Drucker on leadership: Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant. Most organizations need somebody who can lead regardless of the weather. What matters is that he or she works on the basic competencies. As the first such basic competence, I would put the willingness, ability, […]
Only VLCC can come up with such harebrained schemes and advertisements. Don’t blame me if you end up with a severe bout of laughter-induced stomach cramp. I can’t help but wonder what the next image in the “complete transformation” sequence would be. Naughty! Naughty! That said, you would be spending exactly 1000 Rupees and 80 […]
This is one advise from Drucker which I believe should be the modern day corporate employee’s mantra. I couldn’t think of anything to add. The responsible worker has a personal commitment to getting results. But there also is the task of building and leading organizations in which every person sees himself/herself as a “manager” and […]
Drucker on people decisions: No organization can do better than the people it has. People decisions are the ultimate – perhaps the only – control of an organization. People determine the performance capacity of an organization. No organization can do better than the people it has. The yield from the human resource really determines the […]
Public Service Advertisement Artistes’ Repertory Theatre presents Yayati by Girish Karnad. This production premiered the playwright’s own translation, at the opening of Kannada Rangabhoomi-Namaskara on October 24 2006, at Ravindra Kalakshetra. A powerful script with a powerful cast! Raza Hussain, last seen in his highly acclaimed performance as Tipu Sultan in ART’s popular production of […]
The next article of interest from the Drucker book is on “management education.” Having undergone one recently, I would like to compare my experiences with Drucker’s thoughts. My comments are interspersed. Drucker says: What I would like to see – and what I have practiced now for many years in my own teaching – is: […]
After a significant gap, it’s time once again for another awesome presentation from Dr. Lakshmi Mohan’s class. This time around, it’s about how companies can use the Internet as an effective business medium. Download the PowerPoint presentation – Rethinking the Internet.
Here’s an article I received from M.P. Bhattathiri, Retired Chief Technical Examiner, Government of Kerala on the Bhagavad Gita and it’s significance in management. I have re-published – with permission – the article in PDF format. It’s a good read and offers some useful insights. Download The Bhagavad Gita and Management – World Management Lessons […]
One of my new year’s resolutions was to keep a tab on my spending. I have followed that to the letter. The statistics for January are quite revealing. EMI payments constituted a whopping 41% of my total cash outflow! Not a good sign when you are a student and have no source of income. Let’s […]
Here’s a neat package from Microsoft: Sysinternals Suite By Mark Russinovich Published: January 22, 2007 The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not contain non-troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault. Download SysinternalsSuite (8 […]
At times I think it’s a BIG mistake to upload your resume on job portals. It’s a BIGGER mistake to give out your primary email address on the resume that you upload. Within a very short span of time, your inbox is flooded with opportunities you are least interested in. But once in a while […]
The BBC recently aired a programme titled “India – Brother or Bully?” To the world, India is an emerging power, a secular democracy, a nation of one-billion aspirants, a “gentle giant”. Do its neighbours think the same? This major debate links up invited audiences in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal with a panel […]
Here’s another contemporary thought from the Drucker book: “Knowledge people must take responsibility for their own development and placement.” In today’s society and organizations, people work increasingly with knowledge, rather than with skill. Knowledge and skill differ in a fundamental characteristic – skills change very, very slowly. Knowledge, however, changes itself. It makes itself obsolete, […]
For all the backward steps – in the form of quotas and reservations – our Government takes in the field of education, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is, quite surprisingly, taking a REALLY BIG step forward. Starting from the academic session 2007-08, the CBSE is planning to introduce a course in Financial Market […]
Peter F. Drucker is considered to be “The Guru” of modern day management theory and practice. It’s quite surprising – and a revelation – that I hadn’t read any of his writings until today. Last month, I did pick up “The Daily Drucker – 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things […]
From http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/: Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with […]