FW: Appraisal vs Resignation..

Very funny… but true… J

 

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 Appraisal vs. Resignation

  
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A newly joined trainee asks his boss "Boss, what is the meaning of
appraisal?"

Boss: "Do you know the meaning of resignation?"

Trainee: "Yes I do"
 
Boss: "So let me make you understand what an appraisal is by comparing it
with resignation"

Comparison Study : Appraisal and Resignation
                                                                                
             Appraisal               |     Resignation                                
-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- 
In appraisal meetings, they will     |In a resignation meeting, they will speak  
speak only about your weakness,      |only about your strengths, past            
errors and failures.                 |achievements and success.                  
-------------------------------------+------------------------------------------ 
During appraisal, you may need to cry|During resignation, you can easily demand  
and beg for even a 10% hike.         |(or get even without asking)  more than    
                                     |50-60% hike.                               
-------------------------------------+------------------------------------------ 
During appraisal, they will deny     |During resignation, they will say you are  
promotion saying you didn't meet the |the core member of the team; you are the   
expectation, you don't have          |vision of the company; how can you go, you 
leadership qualities, and you had    |have to take the project on your shoulders 
several drawbacks in our             |and lead your juniors to success.          
objective/goal.                      |                                           
-------------------------------------+------------------------------------------ 
There is 90% chance for not getting  |There is 90% chance of getting immediate   
any significant incentives after     |hike after you put forward the             
appraisal.                           |resignation.                               
                                                                                
Trainee  : "Yes  boss,  enough!  Now  I understood my future! For a decent  appraisal, I will  have to resign !!!

 

 

Regards,

 

 

KING OF THE ROAD : BRTS Ahmedabad

Good coverage of BRTS: Ahmedabad click the link bellow & go to directly Page 38

 

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=TOIA&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI&Enter=true&Skin=TOINEW&GZ=T&AW=1268049025218

 

 

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." ~~~  Albert einstein

 

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	March 08, 2010
KING OF THE ROAD
BRTS has put Ahmedabad at par with cities like Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Bogota, Santiago, Lima, Beijing, Taipei and Hanoi, where buses are a hit with the masses
Kumar Manish | TNN It was said about this city's bus service that people set their watches according to the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service's (AMTS) big red bus. But that was decades ago. The city grew to have the largest density of twowheelers in the country in year 2006 and brought with it the problems of congestion and pollution. Over the last few days there has been a revolution – the red bus has gone green, and how. Within five months, the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), popularly called Janmarg, has created space in the city's travel system and people's hearts. The 18.7-kilometre long BRTS corridor starting from RTO, a transport hub in western side of city to Kankaria Lakefront, a major entertainment zone in heart of the city has entered the world's imagination as a sustainable mode of transport. The metallic silver coloured BRTS promises high quality public transport system that offers fast, comfortable and low cost urban mobility. Conceptualised four years back by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in association with CEPT University, Ahmedabad Janmarg Limited (AJL) was formed as a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to govern the BRTS operations in city. It was taken up as a project under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) by the ministry of urban development at the centre. The project has major financial support from the Centre which has given about 35 per cent of the funding and the rest is shared by the Gujarat government and the AMC. Last month, the BRTS won the 'Best Sustainable Transport System in the world' at the 2010 Sustainable Transport Award in Washington, a first for a south Asian country. The Centre too recognised it as best among mass rapid transit (MRT) system in the country. Enrique Penalosa, president of Institute of Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) and former Bogota mayor, visited the city last year to get a feel of the BRTS, which also drew from the Bogota model of mass transport. Right from the concept to the unique marketing strategy of free rides in the first three months, the BRTS has been different. Ahmedabad has now joined Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Bogota, Santiago, Lima, Beijing, Taipei and Hanoi, where BRTS buses have been running and proved a hit with the masses. Ahmedabad municipal commissioner, IP Gautam said, "Janmarg provides world class service, matching up with any BRTS service running in all major world cities. The Janmarg has bridged the gap between eastern and western parts of the city." Stressing on sustainability, Gautam added, "BRTS has also ensured clean environment and is already attracting attention from across the globe. BRTS is still evolving and newer features will be added to popularise the service." Recently on a visit to Ahmedabad, Sunita Narain, member of the Supreme Courtappointed Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) panel, took a ride on a BRTS bus and was impressed. She said, "Janmarg is a vision for the future of all Indian cities,". The Ahmedabad service is modelled on Rede Integrada de Transporte, the world's first bus rapid transit system, started in 1974 in the industrial city of Curitiba in Brazil. AJL too has an integrated policy for pedestrians, dedicated cyclefriendly tracks and affordable mass transit system. Much needs to be done, however, for the cycle track, which is not contiguous and is heavily encroached. This track is an integral part of the BRTS system, meant to service the eight lakh odd cycle users in the city.
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FW: Let's Save Trees!

Good one…

 

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." ~~~  Albert einstein

 

From: Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 2:57 PM
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Subject: Let's Save Trees!

 

Part II of train Museum - AHmedabad open for all for next 7-8 days...

Dear All,

 

This is very good… it is open for all, you can go and view the actually running numbers of toy trains on electrac transection between 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM.

Have visited yesterday on 26^th Feb. 2k10 & Mr. Mahesh is willing to keep it open for public for another 7-8 days.

 

Time is daily evenig between 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM only.

 

It is open to all & just near Sardar Patel Stadium, NavrangPura Ahmedabad. Exact Address is

 

Mr. Mahesh Agrawal, 2, Ishwar Park, Opp. Prashant Society, Nr. Dr. Jaju Hospital, Nr. Hindu Colony, Nr. Somlalit School, in the street In front of S P Stadium, After Golden Traingel.

 

Just visit Mr. Mahesh’s home to feel the thrill. If you have kids then they will enjoy like anything.

 

Train Museum Patr – II

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wr-xYMGwDE

 

Train Museum Patr – I

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i1HQHVVOek

 

regards,

chirag

 

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." ~~~  Albert einstein

 

From: Mahesh Agrawal [mailto:msagrawl@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 1:50 PM
To: c.gandhi@mudra.com
Subject: Fw: Part II of train Museum

 

--- On Mon, 2/22/10, Khatwani <khatwani123@hotmail.com> wrote: From: Khatwani <khatwani123@hotmail.com> Subject: Part II of train Museum To: msagrawl@yahoo.com Date: Monday, February 22, 2010, 6:01 AM   Dear Mr Agarwal, Part II of train Museum was successfully uploaded on youtube. Link is as follows:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wr-xYMGwDE   Regards, Dr Rajesh

 

SAVE WATER - PLAY DRY HOLI

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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." ~~~  Albert einstein

 

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FW: THE LIFE CYCLE OF MERCEDES BENZ !!!!

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Who is My Competitor - An Interesting Article from Dr. Y. L. R. Moorthi (Professor, IIM-Bangalore)]

Very interesting… … …

 

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"Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! Who sells the largest number of cameras in India? Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones. Reason being cameras bundled with cell phones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cell phone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note. Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours). Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth. Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit that Apple's Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future. But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you? If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or music or camera or emails? The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?" Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says "What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "digital." In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?" The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not. In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India? Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. (India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no. Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP! India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the market. Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen. One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding! On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary! The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly.  Dr. Y. L. R. Moorthi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He is an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a post graduate in management from IIM, Bangalore Creativity is in knowing how to hide your sources.

 

STRESS : AN EXCELLENT PRESENTATON

Just just just gr8! Presentation… very much informative & very well presented too…

 

Very helpful for all…

 

cg

 

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.  

~~~ A Smith

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FW: September 11, 2001

See the clouds of dust … !!!!!!!!!!

 

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." ~~~  Albert einstein

 

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Sony Rolly Dancing MP3 Player...

Challenge against all available static mp3 player… just gr8! Sony da Javab nahin…

 

http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/rolly-dancing-mp3-player

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTxdKi77G20

 

Best Regards,

chirag gandhi