Monday, June 30, 2008

what does leadership mean to me?

This weekend I was in big dilemma about the so called great quality leadership. I do not know why people call it a great quality one should have in his life and I had few doubts what’s so great in that quality where we guide people, they might be few or many, where we show them the way either younger or elder, where we can control the situation, we can change the course of the things, where we can achieve the things(for me the thing is each and every particle which is present on the universe that counts for me).I do not see any sense in developing leadership qualities and I do not believe the sentence becoming a leader. So first of all I searched for the word Leader in Google and of course Google is the modern day’s dictionary at least for techies like me, it directed me to wikipedia and I found the definitions of a leader as below.

1) Those entities that perform one or more acts of leading.
2) The ability to affect human behavior so as to accomplish a mission.
3) Influencing a group of people to move towards its goal setting or goal achievement.

These three lines have nothing to say except "A leader performs an act influencing others and guiding them to a goal or mission and importantly achieves It." yes for me he is a no leader who does not achieve the target. I don’t know why I keep my eye always on target, I always interpret things with target even when I am counting numbers I wish to reach specific target else I don’t find fun in counting this bloody numbers. While driving I raise my bike throttle suddenly to reach particular point in some amount of time else I do not find any fun in raising the throttle unnecessarily if I do not have a target.

I should say I was called as a Leader in most parts of my life or entire my life and please do not judge my attitude with this line. As per I remember I always guided people in my life either for good or bad that depends upon people who interpret it. I have been in dilemma as said in beginning, I don’t understand why there will be certain section of people who have the leadership qualities but do not find their target and target me as their target. Let me make you clear. people do not agree to identify me as leader since they have to prove themselves as leader, so instead they oppose me for no reason alas they find the reason its like a black dot on white paper. They do not accept me. They hate me. They come in the way of my target, but a true leader is unstoppable. One of my friends says “leader thinks from the point where others thinking stops .” they oppose the best way I find out to achieve things or to get things done or anything which they also want it done because they oppose me, not the best way to achieve. I do not understand what might be the thought people get in their mind when opposing, are they perfect with their sixth sense?

I do not know why people who are not at least capable of getting things done or figuring out things where a man should be able to do it with ease at their age oppose me because they simply want to oppose me as their fellow beings do. At least they do not have individuality to oppose me for a good reason. I myself remember helping these kind of people many times as friend and its my responsibility to do as a friend and I should not remember it anyways because if we have any such things in mind remembering our help then it says we are expecting things in return from them but I never did have that in my mind. I have come across people who are not trustworthy and at last not even penny worthy in their life when it comes to character but I stood by them. Human beings especially guys will forgive anything but they cannot forgive for breaking their trust.

Ultimately what leadership did for me was made me popular either for good or bad as people interpreted me. I never cared about them. I always eyed on the target and guided the people who also aimed that target it might be counting numbers or changing their life path. I never developed leadership qualities neither did I buy them nor borrowed them. I absorbed them for the surroundings, from the environment, from the good people who did good things for good people, from the bad people who did good things for bad people. I never followed them I never obeyed them because there was nothing for me to follow some other path or obey others I always had mine, I will definitely have a path in my mind. I only travel with people who are my co passengers to the path of target and revise my target as to reach target with my co passengers.I never initiated the things which I do not like.I never started against my destination just because people are travelling in the other path.what I do is just act according to my senses.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Mavalli Tiffin Room

This weekend I was in bengaluru to have a good time with my friend, so I flied to Bangalore on Saturday morning through spicejet, had a safe and nice journey. By the time I reached devanahalli, Bangalore there were signs of war in my stomach and anyways I reached my brother's room which I use as a refreshment room to get ready to meet my friend. Around 6 pm we started to think where should we go and in the world there is no place as good as it is for us if it is a famous hangout to eat. It should be a restaurant or cafe or some corner which should have eatables at a great or even good taste, then Mavalli Tiffin room strike in my mind. MAVALLI TIFFIN ROOM is said to be a place to visit in Bangalore by most of the traveling sites and blogs, so I decided sorry we decided to go there. I expected there would be lot of waiting time there but to my surprise there was no such waiting to get surprised any normal hotel with a good feedback will have that crowd and even they do not provide us good facilities to wait. I didn't like that. We almost got into the family room (I don't know why they named one of the rooms as family room) which had 2 towers of Voltas ac and one window ac that were manufactured at the time when Voltas started their production.I suggest them to clean the ac's once in a month atleast once in a year,for the god's sake MTR is pretty famous over the internet. There is no menu in Mavalli Tiffin Room. No mineral water I guess because when we asked them they didn't even reply about what we asked and gave us two glasses of municipal water of course they taste good with some amount of chlorine that exceeds the permissible level. For such a big hotel only one wash basin (a different one which has pedal tap we need to step on the pedal to turn on the tap unlike traditional one to turn the knob).coming to our order I Didn't understand the kannada they were speaking and to utmost confusion we finalized our order to rava idly, which people say they were the inventors or discoverers what should I say? And then extended our order to jamun (gulab jamun), poori one by two. Every thing was normal and tasted like it was home made nothing exceptional and out standing and I didn't find it worth to go after traveling almost 10 kilometers in Bangalore heavy traffic. Ambience was not good, I think the hotel was there to serve the hungry people but not for the ones who think to have a good hangout in the evenings with some nice food. My rating is 3/5.

Friday, June 13, 2008

My life has no journey, but destination(s) to travel.

How to hit target???!!!. this sounds like I am going to explain you guys how to hit a target but my intention was asking you how to hit a target.i.e..,the reason why I had a question marks, then an cute intelligent guy might get a question why the exclamatory marks after the question marks. Simple… 2 reasons

1) To confirm you that I had my own explanation why I had to have question marks
2) To show you how to hit the block hole (or black hole. I don't know, you must ask Ravi shasthri who uses this for zaheer khan's bowling at the slog over's asking him to hit the block (?) hole).

How to hit a target? Let the target be a destination of our journey,. Every life has journey, a journey of course has a destination. So here our target is a destination. So all that we need is a perfect known destination where should we reach. So as soon as we set our journey we decide a perfect, known, clear destination. Next we need to know the path which we should take, for that we need a road map and once we have a road map we need to start our journey towards the destination.
For me the road map was very clear, the destination was pretty clear as a highway road, since I am having my destination and roadmap crystal clear I should be ready with my journey towards the destination but the twist in the tale is I am not clear with my journey towards destination.

I follow KISS rule…B.Tech graduate in computer science with good academics, average communication skills, sorry moderate communication skills, Confused with journeys' like continue with my job in a very good MNC, not so fat pay cheque or switch to MS in US trying for top 20 universities in US..Ofcourse a good GRE score, good SOP, good recos get it I guess. Or wait for which my heart and mind feels like having MBA (why wait because I need a full time work experience post graduation to get into some of the top business schools. so many business schools do not need that in India, but have the plans to do it abroad)…I think I am laying the path to my destination to start the journey. A good work experience post graduation, climbing the hierarchy of the company positions in short period. Intern promoted to associate software engineer and now targeting software engineer.

Stick to your basics man rest the pitch will provide. Sreeshanth, R.P.singh., Zaheer almost every fast bowler said this after claiming a five wicket haul (Some special term is used for this).

SET YOUR TARGET, GET YOUR ROAD MAP DEFINED…START YOUR JOURNEY