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First day to office, get the best shirt you have, get the best trousers, polish the shoes until it shines like a mirror, get the best perfume etc etc..... So it is the best you put on to impress the people you will be meeting in first day of first / new company. Let's look into some of the must do things as an employee joining a new organization : 1. Be who you are : While they say "First Impression is the best impression", be who you are, do not over impress. While many employees take the extra effort to be accepted in new organization, what they miss out is probably that this extra effort would cost them in future. As people build expectations with your initial few interactions and to retain the impression with them new employees continue to deliver the extra effort which would drain out their energy. Therefore, be who you are !! 2. Listen carefully : Open your ears widely to listen every bit of conversation. Restrain as much as you can from partici...

The Karnataka state erupted with rage with the Supreme Court passing verdict on Cauvery river to release 15TMC water to Tamil Nadu. As Tamil Nadu rejoiced this verdict the people of Karnataka erupted with rage and staged a state wide protest on Sept9th, 2016 with mixed response especially from the IT companies, which were later forced to close down. Rather bringing in state owned issues, it's important to look at this issue more holistically and from National perspective. Water is one of the most important element, necessary for the survival of human beings. Therefore priority should always be for " DRINKING / BASIC REQUIREMENTS ", then for other purposes. But at the same time the life of many are dependent on the crops. Therefore, this would be never ending issue if not solved with the interference of a third party in this topic.  From my basic level of understanding and some common sense have proposed the below :  For an instance let's fo...

Communication forms one of the key challenge any organisation faces. The " Three wise monkeys " pictorially depict " see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil ". But in this article, the three wise monkeys are interpreted in a positive way and term them as " The three   Communication monkeys ". 1. OBSERVE The 1st monkey is shows " EYES ", i.e it is important for us to see and observe whats happening around us. (play the below video first before reading further) Credit : Daniel J Simons The monkey business is the most ideal test to check our observation skills, as many who take this test would fail in noticing all the three changes. Changes : a. Gorilla walks in between the passes b. The girls with black shirt walk out c. The change in curtain colors. Therefore, this video to how we observe minute details. It is all happening right in front of us, but since we are held up in some other activity, we tend to ignore / don...

Visiting Card, an important asset to be carried along everywhere we travel, as it is the starting point of conversation. Recently, when we were chatting on the same topic and we debated if job title or designation to be on the visiting card.  " My Thoughts " is a job title can help contacts understand your role & responsibility within a company, quickly determine the decision making power the position holds. It has it's uses and can be extremely helpful. Also, visiting cards are given to customers, vendors and mostly people outside the organization and therefore, the hierarchical designation doesn't really concern the person outside the organization... Therefore, a job title must be on visiting card.     Example: A Country Manager for a particular channel is at hierarchy of Deputy Manager within the organization... Which do you think is the right way of having the business card ?   ...

A great learning out of a small experience. On  route from office there is this one stretch which is always jam packed and to avoid this stretch I had to explore inner roads. With my two wheeler I figured out an inner road, which had pickup trucks, cars and two wheeler all travelling through this road, probably these were ones who were also fed up of the stretch and had explored this new route. As I entered the inner road and was traveling, people coming from the other side were signalling that a traffic police was at the corner and not to travel any further. This sign of the oncomers raised doubt if we were violating the traffic rule and had explored a one way route by accident. However, since I wasn't completely sure, I took a U-Turn and I came back at the traffic signal. I came back to the traffic signal and straight went to the traffic policemen and asked him if the route was not a one way and there was no violation of traffic rule.  Now let's wear our man...