Top of news of the day:
"Perform or perish: Narayana Murthy puts senior Infy executives on notice"
Infosy's global sales head Basab Pradhan made to resign.
"India Hockey coach shown the door for poor team performance"
(Me: Management by results, I recently said, is the need of the hour. This is how things ought to be in India at every level if the country is to deliver all its potential or even the promise. When you don't fix responsibility for performance and accountability for failure, human beings in general and Indians in particular take things a lot easily and don't do money's worth of job, and they easily get away with it with lame excuses, too. An example comes to mind... The company I worked for in the 1990s came out amidst much fanfare some Japanese quality technique – which was tomtommed to have been tried and tested in General Motors, etc. in the US – that laid stress on processes for achieving goals and said if all the processes are in place, the goals in terms of both quality and massive improvement in production would automatically follow. The company sank crores and all the executives, without any exception whatsoever, were tasked on setting 'right' the processes viz. drawing up processes, sub-processes, sub-sub-processes and sub-sub-sub-processes, and preparing countless flowcharts, pareto charts, so on and so forth. Finally, all the huge amount of paperwork remained, but no noticeable improvement in quality or production. The company quietly shelved the plan without much ado a few years later).
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A joke is a joke is a joke, plz…
In a cramped bus…
Lady: "Something of yours is touching me!!!"
Man: "Oh! that's just my salary in my pocket"
Lady: "Did your salary just triple in the last 5 minutes???"
(Me: The purpose of posting this joke isn't to titillate anyone, put the spotlight on those dirty men who unabashedly try to embarrass women in crowded public conveyance…)
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Think it over…
"Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery" – John Ruskin.
(Me: Very thoughtful quote..)
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From the world of science…
Sushi is low in saturated fats and cholesterol, making it a heart-healthy food choice.
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Weird world…
Easier to kill than divorce husband: wife to hit man…
Julia M, a 21-year-old Michigan woman, is set to be sentenced on July 30 after pleading guilty last month to soliciting the murder of her husband, Jacob. Recorded footage of Julia soliciting an undercover cop posing as a hitman has surfaced on the internet and has shocked viewers for how calm, cool and collected she is while planning the crime.
(Me: hahaha. Truth weirder than jokes!)
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Express delivery! Python slips out of postal packet..
A French post office employee had the fright of her life when a 3.3-foot python slithered quietly out of a parcel and rubbed against her.
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Much ado about nothing…
Indian doctors in UK claim racial discrimination…
London: Indian doctors claim that UK General Practitioners exams are continuously failing them based on racial grounds. Many foreign doctors have ended up losing their jobs and lost thousands of pounds attempting to quality as GPs.
(Me: one isn't much impressed by claims of discrimination by doctors. An immigrant doctor MUST have a thorough grip of the colloquial spoken language if he is to fully understand the local patient's actual ailment and a proper diagnosis. No allowance whatsoever can be made here. I, for one, always maintain that if an immigrant has a problem living in an alien country, or with their customs, traditions and practices, he has no business to complain, but should return to the country of his origin and live as he likes)
It's love, just after first date..
Nearly 50% of men and women get convinced that they have found love even before the end of their first date..
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Line Maro…
Cat all me AC/DC, because I'm gonna rock you all night long!
(Me: Beware! That claim is too TALL to be good!)
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Tweet of the day: @Suhelseth: "In India every god forsaken politician has a problem for every solution. When will they ever have a solution?"
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Man, watching TV, to wife: "I want home repair shows so I'll know how to fix our home if I ever get tired of watching home repair shows"
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Two musicians in a major symphonic orchestra were discussing who they thought the LEAST talented musician in the band was. One of the said, "That's easy. See that guy standing in the back? Well, we just put two sticks in his hands and we call him a drummer."
The other responded, "Well, if we take one stick away, we call him a Conductor!"
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