When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for each of you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other’s cups. Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn’t change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.”

So, don’t let only the cups drive you… enjoy the coffee!!!!!!

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To subscribe to the RSS feeds, users need RSS Feed Reader like i-Fetch, a product of my buddy Daksh’s company Ideafarms. i-Fetch, a feature rich application, handles information from various sources on the internet and provides a consolidated view to it.

I’ve been hooked to i-Fetch, for quite sometime now. i-Fetch is kewl, handy & is definitely a must have for geeks and everyone else who browses endlessly on the internet.

i-Fetch has got some really special features but for me OPML Support & Archiving Features are really kool.

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An easier way is to google “i-Fetch + ideafarms” (minus quotes).

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In this speech he share guiding principles of staying afloat in a changing world based on his experience in Wipro. In this speech he speak about 11 different lesson to learn  to adapt  change in our life.

(1) Be alert for the first signs of change.
(2) Anticipate change even when things are “Anticipate change even when things
     are going right.
(3) Always look at the opportunities that change represents.
(4) Do not allow routines to become chains.
(5) Realize that fear of the unknown is natural.
(6) Keep renewing yourself.
(7) Surround yourself with people who are open to change.
(8) Play to win..!!
(9) Respect yourself. The world will reward you on your successes.
(10) Never change: your core values.
(11) We must remember that succeeding in a changing world is beyond just
      surviving.

at last, beautiful quote from Azim Premji’s speech @ IIM-A convocation.

Change is the Only thing that will Never change. So better adapt to it.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that must be that change before that change can take place

Check out PPT for complete speech.

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Technorati Tags: Corporate Lesson, Attitude, MBA, IIM

If we talk about India, there are few companies which started before .com bubble burst but very few companies coming up with innovative idea in this Web 2.0 ( I am not able get any new Web 2.0 company from India, except Slideshare.net, if you have more info about Web 2.0 company from India plz post it here)

Companies like Naukri.com, Shaadi.com which is started around 8-10yrs are some of the successful company in India, later on some travel site also came up with successful business model but they were not started by any individual person but most of them are just a new initiative taken by company already running travel business. (I found makemytrip.com which is amoung few successful travel company started by Deep Kalra) Another successful internet start up is Contest2Win.com which is started by Alok Kejriwal, this company organize online
contest for many company to reach out to young audiences. 2nd one is seventymm.com, online movie rental company started by Raghav Kher.

Now, as Web 2.0 revolution is booming again, this successful companies have enough fund to start new companies with some new innovative business model. For example, success of Contest2Win Alok Kejriwal started two new company Games2Win and Mobile2Win, Anupam Mittal o Shaadi.com also started new
sites like Fropper.com and Astrolife.com. Bikhchandani of Naukri.com started Jeevansathi.com and 99acres.com.

As Indian economy growing faster, it’s easy to get VC fund for new startup compare to earlier. Earlier it was not easy to get funds from VC or any other financial institution for internet start up, but now because of some successful startup many VC funds and financial institution like ICICI Venture and some other are ready to support new venture in internet world.

“Today investors are ready to give high valuations to Net companies and want to grab companies that have a first-mover advantage in their space. Or those that have a dominant market share, a good brand and, of course, if they already are profitable,”
 
               – Bala Deshpande (Director, ICICI Venture)

Now, if we take a look outside India there are many highly successful Web 2.0 companies making millions of dollar and have very large user/customer base. Some of most successful Web 2.0 startup are MySpace, YouTube, Wikipedia, Flickr, Digg, Facebook etc. All this startup is very successful and made millions of dollar thru their innovative business model or selling themself to some BIG copmany. For Example MySpace bought by Fox Interactive for $580 million, YouTube bought by Google for $1.6 billion and Facebook founder already rejected $1 billion offer from Yahoo!

If we talk about US, it seem to be far ahead of any other country in terms of Net entrepreneur. even Teenage students are becoming entrepreneur like Laima Tazmin (Age 17) have her own web site design company LAVT. This company earned $25,000 in 2006. another example is Omar Faruk (Age 18) running web
management company called BlueStream. His company grossed $40,000 in 2006 and earned Faruk the Youth Entrepreneur of the Year award given out by Ernst & Young and the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. At last but not least one of the best example for teenage entrepreneurship is of Jack Fisher & Weina Scott (both Age 17) who started SwitchPod, a podcasting website. It was very successful and later on sold their business to Pittsburgh based Wizzard Software for $2,00,000.This sale also provide both founder with annual salaries of $40,000 for a 20-hr workweek.

Wanna be millionaire like all this Net entrepreneur?? there are still huge scope for business on the Net, most common Web business models are like Product sales, Services sales, Information delivery and ofcourse e-commerce.

Opportunities as only as finite as your imagination

All the best.

Reference :
Rediff.com article on Net entrepreneur and US teenage entrepreneur.

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        Steve Jobs – I would say an Innovator and A                Dreamer. A man who saved Apple from going bankrupt.     He is one of the best CEO in Fortune 500 company who     is a very good speaker also. His simplicity (yeah..             watch any his of keynote

        recently I watch “Pirates of Silicon Velly” movie, it’s     about Apple and Miscrosoft… Steve Jobs V/s Bill             Gates.. after watching this movie I came to know             many thing about Steve Jobs, and as he is one of my role model.. writing this entire post to Steve Jobs only.

We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

                       — Steve jobs @ Stanford Commencement speech

…You still have to think differently to buy an Apple computer. The people who do buy them do think differently…they are the creative spirits of this world. They’re the people who are not just out to get a job done, they are out to change the world…A lot of times people think they’re crazy. But in that craziness, we see genius. And those are the people we’re making tools for.

                                              — Steve Jobs, Macworld 1997 @ Boston

“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.”

                        – Steve jobs @ Stanford Commencement speech

I think I have taken enough of your time reading this post and written much about Steve jobs, so now in the end just putting one of the best part I like from his speech @ Stanford Uni.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“You’ve got to find what you love”‘ thats what Steve jobs says

Related Link : Steve Job’s speech at Stanford University
                    Steve Job’s Macworld Boston 1997 keynote address

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You may have something similar to this in the past. This on-line slide presentation from Miniature Earth is a wonderful example which demonstrates the effectiveness of high-quality, full screen images combined with text. There is no narration with this, but you can imagine a speaker giving a talk with slides of this sort.  The slides are the same except for the language of the text.

Below are some sample slides from the online presentation.

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Source : Presentation Zen

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long time I not posted anything on my blog, as my MBA 3rd sem. going on, little bit busy with assignments and exam. right now my mid term exam going on.. so, will be back after midterm exam

till than you can enjoy reading some  old post on my blog. here I am posting link to top post of my blog.

Rat Race
Company Name and Origin
5 things B-School don’t teach
How to become a billionaire
When you can’t earn an MBA
Indian Business Women
The story about how Stanford University began

or I recommend you to read some good book that I read,

Business :

1) Made in Japan – Akio Morita
2) Straight from the Gut – Jack Welch
3) The Google Story – David A. Vise
4) Snapshot from Hell – Peter Robinson

Fiction :

1) Foutainhead – Ayn Rand
2) Angels & Demons – Dan Brown
3) The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Biography :

1) It’s not about the Bike – Lance Armstrong

I think it’s enough for some time
will be back soon..

watch this video… to know more…

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If

A=1 B=2 C=3 D=4 E=5 F=6 G=7 H=8 I=9 J=10 K=11  L=12 M=13 N=14
O=15 P=16 Q=17 R=18 S=19 T=20 U=21 V=22 W=23 X=24 Y=25 Z=26

Then

H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K = 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E = 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

L+O+V+E=12+15+22+5=54%

L+U+C+K = 12+21+3+11 = 47%

(None of them makes 100%)

Then what makes 100%

Is it Money? ….. No!!!!!

Leadership? …… NO!!!!

Every problem has a solution, only if we perhaps change our “ATTITUDE”. It is OUR ATTITUDE towards Life and Work that makes OUR Life 100% Successful..

A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E = 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100%

really…Attitude is everything..

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The secretary frowned at them and said, “He will be busy all day.”

“We will wait,” said the couple quietly.

The secretary ignored them for hours hoping they will go away. But they did not. Finally, the secretary decided to disturb the president, hoping they will go way quickly once they meet him.

The president took one look at the faded dresses and glared sternly at them. The lady said, “Our son studied here and he was very happy. A year ago, he was killed in an accident. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial for him on the campus.”

The president was not touched. He was shocked. “Madam, we cannot put up a statue for every student of ours who died. This place would look like a cemetery.”

“Oh, no,” the lady explained quickly, “we don’t want to erect a statue. We thought we would give a building to you.”

“A building?” exclaimed the president, looking at their worn out clothes. “Do you have any idea how much a building costs? Our buildings cost close to ten million dollars!”

The lady was silent. The president was pleased and thought this would get rid of them.

The lady looked at her husband. “If that is what it costs to start a university, why don’t we start our own?” Her husband nodded.

Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California, where they established the university as a memorial to their son, bearing their name—the Stanford University.

The story goes that this is how Stanford University began.

Source : An excerpt from IIT Convocation Address by Azim Premji

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In India we have very less woman in company’s top management compare to other countries like US,UK. in US there are many woman in top management of some of the best well known company.. but now picture in India is changing too… many woman in India playing significant role in Indian company and many MNC also. But still entrepreneurship is somehow not very popular among Indian businees woman except few woman entrepreneur like,Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Shahnaz Hussain.

Here I listed some of torch bearer business woman in India

1) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (Chairman, Bicon)
2) Chanda Kocchar (Deputy MD, ICICI Bank)
3) Lalita Gupte (Joint MD, ICICI Bank)
4) Naina Lal Kidwani (Chief Executive, HSBC India)
5) Shahnaz Hussain (CEO, Shahnaz Herbals)
6) Ela Bhatt (Founder, SEVA)
7) Simone Tata (Chairman, Trent Ltd)
8 ) Sulajja Motawani (Joint MD, Kinetic Engineering)
9) Vidya Chaabria (CMD, Jumbo Group)
10) Renu Karnad (Executive Director, HDFC)

Globally also some of Indian woman mark their presence in top management. Like,

1) Indra Nooyi (President, Pepsi Co.)
2) Padmasree Warrior (Chief Technology Officer, Motorola)
3) Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (VP- Asia Pacific & Latin America, Google)
4) Naina Lal Kidwani (Board of Directors, Nestle)

there is not many reference book available in India regarding woman entrepreneur, but one such book on woman entrepreneur is “The Voyage to Excellence” written by two student Debashish Ghosh (IIT, Madras) & Nischinta Amarnath (Stella Mary’s College, Chennai).

let’s hope next generation of Indian business woman follow same path and make a difference in corporate world.

Some useful link :

50 Most Powerful Women in Business

10 Highest Paid Woman

Rising Star

Update : I find an interesting survey about indian businesswoman on Rediff.com

Ques : Biggest obstacle an Indian businesswoman faces..

           (1) Glass ceiling
           (2) Family pressure
           (3) Males don’t want female bosses

Result :  Total 3089 votes
 
             36% Glass ceiling (1140 votes)
             31% Family pressure (977 votes)
             31% Males don’t want female bosses (972 votes)

PS : for those who don’t know Glass ceiling. Click Here
            

Technorati Tags: Indian Business Woamen, India Business

I was getting bored in HBO (Human Behavior in  Organization) that teach us how to behave in Organization… I never find this subject interesting… they can’t teach us how to behave in real life just by teaching us theory in classroom, so I have nothing to do in this lecture.. I started wondering anything.. and then one idea struck in my mind.. What is secret behind some of biggest and well known companies in the world?

with little bit brainstorming I get this two thing common in some of successful company of world.. here it is

1) To start your own company, you should get your best friend with you and
    start  your business, bcoz I find some of the world best company started
    by two best friend. Like,

     Wikipedia – Jimmy Donal Wales & Larry Sanger

2) Start your company in garage
    yes, you read it right…  some of the best company initially started in garage
    some of them are,
    
    HP, Apple, Infosys, Google (Google’s first office was in garage) and
    Amazon (not much sure).

   and if you live in India there is 3rd option for you. study from study engineering    from IIT and MBA from IIM.

 Some of well know person who studied from IIT/IIM

 Rajat Gupta  – B. Tech (mechanical eng), IIT-Delhi (McKinsey)

 Arun Sarin – IIT Kharagpur (Vodafone CEO)

 N R Narayanmurthy – IIT Kanpur (Founder of Infosys)

 Nandan Nilekeni – IIT Bombay ( Infosys CEO)

 Indra Nooyi -IIM Calcutta (Pepsi Co. President)

 Arun Netravali – IIT Bombay (former President of Bell Laboratories)

 Suhas Patil – IIT Kharagpur (Founder Cirrus Logic)

 R Subramanian – IIT Madras & IIM Ahmedabad (Founder of Subhiksha Retail )

 Sanjeev Bikhchandani – IIM A (Founder of Naukri.com)

Technorati Tags: IIT, IIM, India, Management, Business Success

Google

Microsoft

Blogger

MSN Spaces

Gmail

Hotmail

Google Search

MSN Search

Gtalk

MSN Messenger

Orkut

Friendster

Google News

MSN Newsbot

Google Docs & Spreadsheet

Windows Live

Froogle

Windows Market Place

Google Earth

MS Virtual Earth

Google Maps

Live Maps

Adsense

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Google Video

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Google Book

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Google Page Creator

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Google Apps

MS Office

Google  Desktop

MS Desktop

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this blog not regularly updated form last 1 month, bcoz I was busy with my MBA exam. Now exam is over so back to blogging.

I am thinking to update this blog and add some new feature like Guest book and one new category “Book Review” in which I will post review abt many good book I read and some other recommended for  good reading.

So, keep visiting for more update soon.

          Army Institute of Management
     Kolkata (AIMK) presents Blog Hunt

          The growth of Blogosphere was nothing less than a “Big Bang”. “Indian B-School Blog Hunt” is an attempt to discover and highlight the bloggers from various Indian business schools.

This Blog Hunt event divided into total 5 phase.