Wisdom of Day !

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. - Scott Adams

Wisdom of Day !

One must not allow the CLOCK and the CALENDER to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a MIRACLE and a MYSTERY!!!

Wisdom of Day !

The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King

How company policies get established..

Put eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling. Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which makes them miserable.

Soon enough, whenever a monkey attempts to climb the ladder, all of the other monkeys, not wanting to be sprayed, set upon him and beat him up. Soon, none of the eight monkeys ever attempts to climb the ladder. One of the original monkeys is then removed, and a new monkey is put in the room.

Seeing the bananas and the ladder, he wonders why none of the other monkeys are doing the obvious, but, undaunted, he immediately begins to climb the ladder. All the other monkeys fall upon him and beat him silly. He has no idea why. However, he no longer attempts to climb the ladder.

A second original monkey is removed and replaced. The newcomer again attempts to climb the ladder, but all the other monkeys hammer the crap out of him. This includes the previous new monkey, who, grateful that he's not on the receiving end this time, participates in the beating because all the other monkeys are doing it. However, he has no idea why he's attacking the new monkey.

One by one, all the original monkeys are replaced. Eight new monkeys are now in the room. None of them have ever been sprayed by ice water. None of them attempt to climb the ladder. All of them will enthusiastically beat up any new monkey who tries, without having any idea why. 

AND THAT'S HOW ANY COMPANY'S POLICIES GET ESTABLISHED!!!


 - from collection of Hardik... (courtesy a message from Yash)

Just few years back...

Just few years back, we were breaking our heads to finish our projects by hook or crook.

Just few years back we were feeling bad about leaving college.

Just few years back we were regretting the dismal state of our love lives.

Just few years back most of us didn’t know where we were headed.

Just few years back we hardly had any major responsibilities.

Just few years back we were justifying our selection of electives.

Just few years back, we almost lost the ability to read engineering text books. Thankfully for the exams, we got it back.

Just few years back we wanted to spend more time in college than go out bowling, or to movie or etc.

Just few years back we wanted to go through the college routine one-last-perfect-time.

Just few years back we wanted to curse the appropriate people one last time.

Just few years back I didn’t even know I would be doing this...

 - from collection of Hardik... (courtesy a message from Ankur Madia)

Wisdom of Day !

Pain gives way to pleasure and there is no night which is not followed by a dawn.

Focus on Solutions

One of the most memorable case studies on management was the case of the empty soap box, which happened in one of biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soap box that was empty. Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soap box went through the assembly line empty. 

Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soap boxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent whoopee amount to do so.

But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, did not get into complications of X-rays, etc but instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Moral of the story: Always look for simple solutions, devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problem :-) So, learn to focus on solutions not on problems.

- from collection of Hardik...