tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23551044626829957592024-03-14T00:21:56.625-07:00Observerobserverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04293059760860304706noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355104462682995759.post-78477806974998833112013-04-10T10:38:00.001-07:002013-04-11T23:59:26.213-07:00Are we really focused on actual problem?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sometime when I see people around me in office, I really get
curious and puzzled about their approach to problem and their behaviors. It might sound very specific to the
environment which I'm in. may not be true for an environment where people have
experienced this issues before and implemented a system where these problems
are not so common.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I wrote my first computer program in year 1992. It was in
GWBASIC and operating system was DOS. It was a very simple operating system and
it was very easy to write/edit programs using simple editor called EDIT.After few years I started working on UNIX platform. When I
came to UNIX world, I found that working in UNIX world is bit different and I
need to get used to some awkward tools. One such awkward tool was VI editor. I
found that learning and using this editor is bit difficult. But very soon realize
that if i don’t know how to use this editor, I’m not a good programmer, I’m a
junk guy<span style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span>. Strange
reasoning!!!!</div>
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I was not that much sensible at that time the way I’m trying to sound
today, So to prove myself, I put my effort and learned it, but frankly
speaking, I never liked this editor <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span> <o:p></o:p></div>
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There was no personal preference for not liking it. When I was trying to learn this editor, what
I found is that I’m wasting my energy in wrong direction. I have a problem and
I want to write code to solve this problem but learning this tool itself is
becoming a bottleneck for executing things running in my mind. Then I asked a simple
question to myself,” is learning this editor is my goal?” And answer was Big No. My goal is to solve a
problem using computer program and I want to use a tool which is easy to use <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Later on I realized there is more to come. There are not
just awkward tools but awkward people and awkward ways of working also.<o:p></o:p></div>
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C is really good programming language but each problem has
his own requirement and it is not necessary that C fits for it. I love
programming in C but I’m not fanatic about it. But I meet people who were anytime
ready to argue how other languages are inferior to C. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Another funny thing was indentation of code in C. I like writing
code with opening and closing bracket indented in same column on a new line. This
keeps code readable and one can clearly identify different blocks in code. But
there is some strange convention of putting opening bracket on same line rather
than on newline. This is more to reduce number of lines of code, so that you
can see more code at a glance. Each convention has some advantages and
disadvantage but funny thing is, if you don’t follow the later convention you
are not considered as a good and experienced programmer <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span>!!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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There were people who are wizards of these awkward tools and
awkward ways of working and there are people who are following and supporting
these people. I was always curious and wanted to know what is running in these
peoples mind, what they want, why they enforce this junk to everyone and why
they behave like that. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I could figure out certain things, based on that what I have
understood is there are few categories.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The real fighters:</i></div>
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The absence of a tool drove this people
to invent it and they came up with a working but hard to use tool. But with time these tools have become their identity
and way of their survival. Now they are the real fanatic force insisting use of
these tools.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Followers:</i></div>
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These are the people who are fascinated by
the technology, tools and attitude of real fighters. They blindly follow them and
there is no reasoning behind it. Even if they have some reasoning it is just to
show off that they are one among the real fighters <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Real user:</i> </div>
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This is the poor guy who really wants to
solve a problem and in need of a tool. But once he is stuck with one, he cannot
go back because of many business and personal reasons <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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We Are part of evolving world and with time we also need to
evolve and same is true for the tools also. If a tool is so difficult to use
and learn, our focus from actual problem is lost and we end up doing some other
work!!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04293059760860304706noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355104462682995759.post-34691006507254428132012-12-27T09:23:00.001-08:002014-09-07T23:02:13.765-07:00Recent Gang rape case in Delhi, do we really understand why it is happening again and again?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was reading articles and news on recent gang rape
case in Delhi, but could not understand what solution people are expecting and looking
for!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some are blaming police and administration, some are
suggesting having more police force and some are asking for death penalty to
guilty. There was a big protest at India gate also. People gathered but no
celerity on what they really want!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is not something happening first time, similar
incidents happened before and similar noise is made but nothing has changed. We
make noise for few days and then we get back to our work. Administration also
understands that after few days people will forget it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So what’s the point of making noise? I’m not saying that
we should not raise our voice but our way of approaching issue is not correct.
We are just reacting to the situation, there is no concrete thinking behind the
agitation and that’s the reason when it cools down we forget it and get back to
our routine work. Like a kid or uneducated person we are just pointing out the
things which are visible and trying to get a solution for it. Nobody is doing a
root cause analysis! If the solution which we are trying to find is not based on
root cause, it is not a long term solution and same thing will be repeated again
in future!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Things happening today are the outcome of the way
our system has evolved post-independence. So there is no straight or magical
solution for it. There are multiple connected factors which need to be
understood to find the root cause. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the major factors is “No fear of punishment”.
Right now people do not have any fear of law they know the loop holes or they
know the influential people who can help them getting out of it. So people do
whatever they want fearlessly. I like the idea of moral laws in Saudi Arabia.
There the fear of punishment is so scary that people think 100 times before
getting into a criminal activity. The law looks very inhuman from punishment
perspective but the real objective of law is “fear of strict punishment” not the
punishment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another factor is “Fear of administration”, which is
more like people are scared of helping/supporting police and administration. It
is the responsibility of administration/police to address all these issues but
they cannot do it alone. Police cannot be present all the time at all the
places its only people/us who are present most of the time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So what is stopping people to help administration? The
recent gang rape case in Delhi when victim was thrown on the road, people were
looking but nobody dared to help her! People are saying that humanity is dying!
It is stupid to say this! We are humans and will remain; it’s only our system
which is stopping us to behave like human. Here the problem is power, which is possessed
by administration or police only and it is difficult for ordinary people to
deal with it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our administration is incapable of doing their work
(this itself is point to think why they are incapable?) and sometime just to show
some results, they use these powers against the same person who is helping and
supporting them! There is no straight and sure way with people to protect
themselves with this behavior of administration. Because of misuse of power, police
has created a very bad image and nobody wants to get into trouble by helping
them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was in Pune till last year and got chance to deal
with Pune police. Two laptops which I kept in my office drover were stolen.
Laptops were insured and so I was supposed to file a FIR. It took more than one
month just to file a FIR! The way police behaved is horrible. The first thing
they told me is that you yourself might have stolen the laptops! It was
shocking for me, I came for FIR and these people are targeting me!!! I kept on
talking and they said they will come to my office for investigation. It was
almost a week nobody came. Later on calling 2-3 times, they came to my office. They
started talking to working staff but the way of talking was so rude/full of
arrogance and threatening that nobody dared to help them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Finally they asked me come to police station, I
thought, I will go, file the FIR and it will be done. But it was the start of
feeling pain of visiting police station </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Almost every
alternate day I was visiting police station. Every day they were making some
excuse to go out for some urgent work and I was sitting in police station
waiting for them. Three to four times they made me waiting from morning 10 AM
till evening 5 PM! During this one month
visit I was able to realize that they are incapable of tracing it and somehow
dragging the issue, hoping that I will give up filing FIR. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the other hand, I had a very different experience
dealing with police in Germany. I spent almost a year in Germany and experienced
the way German police behaves. I had a major car accident there. Being an
Indian, I was scared of dealing with police. But what I experienced was very
opposite! German Police acted very friendly and collected all the information
in a very gentle manner. It was surprising for me see police acting so friendly.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
Later on I learned that for any such issue the first thing German people do is to
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I don’t know how it is implemented but certainly it helps giving correct
information without fear. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In India when we think of police, what comes to our
mind is more trouble. People are scared of police but police is not scared of
people. So what we need is a straight and sure way to protect ourselves from
administration/police so that it will become easy for us to help and support them.
Police
also need to be educated on their behavior. Rather than feeling threatened
people should feel comfortable talking to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another factor is, not much people are aware of their
rights. Rather than studying subject which make sense only in adulthood it is
better to get educated about our rights during our schooling. It is almost more
than 60 years of independence and rather than bringing good system in place we
still react to situations, we still do same mistake again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">These are the few factors which I could think of,
there can be more. The point is, these are the basic building block we should ask
for; once we have these basic building blocks in place, we will have a better
upbringing and we will behave more sensibly rather than just reacting to the
situations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04293059760860304706noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355104462682995759.post-1928434246942850862012-11-23T23:46:00.000-08:002012-11-24T11:16:28.793-08:00“The Hope” of a first generation entrepreneur<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Two weeks
back I meet few of my old colleagues/friends. Some of us are still in jobs and
some have started their own business. It is almost a year we meet last and as
expected this time also the discussion went very long. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As time
is passing by each one of us is getting a chance to experience different aspect
of personal and professional life. Whether it is business or job, when it comes
to human factor, we all are sharing similar problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">One of
our friends who started his own business in IT was sharing his experience. He
started as a Product Company and in parallel he started some software
consulting business also.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Later on
due to recession and other factors it was getting difficult for him to survive
just on product. Consulting side also he was not having much work and he was in
need of some quick consulting business for his survival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">One of
his friends, let’s call him Mr. “J”, who was in US, appeared as a savior and
helped him getting some work outsourced to his company. His friend really pulled him out of crisis. The
deal was not so good but still it was good enough for our friend to survive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mr. “J”,
who was working more as a middleman, started getting more projects for him and
again like first project deals were not so good. Since product side also things
were not so great our friend continued accepting deals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Later on
some projects got screwed up, the entire team left, the customer was not happy,
project is scraped. Some projects stopped in between, our friend has hired
people and he has to pay them salary for next two months. Later on he found
that Mr. “J” is actually charging higher amount to customer and he is getting
almost a 1/3 of that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In entire
relationship the Mr. “J” was always pushy about his idea; he has always made
enough money for each project and when it comes to failures, he always pushed
our friend to face it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now Mr. “J”
is back to India and asked our friend to provide space to run his own company
within his premises!!! And our friend is again agreed to serve him </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">After
listening whole story, we all were wondering, man! What kind of relationship is
this! Why our friend is still entertaining this guy? When we asked him why? His
answer was that, he thinks that this guy has helped him in bad times and because
of that obligation, whenever this guy pushes, somehow he accepts it!, sometime he
feels that he should help his friend and sometime he feels that whatever has
happened it was his fault and Mr. “J” always played it smart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We were
not able to understand the reasoning, because he is running business and we did
not accept something like this from him. After some more discussion we were
able to figure out that actual reason is something else which he was not able
express. He was having problem on product side and he was expecting his friend as
“THE HOPE”!!!!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Whenever
we are going through some bad phase or crisis its natural for us to look for
somebody to help or support. It is not necessary that person who is helping you
is doing a charity; he might be having his own interest in helping you. This
how nature has designed creations to help each other and continue evolving. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Creating
a system just on brighter side of human nature is very optimistic and something
not real. End of the day we are human and we are bound to behave naturally
rather than behavior defined by very idealistic thinking. We do not have a
fixed behavior, we act more like a state machine, depending on need we moved
into one of the state and once our need is fulfilled we try to get into some
other state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If we
look back our ancestor they were more society oriented and very ethical. They used
to think more for family, society/community. With time people started realizing
that society and community is getting controlled by only few people for their
benefits and rest of the society/community is not getting any benefit out of
it. People started pretending to be
social but in back of mind they are always working for their personal interest.
This has given birth to capitalist ideology. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On the
other side still lot of people are having very social and ethical upbringing. In
today’s world, People who are having this social kind of upbringing are finding
themselves unfit for current system and they are in confused state of mind
where they are not able to decide, what is right and what is wrong?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">People
who have spent enough time in capitalist world/communities are finding easy to
exploit these confused people. One side they gives you a very social/ethical
picture and other side they are ready to ditch and make their profit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
irony is that because of this confused upbringing, People who are cheated, one
side they think socially/ethically and complain about these people as cheaters.
Other side they think like a capitalist and admire the cheater as a smart
person </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We are
not product of what opportunities we have got few years back; internally we are
product of our upbringing. This is very hard to overcome for People who are first generation
entrepreneur. But it has to be done very consciously otherwise
we will face the consequences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Because of
not having enough understanding of nature we keep on thinking of extracting everything
from what we have.in case of our friend he started completely relying on Mr. “J”
as “THE HOPE”. It’s easy to say but there are other options and he needed to be
open for alternatives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We
should not get into any of social or capitalist mode completely, just follow
your drive; nature will help you getting support; take that help and move on.
We do not need be a part of any social ideology to behave ethically; nature has
already hardwired enough moral values within ourselves to behave ethically.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04293059760860304706noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355104462682995759.post-45102738617183915662012-11-10T00:26:00.002-08:002012-11-13T00:35:13.717-08:00Is the intention of creating a system is always corrupt?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">It is not necessary that always intention of creating a system is for the benefits of only few people. Do we really always want to create a system which will become so corrupt that it will become difficult to survive in it? In the beginning the intention might not be like that, it might be betterment of all but with time we are realizing that the system which we have invented as solution to problem, itself is becoming a problem! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">We have invented so many socioeconomic system </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">based on ideologies like communism, capitalism, democracy etc. and each one has its own merits. Communism focuses more on the growth of whole society. It is <span style="color: black;">based on a common ownership, equality and fairness. Basically you cannot think just for your own. You always think and do about the whole society, which is a good thing. Capitalism focuses more on fast growth of individual. We are not dependent on others, we work hard and we realize the results very fast, so as an individual it looks very appealing. </span>Democracy is based on the principle of equality and freedom. It <span style="color: black;">focuses more on giving decision making power to majority; this is again a good perspective.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Many people have given thoughts and really put their hard work to bring these ideologies, but is there any system which is based on any of these ideologies and is really a perfect solution? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The problem is that all these ideologies are solutions to only a subset of requirements. These requirements are very much time specific and as system is evolving these requirements are also going to change. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Like <span style="color: black;">In case of capitalism, we realize the immediate benefits in short term but in long term again we start realizing that we cannot go next step alone, We need others to come with us and since now everyone is living in same capitalist system, everyone wants to gain his benefits fast. Why someone will come with us? Even if someone pretends to come, he will always be thinking about his gains only!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">In case of communism <span style="color: black;">goals are very long term and with time we will start realizing that it will take years to really realize the benefits out of such system. Our progress is dependent on others and we are not free to do on our own. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Democracy is a belief that people have freedom and they will choose. With time, it is turning out as an illusion, people think that they are choosing, actually it is getting used more as an organized way of capitalism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Once we start living in such system, we start building everything based on it without thinking that our current system is addressing only a subset of requirements and in coming time requirement are going to change. We start building laws, rules and regulations based on this system. Again we are denying the evolution by trying to hardcode the system.</span><span style="color: black;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">We might think that with time we will adopt to new requirements but if our base itself is wrong, any new adoption will be just a reaction to address some issue. It’s more like first creating rigid design of software and later on putting hacks in code to handle new requirements. <span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Another problem is ignoring the human nature. Either ideologies are based on very bright side of human nature like honesty, brotherhood, growth of all etc. or they are based on the dark side of human nature like greed, selfishness, power etc. Again we are trying to understand human nature from a single perspective and hardcoding the system!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">We don’t have a defined behavior; nature has designed us to act more like a state machine. We just move from one state to another state depending on our surrounding. we can find people who are very honest but might behave very selfish in certain situation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">For sure, we can create a system which is more adoptive and capable of providing solutions for most of the requirements, but for that we really need to understand the basics of nature and keep our system aligned with the basics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04293059760860304706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355104462682995759.post-56361606366179729662012-10-26T09:20:00.002-07:002012-10-26T09:20:58.674-07:00Who cares man; the system is running and will continue running like this!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Many of us think who cares man! The system is running and will continue like this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">For nature drive is a mechanism to keep our system align with itself, if we understand nature and if we follow our drive, we will have happy/satisfying/evolving life. If we don’t, and if we continue like this for long, nature has the way of fixing the problem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The weapon of drive which it has given us to live happy life, It can use same weapon to force us align with itself. But when it reaches to such extent, the way of fixing is very ruthless, surprising, sudden and can bring lot of disaster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Not only it can drive a common man to fix the problem, it can also drive the people controlling this man-made system themselves, to bring the change! If such time comes, it will be earth shaking for us and we will not be ready to accept the change!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">If we see modern world, slowly this man-made system is exposing itself and people/organizations are realizing it. For past few years, organizations are bringing changes. New ways of running organization are taking place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you see startup and spin off culture, they are a revolution against bureaucracy in organizations. Restructuring, reorganization and layoffs are other examples which are very ruthless and sudden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spin off culture is like a curse for people who are in bigger organization and really want to do something. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Organizations have realized that bureaucracy is becoming a bottleneck for growth. New market segments are emerging, customer requirements are changing, technology is changing in other words the whole surrounding is evolving but the organizations are stuck.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Now the drive is coming from top, your own Boss will tell you “do something!”. But what someone can do? Because till now we have assumed that things are in our control and nothing is going to change? It is very difficult to adopt to change now. Most of the people in organization have grown with the flow. They do not have right skills; they are in their middle ages with lot of family and financial responsibilities! Everyone is realizing, but it is too late now, we are trapped in our own created system<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">It is not like; this is something new happening in modern world. If we look back our history, it is happening for years. Today we have organization earlier it was happening with empires. The downfalls of empires are on similar patterns. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we go deeper, we will find it is happening with all man-made system, whether it is our family, society, community, business, government, jobs, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Our ancestor might have learned it but looks like the knowledge is lost. Some of us who are realizing it might be thinking, by the time it will happen, we would have made our bucks. But it is not like that, earlier the realization was slow and now days because of fast changing environment, realization is fast and with time it is going to be further fast. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Our man-made system is a subsystem of nature and hence all the property of nature also applies to it. Drive is a mechanism, used by nature, to keep our system align with it. Its better we try to understand nature and starts following our drive otherwise someday we will face the consequences very badly. Now it depends on us which path we like to go!</span></div>
observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04293059760860304706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355104462682995759.post-73109910647160148872012-10-20T07:55:00.001-07:002012-10-26T23:18:18.918-07:00Understanding nature is more important<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">**If not read, please read the earlier post first<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span serif="serif" style="font-family: ';">Following our drive is just a way of leading in direction that nature wants. More important thing is, understanding what nature wants. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span serif="serif" style="font-family: ';">It is more like educating ourselves about how nature wants us to lead our life. Right now we are not educated in accordance to nature. Despite of that nature is evolving and it is getting it work done. Only problem is that rather than enjoying our life we are burning our self like fuel in furnace. </span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span serif="serif" style="font-family: ';">We are confused about our behavior and our way of perceiving others. Most of the time, we just start perceiving things looking at other people. We don’t try to reason and understand. Everyone is just running behind money. If you notice people in offices, people have zero identity. They don’t know anything about themselves; someone just wants to acquire some position because his colleague has just acquired it. We never reason, we just want to do it.</span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span serif="serif" style="font-family: ';">If we understand that someone has acquired some position because that is his drive. We can ask ourselves, is it my drive also? If we understand he has acquired some position but that is not his drive. We can reason, is he going to be successful? Reasoning helps us, not going in some wrong direction unnecessarily.nature is the fundamental and it should be the basis for any comparison.</span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p><br />
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<u2:p>If we understand that nature is continuously evolving, we will never try to control thing so hard that it cannot move to next step. We will be more open to coming new generation, more listening to other people, more respecting others.</u2:p><br />
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<span serif="serif" style="font-family: ';">If we are educated in accordance with nature we know who we are, what we are doing and what is the end result. Even if someone is not following his drive he will be aware, what position he deserve and why, why somebody following drive deserve more than him and if he needs that position what he needs to do. </span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span serif="serif" style="font-family: ';">As we are more aware, we will not try to get things just because of greed and jealousy. We will not try to create system for our own will and purpose. </span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span serif="serif" style="font-family: '; font-size: 11pt;">Knowledge/education about nature will provides us reasoning and reasoning will make us understand things. We will act more like humans</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span serif="serif" style="font-family: '; font-size: 11pt;">. Right now we have created a system which is more like jungle and we are defeating the purpose of nature, creating us as a finest and sophisticated creation.</span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p><br />
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observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04293059760860304706noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355104462682995759.post-76059112557612234462012-10-19T09:57:00.003-07:002012-12-15T03:21:44.042-08:00We are product of our own created system.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nature has created us with both drive as well as ability to
think logically. Drive and logical thinking are supposed to go hand to hand.
Drive always tries to push us into direction which nature wants and logic is
supposed to help us going in that direction.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Instead of understanding how nature wants us to live our life,
we have created our own system. Things which are rewards for following our
drive, we have made them as prime objective and we have created our own
definition of success and failure.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have forgotten nature and now logical thinking has become
synonymous to following something which is required by system created by us.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are product of our own created system now and our upbringing,
our mindset, our desires, our way of perceiving success and failures is defined
by this system. Slowly we are realizing this unnatural way of living is causing
stressful life and making us uncomfortable because now there is conflict
between what nature wants and what our system wants.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is not that Mahatma Gandhi/Newton or Steve jobs are famous
personalities and that’s why we are talking about them, this thinking of
recognizing them as few of the successful and famous comes from definition of success/fame
defined by our system. For nature anybody following his drive and reaching to
some milestone is a successful person.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Did Mahatma Gandhi know beforehand that he will become so
famous? Or did he follow his drive to become famous? To me, he is
made more famous than what he deserves because some people are using his name
for their own purpose. There are many freedom fighters, not much known, are
they not great?</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If definition of success itself is wrong, it gives birth to fear
of failure. Any organization/system where people are just measured by this kind
of success. You will find, people are selfish, no team work, scared of taking
risk, confused and manipulative. Is this the purpose of creating a system?</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This all is happening because people who do not follow their
drive are sitting on top of people who follow their drive. Knowingly or
unknowingly these people are modifying our system and taking it further away
from the system which nature wants.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is a clear indication of downfall of system. It’s better to
have a system where what we want and what nature want is aligned, where what we
thinks as success, fame and wealth is aligned with what nature wants.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04293059760860304706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355104462682995759.post-10899433787914747822012-10-12T21:46:00.003-07:002012-10-13T00:46:40.141-07:00I worked so hard for it and now I’m losing my control over it!! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">At some point of our life many of us have these feeling. We feel surprised; we feel that we work so hard but now things are not in our hand. We feel that, now it is our right to have things in our hand. Whether it’s our family, job or business at some point we feel it. The truth is different, we are part of evaluation process and nature’s objective is to use us for evolution and whatever we try, we cannot stop it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">For our understanding purpose, we can break down evolution process into three major steps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Step 2 – where we try to give some shape to our persuasion.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Step 3 – where our persuasion is in some shape. By this time it has created a new surrounding where there are new missing things, new things requiring improvement and certain things are totally missing. At this point, nature triggers us to pursue further and tell us to move to step 1 again </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Nature has designed us to go through these steps. Our problem is that after step 3, rather than moving to step 1 again, we try to stay at step 3 and try to control things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">People who are pursuing positions/power/money as their objective are the prime victim getting stuck at step 3. They started with that objective only and once they achieve it they start’s controlling things. Now they will start creating problem for new people also. The fear of losing control makes them insecure, in a way they start creating problem for further evolution. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Whatever way you take nature will evolve. Even if you do not take the right path of following your drive it will get its work done. These people never evolve while rest of the surrounding is evolving. After sometime this gape becomes so big that these people will become incompetent to cope up the new challenges and they will start controlling things by manipulation. Nature has simply used them to evolve itself </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> and now they don’t have capability to move to step 1. Soon someone else will replace them, in other sense they will be simply rejected by nature.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">People who follow their drive are always skillful, getting evolved in sync with the rest of surrounding and always ready to move to step 1 again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">People who run behind positions/power/money they spend their entire life in pain and stress hoping some day they will have comfortable life and things will be in their control. There is no point fooling ourselves by believing that success/happiness is sitting somewhere at high altitude and once we reach there we will get it</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Success/ happiness is in following our drive. Every small milestone which we achieve while following our drive is success and the whole journey is full of success and happiness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04293059760860304706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355104462682995759.post-60044794662160091022012-10-06T04:59:00.000-07:002012-10-06T04:59:59.266-07:00Only leaders follow their drive!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Most of the people think only leaders follow their drive. We will simply just do the work assigned to us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">It’s wondering for me that in organizations people talk about doing team work but they hardly understand about it. Our drive is our strength and organization should try to gain as much as possible on our strength. For me team work can be done by mixing people with different drive in such a way that they are able to complement each other. Organization expects only few people to perform like super human which is not natural at all. Super human exist only in stories</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Did u ever think why nature has created us in numbers? Why just one is not sufficient? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Each one of us has limited perspective and when we follow our drive its little less because, we are more focused. A complex problem or project requires to be seen from different perspective. So it’s not one person we need team of People complementing each other’s drive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">This one man army approach is putting lot of stress on one person. Another problem is that other team members don’t feel any attachment with the work. It is also stopping them to evolve on their skills. This is causing people to grow in the organization without proper skills and after few years they will go in survival mode, where the only option left to survive is manipulation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Funny thing is that one hand organization expects us to act like “five man army” and other hand they expect us to act like “one man army” also. (Five man army …one of my favorite movie).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The best example is Sachin Tendulkar. Every one of us knows that what has happened to his performance when he was appointed as captain of Indian cricket team. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Solutions to most of the problem are hidden in nature we just need to start exploring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04293059760860304706noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355104462682995759.post-33582190921042085592012-09-29T09:25:00.000-07:002012-10-01T06:50:25.393-07:00I don’t need to follow my drive, I need money, I’m getting it and I’m happy !!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Many of us think, I don’t need to follow my drive, I’m earning good money and I’m doing right thing. The problem is that we are not understanding that actually we are working for someone else drive. We are not creating our own future. Our future is in someone else hand and once our job is done we might be thrown out also!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">If we are hungry it is must to somehow fill our stomach first. But this is not the way of living our entire life. We have to replace this “somehow” with a way of earning bread on our own. When we follow our drive actually we are doing it. That’s why it is very important to follow our drive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Consider an organization which is geographically distributed. When outsourcing work to some third world country why they are always outsourcing some non-core work only? anything which is not core will never give any strong skills and you can be easily replaced/thrown out for such kind of work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">There can be multiple factors for not getting core work. One of the factors is, most of the people in third world country are hungry and just running behind making money; there are very few people who want to follow their drive. Working on core requires more people with drive and that is missing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">By not following our drive, we are not creating problem just for ourselves, we are creating problem for people comming after us as well as coming generation. If we continue working same way for long, we will learn and grow in the same way and we will create a culture which will force people comming after us also to work in same donkey way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The money which we are getting somehow today is not going to last forever. Its better we realize it and start working on our drives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">This is not applicable just to people, organization also need to focus on its own drive and provide an environment where people can follow their drive in alignment with organization drive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04293059760860304706noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355104462682995759.post-60755386858169180272012-09-22T10:22:00.003-07:002012-09-29T09:27:32.324-07:00“Drive!” what exactly it is?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Drive is a kind of emotion which tries to dominate our logical thinking. But as human we always have options to choose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We may think logically to suppress our drive and choose some other option. People who suppress their drive and choose other way, they end up doing mundane task for some other person’s drive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Drive always comes from our surroundings or in broader terms, by exploring nature. Sometime we may find something missing in and want to bring in; sometime we may want to find out, why something is like that! Or sometime we may want to make something existing, better. These are the few ways nature is triggering us to evolve itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Different people may notice different things and hence they may get different drives. Newton noticed an apple falling from tree and he got a drive to find out the reason for that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">A person does not need to be exceptional to follow his drive. Anybody can follow his drive and can achieve exceptional results. Mahatma Gandhi is the best example. He </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">noticed </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">discrimination directed at black South Africans and Indians which drove him to fight against it. His work in South Africa has dramatically changed him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Drive is not something running behind positions/designations/money and we should never bend ourselves to gain it, this is not natural at all. These are all rewards and we get them automatically when we follow our drive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Keeping in mind above factors an organization can structure itself to keep itself align with the nature. An organization clear with its objective can group mix of people, people with drive or people without drive (who are able to suppress their drive). But the proper mix needs to be plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The organization need to be careful handling people. You cannot handle people with drive and people without drive in same way. People with drive never run behind money or position. But that does not mean that they don’t want it. They want these things, but they expect organization to take care of it. Never compare people with drive to people without drive, it will boomerang</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">People with drive should always stay on top. Whatever happens never put people without drive on top of people with drive. The moment you do, it’s the start of organization downfall. This not favoritism, it is the option which a person has chosen… “Either follow your drive or you will be left with only option to follow someone else drive”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04293059760860304706noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355104462682995759.post-261833679690640752012-09-16T03:56:00.001-07:002012-09-22T10:54:05.126-07:00What's wrong with us ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">For long time I’m observing and wondering. Sometimes I used to think I’m too young to comment about it, sometime people put me down conveying this is how system works. But I think there is some problem with our system and our way of living life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Our system, our culture is developed and modified from time to time. This system or culture is based on perception of bunch of people. This perception is more driven for the benefit/comfort/will of a particular community or group and later on the entire generation is directly or indirectly forced to follow it. This culture or system does not align well with the nature and we end up living our life in an unnatural way defined by bunch of people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Everything belongs to nature. All creations are part of nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How humans are different from other creations is that we have more choices to make while other creations are hard wired to serve a purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Nature is self-governing and objective of nature is to keep on evolving. We are just like a pawn playing some role in evolving nature. What we do is what nature wants us to do and what we do triggers nature to further evolve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our efforts and their result are just outcome of this evolution process. As a human we have brains and we can make choices. If we do something wrong nature has ways to balance it and still continue evolving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">A good system is one which is aligning with the nature. We should not separate nature from our daily life. If our education, business, jobs are more in a way defined by nature, we will have a very satisfied, still evolving and not tiring life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Fundamental to creating a system which is aligning with the nature is to "follow your drive". Every one of us is born with a purpose and if we follow our drive we fulfill that purpose. When we follow our drive we do it with passion.if we do something with passion entire creation help us, the truth is that whole natural system is created to help us only. But it helps us only, when we are align with the nature. It’s only us, who have created a system which is not aligned with the nature and because of that we are trying to achieve things in unnatural way of manipulation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If every one of us follows our drive from childhood, by adulthood we will acquire skills which are align with our drive. When your drive becomes your work you don’t treat it as work anymore and you enjoy doing more and more. You can imagine an organization hiring people based on their drive rather than their scores in academics. When organization hire people who are self-driven and their drive is aligned with organization business objective, it will become very easy and manageable for organization to meet its own objective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Steve jobs is the perfect example of this. His self was aligned with the nature and you see the entire creation helping him. He followed his drive, few people working with him and who were aligned with his drive helped him. We, as an end-user, dominated by our natural drive to buy quality product also helped him by buying his expensive products.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Your drive can be as long as your life or it can change in between. Whatever it is, the way of living happiest/working/satisfying/evolving life and building a foundation of a system aligned with nature is "follow your drive". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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