Saturday, 21 June 2014

[www.keralites.net] Balance Sheet Of Life

 


 
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Our Birth is our Opening Balance !   
Our Death is our Closing Balance! Our Prejudiced Views are our Liabilities  Our Creative Ideas are our Assets  Heart is our Current Asset  Soul is our Fixed Asset  Brain is our Fixed Deposit   
Thinking is our Current Account  Achievements are our Capital  Character  Morals, our Stock-in-Trade  Friends are our General Reserves  Values  Behaviour are our Goodwill  Patience is our Interest Earned   
Love is our Dividend   Children are our Bonus Issues  Education is Brands / Patents  Knowledge is our Investment  Experience is our Premium Account  The Aim is to Tally the Balance Sheet Accurately.   
The Goal is to get the Best Presented Accounts Award.   Some very Good and Very bad things ...  The most destructive habit....... ......... ......Worry  The greatest Joy......... ......... ......... ....Giving   
The greatest loss........ ........Loss of self-respect  The most satisfying work........ .......Helping others  The ugliest personality trait....... ......Selfishnes s  The most endangered species..... ....Dedicated leaders   
Our greatest natural resource.... ......... ..Our youth  The greatest "shot in the arm"........ ..Encouragement  The greatest problem to overcome.... ......... ....Fear  The most effective sleeping pill........ Peace of mind   
 The most crippling failure disease..... .......Excuses  The most powerful force in life........ ......... .Love  The most dangerous pariah...... ......... ...A gossiper  The world's most incredible computer.... ....The brain   
The worst thing to be without..... ......... ..... Hope   The deadliest weapon...... ......... ........The tongue  The two most power-filled words....... ........" I Can"  The greatest asset....... ......... ......... .....Faith   
The most worthless emotion..... ......... ....Self- pity  The most beautiful attire...... ......... .......SMILE!  The most prized possession.. ......... .....Integrity  The most powerful channel of communication. ....Prayer   
The most contagious spirit...... ......... ..Enthusiasm  The most important thing in life........ ......... .GOD

 
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[www.keralites.net] 8 Points to consider for Buying a Sofa Set

 

Routine shopping for groceries and home basic utensils does not require a lot of care since most of the products you purchase get consumed very quickly. Also the cost of such items are very less so in case you didn't buy the right thing this time, you will certainly buy it next time, however, there are things which are purchased for a considerably longer duration such as your car, sofa, refrigerator, bed set etc. For such things a little careful analysis is required so that you don't have to repent your decision for the duration you keep the items with you. 

 
As the name implies, this particular article is about purchasing of sofa set for your lounge, bed room, office or reception.  
Below are the points which I recommend you to consider:
  1. The Cost: Obviously, the most important factor. I suggest doing a quick Need Vs Want analysis before you step into the purchasing process. Once you have made up your mind, allocate the tentative budget and then stick to it. Locking your budget will help you focus on things which are in your purchasing limits which helps avoid wasting your time and energies.
  2. The Location: The sofa set for offices, for bed rooms and for lounges are entirely different in design. If you buy an office category sofa for your lounge, it won't look nice at all. Remember office/reception sofa's are mostly compact and are not too much comfortable. So search for the right sofa for the right location.
  3. The Color: The color should match with the existing interior of your lounge/room or in case you want a different sofa color then both should make a sense all together. Use this nice service to test different colors.  "Test Your Colors"
  4. The comfort: Small seating size usually do not result in comfort when sit for long times. Specially, the sofa for your lounge must be luxurious and comfortable since you spend hours and hours in your lounge. 
  5. The Size: you must take measurements of your lounge in order to decide 3 seater, 5 seater, 7 seater or more. People buy sofa by their instant liking and do not consider the size of their lounge and then repent later because either they buy more wider sofa than the lounge dimensions or the sofa design and layout don't match with the room layout.
  6. The Features: Sofa c-u-m bed, recliner sofa are some of the major considerations when it comes to features of the sofa.
  7. Leather or Fabric: Positive about Leather sofas is that they look very nice. Also it is easy to clean them when some liquid gets dropped. The con is that they are prone to getting damaged when anything with sharp edge touches, specially if you have children at home. On the other hand, fabric sofas have unique kind of attraction but hard to clean the milk or juice stains.
  8. The Shape: Consider L-Shape or Half round sofa instead of traditional 5-7 seater designs.

 
By the way, you might think, what is the purpose of sofa buying article on a wisdom blog? well, wisdom is defined as observing and understanding the things in real deep sense covering all aspects from multiple angles; hence the article's place on wisdom blog is justified J Further, if we keep observing things in real depth, our thought process is empowered and our analytical skills get strengthened.

 

Junaid Tahir 
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[www.keralites.net] The 8 Ps of Vision and Strategy

 

By Junaid Tahir

 
The young boy asked the old man, "why a fast running horse is better than the slow running horse"? The old man said, "it has developed the habit to produce more power so that it can run up to ten times faster than the slow horse" The youngster said, "and what if the horse is running in the wrong direction"? The old man smiled and said, "then definitely it has the proportionate factor for wasting the efforts ten times quicker than the slower horse" The young man said, " and what if other horses are following him too" The older man said, "off course it will mislead all those horses too!" "Then why all other horses follow the faster horse" "Because that attracts them but all that glitters is not gold sometimes"

 

 

 
Vision is one of the most critical traits of current and emerging leaders because strong vision results establishing better strategy to ensure success.
In its basic definition, the vision is to see (visualize) the future at present moment and then aligning the strategies including but not limited to policies, procedures and action plans in order to ensure success without any setbacks.

 

 
Below 8 Ps elaborate the concept of Vision and Strategy altogether:  

 
1.     Picking the Right Battle: Effective leaders ponder well enough to chose the right course of direction (the mission) which can lead them towards success with higher success probability and greater efficiency. This does not means that they select easy targets instead sometimes they select more challenging grounds with their gut feeling of success. However they are careful in making their choices because of being the captain of the boat. If the leader succeeds, the boat sails; if leader drowns the whole boat gets collapsed. 
2.    Perspective: How a leader sees the future is very sensitive matter. No matter how genius team members he/she possesses; his own vision is highly important. It is said that an army of dears lead by a lion is far better than any army of lions lead by a dear. The leader's vision depends on the level of mental comprehension of industry, current statistics, near future and long term forecasts/trends, overall knowledge and experience of associated domains, a lot of study and observation about market and expectation of stake holders. More articles on leadership can be read at www. DailyTenMinutes dot com
3.    Present Position: The leader must define the baseline because this will be the reference to be compared when measuring performance and progress at later stage. The visionary leader must clearly define the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); the current values of KPIs, bench marking in line with industry standards, the measurement criteria and measurement frequency.
4.    Policies and Procedures: The review of current and finalization of policies for concrete results should be done prior to kick off the execution phase. Yet a leader should be smart enough to closely monitor and tweak the policies and procedures in case something is putting the projects/programs in jeopardy. The market dynamics demands consistent focus and a lot of iterations in companies' strategies.
5.    Plans: Failing to plan is planning to fail. The leader would define high level goals; the goals which are SMART (Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Realistic, Time bound)  Once defined, the leader assigns these to the team of managers which in turn use the RACI model for further low level implementation. (RACI tool is used for defining Responsibility Matrix; RACI stands for Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed respectively)
6.    Pattern: Although Low level micro tasks is not a specific leaders' responsibility but it becomes very effective if leaders take active part few times during the life cycle of the project; especially when WBS (work breakdown structures) are prepared by the associated Project Managers. Sometimes his/her vision and experience can make big difference when reviewing WBS with the PM.
7.    Progress Performance: Consistent progress and performance measurement against the baseline must be ensured by the leaders. This also requires risk identification, risk analysis and risk mitigation. The project becomes orphans if the leader does not review its performance periodically.
8.    Power Plug: Last but not the least, he becomes the consistent source of inspiration, fuel and energy for his team members. By this act he ensure that the 'batteries' (employee's working potential) are charged throughout the life cycle of the project.

 

 
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