Walkers

Have you noticed the walkers, 50% of them are over weight. If walking need to make them fit, who are they. And you see the persons who play any kind of sports they are all fit. Check and do what you love, it helps you to have a regular schedule..

Discovery or Invention

We invented the wheel or discovered that a circular object helps to rotate and move things. Edison invented bulb or discovered that when we pass electricity through tungsten in the presence of an inert gas emits light. Laws of physics is same wherever we are, across the entire cosmos, and our discovery is very much limited to our needs.

Invention is finding something which doesn't conform to the Laws of physics and there are so many. Language is an invention, it has rules but quite different in different places and languages. Religion is an invention, all fictional stories are inventions, but electricity or nuclear energy, engines, rockets are all Discoveries. The entire number system is an invention, if we had 13 fingers, we would have a completely different number system, on base of 13 rather than 10.

As Penn Jillette said about religion,  you wipe out and restart this entire world, all the discovery will remain the same. All the inventions ll be completely different.

Management theories

Management theories are designed to maximize the shareholder value and this is going too far. Even the best of the leaders including HR professionals working for maximizing the shareholder value and the employee welfare takes a back stage. The best organization & the CEO' s are the ones who get the best of the team and team members do the best they can, ignoring their personal well being. Time that the we take cognisance of that and create the necessary balance.

Top 10%

What do you do to retain your top 10% of your employees. They set the benchmarks which drives the rest of the 90% of the employees. Here is an organization which says that their attrition is low and they don't pay well. There is no difference between top and average performer, people stay here for years and loyalty is termed as the number of years you stay in that organization. It continued to lose most of the top 10% and the balance became average performers because there is no reason for them to perform. Result is that the benchmarks are far lower than the competition and the entire organization got into a spiral of bad performances resulting in lower pay and further exodus of best performers.

First find a way out to identify the top 10%, some of them are hard workers, consistent performers, some of them are rebels, disruptors. Then find a way to retain them and finally find a way to get the best out of them.

And the top 10% also holds good for the customers and  your entire supply chain. What are we doing about it..

Are you so busy!

Summary of the HBR Article " 4 Ways busy people sabotage themselves" by Alice Boyes:


Do things that are important and not urgent
Take breaks between your schedule, expand your narrow thinking
Create better systems for solving recurring problems
Don't use escape methods for coping with anxiety, Be compassionate with yourself

Wow

Today's wow.. 

The escalator button where you can press anywhere on the plate not just on the small arrow..

Loyalty

What is that, is that saying "yes" to your superiors or  perfect alignment with the organization or working hard as you can..

My definition of loyalty is doing "what is right for the organization" even if it means say "no" to your CEO and not getting aligned with the organization..