Introspect

Three friends or shall we say three musketeers, set out to take the challenge and complete the trek from Tirupati to Tirumala. In the past one year, we had been to Tirupati 3 or 4 times. Whenever we want to go, we just pick up our car and drive to Tirupati. It is 250 kms from Bangalore and takes about 4 hours to drive. The route is pretty straight and the roads also good except for a small patch which is in bad state and some part of it is a single lane highway. We started our journey on Thursday i.e. 22 Sep 2011 at night 10.00 pm from Marathalli. I went to my friends place and picked up his Etios and started driving towards Whitefield where we had to pick up another friend. At around 10.40 we started from Whitefield and headed straight towards Hoskote. The road from Hoskote is a national highway and is four lanes. You will see number of RTO check-posts on the way. Though, they are meant for commercial vehicles, sometimes they may stop you and try to make some money for chai...

I heard this name quite a lot, many a times thru friends and most of the time on internet and thru spam mails. It always looked interesting. I thought of trying the services for few months in 2006. I was browsing their website for movies and realized that they don’t have latest movies and that point I thought it does not make sense as you won’t get new movies. I dropped the idea of taking their membership, in-fact I canceled just before making the payment (I never knew I was doing the right thing until now). Past four years I managed to ignore them, but suddenly one fine day they appeared again and called me and made me an offer to re-join. I was not too interested. They were offering 3 DVD combos, one gift hamper for Rs.1000 for shopping on a website or Rs.2500 gift hamper to shop on another jewelers site. I was still not interested but the man inside me said you can bargain. Unfortunately I did that and you will know why unfortunately. I asked them for 6 DVD combos, Rs.1000 hamper a...

Bad day in office, we all have bad days at work. Sometimes it reflects directly on the things we say or we do to our coworkers and superiors. What you say tells a lot about you as a professional and creates impressions that could hunt you for years. Have you ever thought what you say could cost you a job? Interesting, read on! Getting a pink slip because your supervisor/superior did not like something, which you said or mentioned is something that will probably not happen to you on the spot. However, one careless phrase or sentence may adversely affect your entire career, especially if it creates a long lasting impression of you. Subconsciously, your boss may pass you for a promotion or let you go during layoffs simply because of the impression they got years ago due to something you said in the past. Believe me people have good memory when it comes to impressions. Chances are, your boss would not even remember exactly what you said but they are sure to remember what they have thoug...

This story is dedicated to my good friend Sathya Sheelan. I have just editied this story, but has actually been written by Sathya Sheelan and all credit goes to him for writiing such a wonderful story. And the story goes like this ....... Everyone, they say would have an experience of the life time. I am proud to have one such experience. Well folks, that’s what I wanted to share with you all for quite some time. And I guess the time has come. On 10th October 2004 we leave the office in a qualis early morning and moved thru the city, that is Praveen, Harsha, Gururaj, Guruprasad, Maxmelbin, Chethan and me – Sathya. First halt was near my house at Tom’s Café. Where we packed a lot to eat and definitely not to mention the booze {since we did not have the bottlenecks – the GIRLS…} it was fun. We reached the city of Sakleshpur at around 8:00 in the evening and sought retreat in a small but pleasant hotel and when day turned tiresome and all felt sleepy the guru-n-guru picks the pa...

In many cases, conflict in the workplace just seems to be a fact of life. We've all seen situations where different people with different goals and needs have come into conflict. And we've all seen the often-intense personal animosity that can result. The fact that conflict exists, however, is not necessarily a bad thing: As long as it is resolved effectively, it can lead to personal and professional growth. In many cases, effective conflict resolution skills can make the difference between positive and negative outcomes. The good news is that by resolving conflict successfully, you can solve many of the problems that it has brought to the surface, as well as getting benefits that you might not at first expect: Increased understanding : The discussion needed to resolve conflict expands people's awareness of the situation, giving them an insight into how they can achieve their own goals without undermining those of other people. Increased group cohesion : When conflict...