Exegesis

Mission

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:20:22 +0000

Be true to yourself

Make each day your masterpiece

Set goals that can never be reached

Persist

- Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner in NLP

Filed under: Advisory, Quote

Success

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:18:53 +0000

Success isn’t outscoring someone, it is the peace of mind that comes from self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best.

- Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner in NLP

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Mission

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:17:40 +0000

… it’s a lot of hard work. But for me, it’s a labour of love

“I have done everything I came here to do” – This is perhaps the ultimate reward for discovering your mission.

- Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner in NLP

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Work and Mission

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:14:13 +0000

People just don’t believe they could possibly paid for doing what they love.

They have forgoten what it is they love.

They just don’t know how to do it. They don’t know how to go from their day-to-day work…

- Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner in NLP

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Strengths

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:03:04 +0000

Strengths are not skills, they are capacities.

- from Developing yourself

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Learning

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:02:05 +0000

When you stop learning, you begin to shrink.

- from Developing yourself

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Taking responisbility

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:00:02 +0000

The use of the word “I” rather than “it” is a way to assume responsibility for behavior. … how to talk ‘to’ rather than ‘at’ someone …
- from Winners and Losers

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Loser

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:53:39 +0000

… seldom lives in the present, but instead destroys the present by focusing on past memories or future expectations.

… are eanxious over what they anticipate – either real or imagined …

Persons overly involved with imagining let the actual possibilities of the moment pass them by.

… are not using their intellect appropriately but instad are misusing it to rationalize and intellectualize.

- from Winners and Losers

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Past

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:50:15 +0000

Past is not dead. It is not even past yet.

- William Faulkner

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Leaders

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:47:03 +0000

Leaders learn from others, but are not made by others.

-Warren Bennis in ‘On Becoming a Leader’

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Introspect

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:45:42 +0000

To look forward with acuity you must first look back with honesty.
-Warren Bennis in ‘On Becoming a Leader’

The unexamined life is not worth living

- Socrates

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Yours

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:41:51 +0000

Nothing is truly yours until you understand it — not even yourself.
-Warren Bennis in ‘On Becoming a Leader’

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Open-minded

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:29:49 +0000

Unless you have the appetite to absorb new and potentially unsettling things, you don’t learn…
-Warren Bennis in ‘On Becoming a Leader’

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Responsibility

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:26:52 +0000

Accepting responsibility for everything gives an wonderful feeling then blaming it on others or ourselves.

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Teaching

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:25:05 +0000

Every time we teach a child somethings, we keep him from inventing it himself.
- Jean Piaget

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Learning

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:16:52 +0000

To learn is not to have, it is to be.
- Gib Akin in Organizational Dynamics

Filed under: Motivational, Quote

Real Me

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:14:05 +0000

… best way to define a man’s character would be to seek out the … attitude in which … he felt himself most deeply and intensively active and alive. At such moments, there is a voice inside which speaks and says, “This is the real me”.

- William James
from Letters of William James

Looks good, but I personally not able to agree with it.

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Living

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:03:05 +0000

We are now alive and aged so and so. So have you survived for so many years or have you lived for so many years?

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Vision and Dream

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:50:43 +0000

What differentiates Vision from a Dream?

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Initiative

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:24:36 +0000

Initiative is successful disobedience
-???

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Life

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:21:59 +0000

Is life a journey or destination?

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Attitude

Arumuga Azhagan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:19:02 +0000

Soldier : Sir, We are surrounded from all sides by enemies

Major : EXCELLENT ! We can attack in any direction!

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Critic

Arumuga Azhagan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:23:23 +0000

A “critic” is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased – he hates all creative people equally.

– Robert Heinlein

Posted in Quote

Practice

Arumuga Azhagan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:14:55 +0000

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Posted in Advisory, Motivational

Strategy

Arumuga Azhagan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:58:52 +0000

How to develop a strategy by R Sridhar

“The first step in strategy making is to understand what you are up against. It is important to get this right. You must know where you are and where you wish to go. Moving something from point A to point B requires imagination. It requires making choices that will help us move smoothly and deliver maximum impact. Finally everybody must feel like he won.”

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Power Point Slides

Arumuga Azhagan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:56:41 +0000

Snip from http://ideasrs.com/blogzrs/?p=51

‘I know what went wrong. The slides must support my presentation. Instead I ended up supporting the slides.’

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Stop. Move On.

Arumuga Azhagan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:35:35 +0000

Most people’s favorite way to end a game is by winning.

- ???

Posted in Motivational

Perceptual Map

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:20:35 +0000

The perceptual map of the individual is not a photographic representation of the physical world; it is rather, a partial, personal construction in which certain objects, events and people, selected out by him for a major role are perceived in an individual manner.

Every perceiver is, to some extend a non-representation artist, painting a picture of the world that expresses his individual view of reality.

- Krech, Crutchfield and Ballachey

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Attitudes

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:14:34 +0000

Attitudes are statements of judgement.

Attitudes are one’s psychological predisposition to think, feel and behave in a particular way.

An opinion is a tentative psychological position one takes about any specific event, object or person. A belief is a statement that is perceived to be true. A value is an enduring belief that a specific mode of behaviour is personally and/or socially preferable to other existing alternative modes of behaviour. A well-established value results in the formation of a standard or criterion of behaviour.

- R. Ravi Kumar, IIMB

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Disengagement

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:26:02 +0000

Do not create irreversible barriers!

Posted in Advisory, Quote

Time Horizon

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:25:05 +0000

Finite-players play to Win this game

Infinite-players play to Stay in the game

Finite-players play within Boundry

Infinite-players play with Boundry

- James P Carse

Posted in Quote

Silent Observer

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:17:59 +0000

We owe it to ourselves to not become a silent observer in this universe. But to become an activist…

-???

Posted in Advisory, Quote

I am

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:51:41 +0000

You are what your deep driving desire is

As your deep driving desire is, so is your will

As your will is so is your deed

As your deed is so is your destiny

- Katha Upanishad

Posted in Motivational, Quote

Convergence of Interests

Arumuga Azhagan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:25:56 +0000

Yet even very experienced deal makers may see the essence of negotiation as a dance of positions.

Despite the clear advantages of reconciling deeper interests, people have a built-in bias toward focusing on their own positions instead.

- James K Sebenius

Posted in Quote

Initiating Negotiations

Arumuga Azhagan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:21:42 +0000

If you take a tough preemptive position, the other side is likely to reciprocate.

- James K Sebenius

Posted in Quote

Rationality of parts

Arumuga Azhagan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:20:00 +0000

What is rational for the whole may not be so for the parts.

- James K Sebenius

Posted in Quote

Emotion and Deal

Arumuga Azhagan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:18:03 +0000

Most deals are 50% emotion and 50% economics

- Lazard Freres

Posted in Quote

Diplomacy

Arumuga Azhagan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:15:26 +0000

This young man always seems to be of my opinion (at the start of negotiation), and at the end of the conversation I find that I am of his.

- Pope on Cardinal de Polignac

Posted in Quote

Deal Making

Arumuga Azhagan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:13:20 +0000

Shape your counterpart’s perceived decision, so that the other side chooses in its own interest what you want.

The art of letting them have your way!

- James K Sebenius

Posted in Quote

Pride and Performance

Arumuga Azhagan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:09:48 +0000

Without pride, there is no quality performance

- ???

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Retention Rate

Arumuga Azhagan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:07:27 +0000

The degree to which a bucket is emptying rather filling up.

- Frederick F Reichheld

Posted in Quote

Rat Race

Arumuga Azhagan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:32:56 +0000

By the time executives get married, take on a mortgage, raise kids, cope with the crabgrass, climb the corporate ladder, do their best to manage career pressures, build their net worth and get into their 40’s, they’ve lost touch with what they believe in and care about most deeply.

–Allan Cox

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Beliefs

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:32:53 +0000

Stand for something, some will stand with you and some against you. Stand for nothing, nobody will stand with you and nobody will stand against you.

- ???

Posted in Advisory, Motivational

Indian Consumer

Arumuga Azhagan — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:38:28 +0000

Points to Ponder from Damodar Mal‘s (Big Bazzar) talk:

Shopping is a family outing to enjoy the experience -> Play area to leave children are not working here.

We hunt in packs. Everyone in the family (particularly the kids) has a say on the decision.

We don’t have cosmopolitan cities but have multiethinic cities.

Very true!

If the theory of your target market is not controversial, you are missing something.

Nice way of saying all encomposing positioning is not possible!

People from three generations meet in all Happy Occasions! Everyone like to have good working relationship between Saas & Bahu! And, check the Big Bazzar ads and hoardings…

Touch people’s unconscious aspiring emotional inner self!

Posted in $$

Welcome to the Real World

Arumuga Azhagan — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:39:48 +0000

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/im_an_idiot.png

Posted in Humor

Seek this very minute

Arumuga Azhagan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:46:58 +0000

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is an elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves, too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the the decision, raising in one’s favour all the manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Are you in earnest? Seek this very minute. Whatever you can do, or dream you can; begin it. Blodness has genius, power and magic in it. Only engage and the mind grows heated; begin and then the task will be completed.

- Goethe

Posted in Advisory, Quote

Performance Review

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:02:45 +0000

PERFORMANCE FACTORS	Far exceeds requirements	Exceeds requirements	Meets requirements	Needs some improvement	Does not meet minimum requirements
Quality	Leaps tall buildings with a single bound.	Must take running start to leap over tall buildings.	Can leap over short buildings only.	Crashes into buildings when attempting to leap over them.	Cannot recognize buildings at all.
Timeliness	Is faster than a speeding bullet.	Is as fast as a speeding bullet.	Not quite as fast as a speeding bullet.	Would you believe a slow bullet?	Wounds self with bullet when attempting to shoot.
Initiative	Is stronger than a locomotive.	Is stronger than a bull elephant.	Is stronger than a bull.	Shoots the bull.	Smells like a bull.
Adaptability	Walks on water consistently.	Walks on water in emergencies.	Washes with water.	Drinks water.	Passes water in emergencies.
Communications	Talks with God.	Talks with the angels.	Talks to self.	Argues with self.	Loses those arguments.

Posted in Humor

Passion

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:58:35 +0000

The root cause of these crises is not that things are being done poorly. It is not even that the wrong things are being done. Indeed, in most of the cases the right things are being done – but fruitlessly.

- Petre F. Drucker

Posted in $$, Advisory, Quote

Opportunities

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:53:06 +0000

There is a serious under-supply of QUALITY service in almost everything

Posted in Advisory

Think Afresh

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:50:50 +0000

It is a art of creating a difference with the resources you have but seldom use
- R.Sridhar (ideasrs.com)

Posted in Advisory, Quote

Competition

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:49:24 +0000

They paid little attention to matching or beating their rivals. Instead they sought to make their competitors irrelevant.
- W chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

Posted in $$, Quote

Low-end Products

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:47:59 +0000

Cannot make enough money in low-end products -> Management’s return expectations are too high
- Donald V. Potter

Posted in $$, Quote

Chase the right thing

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:45:51 +0000

Returns cannot be managed directly. Only revenues and costs can be managed.
- Donald V. Potter

Posted in $$, Quote

Inviting Problems

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:44:16 +0000

By holding price umbrellas over competition, Industry leaders are allowing or even encouraging the entry of new competition or the rapid expansion of existing competitors.

- Donald V. Potter

Posted in $$, Quote

I’m going to try

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:41:48 +0000

I’m going to build a mountain
I’m going to build it high
I don’t know how I’m going to do it
I only know I’m going to try
- Anthony Newley

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Mindset during tough times

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:41:00 +0000

The worst thing to do in a downturn is to act defensively
- Jack Welch

Posted in $$, Motivational

Reflection

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:37:54 +0000

Do the people in the firm find this exciting?
Are we making money?
Are we doing something special that others are not doing?

Posted in $$, Advisory

Shrinking Companies

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:36:31 +0000

Posted in $$

PGSEM

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:34:06 +0000

Part-time MBA

Posted in Humor

Patience

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:31:34 +0000

His greatest triumph was to prevail by not losing. Just staying in the game led to victory.
- David Maister

Posted in Motivational, Quote

Rideing the Wave

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:30:22 +0000

If people sometimes lose sight of the need for energy and “force” because their momentum is carrying them, they also lose drive and energy when they have to deal with setbacks.

- David Maister

Posted in Motivational, Quote

Procastination

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:24:55 +0000

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail

Posted in Saying

Bankruptcy

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:22:50 +0000

Nice comment in a article from rediff.com:

When a cheque is returned with the comment ‘insufficient balance,’ whom does it refer to?

A. The issuer of the cheque
B. The Bank

Posted in $$, Humor

SUDO

Arumuga Azhagan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:16:42 +0000

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sandwich.png

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