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Archive for November, 2008
Mumbai under attack!
Nov 27th
A bunch of crazy terrorists have taken our city to siege and we don’t even know why!! They’re holding hostages in Taj and Oberoi, going on shooting rampage, killing innocent people who’re going about their normal business and creating the biggest show down that Mumbai has ever seen.
Police, Army, NSG, Navy commandos have been battling them for over 20 hours and we still don’t know what the hell do these people want!! Over 101 people randomly killed! This is so freaking insane…!!! All this pointless killing and scaring people… Why?? What are they going to get out this all?
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Engagement studies: The challenge of keeping them alive & useful
Nov 24th
Almost all organizations do employee engagement/ satisfaction studies. Some design it internally and some outsource it to third party vendors. The objective is of course to know how engaged and satisfied your workforce is on a variety of parameters and take appropriate actions based on their feedback. I’ve been part of enough studies now to know that most employers love to do these studies but struggle with what to do with them.
The challenge then is not really doing these studies, but going beyond the results and actioning on them. Without the required action implementation the relevance of such studies More >
A new era of Indian Politics?
Nov 24th
As Indians, I am sure all of us are quite used to watching the babu type politicians that we have for leaders, shout, fight and generally create ruckus over everything. It’s quite a common sight watching them lift their dhoti in annoyance, bang tables, chairs and throw books at anything that appears like opposition. They give long fiery speeches in their regional languages, labour through their English and try their best from refraining from spitting their pans during a TV interview. They rave and rant and wave their arms as if the world will come down if the merest change More >
Letters from Iwo Jima
Nov 18th
I recently saw the movie ‘Letters from Iwo Jima’. It’s a movie about the US invasion of the Japanese Island Iwo Jima during the 2nd world war. The movie is in Japanese and shares the story from the Japanese view of events. The story of a small helpless section of the Japanese army fighting against all odds and keeping the enemy at bay is tragic, desolate, yet heartwarming.
The story shares how the Japanese fleet is destroyed and there are no back up ammo or resources that Japan can send to the troops on the island. Yet, the soldiers on the More >
