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Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account. John Gardner Reference: FISH Book

Sometime back my colleague gave a presentation on the FISH Philosophy; it is a theory from John Christensen; which was derived by placing cameras in fish market to study the behaviour of workers working actively. As the book suggests, “When we choose to love the work we do, we can catch our limit of happiness, meaning and fulfillment every day.” The study shows how 75% of normal human life is consumed in work related areas as going to office, spending time in working and other such meagre activities and by the time Friday appears everyone sighs and says “Thank God its Friday” and gives their 100% of the energy. The promoters and writer proudly shares that this book will benefit the managers which will indeed increase employee retention and motivate people to take pride in what they do; so it says no work is small you should perform your duties with pride and enthusiasm. The story is a parable; an invented story about finding the deep source of energy, creativity and passion that exists...

Two weeks back I watched ‘Eclipse’ the sequel of ‘Twilight’ and ‘New Moon’; respectively. The movie is based on the Twilight saga written by Stephenie Meyer. As always the story revolves around the three protagonists of the movie; Edward, Bella and Jacob; where the author lets Jacob - the dashing werewolf 'eclipse' Edward. The competition between the two Edward and Jacob is very much prevalent in the movie; as the story moves on the competition between two of them takes a harder road ever after. The love triangle forecast that was clearly seen between Edward, Bella and Jacob in New Moon executes in Eclipse. Jacob; keeping every stone un-turned confesses his love for Bella. He states he is warm and alive, unlike Edward which makes him a better match for Bella. Bella is however desperate to take her relationship with Edward to next level while Edward disapproves of Bella jeopardizing her life and family for him. To add to the dilemmas of the trio is vampire Victoria who comes ba...

tum hote to aisa hota tum hote to vaisa hota, aur aaj agar chutti hoti to kaisa hota vo barish ka mausam, vo bijli ki garjan vo hawao ki aawaze vo baarish me ghoomna vo pani se khelna vo kagaz ki kashti banana use pani me yuhi chalana vo bachpan ke din yaad aate hai vo bachpan ke dost yaad aate hai vahi barish aaj bhi hai vahi dost aaj bhi hai par vo din kaha kho gaye vo raat kaha gayi, is bheed bhari duniya me sab kaha kho gaye akele baithe kabhi mai ye sochti hu kahi kisi roz vo bhi din aayenge jab hum saath baithe honge aur fir, jaam se jaam takrayenge tum hote to aisa hota tum hote to vaisa hota, aur aaj agar chutti hoti to kaisa hota...

Imagine you are about to start a new business or sign a deal or there is any auspicious moment you always share sweets before you start the work. Same is shown in the new ad from Dairy Milk with a new tagline “Shubh Arambh”; means “A good Start”. Cadbury always comes with new ad campaigns with the time and situation. The positioning of the chocolates have been substituted with sweets; as earlier for every good reason sweets were distributed; and now for every celebration/ auspicious occasion chocolates are given and even more; for every ‘Shubh Arambh’/ new beginning chocolates are shared. The company is playing with the emotional quotient of the viewers where it is clearly shown the transition of the acceptability of chocolates which over-shadowed the concept of sharing sweets. The ad starts with a sweet teenage girl relishing the chocolate bar and suddenly a college going lad comes to her and asks if she can give him a piece of chocolate; astonishly she asks him do I know you? The lad...

This is a common scenario with the corporate houses where the organizational structures are re-aligned for smoother operations in an organization. There are many compromises the Company has to do as per the requirements of the NEW management. One of the challenges faced by them would be studying the work graph of the employees and make them adjust in the new environment and accept the changes. It is said that changes are inevitable but changes should be accepted with open hands by the employees. The companies should come out of the shell of the BIG CORPORATE and should study their own SWOT and act on; the action and the analysis areas may be inside or outside their pre-determined shell. There can be lot many reasons for restructuring…be it less performance, all talks- no work, only work---no talks, no clear goal, no direction, no decision….and many more…everyone needs a change and a better change. With the advent of restructuring in the company the employee would be little skeptical as...

Recently; the symbol of Indian currency was finalized from 3000 entries; the winner will be awarded a huge amount. The numerical representation for the Indian rupee, which is a mix of the Devanagri ‘Ra’ and Roman ‘R’ will easily distinguish the Indian currency from other currencies from Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. The new symbol is the 5th one to join the club of currencies as US$, Euro €, Pound £ and Japanese Yen¥. The theme given to contestants was to play around with the Hindi letter Ra with two lines to “reflect and capture the Indian ethos and culture”. Personally, if I have to rate this symbol then I would say the symbol dint made any first appeal to me; I do respect the mind game of Udaya Kumar from IIT in creating this symbol; but I am happy that Indian currency will be differentiated well now with a new symbol. References: http://www.news-relay.com/latest-news/d-udaya-kumar-new-indian-currency-rupee-symbol-designed-by-d-udaya-kumar/ http://www.indiainfoline.com/M...