What is ideally better- to have one universal language (English or some other) oe having multitude of languages, as they today exist? Amitabh... IPS Officer

Amitabh, why one universal language..? the question is raised aiming the question of political governance & world trade, but the reality is different, languages are not mere communication tool as mostly defined by linguistics, language is sentimental, cultural, historical & emotional, when a person learns a language he learns the culture, history & society of the language associated with, British colonists & Christian missionaries learned Indian languages to captivate & govern people in the name of law & religion, they knew if they have to rule us first they should know our language. Our difference makes our might!!

Death sentences shall be given in rarest of the rare cases, particularly related with grotesque terrorism. Your comment please?... Amitabh, IPS Officer

Amitabh first I would like to appreciate you, where sites like linkedin is extremely used as professional networking tool, people like you give importance to "people rights", you stress the importance of public interest filing (public interest litigation), you fight for social cause & humanitarian measures, here I would like to stress one important message more and more people are turning against death sentence, world wide democratic countries started revoking death sentence as it is not the only way or remedial measure curbing crime or mass violence, mostly country like India, legal procedures & acts (TADA / POTA) directed towards innocent people who are completely unaware of terrorism or disruptive activities & moreover these acts don't provide even the least democratic right to defend one thyself as mostly these acts stress the burden of proof on the accused & not on the prosecution side. In camera courts deny the access of right to information of press & the press portray them as barbaric terrorist, in the whole scenario people get intimidated as supporting terrorism & anti state. How one can be justified of terrorist & death sentence inevitable

Do you think that success in business today is based more on luck?...Richard Sink

Answer for this question is an eternal secret, Reader’s Digest several years before published an article on luck where keen observation & immediate reaction as a parameter of luck. Several different people are made to observe whose quick responses are recorded as luck. I observe today’s success are mere accidents but not all together, success comes out of perseverance, hard work & smart decisions, where success comes out of sheer negligence, effortless & comfort we consider its true luck and not by any means, more over perseverance & luck all together contributes success.

How do you contribute to the "world" ?....Steven Burda

Steven, its a question been asked "whom we are" & "why we are here", being a humanist, being an entrepreneur can give us social status & recognition, today's scientific world, modern society have many challenges imposed on political setup, state machinery and mere public, as a public we can campaign against deforestation, against polluting, against unwanted wars, can work to preserve endangered species, against global warming...etc but everything needs an organization, propaganda mechanism taking the cause to general public above all a alternative plan which would take the cause to next level, for example energy conservation, alternative approach to nuclear propelled power generation needs alternative ideas which should be addressed. For implementing alternative ideas medium and small enterprises (SME) should be given incentives & encouragement to concentrate and committed. For sure thinking about mass and acting for benefit of them would keep us going. Its not difficult to get confused on philanthropy / work / family, love to do, loving to be active, loving to do deeds would fuel our spirits to do.

I know it is not easy giving up a steady job, the corporate life... How did you manage that? I know it's not an easy life but how you managed to do so well?....Rajan Iyengar

It all depends on our cash reserve cash flow and our expected returns on investment on a prescribed time frame, who ever able to manage expense, returns and cash flow can choose an entrepreneurial mission. Always should expect the unexpected, when you aspire to go bigger your expectations become big, when your profit comes down to less than 50 percent out of your expected out come, you are caught in tight corners, when you quote and expect your outcome with low margin and thrive for more expecting unexpected you can win over tight corners, today's competitive business would teach us to lessen our expenditure cutting down miscellaneous expenditure carefully managing cash flow & cash reserve.

What do you all think .. • How to close gender gaps in a work place &help men/women to be peers • What, in your view, are the mantras for a woman to achieve success at the workplace? • What will be the biggest challenge for future generation of women.....kavitha rajendran

Indian women in general I believe caught between rural & urban complexities, this evolution is due to socio economic factors, career & home I understand there is a significant difference in men & women, flexible work timings and timely resident work set up can help women to reach their goals, Men or Women, gender difference, I believe a competent workforce can only restore friendliness, peer cooperation support evolving a healthier environment, a competent workforce is likely a real healthy environment which is measured in terms of true performance, skills, combined with appropriate recognition with no partiality, prejudice, modern entities lack humanness, conventional establishments lack technical aspects, a neo modern or conventional establishments with modern outlook can reduce gender issues.

'Without Trust, little can be accomplished' - What are the key elements of building trust?...Neil Emmet

We all know "Trust" is the fundamental element of any relationship, I won't say it can be developed by "gestures" alone, besides "deeds" are the only practical measure which would grow trust between long lasting relationship.
When you stick on to your promise, when you work towards aiming rapport, when you are true to your relationship, trust grows to incredible heights.

What would be your reply to, 'What do I do to get me passionate while thinking and doing; and finding my real self?'...Manish Kumar Agarwal

You are right, nothing would succeed with disinterest, having passion of what you think & do gives you satisfaction & renewed energy, simply saying reverse the formula, better think & do what interests you, think & do what inspires you, do it with passion, passion grows your inner self, inner beauty, perfection, satisfaction and the reason to live. 

How do ideas come? Where do they come from? Why are they so hard to find?

“It all comes from positive thinking, complete optimistic way of thought. If we don't allow fear & frustration to overcome our thoughts, we will be able to gain positive energy from even the worst situation we face. Positive energy, the impulse of positive psychology renders ideas from everywhere, even a single opinion; a foolish statement may give us a thought provoking idea which can be fruitful in a worst situation. While speaking to a Singaporean friend of mine he accused cynically of Indian state & the corrupt politics being not keeping the basic primary health & hygiene of general public, while I too intervened and said, we don't have a disaster management setup in place as we don't anticipate disasters like the earth tremors which happens frequently in Indonesia, we have not even learned lessons from Tsunami which took thousands of our lives and we don't have a water management setup as half the year we experience heavy floods & acute shortage of water & drought in the same geographical area of the same political structure, we did not expect a water management solution involving Pakistan, China & Bangladesh, we expect the plan should take place within the political set up of Indian states. Ideas come from everybody, everywhere where optimism reigns supreme, it nourishes when nurtured properly, it grows to the extent of changing the whole world, the transformation take place out of sheer optimism, purely optimism.”

What is better for cost cutting - Salary Cuts or Layoffs?

"If you ask me the appropriate measure to manage or to handle the financial crisis I would say its effective planning strategy which would be the counter measure handling the pit fall. Effective planning strategy is not layoffs or salary cuts, but cutting down the operational expenses, postponing the immediate projects of high costs until the depression period is over, planning the alternative methods of revenue involving low expenditure and diverting the human resource to the alternative revenue yielding projects. What I say is not so easy as we discuss, but I believe the practice of effective planning strategy will dramatically yield results without layoffs and salary cuts.”

What is the difference between a natural leader and a trained leader and who would you want on your team?

“A Leader is what I believe is a person with enthusiasm, with initiatives, an attitude to handle situation, with an inborn quality of never letting him down. A person can be trained to handle & to shoulder responsibilities, but lack of enthusiasm, with lack of die-hard nature would be a set back for a trained leader. However a trained one can compensate to a level of contributing in the absence of an inborn. But pressured situations can definitely shape a trained person in terms of competency.”

Is this the Age of Self-Promotion?

"I would like to answer in affirmative to this question. Every body needs to be identified to be recogonized, to be branded, not only now, the quest for identity starts from the early ages of mankind. This era provides the sophistication, the necessity to comunicate, to show the hidden self, the proclamation, infact in most cases scratching the one's own back or else others back expecting a 360 degree feedback, but at the end we expect a genuine opinion of the society,individual,politics & democracy, this is what we can expect from a democratic set up, where all of our wishes and thoughts can be spread, magnified, discussed, debated, negotiated and arrived to a final solution.”

Marketing for small business

 "I have had some good experience in this area, while i was doing my graduation, i took up a vessels cleaning product of my friend's own venture, took to the market, i percieved the only thing the retailer need is to get aquainted with the seller and then to his brand and then to his post selling service, for that i planned a free sample strategy to getting into the market, this is what i thought as market penetration. Most of the time i wondered taking full of the retail market will capitalize on a whole by fixing us a monopoly vendor of the product. For instance one of my friend is a egg retail vendor for about a decade when he planned and established a poultry farm which goes extremely succesfull because already he owns the retail market.”

What drives a candidate to stay with a company?

“"Recognition" is the one where most of the employees yearn for, this one is among the junior level & middle level of the human resource. Recognition boosts employee morale, dedication and sincerity. Rendering periodic appreciation using performance parameters, but never degrading the other in terms of performance indicators will yield us results. Performance bonus, cultural activities of get together will sustain the team spirit, create ambience for a healthy hormonical environment. No partial difference should arise in a studious process of yielding results, partiality will hatch prejudice, and the senior management should be frank on dealing employee relations. Transparency is the key to succeed in employee relations.”

Why everybody mention their achivements in their resumes and hide their failures.

“My hard times are my learning, never would I mention it as failures, I do put my learning in my resume and do elaborate with the recruiter. It gives me a positive posture of image, if it does not work out, it’s not my fault, and everybody has bad experience and learning. But I would not reveal the internal discomforts which I might have experienced due to egoistical hierarchal setup or exploits of my any of my co-workers which will be cynical remarks on my part. Putting my image to scrutiny needs lot of guts where most of us fear to showcase, but I suggest all to open up their learning not as failures but as learning.”

really, why do you answer questions on a blog

“This is somewhat communicating with myself, this is some what I review my past experience, if not I might forget the experience, sharing is what we do in most of our life, when we share the experience it reflects the questionnaire, its like seeing my own image, getting a feedback of my dos & don'ts. Getting inspired by the question asked we get motivated to answer the question, facing the tirade of question we shape our self to accept the negativity of our self; we understand our weakness and try to emulate the strengths out of our experience. More and more I expect good questions, more and more interesting questions, the questions should inspire me to answer, without the drive, without the motivation I would not be able to answer, because I am true to myself, I am true to my experience, I am very much loyal too. So a good question definitely inspires me to write. It makes me to have a bird's view of myself. 

Handling Criticism

“Surely criticism is a healthy way of understanding one's own and other's. There is no negative or positive criticism, cynicsm is there, we discuss about critics and criticism not about cynics. I observe criticism is a way of commenting on the issue, and we always encourage comments, the comments revealed will help us to understand our own deeds & faults unless we would not be able to visualize our work, criticism is a reflection of what we do and perhaps criticism might be wrong more often. But criticism develops healthier relations with that of professionals and personal relations where the need is authentic. One who observes criticism as a healthy sport and encourage critics will find a good way of understanding the whole, will able to scale beyond limits.”

Is IT industry/ sector in India anyway affected by trade union movement?

“Not at all I don't think so, I have not heard of trade unions functioning in IT establishments, awareness of labor laws, or the awareness of rights of work force has not been felt seriously, mostly IT industry is like an unorganized sector when it comes to trade unions. Hiring, firing, lay-offs, benches, the effects of the market determines the stability of the industry, the workforce and the forming of trade unions. Trade unions are to facilitate the management employee divide, bringing out the basic awareness of the rights issue when deployed in a work environment, we should support establishing trade unions in IT industry.”

Do you Mentor? Why or why not?

“Two professions are considered very noble one is medicine and the other one is education, a physician makes almost all his efforts to save life with no prejudice of caste, creed or society and the educator does the same, as for all i consider mentoring is of self satisfaction up to an extent, it grooms an individual to valuable personality, which values the business and adds value to the society"

Is It Wrong to Help a Good Cause?

“How it can be bad if the question itself carries the good cause? I've found often at the end of doing good for a cause gives me extreme self confidece to tackle my domestic tasks, profesional make overs and a inspiration to live and motive to achieve. There is no point in confusing either instead working for good cause motivates us to think bigger."