A strange thing happened today

I dont know call it chance or some awesome way to decide and design !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So yesterday I got cheated by a vending machine. -- Ya that's how I would describe it... I take the VTA to office from my place of stay. The cost of one way pass is 1.75 $. Yesterday I had used a 5 $ bill to get the pass and the machine returned me $3 back -- yes it cheated and did not give the 25 cents coin... I guess there were none.. nevertheless.. I was a bid shocked and felt weird..

Today I again went to the same vending machine and took the same pass and gave 2 X 1$ coins and then you know what -- I got back 2 X 25 cents coins back... yes yesterday's coin was also returned...

Now am I being stupid -- as there must be a mechanism -- may be a camera and face recognition system / a finger print detector or something

OR - Its just plain simple lucky by chance ..........

http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm

Loved this site .. and its a good model as well http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm -- called the give and take model ... nice way to build traction ... Nice way to get users to build userbase and content....

business model innovation - a very nice read - and a post to ponder, learn, apply and follow

http://business-model-design.blogspot.com/

I like this blog. They don't write many posts but give real good insights into how a brainstorming should work and how business innovation should be leveraged and built in the system....

I remember them sharing one of their presentations as well on slideshare. Here is the link (http://www.slideshare.net/Alex.Osterwalder/40-minutes-on-business-model-innovation)

I like their style and the way they operate. Would like to work with them some day :)... I guess these are better than so many top named consultants (with whom I have worked in my past)

Dynamic Meditation

I only know of some kind of meditations ... I don't even know if these are mutually exclusive or not ...

• One is sitting and meditating by just trying to empty your mind and not think anything
• Other is transcendental meditation - in which you dont force your mind to do anything but try and concentrate on a word (mantra) given by your instructor / teacher
• One is to concentrate on your breathing - inhaling and exhaling
• One is dynamic meditation - heard recently - preached and practiced by Osho Rajneesh
• I guess art of living et al are also kinds of meditations.. anyways

The aim of meditation is

- relaxation

- releasing stress

- achieving a state of high concentration

- reducing bodily activities and thus relaxing

some more may be which I don't know or don't recall here ...

I guess what should also come is ACTIVE MEDITATION - which you can do all the time.. while doing your normal duties .. which will provide all these effects but also not let you take some specific time out and other things which lead you not to follow these... THINK THINK THINK .. evolve something on these lines.. something that will keep the concentration really high.. something that will keep the stress and anxiety really low.. something that will make the mind body and soul more resilent (tom peters definition of resilience) - something that will bring and inner calm - keeping the agression and the enthusiasm and the willingness to do and achieve at the same level ... something that will bring the inner calm like buddha...

yes design something like that -- and let me know... I will follow for sure...

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Who or What am I - is what i like reading !!!!

Yahoo chief

ok guys....
I have not had any post in Nov ... Why even I don't know. Not that I have not felt strongly about anything this month or I did not get time... I guess it was just like that ..

Anyways Jerry Yang from Yahoo is stepping down... Good bad or what ... But yes the fact is he is out and no one to succeed him yet..

They need someone dynamic someone who should be able to lead the pack of fools towards excellence .. I call them pack of fools as it takes a geek and a fool to be able to give in enough to succeed...

If you are not a geek and just a sophesticated MBA / fin fellow then u end up only becoming a visionary or a consultant with numbers... The drive needs to be there...

One more point comes to my mind here and that is -- You need to prove it to the world by getting it done... You might have a tremendous idea and you may keep selling the preposition to the top notch ( so called budget owners ) of the company ... and they would only dig and delve into the PPTs and Excels... You get lost...

So the crux is just do it and show it to them that it works...

ok coming back to the yahoo story ...

OK WHY NOT ME .. yes thats what I am saying why can't I be next yahoo lead... Least amount of idea about the PnL ( Profit and Loss ) , MnA ( Mergers and Acquisions ) , SnM ( Sales and Marketing ) , SnP ( strategy and planning ) , AnM ( Advertizing and Marketing or call it branding ) but yes I propose myself...

With an enormous amount of enthusiasm, learning ability, drive etc etc etc ... I guess I can give it a shot... May be they would not understand .. They who... yes they would be the decision maker..

They would want some pot bellied, over aged, specy guy with tie and jacket ... MMMmmmm not bad but doesnot the world need to change... Can't we make a difference ....

... Logging off from here ...

Making it flatter

Ok so another move to make the world flatter....

Fed Opens Swaps With South Korea, Brazil, Mexico

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aUNPTGKAY_bQ&refer=latin_america

In the battle of uncertainity

In the battle of uncertainity ... The winner is who can hold the ground for longest....
Perseverence is the key ...

So play by sessions.... The way gavaskar used to play in test cricket... Play by sessions...

Have a plan for each session and play for it.... Be sure to account for the variable change

nityn

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Strongly believe

Strongly believe...
I very strongly believe that one should be given enough free time in office to be able to bring out some new thing ... i am talking about innovation....
It also comes to SAV concept... Still don't know about then read tompeters.com

Bleeding World economy

The world economy has started bleeding... From North America to South America .. From UK to Asia to Africa. There has been one or the other significant impact.

This is going in favor for US economy. I guess...

China Participates

Any successful bailout of the US financial system would likely rely heavily on
China, the largest surplus country which already holds close to $1
trillion in dollar claims, given that the U.S. will likely need to issue more
debt. . Furthermore investing in US financial system might be in China's
interest as it is already suffering from falling U.S. and global demands -
Suggestions are being made that China might invest directly in financial
institutions rather than indirectly through purchases of U.S. debt as it has
done in the past

So it seems CHINA will get involved. Now it is remained to be seen if middle east gets involved. The moment it gets involved we have pushed it. Yes pushed the crisis by few more years and made the world more complex and more FLAT (world is flat :))

We will then just do a tangential miss with the recession and then do a V turn and retrieve the growth path ... This is also called the PARADIGM shift ... or the breakthrough shift

nityn

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Should or Shouldn't

Some feel that US govt should not have taken in their hands the reins of large banks by giving them money...
If they hadnot given the same then the effect would have been in many other places and that too uncontrable...

Now when will this be over????

• Until middle east participates
• Until third world economies understand that ASIA is knocking at the door and their growth will be deoendent on others growth ... So lets grow together

mmmmm.......

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V turn

Its going to be a V turn ....
Its going to be a V shaped recession.... At least this is what I feel... It fell fast and it should recover fast... As per liquidity is concerned, it will come in....

Only that this time middle east is going to participate too..... The money is going to get circulated even more

nityn
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Dude -- Gear up

Yes dude gear up.....

You listening .............. gear up..... Its going to be raining men ..............

Loads and loads of work is required to be done in order to redo and clean up the mess created by the SMART folks....

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Never have I seen this world Unity

World seems to be united to fight the oncoming recession (if I may call it so) -- the financial turmoil... It has been a coordinated effort....

Never have I seen such a will and effort in past ......

Doesn't that remind of world becoming more FLAT

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Buy US / EU

13th October 2008
The valuations of the companies in US and UK have gone so low that suddenly there will be interest by the cash rich organizations to pick up stake.
If I have got tempted to pick up some shares or some stake, I am sure big corporates would be trying their level best to get some cheap picks (value buying)
This phenomenon will exist for the next 6 months...
RBI gives individual to remit 200,000 $ a year for investing in overseas market.....

Caveat: Be sure that the profits you get should not be lost with currency changes ... :)

Nityn

If you are wrong

IF you are WRONG then don't be wrong for long.

Learn and MOVE ON

 

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RESILIENT PEOPLE

Possible Attributes of Resilient People: (TOM PETERS / NASEEM NICHOLAS TALEB - THE BLACK SWAN) (here)

Inner calm (Buddhist-like?); think Tiger Woods

High self-knowledge ("comfortable in own skin")

Breadth of experience - drove a cab, worked construction, ran Alaska tours ... not just a variety of assignments in a traditional career progression.

Sense of, "Ah, my moment" (e.g., Giuliani)

Lover of modestly controlled chaos (bored amidst calm-e.g., FDR)

Reach out effortlessly to a wide variety of people (in general and on the fly)

Bizarrely energetic

Known for integrity, in the sense of "straight shooter"

Hires resilient people per se in key positions! (All senior leadership roles?

Sense of humor

Empathy ("I feel your pain")

"Cruelty" (Must make tough decisions instantaneously, without looking back; not "confident," but overwhelming sense of urgency to press ahead)

Decisive, but not rigid

Strong individual, equally strong team player

Understands the chain of command - and evades it as necessary

Comfortable being challenged by thinkers, but a strong "doer" bias overall

A person of Hope (religious or "religious-like"?)

Not necessarily: ex-college quarterback with a history of comebacks (Why: All within the rules, within the context of that which has been practiced) - Innovator and ability to redefine oneself again and again

Better(??): Ocean sailboat racer; ER doc; public health doc; astronaut; combat experience; hostage negotiator; survived in hopeless circumstances through guile and grit; seeks "independent duty"

Tests: Have the lights "unexpectedly" go out during an employment interview, followed by fire alarm, etc; focus on resilience per se in reference checks

Bizarrely true !!!!!!!  -- resonates exactly what I think. It feels as if someone just put words to every inch in which I believed in.  I love and believe in each word... I feel as if this is the truth that I have been looking for to be stated and has now been revealed :)

Trading, guns and money

A true insight in what goes in traders minds

and in what era what was going on and how Greenspan's playing tennis was linked with Bourses and derivatives :)

enjoyed

I had only myself to please

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