My First Mobile Blog!

So, what is this all about? May be about Mobile Blog, will explain later... Bought a new MOTO Q9 phone, which I have been waiting for quiet a long time... I actually gave up on Moto phones, once i had N95 in my hand! When i saw Moto Q, I couldnot resist my temptation in SWIPING my Credit Card to buy this ONE! Tell you am really on the Cloud 9!

MOTO Q9 is simplyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy AMAZING!

Hell lot of features, and additional applications (@ COST) available on the Web...

I strongly recommend if you are on the mobile (especially in Airports, Bangalore Traffic, Railway Station, Bus-stand, or wherever) and want to tap the Data network both for fun as well as for Productivity, MOTO Q9 is the answer..........

Time to say again "HELLO MOTO!"

To do the justice for the image.... Isnt it toooooooooooo CUTE!

This is around 17 year old snap of my 2 cousins, Anup and Kedar (Right to Left) with Kedar's Mom giving a support hand! We wanted it on a mug and so got it scanned! Trial of Hotmail on Moto Q made this image to land on MotoQ. Then a trial of mobile blog made this to land on blogspot.com.. Am adding some Text meat to make it a post... The Text was from the desktop... [:)]

Identifying a Loser in a Leader!

Here are my thoughts about "How I could see a Loser in a Leader" in 3 environments - one in a decent Startup, then in a Mid-size Telecom Service Provider and other in a Global Fortune 100 Company!

Trait #1 - Being a Dumb Lier!
Lieing to Audience!
First observe the Body Language - The Body language says "I am a Total Loser!". Because of the fact that we might have seen them earlier on numerous occassions, we just ignore this Body Language and the Leader gets the benefit of Doubt!

Second - You hear statements like this
"I (/We) have been travelling non-stop for past 2 - 4 weeks interacting with partners, customers, govt - all are excited about our technology! We have a great Future"

You get to hear this quiet often -
"Guys the market is Huge, Great! Its ocean out there! All we need to do is Just DO IT", as if the audience really didnot have any sense of what is it out there! "What is out there" is just COMMON SENSE!

Trait #2 - Looking for a Scape Goat!
Not-even Shouldering the Responsibility!
The Leaders though they would have read enough number of times that never put failures on somebody's shoulder, fail to "Walk This Talk"!

You hear -
"I arrived at a Perfect Strategy and asked u to do this /focus on this / your team is expected to do this.You guys dint do it and we fail!"

Though this is less seen outside the boardroom, if one observes a basic level of communication, you get to see a Frustration (/ OverJoy) that conveys all! [:D]

My personal observation has been
. Steve Waugh - in case of a loss, he always use to say - I take the Personal responsibility for this defeat! This way u instill the confidence in the team and be a TRUE leader rather than a Momentary Leader!
. Have seen this trait in only Manager (/ CXO) I have worked with. Rest around 10 are utter DHUD
. You can make out at the Cricket Match Presentation Ceremony whether the Losing Captain is a Leader or a Loser [:))]

Trait #3 - Speak About Work Accomplished in Past!
Take Responsibility of Previous Successes! Itz like Mungerilal Ka Sapna!

Leader Never Speaks About His Work! If he speaks he definitely is a Loser!

"I built the company from a team of 3 to 25! I built an amazing team! But the current team lacks the instinct. I wish I had that kind of team!"

"I was totally responsible in taking the company from US$ 1 M to US$ 200M. I did it! I see similar opportunity here!"

"I have been working off late with CXO1, CXO2 and Senior Management to re-build the organization!I am working Very Hard, Stretching, Work 24 X 7"

Week Long Celebrations - Day 1- Mission T20

Post my last post, the gala week long events started to unveil, to mark my decade long work :))! Indeed this was a very memorable week!
Day1 - Sept 19 2007 - Mission T2020!

Like any other Cricket Crazy Fan of a > 1 Billion Cricket Crazy Nation, I embraced the T20 World Cup with open arms and Eye Balls glued to the TV Sets! Even if India had not performed well, I still would have been pretty excited having witnessed the Fast, High Quality and Close Cricket Matches!

Zimbabwe defeating Australia and Bangladesh beating WI was just an indication that unlike the boring 50 over ODI WC, this was very different and going to be real fun!

England v India at Durban - Sep 19, 2007
As was in the process of interacting with prospective investors, who can enable me to move of the Corporate Life, had a meeting with one of the very promising prospective investor and so missed initial few overs of the match (around 7 overs)!
When I came back and started viewing the telecast it was 70/0 in 8 overs, Sehwag and Gambhir were still at the crease. This enabled us with a solid platform for good score! The onslaught by Yuvi turned it to be a VERY HUGE Score! What a performance by Yuvi hitting 6 balls over the boundary and several rows back! It was a performance of a life time and very rare showcase of Perfect Hitting!

No words to describe the excitement that this caused and set the perfect platform for the rest of the week to start! BTW the fund raising meeting (/s) [earlier in the day during morning there was an another meeting] related to my objective resulted in 30% of the investment goal! A Perfect way to START! Isn't IT?

Score Card - http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/twenty20wc/engine/match/287873.html
Images - http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/twenty20wc/content/image/index.html?object=287873

Real Inspiration after a Decade of being an Engineer!

Well let me rewind back to exactly a decade and 3 days, i.e. Sept 15th 1997! It was officially my last day @ SJCE, Mysore! The 4 years (93-97) went like a flier with only focus on passing out of Engineering College and live upto dreams of a typical Indian Middle-Class Parents! Initially the focus was to fare well wrt Marks Sheet in every Internal and Semester Exam! After 3rd semester results, the focus shifted to just clearing the semester exams! On Sept 15 1997, after the External Viva I felt I did IT! But wasnot sure, what future was in-store! I wasnot even sure what significance Sept 15 had till a decade later i.e. Sept 18 2007 until I read this article!

I thank Bala for this forward. Always, I use to look at West Technology Geeks for the inspiration! The article beside is a brief consolidated information of a Simple Man who has so many credits to himself. We need to be gratitude for this great man! Without his vision and seeds for the same we might not have had the so called Great Professional Lives!

If you donot understand the beside Script, you can access this link which is not a translation but brief info about Bharat Ratna Sir MV!

I guess apart from naming the Colleges, Universities on the Great Man, the Government (rather University / College) has to give a Short Biography of Sir MV for every graduating Engineer! But that might dilute the value of the book. :)) As most of graduating engineers (including us) donot attend the Graduation Day functions, I guess a 5-minute talk on Sir MV during the Valedictory Function would be a good tribute and set standards or inspiration for some percentage of Serious Engineering Profession Seekers. I guess the accomplishments would be definite inspiration for Technopreneurs!

Sept 15 is BharatRatna Sir MV's Birthday which is officially Engineer's Day as a mark of respect to the great MAN!

Isnt it a great feeling having graduated on a Engineer's Day? Though realised a decade later, I am completely THRILLED!

How to Cash in on GOLD RUSH?

For the week Starting AUgust 19 2007, the prediction based on the SUn Sign is as seen in left! How nice it feels when one sees something like this! Well is this applicable to all the capricorns? Or only few or even only one or two amongst the capris in the world? Or is it all this is simple 'RUBBISH'! If the prediction is rubbish, are the gaga and predictions that appear in every media based on the Sun-Sign is just to fool around the readers? Am not sure and not knowledgeable enuff to pass on my judgement! I keep looking at this column usually on the newspaper and set my mood for the day! But whatever i am seeing on Left is simply great! What should I do to cash in on GOLD RUSH? Is the GOLD RUSH really for me are some of the sample questions running thru my mind. Should I blow this up into a bigger image take a color print out frame this up and put it onto the wall hoping for a miracle to happen? That way am atleast knowedgeable to say that it definitely wont happen!

Definitely

1. My Mind is Hyperactive at this point of time and I feel really I am on a higher Plane
2. Based on the study and analysis I have done over last few weeks, I have figured out there are tremendous opportunites. But regarding opening up, to whom is it for? Is it for me? If so, simply sitting and day-dreaming on what all I could do after cashing in on gold without working on to get gold really help? Should I act now? If so what action should I take? If not for me is it for a capricorn colleague with whom i constantly fight over messenger as she sits in an another building or is it for an another (unknown) capricorn colleague, whose blogs are simply amazing and take me to a higher plane of thinking!
3. The chances galore to emerge as a victor is simply taking me to a higher plane than the one suggested above!

Let me look at the ways towards becoming a victor -

1. Real Estate - Hmm... What do i need to do in real estate? Lately am constantly using the plastic card (credit card) to send in some real estate into my stomach then where the hell can i get the money to invest into this? There can be some other options so this is still open. Elited minds can suggest me some thoughts on this
2. In herited Wealth - Completely Ruled out - No more explaination on this [;)]. The wealth got eroded to make me today what I am
3. New collaborations - What Collaborations? Is the wedding a collaboration? But havent got a gal yet! [:)]
4. Joint Finances - Completely ruled out too, But can still be an option if some one considers my thoughts are worth some riches and comes forward to invest.. SO still this option OPEN
5. RENTALS? - Dont have anything to rent except for heart! Bcoz Mind and Time lent on rent to my employer! Shelter of my own is already out on rent! "Heart on Rent" probably is a good new business model as the BODY on rent on an hourly basis, nightly basis can lead to behind bars, health related ailments for ever, also body is not a machine etc.. [:D] But who would want Heart on Rent! Anyways abt the Body am sure my body is not worth letting out on rent! So option CLOSED, If not for innovative suggestion other than letting my 4 wheeler on rent! [;)]
6. LUCRATIVE is what am desperate for so that i can get even on with the life from negative BANK Balance...

As my friend IDEA NAREN (the supreme consciousness in the making [;)] ) suggests, "based on KARMA in the past life or this life, opportunities galore are open for a person, to make it big provided he or she contantly keeps mind, eyes, ears open and take action"!

So what action should I take? Suggest me! Will share little GOLD with u on getting the GOLD! [:)]

BTW keep visiting, this is getting interesting!

Flower Feast @ Lalbagh - Dont MISS!

No Words to Describe the Event!

WAH TAJ

How about this to MARS? - Risk yaako Aliens might end up straight to our Lalbagh!

Simply Superb! Love (/Mating ??) Season starts(?) if u can make out the BEE in it!

Different Activities along with a Remote Viewer!

Lit Glass House in Evening!

Impressive Success Story!

As I am going through the "From Concept to Hyper-growth" Video on YouTube by one of the Co-founders of YouTube - "Jawed Karim", I thought for a while, after Sanjaya Mallakar, it was time for Jawed to be on my Blog. Below is the Video shared from YouTube



By the way, how did i get onto this Video. In continuation of my thoughts after my last post, there were queries in my mind, how are the other guys doing? That meant to the companies like MSFT, GOOG, APPLE! A brief info based on the Q2 2007 results, and some crude and simple analysis similar to what i posted on Sasken.

• Google with 13748 full-time employees generated US$3.87 Billion last quarter with Profit After Tax (PAT) being 1.1 Billion US$. That meant every employee was contributing US$ 80,011 per quarter which meant 0.32 million US$ profit a year! This is really incredible!
• Apple with 20186 full(and part) -time employees generated US$5.41 Billion last quarter with Profit After Tax (PAT) being 818 Million US$. That meant every employee was contributing profit of US$ 40,523 per quarter which meant 0.16 million US$ profit a year!
• Microsoft with 76000 full-time employees world wide generated US$13.37 Billion last quarter with Profit After Tax (PAT) being 3.035 Billion US$. That meant every employee was contributing US$ 39,934 per quarter which meant 0.16 million US$ profit a year!

These three are currently the best IT Software(MS / Apple) / Hardware(Apple / MS) / Service(Ads - Google / MS) Companies!

When I did end up searching how GOOGLE name was born, ended up on Wikipedia and the page had info about Youtube which topped the list of the highest disclosed paid acquisition by Google. So what is the background of YouTube? Founded by three engineers with an Average age of 28 during Feb 2005 was acquired by Google in Oct 2006 for a whooping sum of US $ 1.65 billion. The fact that 17 month old company being acquired for US $ 1.65 billion is remarkable!

Let us get back to India and lets see the top 4 IT companies and see their story wrt last quarter

• Infy with 75971 employees generated US$872 Million last quarter with Profit After Tax (PAT) being 253 Million US$. That meant every employee was contributing US$ 3,324 per quarter which meant 13296 US$ profit a year! Is this really credible? WIll share my thoughts below
• TCS with 94902 employees generated US$1.3 Billion last quarter with Profit After Tax (PAT) being 291 Million US$. That meant every employee was contributing profit of US$ 3,066 per quarter which meant 12264 US$ profit a year!
• WIPRO with 72137 employees generated US$1.07 Billion last quarter with Profit After Tax (PAT) being 175 Million US$. That meant every employee was contributing US$ 2426 per quarter which meant 9704 US$ profit a year!
• Satyam with 38381 employees generated US$452 Million last quarter with Profit After Tax (PAT) being 93 Million US$. That meant every employee was contributing US$ 2426 per quarter which meant 9704 US$ profit a year!

It is surprising to see how similar the results are wrt Satyam and Wipro though their employee numbers and the Revenue numbers are very different! May be they are operating at a very optimal level by adopting the best practices etc. That is a different story!

Microsoft with US$ 44.2 Billion $ last year (2007) was ranked 49th in Fortune 500 companies. Sunguard with US$ 4.323 Billion was ranked 500th in the list. Here is the Full List! May be this year definitely Wipro and TCS will be qualified to be in the list! But i guess that list is for companies in US. Keeping that apart, since entire work engaged done by these companies is based on outsourcing it would be really worthwhile to see how will they respond to the challenge when the heat is ON! Will it be Cuts, CUts, and more Job Cuts especially because of the fact that IT industry in india has started greying with HIGH Salaries!

I guess a succesful product company like iFlex can be a good example for these folks to focus and be balanced to face the HEAT that might arise tomorrow! With the gigantic Size to which they have grown up to, is the time too late to react?

Remind you, it is not that these guys never tried doing products, both WIPRO and Infy have burnt good money in the process!

Coming to my earlier reference in the above Infy results posting, the only worry is if 25% work is not outsourced (may be

• OBAMA could be the reason if he wins the next election or
• OSAMA - can he still be the reason?) ,

assuming 25% engineers on bench, will Infy, Wipro, TCS be able to retain them their balance sheet would turn RED, RED, RED, VERY RED!

The above video can inspire some minds eventually that could lead to atleast one product (/ service similar to google unlike peanut IT service) out of India that could be bought @ 1 US$ Billion, which might set the change for the new entrepreneurs! :)

BTW I got handful amount of info on ITTIUM which is entirely a out-of-the-box company focussing on IP and their revenue model being licensing and royalty on the IP owned by them!