Battles are internal not external

When we fight against competition and want to gain market share, the battles are won or lost internally and not externally. Don't get exhausted by the magnitude of internal challenges, it's the only thing that we need to manage..

The safest place on Earth

It's not the country with closed boundary,  not the one with a strong intelligence network or police force and certainly not the one with a strong military defense. The safest place in the earth is the society which promotes democracy, tolerance, cultural, ethnic & religious diversity.

So the safest country on Earth is not USA or Australia or France, rather it's Cannada, India. As a citizen it's important that  we make our country safe and thinking of immigration, choose the right country.

Motivation

Words of Mr. Prabir Jha, one cannot motivate a person, you can create an environment where the person or the team is motivated.

Just do what you love to do

The words of a weather blogger with more than half a million Facebook followers, from a ordinary employee to stardom.

"JUST DO WHAT YOU LOVE TO DO "

Ride on fastest horse!

Everyone wants to ride on fastest horse, yes, betting on that will yield better results. The horse is faster because of it's internal motivation and it's boss felt that he should add value to make it much it more faster so that he could take all that pride. He came out with beautiful strategies to make it run much more faster, brought every move under his control and the horse became fit to run faster than ever. The horse was ready for the final race and the horse didn't move, the boss never understood that it's not the strategies which make the horse to run faster but the freedom to live it's life.

Life in the Universe

We are all made of star dust and our life born out of a chemical reaction. What happened in earth should be happening elsewhere in the universe but we haven't heard anything so far. These are the possibilities.

1. The possibility of earth being the only place which can foster life out of billions of galaxies is absolutely nil. What happens in earth could happen elsewhere, it's simple physics.

2. Life & death happens so fast that there couldn't be any advanced civilisations. In that case our death is imminent.

3. Life is there everywhere, only we haven't heard or seen anything. Most of the planets gives rise to low level species due to their inhospitable conditions and the advanced civilisations are far apart that they can't reach so easily

4. The speed of destruction is faster than the speed of exploration. In another 4 billion years milky way is going to collide with Andromeda galaxy and all the advanced civilisations which cannot explore beyond these galaxies are going to get struck in this destruction.

5. Huge communication gap between different civilisations in different galaxies. We are talking about radio waves, one million years down the line, it ll be absolutely different one which we may not be able to understand today.

But one thing is certain, life exists everywhere and we just need to explore further..

Human population

I used to think that the growth of human population as a huge problem. We are growing pretty fast, becoming more congested, exploiting the valuable resources and making this earth worse. But looking at the solar system, galaxies, we understand that we are incredibly small and there is a whole universe out there, we haven't heard from anyone so far in billions of galaxies, sure there is no advanced civilisations in solar system and just a few billion people in earth.

And looking back, every revolution has born out of the exponential growth of human population. Imagine, we are only thousands in earth, we must still be living in forests. The explosive growth in human population lead to the agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, then the information revolution and the space exploration. The quest for exploration comes with the scarcity of resources due to population growth and that's the only way the human species can explore beyond where they are. We have just another 4 billion years left to move out of milky way and Andromeda galaxy which is 1 lac light years and 1.4 lacs light years in diameter respectively, huge distance to explore..

Do Nothing

At times it's better to do nothing

When your..

Wife scolds
Kids shout/fight/play/cry
Friend ridicules
Team is motivated enough to perform
Team delivers what is expected

Worst of its kind

The worst thing that a manager can do is to take credit for his subordinate work. Credit is like happiness, it can be shared across thousands of team members and boss always has the right to take the credit of his team's work but depriving a  team member of the credit he deserves, is the worst of a manager. In fact he doesn't deserve to be a manager.

And the best thing that a manager can do is to give credit to his team for all that he has done. It raises the performance of the team multifold and gives back more credit to all the team members and takes the manager to a much higher level. So pass on all that you have and have all praise for your team in front of others, you will be surprised to see all that comes back to you multifold.

Fiction

There are just five people in space in ISS and Earth is hit by an asteroid and it's gone.

There is no possibility of any survival in Earth and the survival of humans in the universe is in the hands of the four men and a woman in ISS.

It ll take two years for the earth to become inhabitable and they fight for their survival in ISS and then in earth. Back in earth, everything need to be reinvented and future of human species is in the hands of only woman. The birth of their first child and the crave for female child brings the women to the centrestage. The story signifies the fragile world that we live and the importance of women in the evolution of human species..

Career Growth

Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid

Most of us are trying to climb a tree, because we have never seen the pond and we are afraid that we will sink in the pond. We are climbing the tree for very long time thinking that one day we ll reach the top of the tree.

Get rid of the tree, there is a big ocean out there..

Risk appetite

What's the risk appetite? Risk is nothing but the chance of failure. If risk is 40%, that's the possibility of failure. If the risk of giving market credit is 1% of your revenue ( that's credit of 5% of revenue and 20% is the risk), then we also need to assess what is the risk of not giving the credit, in other words the loss of revenue by not giving credit. If the supply chain is driven by credit, the revenue loss will be very high compared to the credit loss. Such a simple calculation but why does organisations fail to understand this..  Here is a company which doesn't lose 0.01% of it's revenue in Market credit where as the Industry loss or expenditure in market credit is minimum 1% and the opportunity loss is more than 2%.

Credit loss is individual responsibility where as opportunity loss is no one's responsibility. Ease the individual responsibility or at least make everyone accountable for opportunity loss, someone will start easing individual responsibility!

Man of Value

This is a great piece of wisdom from Einstein..

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Einstein

Frustrated overachievers

Cool, not everything in this world is under your control, life is not linear, expect the unexpected, results are not important all the time, what is the value that you have created, what is the value that you can create further. Focus on that and move on..

Selfishness

A Leader cannot be selfish, else he is no more a leader..

Courtesy: Donald Trump

The end of human race

We always think of human disaster by aliens or comets from distant galaxy but a simple microbe can put an end to the human race. We hear a lot about evolution of bacteria against antibiotic drugs, mosquito's against repellent drugs. Same happened with humans, we evolved faster than any other animals, which took few million years and that was so fast in time scale of this planet and we rule this world.

One of the major reason for our faster evolution is our collective learning and its becoming better day by day because of the advancement in the technology. The learning of an individual in one part of the world is passed on to the whole world at the speed of light. So the only way someone can beat us is to evolve faster than our evolution and learn faster than our collective learning. Today most of the human death is caused by Mosquito which evolve just through reproduction. we are hearing about mutations of virus & bacteria in few hours or few months. The drug resistant genes are transmitted not just through reproduction but through lot many ways, making it easier for the new generation bacteria to become drug resistant, this is faster evolution due to faster learning which can become better. So the end of human race is going to be caused by a small microbe not a monster..

UniverseS

If Universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? If Black hole can explode, this Universe would have formed due to an explosion of a mammoth  black hole, so our universe was formed within a larger universe and there could be many such black hole explosion each creating a Universe by itself. So in nutshell, we are talking about millions, may be billions of Universes with a larger Universe which also could have been result of a black hole explosion inside an Universe. We have a long way to go..