BOLD ,BOLDER ,BOLDEST

"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder." - General W.J. Slim

 
Being Bold is something like a habit- an intoxicating habit.
Boldness in dealing with situations, people or our life itself is something which we acquire through taking the first step of being bold.
 
Yes, by being bold once- you gain the boldness of becoming bolder again.
 
Sometimes, we gain boldness when someone gives us the confidence for the same.
That's where training helps.. there are good trainers who can give you the support and let you overcome your fears.
 
Military training is actually one such training. In military , the process is simple - making the soldiers mentally tough.
Coz, only a mentally strong soldier will be able to lead the army or win the war.
 
Consider the same in our life too.. consider each incident of your life as a soldier who is getting trained to face any war- The WAR of Life...
 
all the best!
HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY

ATTITUDE- that's what they want

Recently read a news .. about importance of attitude at workplace...thought i should post it here..

At Microsoft’s Global Technical Support Centre (GTSC) in Bangalore, a team of over 1,000 engineers solve problems for the Redmond,Washington-based company’s blue-ribbon corporate customers, including the likesof the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which runs the US’civilian space programming and GE, the engineering and financial services major.

The problems have become increasingly complex over the years and the averagetime to resolve a complaint is upwards of eight hours.  The engineers work under intense time pressure as the glitches they are solving could result in loss of business for clients.

But at the end of the year, the engineers are not being judged by how fast they solved problems or how high they were rated on customer satisfaction surveys.

Instead, performance rating is linked to much more qualitative parameters such as readiness to ask colleagues for help, the ability and willingness tolearn from the problem they were solving.  The willingness to share knowledge and doggedness and persistence in solvingproblems is also high on the desirability charts at the Bangalore unit ofthe maker of Windows software.

These changes are not unique to Microsoft. Employees are increasingly being judged on the quality of their interaction with colleagues with values such as proclivity towards collaborative behaviour and knowledge-sharing being highlyrated. Risk-taking ability is also valued.

For some companies, behaviour, rather than the ability tomeet targets, is the route to a good increment this appraisal season. And insome places like Microsoft GTSC, it is the only criterion.

“We don’t hold the frontline staff accountable to productivity any longer. Thatis only for most senior managers,” says Binu Philip, Director, Human Resourcesat Microsoft, GTSC. “Hard numbers do not show the whole picture and can bemanipulated as well,” Anandorup Ghosh, practice head for executive compensationand corporate governance at Aon Hewitt.

[Economic Times- 13th Jan 2012]

A Shepherd and a Consultant- Funny Story

A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Broni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out of the window and asked the shepherd,... "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?"

The shepherd looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peacefully-grazing flock and calmly answered, "Sure."

The yuppie parked his car, whipped out his IBM Think Pad and connected it to a cell phone, then he surfed to a NASA page on the Internet where he called up a GPS satellite navigation system, scanned the area, and then opened up a database and an Excel spreadsheet with complex formulas. He sent an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, received a response. Finally, he prints out a 130 page report on his miniaturized printer then turns to the shepherd and says, ..."You have exactly 1586 sheep." "That is correct; take one of the sheep," said the shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and bundle it into his car. Then the shepherd says: "If I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my animal?"

"OK, why not," answered the young man.

"Clearly, you're a consultant," said the shepherd.

"That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required," answers the shepherd. "You turned up here although nobody called you. You want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked, and you don't know crap about my business... Now give me back my dog."

Source : Internet

Stop Complaining Yaar!- A Nice Story

 "If I had kept my mouth shut I wouldn't be here." How true! Don't jump into trouble mouth first. 

Let me pose this question for you: Starting today what would happen if you changed what you said about your biggest problem, your biggest opportunity? 

"Our words create our worlds," says Dean Sikes. Your words have the power to start fires or quench passion.

This story reminds me of a similar situation in a Malayalam movie - "Chinthavishtayaaya Shyamala" , in which Actor Sreenivasan enters in such a situation. The story goes like this..

A man  joined a monastery in which the monks were allowed to speak only two words every seven years. After the first seven years had passed, the new initiate met with the abbot, who asked him, "Well, what are your two words?"

"Food's bad," replied the man, who then went back to his silence.

Seven years later the clergyman asked, "What are your two words now?"

"Bed's hard," the man responded.

Seven years later - twenty-one years after his initial entry into the monastery - the man met with the abbot for the third and final time. "And what are your two words this time?" the abbot asked.

"I quit."

"Well, I'm not surprised," the cleric answered disgustedly. "All you've done since you got here is complain!"

Don't be like that man; don't be known as a person whose only words are negative. If you're a member of the "negative grapevine," resign.

Contrary to what you may have heard, talk is not cheap. Talk is powerful!

What we say is important. Our vocabulary should be filled with words of hope and dreams. Be known as someone who speaks positively.

and yes....