eleanor Roosevelt:
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

"If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu."

Corinthians 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain

"learn to work harder on yourself than your job."

"Fish discovers water last." -- Stephen Covey

"Plan the work, but work the plan!"

"If you dont tell lies you dont need to remember what you said" A Lincoln

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it's not open."

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace"

"When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice"

"If only closed minds came with closed mouths"

If you can't bite, don't show your teeth

“If you think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito.”

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Success does not bring happiness. But, it allows you to cry in Rome, Paris, Milan, Monaco ...

"Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?"

"You get what you get, and you don't get upset"...my 6 year old daughter learned this at school.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious.

Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

By Robert Frost.


"To be successful, you gotta be selfish. Then once you're there, be unselfish...stay reachable...stay in touch...don't isolate."
- Michael Jordan

END is not end.In fact E.N.D. is Effort Never Dies.
NO is not denial. N.O. is Next Opportunity.
So, always be positive and think positive.

Richa Puri

"I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."
Atlas Shrugged - Ayan Rand

“The race is not yet over coz I have not won”

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Talent will take you to the top, however it is character that will keep you there"!

"Everything you want is just outside of your comfort zone!"

"You can easily judge the character of a person by how they treat those who can do nothing for them"

“The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.” Brian Tracy


“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” —George Bernard Shaw

"Nothing happens until something moves." Albert Einstein

Operation Petticoat (1959)

When the air raid started they took off. All he said was "in confusion there is profit."

"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
General George S. Patton, Jr.

"A leader is like the good shepherd who follows his flock and through gentle persuasion draws them to the fold"

Nelson Mandela.

If I look at the elements of the quote, some key things stand out.

- good - a leader is altruistic and not selfish - a rare talent that inspires.
- a leader is like the shepherd - someone who enables and inspires as opposed to someone who is autocratic, or authoritarian.
- in following he shows trust and allows his flock to lead.
- in following he can see into the distance (the future), and at the same time keep a close eye on the day to day realities facing his flock.
- the art of gentle persuasion is like his staff, which he gently uses to nudge those of his flock who might be straying. As opposed to using a mechanism to punish.
- in drawing them to the fold he focusses them on a common direction.

If it is a quote that has inspired Nelson Mandela it has served him very well.

"If you don't start, you will not finish"


''IF U DON'T LIKE ANY RULE,JUST FOLLW IT AND REACH ON THE TOP AND CHANGE THE RULE''

Like tobacco and liquor, credit is something that is best if not taken in abundance.
South African Credit Act Review.

10 most stupid questions

10 most stupid questions

10 most stupid questions people usually ask in obvious situations and some equally stupid answers:-

1. At the movies: When you meet acquaintances/friends
Stupid Question:- Hey, what are you doing here?
Answer:- Well,it's so hot, there were no cool cabs so I thought i'd watch some advertisements in the cool comfort of the theatre.

2. In the bus: A fat girl wearing pointed high-heeled shoes steps on your feet
Stupid Question:- Sorry, did that hurt?
Answer:- No, not at all, I'm on local anesthesia..... why don't you try again or should i try this time.

3. At a funeral: One of the teary-eyed people ask
Stupid Question:- Why, why him, of all people.
Answer:- Why?Would it rather have been you?

4. At a restaurant: When you ask the waiter
Stupid Question:- Is the "blah blah blah" dish good
Answer:- No, its teribble and made of adulterated cement.We occasionaly also spit in it.

5. At a family get-together.When some distant aunt meets you after years
Stupid Question:- Munna,Chickoo, you've become so big.
Answer:- Well you haven't particularly shrunk yourself.

6. When a friend announces her wedding, and you ask
Stupid Question:- Is the guy you're marrying good?
Answer:- No,he's a miserable wife-beating, insensitive lout...it's just the money.

7. When you get woken up at midnight by a phone call
Stupid Question:- Sorry. were you sleeping.
Answer:- No. I was playing cricket for India at Sharjah and just when you called Salim Malik was betting with me that Pakistan would win. What do you think?

8. When you see a friend/colleague with evidently shorter hair
Stupid Question:- Hey have you had a haircut?
Answer:- No, its autumn and I'm shedding......

9. At the dentist when he's sticking pointed objects in your mouth
Stupid Question:- Tell me if it hurts?
Answer:- And while I'm telling you , you tell me if I bite.

10. You are smoking a cigarette and a cute woman asks
Stupid Question:- Oh, so you smoke
Answer:- No, it's a miracle... it was a chalk and now it's in flames!!!

Management Truth !

Management Truth !

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She reduced altitude and spotted a man below. She descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me sir, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The man below replied, "You're in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You're between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."

''You must be an engineer," said the lady balloonist.

"I am", replied the man. 'How did you know?'

''Well", answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct, but I've no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me at all. If anything you've delayed my trip even more."

The man below responded, "You must be in Top Management."

''I am", replied the lady balloonist, "but, how did you know ?''

"Well," said the man, "You don't know where you are, or where you're going. You have risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air within. You made a promise, which you've no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you, to solve your problems." !!!

MORE BLONDE LOGIC

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MORE BLONDE LOGIC

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A girl was visiting her blonde friend who had acquired two new dogs, and asked her what their names were.
The blonde replied by saying that one was named Rolex and one was named Times.
Her friend said, "Whoever heard of someone naming dogs like that?"
"Well, gee," answered the blond, "They are watch dogs.

Funny Leave Applications:) :)

Funny Leave Applications:) :)

Infosys, : An employee applied for leave as follows:





"Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife, please sanction me one-week leave."


· This is from Oracle : >From an employee who was performing the "mundan" ceremony of his 10 year old son:





"as I want to shave my son's head, please leave me for two days.."










· Another gem from CDAC. Leave-letter from an employee who was performing his daughter's wedding:
"as I am marrying my daughter, please grant a week's leave.."










· From H.A.L. Administration Dept:
"As my mother-in-law has expired and I am only one responsible for it, please grant me 10 days leave."










· Another employee applied for half day leave as follows:
"Since I've to go to the cremation ground at 10 o-clock and I may not return, please grant me half day casual leave"










· An incident of a leave letter:
"I am suffering from fever, please declare one-day holiday."










· A leave letter to the headmaster:
"As I am studying in this school I am suffering from headache. I request you to leave me today"










· Another leave letter written to the headmaster:
"As my headache is paining, please grant me leave for the day."










· Covering note:
"I am enclosed herewith..."










· Another one:
"Dear Sir: with reference to the above, please refer to my below..."










· Actual letter written for application of leave:
"My wife is suffering from sickness and as I am her only husband at home I may be granted leave".










· Letter writing:-
"I am well here and hope you are also in the same well."










· A candidate's job application:
"This has reference to your advertisement calling for a ' Typist and an Accountant - Male or Female'... As I am both(!! )for the past several years and I can handle both with good experience, I am applying for the post.

funniest things on a resume

20. “I have a known track record and excellent experience with accurancy and fixing erors”
19. “Strong Work Ethic, Attention to Detail, Team Player, Attention to Detail”
18. “My experience include filing, billing, printing and coping”
17. “Demonstrated ability in multi-tasting.”
16. “My work ethics are impeachable.”
15. “I have nervous of steel.”
14. “I consistently tanked as top sales producer for new accounts.”
13. “I am a perfectionist and rarely if if ever forget details.”
12. “Dear Sir or Madman,”
11. “I can type without looking at thekeyboard.”
10. “Instrumental in ruining entire operation for a Midwest chain store.”
9. “I am anxious to use my exiting skills”
8. “Speak English and Spinach”
7. “I am a Notary Republic”
6. “I attended collage courses for minor public relations”
5. “Following is a grief overview of my skills.”
4. “I’m attacking my resume for you to review.”
3. “I am experienced in all faucets of accounting.”
2. “Hope to hear from you, shorty.”
1. “Directed $25 million anal shipping and receiving operations.”

GEEK OFFICE SLANG - Part 1

404: Someone who is clueless. From the Web error message, "404 Not Found," which means the document requested couldn't be located. "Don't bother asking John. He's 404."

Adminisphere: The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant.

Alpha Geek: The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. "I dunno, ask Rick. He's our alpha geek."

Assmosis: Remember "Osmosis" The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

Batmobiling: putting up emotional shields. Refers to the retracting armor that covers the Batmobile as in "she started talking marriage and he started batmobiling"

Beepilepsy: The brief seizure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid- sentence.

Betamaxed: When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition as in "Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market"

Blamestorming: A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.

Blowing Your Buffer: Losing one's train of thought. Occurs when the person you are speaking with won't let you get a word in edgewise or has just said something so astonishing that your train gets derailed. "Damn, I just blew my buffer!" (Synonym: "Head Crash")

Body Nazis: Hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively.

Bookmark: To take note of a person for future reference. "After seeing his cool demo at Siggraph, I bookmarked him."

Monday, March 29, 2010

What is the funniest thing you ever saw in a Resume?

What is the funniest thing you ever saw in a Resume?

to begin with,

A Girl wrote in her resume," I am flexible enough to perform in any position"


A person in Marital Status had written "Double" because he was married.



One of the candidate filled the application form under column asking for SEX:

SEX : Twice a week and when asked that the question was about gender, he said BOTH.


Every day i see at least one CV in which candidate would mention-
Marital Status :Married with 2 children.Thats really funny.




In my resume database, about 15% have written as "Martial Status" - How true...


Although not related to interivew, I once received this letter for leave request from a Branch Manager who wants to go on leave and hence asking for a person in the interim period"

"Dear Sir,

Wife is sick, request substitute. Thanks"



I've abbreviated Assistant manager as "Ass Man" before. Got a surprising number of callbacks too.

51 Ways to Please Your Boss

51 Ways to Please Your Boss ........If you have other bold, daring, noble or funny out-of-this-world suggestions, please do write them here in your comments

1. Arrive 3 minutes earlier than usual.
2. Avoid being absent more than twice a month.
3. Avoid being late 3 times in a row.
4. Try to have a perfect attendance for one whole month! No lates. No undertime.
5. Don’t get caught napping.
6. Scribble something while on a meeting as though you’ve noted every word he said.
7. Nod at least twice in a meeting.
8. Greet him in the morning.
9. Greet him before going home.
10. Greet him on his birthday.
11. Minimize grammatical errors in your report.
12. For goodness’ sake, use a calculator and check your figures.
13. Don’t get caught playing computer games.
14. Come up with a brilliant idea once in a while.
15. Let him take credit.
16. Put words into his mouth when he’s already embarrassing himself talking about nonsense things.
17. Thank him for his leadership.
18. Treat him to lunch.
19. Make him your son’s god parent.
20. Defend him from nasty officemates.
21. Make him a nice cup of coffee he’ll never forget.
22. Teach him how to use the computer properly.
23. Download a nice wallpaper for his desktop.
24. Recover the file a virus almost corrupted.
25. Organize your working papers.
26. Make a mess of your table so you won’t appear idle and have nothing to do.
27. Leave some minor errors in your report (minor only like typographical error that wouldn’t distort the substance of the report, but never an error in figures). Do this only so your boss wouldn’t feel so useless in having nothing to correct from your perfect work.
28. Be sensitive to your boss’ mood and temper.
29. No matter how silly some of his ways may appear to you, never lose your respect.
30. Appreciate his strengths (everybody has one, you know).
31. Have a healthy sense of humor.
32. Be a bridge of understanding between your boss and your officemates.
33. Don’t cite his errors directly or irrespectfully, especially infront of his superiors.
34. Attend seminars and update him with timely and useful information.
35. Help organize the system within your department to minimize bottlenecks and duplication of work performed.
36. Share a hobby.
37. Teach him how to back up his files.
38. Be proactive. Furnish him with reference materials he can use.
39. Keep him updated with the status of your work. Not so much however as to waste his precious time.
40. Be resourceful. Avoid asking unnecessary questions.
41. Mentor him. Let him be promoted so you wouldn’t suffer his face anymore.
42. Inspire him to retire early.
43. Inspire him to look for another job. Tell him he is already too good for the company.
44. If he is not a good leader, let his discover his true calling. You will lose a boss but gain a friend.
45. If he is a good follower, be his true leader and advise him on useful matters.
46. Invite him over to dinner.
47. Cook his favorite dish.
48. Cook heavenly delicious food that would make him forget all your past blunders.
49. Invite him to a prayer meeting. Let him rediscover the mission God entrusted him to do.
50. Discover something that would boost his self-esteem.
51. Last but not the least, pray for your boss. MIRACLES still happen everyday, you know!

10 Funny Excuses to Sleep During Work

10 Funny Excuses to Sleep During Work


Here is 10 really funny excuses for office staffs to sleep during work. Just for laugh. Not recommended to use in real life unless you have a boss with a very good sense of humor.

When your boss caught you sleeping at your desk, he would most definitely ask you “What are you doing?”. Funny excuses as follows:

1. “I am thinking”.

2. “I just donated blood. They told me this is going to happen.”

3. “Trying to be more effective. Everywhere is talking about how power-nap is going to make me, your employee really effective.”

4. “In the name of the father and the son of the holy spirit, Amen. Yes, may I help you, boss?”

5. “They taught me this during my last Yoga lesson. You do know I am into Yoga, right?”

6. “I am thinking really hard about what you mentioned about your vision and mission.”

7. “Oh! I think it is the medicine that I have taken last night. The effect just don’t go away.”

8. “Hi Boss. I am practising on one of the habits of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.”

9. “I think I have dropped my contact lens. Could you help me look for it because I really can’t open my eyes.”

10. “You interrupted me. I was so close from coming up with the solution to our company’s biggest problem.”

THE LAWYER QUIZ

THE LAWYER QUIZ

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Q: Why won't sharks attack lawyers?
A: Professional courtesy.

Q: When lawyers die, why are they buried in a hole 24 feet deep?
A: Because deep down, they are all nice guys!

Q: Have you heard about the lawyers' word processor?
A: No matter what font you select, everything come out in fine print.

Q: What do you get when you cross the Godfather with a lawyer?
A: An offer you can't understand.

Q: What would happen if you lock a cannibal in a room full of lawyers?
A: He would starve to death.

Q: Did you hear about the terrorist that hijacked a 747 full of lawyers?
A: He threatened to release one every hour if his demands weren't met.

Q: What is the difference between a lawyer and a herd of buffalo?
A: The lawyer charges more.

Q: Did you hear about the new microwave lawyer?
A: You spend eight minutes in his office and get billed as if you'd been there eight hours.

Insults, Taunts and rebukes

nsults, Taunts and rebukes

Particularly literate people have a way of delivering rebukes and insults. In fact, they do it a lot better than you or I do.

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"A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults." --Louis Nizer

"I feel so miserable without you. It's almost like having you here." --Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." --John Bright

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." --Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." --Winston Churchill

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." --Irvin S. Cobb

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." --Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." --William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? --Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"He had delusions of adequacy." --Walter Kerr

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." --Abraham Lincoln

"You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it." --Groucho Marx

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." --Groucho Marx

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." --Robert Redford

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." --Forrest Tucker

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." --Mae West

"She is a peacock in everything but beauty." --Oscar Wilde

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." --Oscar Wilde

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." --Oscar Wilde

and...

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." --Billy Wilder

Sunday, March 28, 2010

one liners

"Some days you're the dog. Some days you're the lamppost"
I have no idea who said it first. I found it on a calendar of daily, inspirational quotes.
When things are getting on top of you, the deadline is looming or colleagues or clients are being a little less than helpful, just think to yourself "Tomorrow will be a 'dog' day"

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Still more quotations

My favorite quote by Winston Churchill speaks volumes about life experience - especially with the extreme political agenda of college professors and instructors..
"If you are not a liberal by the age of 20 you have no heart. If you are not a conservative by the age of 40 you have no brain."


"Changing does not mean changing everything, it just means doing things differently"


Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
:Mohandas Gandhi.


“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.”

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
English pioneer of modern nursing


"Your wish is universe command. Whatever you wish you will get it"


"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage" - Anais Nin


Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

— G.B. Stern


People don't care how much you know ,but they know how much you care..........by the way you listen. ----Bob Conklin


"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."- Albert Einstein


Lead from the front.


“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank

“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity.” Viktor Frankl


"You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others -something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it." Albert Schweitzer



"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antoine Saint-Exupery


“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”


"Give the World the best you can and the best will come back to you"



We squander Health in search of Wealth,
We scheme , toil and save;
Then squander Wealth in search of Health
And all we get is a Grave.


I believe in the following...."Success is never final and failure is never fatal"..


A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
- John Gaule

Clarity of thought, the beauty of simplicity - we can't possibly over-emphasize how critical this is..


Team Work Makes the Dream Work! It says it all!


"The sting of low quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten." from a Texas haberdasher.


“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

This quote reminds me that we often spend too much time criticizing the work of others when we should be learning from them.


"Brevity is the wit of Soul"
Winston Churchill


"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." ~Martha Washington


"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed." Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915


"Force is mass x acceleration. Work is Force x Distance. It is therefore, no wonder that Work can drive you M x A x D."

D.B.


"You can't polish a turd."


I would rather work with innocent ignorance than brilliant stupidity.


"I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it." - Charleszetta Waddles


"In the race for quality, there is no finish line".


"It is always the right time to do the right thing". This simple quote from Martin Luther King speaks volumes to me. It helps make many difficult decisions easier.


"Whatever you are, be a good one" - Abraham Lincoln

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant" - Justice L. Brandeis (not the exact wording)


To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

-Arsene Wenger


Believing in yourself is the key to success and I am a firm believer that you have to believe in yourself first before anyone else can.


Andrew Carnegie once said the older I get I pay less attention to what men say and more to what they do. It holds true for me after 27 yrs. in the F&B business I've seen alot of lip service.


I am hurt but I am not slain
I will lie me down to bleed awhile
Then I'll rise to fight again.


If it's not going to be important next week, it's not important enough to fight about today.


"Avoid the Unmanagible, Manage the Unavoidable"


"I am not 40. I am 20 with 20 years of experience."


trust people till they give you a chance not to trust them


"Positiveness is in my blood, i'm B+"


"You cannot tailor-make the situations in life, but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit in those situations".


“When a brave man takes a stand, nerves of others are stiffened”


"If death comes to me before I proof my blood, I promise to kill the death"


"Not only hit the iron when it is hot but make it hot by Striking"


“A mind stretched to a better idea never goes back to original dimensions”


"When there is a will there is 'Highway' "


"There is nothing called failure. Its only success delayed"


"When people talk behind your back, what does it mean???
Simple! It means that you are two steps ahead of them!!!"


" The pessimist complains about the sun; the optimist gets a tan; the futurist makes electricity."


"A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written" _Ed Cole_


It's like telling me: Planning is useless without Action

I also like:
"Forgiveness is not a reason to commit Sin"


Lead me, follow me or stay out of my way!


If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort


“If you are going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill


"If it was easy everyone would be doing it" -


If everything is urgent; nothing is urgent.


"Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency for me." ~ some smart person


"Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality." ~ Gordon B. Hinckley


Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens. Carl Jung


Any fool can make things bigger, more
complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to
move in the opposite direction."
Albert Einstein


"Live as if to die tomorrow Learn as if to live forever"
Mahatma Gandhi


"Do the right thing even when no one is looking"


You can go anywhere if you look serious and carry a clipboard.


"people do what you inspect not what you expect."


"The lack of planning on your part does not constitute and emergency on my part."


" there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. "


Who of the five people who you want to be and noted after not being here. Plato.


Adversity is like a knife. It can cut you, or serve you, depending upon whether you grasp it by the blade, or the handle - Anonymous


"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa


Love the Life you're living. Or make it one to fall in love with......


"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain


'The best way to predict your future is to create it'


"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein...


"The windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror for a reason"


"Following the path of least resistance makes rivers and men crooked"


What You Do Speaks So Loudly I Can't Hear What You Say! Ralph Waldo Emerson



"Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country."

"Mankind is your business!"


"Every day above ground is a good day"-Tony Montana in "Scarface"
It's a cut to the point reminder that now matter what is going on in your life, to be grateful FOR your life and that you've been given another day with infinite possibilities.


"Will THIS decision bring me closer or further away from my goals?"



"Make sure you're not just waiting for someone else to fix things, or hoping that things will improve...Figure out what's going on and make a plan to improve things."
--Kenneth W. Thomas


"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
-- Abraham Lincoln


Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.”
- Uri Geller


"When the horse is dead, get off."


Those who want by the yard, but try by the inch... get kicked by the foot.


"A smooth sea never yielded a skilled sailor." - Anonymous


On the serious side, I’d like to offer the following quotation by T.C. Chiu, “To Begin With The End In Mind Is The Foundation Of The Accomplishment."


" To the world, you may be one person; but to one person, you may be the world! "....


"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson


"If you pay peanuts you get monkeys".


"Character is Destiny"


"You dont get paid for the hour but you get paid for the value you bring to the hour..."


Oh and there's the greatest philosopher in the modern era, Mike Tyson:

"Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth".


One of my favorite quotes comes from Helen Keller who once stated "there is nothing as pathetic as having sight but no vision"


“Never mistake activity for achievement.” John Wooden


From Abraham Lincoln:
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and
I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe."


From albert Einstein:
"Make every thing as simple as possible . . .
but no simpler."


'Make a customer, not a sale' - Philip Kotler


"Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached" by Swami Vivekananda.


Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional

More Quotations

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -- Edmund Burke


Two quotes from Woody Hayes..."You win with people". The second quote which Hayes used is credited to Emerson. "You can pay back only seldom. You can always pay forward, and you must pay, line for line, deed for deed and cent for cent." I will never be able to back pay to all those who helped me get to where I am today, but I certainly can help others get to their future.


“When you're finished changing, you're finished.” Benjamin Franklin (American Statesman)


"There are only two days that we can't do anything. Yesterday and tomorrow"


"We make a living by what we get, we make a life out of what we give" ......Winston Churchill
or

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty"

The first reminds me that it is how we 'use' our resources to better the world that defines us, not the amount of the resources themselves. The second reminds me that we, as individuals, are the only ones who can really define what it means to be 'rich'.


The greatest challenge in life is to figure out what is important to you and disregard the rest.


From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe... When you have a passion for something it doesnt matter how much $ you make, if you enjoy what you do, it creates financial rewards.


A former boss used to say to me "It only takes one." I haven't forgotten it ---- as it applies to finding a job, making a decision, etc. Don't know where it came from.


"In God we trust; everyone else bring data".

This was spoken by the President of a company I worked at quite a few years ago at an executive committee meeting after someone had just made a highly emotional case for project funding that was short on data and analysis. I just love the simplicity of the message.


"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."


George Bernard Shaw


1) Where you decide to stand determines what you will see; and

2) Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead


"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital." As a Penn Stater, we give credit to Joe Paterno for this one..........it's message is clear......


"The poorest of all men is not a man without a dollar but a man without a dream." Martin Luther King


"It isn't the mountain that wears you out, it is the grain of sand in your shoe." Winston Churchill. Another way of saying don't sweat the small stuff!



"When two people in business always agree, one is unnecessary. Dare to disagree." William Wrigley, Jr.


My favorite quote is one of American psychologist and philosopher William James:

"First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it".
— William James
'Pragmatism's Conception of Truth'


My favorite quote is:

"If you always think as you've always thought,
You'll always do what you've always done.
If you always do what you've always done,
You'll always get what you've always got.
If you always get what you've always got,
You'll always think as you've always thought."

Author - Unknown

Why? It speaks to the importance of change.


"Far and away the best price that Life has offered is the chance to work and at work worth doing" said Theodore Roosvelt.


Every job, task or activity is the best for us as within each chance is an underlying opportunity which taps our strength and capability to accomplish. As we start enjoying our work we realize every job is worrth doing and there is learning.


A pessimist always sees diificulty in every opportunity while an optimist always sees opportunity in every dificulty.


"These are my principles - If you don't like them, I have others" Groucho Marx


"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle


"You're either part of the solution or part of the problem" - Eldridge Cleaver


"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."


"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."


"We will either find a way, or make one."


"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).


"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain." Maya Angelou


"This too shall pass."


"It takes a pregnant woman 9 months to have a baby. You can't get 9 women pregnant for 1 month each and expect to have a baby" This was a favorite quote from a VP Engineering when pressed to get products developed faster.
But I take to mean ---- some things just take time and you might as well learn patience.


'You don't have to be nasty, but make sure you do the right thing'


'Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.' --> Einstein


Always forgive but remember the names~John F Kennedy


"When you are working among lazy people, the probability of your success is very high"


"Academic distinction is less important than a personality.'


"Stay current and on top of your game: Just when you think you are winning the rat race, along come faster rats."


"Pessimists complain about the wind. Optimists expects it to change. Leaders adjust the sails."

Friday, March 26, 2010

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Do one thing that scares you every day - Eleanor Roosevelt


"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein


"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." Art Linkletter


"Happiness is the absence of pursuing Happiness"
Zunhai


"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did." MARK TWAIN


"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." Jim Horning


"There is no limit to what can be accomplished when no one cares who gets the credit."
- John Wooden

It's all about team work!



“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”

Calvin Coolidge 30th President and Amherst College graduate.


"Luck is preparation meeting opportunity" , I believe Oprah Winfrey?


"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." Henry David Thoreau


"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."


"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to lease everybody".


"I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it"

William C. deMille


"Don't base your life on intentions. Either do it or let it go!" ~ Carolyn Hutchison


"To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did".
-The Serendipity Effect


"Chance favors the prepared mind"
-Louis Pasteur


I love this Napoleon Hill quote: "Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."


"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln


"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."- George Bernard Shaw


"I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress." Edward Abbey


"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California." Edward Abbey.


"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own." -- Benjamin Disraeli

"Change the way that you look at things and the things that you look at will change." -- Wayne Dyer


1. "What goes around, comes around" - good deeds are rewarded, bad ones come back ten times worse.



"I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." Helen Keller


"How can I soar like an eagle when I am flying with Turkeys?"


"You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership" ... Eisenhower

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"When your work speaks for itself, dont interrupt"


"We go where our vision is"


When opportunity knocks at the door, we will not recognize it if we keep looking backwards-


"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those that matter don’t mind” Dr. Zeus


My favorite quote is " The greatest sermons are never spoken".

Meaning - it is not what we say -: but how we live.


"We are all ignorant. Just each of us in different subjects." W. Rogers


My favorite quote is by Warren G. Bennis which reads “Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.” After reviewing many of academic models on leadership and management; this quote captures the main essence and deference between the two.


"Its always good to know what people expect from you, then of course you can surprise them by giving more"


'Today is the first day of the rest of your life', Its never too late to make a beginning, one can start whenever one feels the time is right.


"Success does not depend on making important decisions quick, it depends on the quick action taken on important decisions"


"Majority rule only works if you also are considering individual rights, because you can't have 5 wolves and 1 sheep vote on what to have for dinner."
Larry Flynt



"Don't ASSUME (ass-u-me), cause it makes an ASS out of U and ME" (please excuse the language)

--> heard this years ago in one of the negotiation training classes... sometimes we just assume things without really understanding what the other person really wanted to say. This often leads to misunderstandings - therefore better ask one more time instead of just assuming things...


"Self-trust is the first secret of success." ---- This is my favorite because lack of self trust often holds us back when it comes to taking risks. Many of these risks and failures could lead us to some of our greatest success stories.


My favorite is "when is the last time you did something for the first time."

I am not sure who to attribute it to as I have heard it from numerous sources. To me it speaks to getting out of your rut and trying something new. You can't change without change!


“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.


My favorite, "If it's to be, it's up to me".


The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be. ~Katherine Mansfield~


“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." George Bernard Shaw


"The entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." John Andrew Holmes


"We All Get What We Tolerate."

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly" - Richard Bach

It tells me that change is:
* Inevitable, part of life
* Painful and mostly leads to a situation where you may even lose your old identity
but at the same time:
* It is rewarding and gives you wings and
* Opens the door for a beautiful world

The choice is between hanging on to the past and ruing what's lost or bracing for the road ahead and profiting from it. And the decision is purely one's own and has to come from within!

great quotes from linkedin

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

~Wayne Gretzky


One of my favorites is “Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.” Frederick Wilcox

For me it reminds me I need to get out of my comfort zone to grow professionally and personally.


"That which does not kill us makes us stronger!" Klingon proverb

This saying took me through two bouts of cancer, two previous layoffs, and my current downsizing. It reminds me I can get through anything and some good will come of it.

My second favorite is, "If a midget stands on the shoulders of a giant, he can't help but be taller."

This I learned in Karate back when I was young and skinny. It meant that there will always be people who know less than you that you need to help. And there will always be people who know more than you that you can learn from. And in the process, both will prosper.

Finally the Karate saying, "There is no pain, only the pleasure of learning." I usually heard that one right after missing a block. 0 : >


"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Affrica, a lion wakes up. It knows it must out run the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It does not matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle;
When the sun comes up, you'd better be running."


"All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity."


"Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal."
Vince Lombardi

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"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." - Nido Qubein

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"Do unto others--and then run!"

quote from linkedin

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Mark Twain. I use this to remind my self to get up and do something when I feel defeated trying to make good things happen.

But the quote that is a guiding principal: Do unto others as you would have done to you.

It is an interesting quote, because it appears in a very similar form in all the worlds major religions.

quote from linked in

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." - Alfred D Souza

How many times have we put off life...until after I finish school, until I'm married, after I have kids, when the kids are older, when they are out of the house...in college...out of college...after I change jobs...after I retire? This quote really "hit home" when I first read it years ago. It's okay to have goals...and it's okay to have a life while I'm pursuing my goals.

Thanks for such a great discussion!

quote

"Never argue with an IDIOT, first you have to stoop at his level and e he will beat you with his experience"....

Great quote by marianne williamson

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” -Marianne Williamson

The message is clear - do not be common when you can be fantastically uncommon. When I do great things it compels others to do great things as well. Simple begets simple; GREAT begets great.

Quotes

Another one of my favorite quotation from Zig Ziglar

"You can have anything in life that you want so long as you help others achieve what they want"


"Don't sweat the small stuff, and its all small stuff"

Title of a book by Richard Carlson


"There is misery

There is a cause of misery

There is a release from misery
"
-Buddha

Context: Only things worth contemplating. Misery, Its cause and the method that gives release from misery.


Intention-Attention-No Tension

(Forgot the source book. The idea is that if we start paying attention to our intentions, we need not harbor any tension (The tensions begin to dissipate once we get in to flow. We start doing the work instead of again and again simply looking at the work and procrastinating).


"I am not asking you to feel happy about the present moment, I am just asking you to accept the 'isness' of the present moment."
- Eckhart Tolle-The Power of Now

Unlike most self help authors, who ask us to be always happy about the moment (Which sounds artificial to me at times), I prefer Eckhart's approach, which is more about always feeling tranquil rather than happy, i.e. accepting the isness of NOW. The moment just 'is'. The feeling just 'is'... Happiness just is... Sadness just is... Sounds pretty much the essence of Theravada Buddhism.

To understand what I mean, try reading "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. I really felt very peaceful while reading it. I had long periods of tranquility after reading and meditating on it. I think I need to read it again and again and practice it.

Don't Lead a Second Hand Life

"Don't lead a second hand life. Dance to the music within. Most people die with music still left in them, don't be one of them." Well that's not one quote but several quotes with same theme. (combined from different sources).

Ayn Rand had named her novel Fountainhead intially as a "A second hand life" and that inspired me to write the above couple of sentences/ quotes as a group. Everything that Ayn Rand says in Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged resonates with my heart. I believe anyone who reads Ayn Rand will become an incorrigible Objectivist and a believer in professional perfection.

Reading her novels was like spiritual enlightenment to me. I think I have become mad for good, and I welcome everyone to read her novels to understand what I mean.

Best things in life are truly free

"Best things in life are truly free"

I don't know the source but I have come across this one several times. Combine this with Alvin Tofler's Future Shock ... our environments have been changing faster than our rate of evolution. Think about the needs of our ancestors even 200 years back. We all need good food , We can enjoy a sunrise, a pleasant winter/summer breeze, love of our spouse and children... A little Chit Chat at the office... A morning in the local park.. A chess game...Learning a new software that interests us... watching a movie on the computer... Reading a novel... sharing and caring for people emotionally ...listening to good music.. meditating.. listening to an audio book...blogging... all these things while may not necessarily be free , but they definitely don't cost much. Let us not forget to enjoy our life under the "Work Pressures" of the modern corporate life , for at our heart , and biologically we are still the same kind of people as our ancestors 200 years back, or for that matter, another ancestor during the Harappan age. (Ever wondered about a lovelorn Harappan! ;-))

Another one of my favorite quote from Zig Ziglar "You can't be in so much hurry to reach a place that you forget to take the Gas"--Similar Theme. Let the purpose not be lost. What's the fun if you become a big shot of a big shot company and at the end of life realize that during the process of climbing the success ladder your life ran through your fingers. You kept on "Succeeding" without ever asking yourself... Is this really all that my heart longs for...

While I do not recommend an irresponsible professional life or for that matter a professional life devoid of ambitions- All I say is that everything must be kept in its proper perspective.

Robin Sharma is my another all time favorite author. Each article from his "Greatness guide" and "greatness guide 2" is a gem and deserves a place in a collection of the all-time-best quotes of the world.

One of my favorite quotes from Robin Sharma -"Be So good at your work that you become irreplaceable at your company"

One more.. ? :-)

A good work is a gift that you give to yourself (It is not a gift that you give to your company). By doing good work you develop a good habit, you invest in yourself and you become more valuable, Company just happens to be a secondary beneficiary of your good work. (I find this idea particularly motivating against the attitudes that many employees have ... they ask themselves the question.."Why should I work hard if at the end of the day I would only get paid so much?" The Answer.. "If you work hard you won't remain the same person. One day either your own company or perhaps another company's headhunters are going to offer you more. ... You will actually become more valuable. Good work can't remain hidden for long, just like a good attitude.


Well you asked for just one quote... and you got me started. Thank you for this thread. I feed cool after writing this comment. I didn't know I would get in to flow typing this comment. Thanks to the thread starter.

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Q:

HcM - Human commodity Management!

Yes.You read it right. And it is intended to be provocative.

It may be a new concept to the congregation here that truly and genuinely believes HCM stands for Human Capital Management. But there is a whole old world out there that is full of managements and corporates that believe:

a) people are commodities that can be easily moved/traded/dispensed with within or between departments or out of the company
b) investing in their welfare or enrichment is a cost with no tangible ROI and hence a wasteful expenditure
c) branding (read building equity) poses threat as it makes one grow bigger than their boots

So hypothetically, if you were to consult for such companies and help them transition from HcM to HCM, what would you do?

Or alternatively, what is your experience? Did you ever come across such ones? DO you believe that such mind-set exists?

Feast on! :)

Answer:

I think we are at the tipping point of a paradigm shift. This is the age of training and transformation of human beings on all the fronts ... Professional as well as personal. More training literature is being generated today than ever before, more corporate trainers are on their itineraries than ever before. Of course there would be some people from old (or well medieval ;-) schools of thought who believe that it is a waste of money and time- training the employees, however I personally would never like to work for such a company.

I would like to work for a company that treats me as a family member, and just like a family member I would like to serve them with commitment (Growing from a baby to a father!!). And yes... A family member needs training and care. I have all the reasons to believe that there would a great percentage of people who would be thinking like me.

Let us overthrow the old school of thought and give rise to an era of corporate trainers with a soft heart. People with abundance mentality... Businesses built on ethical principles...built on the principles for caring for people... If buinesses don't treat their people well, they can rest assured that the employees won't treat their clients well. They would just have a financial involvement with the company instead of a moral involvement. Businesses are all about caring for people... and ***Caring begins at Home***

Yes! an organization must be caring but with the caveat that the employee must not be a *confirmed* "Asshole". Sorry about using that word but Marcus Buckingham has made it a more polite technically defined word in his Management Classic- "The No Asshole Rule" for describing certain kinds of employees.

Thanks Arun for this thread :-) (and giving me the pleasure of writing my thoughts)