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.”