<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899</id><updated>2009-10-13T12:24:42.807-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Samridhi Gandhi</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-5480949522750140053</id><published>2009-08-16T07:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-16T07:05:45.006-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Adventure Island'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Today I went to Adventure Island with my cousins, and took all the adventurous 'scary' rides..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Huge fun.. I dint miss even a single scary ride.. just to find out they were just not all that bad..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Loved the whole experience.. :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-5480949522750140053?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/5480949522750140053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/5480949522750140053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2009/08/today-i-went-to-adventure-island-with.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-8494854980064918534</id><published>2009-08-01T18:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-01T18:28:16.977-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>An all time favorite for me :-) - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ef55DwrXV58&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ef55DwrXV58&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-8494854980064918534?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/8494854980064918534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/8494854980064918534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2009/08/all-time-favorite-for-me.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-2367432227181459005</id><published>2009-07-22T10:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T11:01:27.422-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Are you emotionally bonded Organization?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/careers/managementiq/archives/2007/12/are_you_emotion.html"&gt;http://www.businessweek.com/careers/managementiq/archives/2007/12/are_you_emotion.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-2367432227181459005?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/2367432227181459005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/2367432227181459005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2009/07/are-you-emotionally-bonded-organization.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-7219280901438063724</id><published>2009-07-22T10:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T10:48:31.420-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;A very interesting article on emotionally bonded organizations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/careers/managementiq/archives/2007/12/are_you_emotion.html"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.businessweek.com/careers/managementiq/archives/2007/12/are_you_emotion.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-7219280901438063724?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/7219280901438063724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/7219280901438063724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2009/07/very-interesting-article-on-emotionally.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-4783254730614457748</id><published>2009-07-22T10:43:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T10:45:43.652-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Bill Gates' Business Mantras&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dsqOI5YEnrc/SmdP8JW6o8I/AAAAAAAABmo/4ZnvFr4eizM/s1600-h/bill_gates.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 124px; height: 160px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dsqOI5YEnrc/SmdP8JW6o8I/AAAAAAAABmo/4ZnvFr4eizM/s320/bill_gates.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361341776130646978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;What makes Bill Gates influential global business thinker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;William Henry Gates III (b. 1955) was born in Seattle. He won a place at Harvard but dropped out, partly through lack of confidence in his teachers. In 1976 his interest in electronics propelled him to found with his friend Paul Allen a company for writing software for micro-electronic devices called Microsoft. Their first product was a version of the programming language BASIC for the primitive Altair 8800, the first personal computer in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Five years later they licensed an operating system MS DOS to IBM for use with that company's nascent personal computer. Gates and Allen retained the right to use and develop the system themselves. Gates had a mission, to put a personal computer (using Microsoft software and programming languages) on every desk and in every home. IBM felt that the PC was at most a fad or a toy. The personal computer market mushroomed throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and with it grew the success of Microsoft.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bill Gates likes to portray himself as something of a techno-prophet, but neither he nor Microsoft have a sure Midas touch. He was at first dismissive of the Internet, seeing it as a geek's plaything. Once he realised his mistake he made a high-speed U-turn. The result has included Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft's operating system for networks and servers, Microsoft NT, was an expensive flop, and not a few computer professionals see Microsoft software as "bug-infested" and unreliable. Gates decided in 1998 to re-organise the company under the banner of VV2 (Vision Version 2). It was split into eight autonomous units. Gates himself, while remaining at the Microsoft helm, has taken less of a hands-on approach in recent years. He devotes more of his time to work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's richest.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bill Gates does not belong to any university faculty. He doesn't consult or coach. Neither does he lecture. He is not a hermit and his thoughts on management have been made widely available, through his two books The Road Ahead (1995) and Business @ the Speed of Thought (1999). His involvement with his company and with the industry as a whole has always been transparent. People could see (some of) what he was doing at Microsoft.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He has always had quite a lot to say about strategy. In the manner of management gurus he has isolated six things that a company should do to achieve success in any market. It should:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Concentrate on a market with big potential and few competitors&lt;br /&gt;2. Get in early and go in big&lt;br /&gt;3. Set up a proprietary position&lt;br /&gt;4. Protect that position using every method available&lt;br /&gt;5. Aim for high gross margins or the highest available&lt;br /&gt;6. Make customers an offer they find hard, if not impossible, to refuse&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Microsoft is a knowledge company. Its assets are its highly-skilled and creative workers. It is held together by a digital nervous system (DNS) of e-mail, allowing instant connectivity. This also allowed a high degree of supervision to Gates when he was active. He could supervise and comment upon even the smallest detail of the work of individual employees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some visitors have likened Microsoft's headquarters to a university campus. There are&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lots of opportunities for brain-storming, sharing ideas and generally interacting in as informal a way as possible. Gates has always sought to inject the organisation with vital components. There are five, all of which begin with the letter 'E':&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Enrichment - employees are attracted by high salaries and retained through generous option schemes&lt;br /&gt;- Egalitarianism&lt;br /&gt;- Empowerment&lt;br /&gt;- E-mail&lt;br /&gt;- Emphasis on Performance – employees' performances are assessed twice-yearly. They receive a mark on a one-to-five scale. A 'four' is extraordinarily good: a 'one' means they're fired.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bill Gates is not a management guru in the sense of others. He does not preach, except to his own employees. He does not intimate that what works (or has worked) for Microsoft can be translated into success elsewhere. But his very success inevitably means that what he does at Microsoft is an object of study and emulation by others.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-4783254730614457748?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/4783254730614457748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/4783254730614457748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2009/07/bill-gates-business-mantras-what-makes.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dsqOI5YEnrc/SmdP8JW6o8I/AAAAAAAABmo/4ZnvFr4eizM/s72-c/bill_gates.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-909760582764194219</id><published>2009-07-22T09:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T10:35:42.279-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Tomahawk - the world's fastest bike&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is 8200CC bike. It's like riding a two-wheeled train engine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dsqOI5YEnrc/SmdEKioI4fI/AAAAAAAABmg/QNmDcZYvJKA/s1600-h/bike.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dsqOI5YEnrc/SmdEKioI4fI/AAAAAAAABmg/QNmDcZYvJKA/s320/bike.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361328829292405234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-909760582764194219?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/909760582764194219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/909760582764194219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2009/07/tomahawk-worlds-fastest-bike-this-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dsqOI5YEnrc/SmdEKioI4fI/AAAAAAAABmg/QNmDcZYvJKA/s72-c/bike.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-963323872913568818</id><published>2009-07-21T10:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T09:33:07.327-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Here is another funny cool interview:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: Tell me about yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: I am Rameshwar Kulkarni. I did my Tele Communication&lt;br /&gt;engineering from BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology? I had&lt;br /&gt;never heard of this college before!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: Great! Even I had not heard of it before getting an&lt;br /&gt;admission into it ..&lt;br /&gt;What happened is - due to cricket world cup I scored badly! in&lt;br /&gt;12th.I was getting a paid seat in a good college.&lt;br /&gt;But my father said (I prefer to call him 'baap') - "I can not&lt;br /&gt;invest so much of money".(The baap actually said - "I&lt;br /&gt;will never waste so much of money on you"). So I had to join this&lt;br /&gt;college.. Frankly speaking this name - BabanRao Dhole-Patil, can at the most&lt;br /&gt;be&lt;br /&gt;related to a Shetakari Mahavidyalaya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: ok, ok. It seems you have taken 6 years to complete&lt;br /&gt;your engineering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: Actually I tried my best to finish it in 4 years. But&lt;br /&gt;you know, these cricket matches and football&lt;br /&gt;world cup, and tennis tournaments. It is difficult to concentrate.&lt;br /&gt;So I flunked in 2nd and 3rd year. So in all I took&lt;br /&gt;4 + 2 = 7 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: But 4+2 is 6.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: Oh, is it? You know I always had KT in maths. But I&lt;br /&gt;will try to keep this in mind. 4+2 is 6, good,&lt;br /&gt;thanks. These cricket matches really affect exams a lot. I think&lt;br /&gt;they should ban it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: Good to know that you want cricket matches to be&lt;br /&gt;banned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: No, no... I am talking about Exams!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: Ok, What is your biggest achievement in life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: Obviously, completing my Engineering. My mom never&lt;br /&gt;thought I would complete it. In fact, when i&lt;br /&gt;flunked in 3rd year, she was looking for a job for me in BEST (Bus&lt;br /&gt;corporation in Maharashtra) through some relative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: Do you have any plans of higher study?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: he he he.. Are you kidding? Completing 'lower'&lt;br /&gt;education itself was so much of pain!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: Let's talk about technical stuff. On which platforms&lt;br /&gt;have you worked?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: Well, I work at SEEPZ, so you can say Andheri is my&lt;br /&gt;current platform. Earlier I was at Vashi center. So Vashi was my platform&lt;br /&gt;then. As you can see I have&lt;br /&gt;experience of different platforms! (Vashi and Andheri are the places in&lt;br /&gt;Mumbai)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: And which languages have you used?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: Marathi, Hindi, English. By the way, I can keep quiet&lt;br /&gt;in German, French, Russian and many other languages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: Why VC is better than VB?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: It is a common sense - C comes after B. So VC is a&lt;br /&gt;higher version than VB. I heard very soon they&lt;br /&gt;are coming up with a new language VD!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: Do you know anything about Assembly Language?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: Well, I have not heard of it. But I guess, this is the&lt;br /&gt;language our ministers and MPs use in assembly.&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: What is your general project experience?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: My general experience about projects is - most of th! e&lt;br /&gt;times they are in pipeline!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: Can you tell me about your current job?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: Sure, Currently I am working for Bata InfoTech ltd.&lt;br /&gt;Since joining BIL, I am on Bench. Before joining&lt;br /&gt;BIL, I used to think that Bench was another software like Windows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: Do you have any project management experience?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: No, but I guess it shouldn't be difficult. I know&lt;br /&gt;Word and Excel. I can talk a lot. I know how to&lt;br /&gt;dial for International phone call and use speaker facility. And&lt;br /&gt;very important - I know few words like -&lt;br /&gt;'Showstoppers ' , 'hotfixes',&lt;br /&gt;'SEI-CMM','quality','versioncontrol','deadlines' , 'Customer&lt;br /&gt;Satisfaction' etc. Also I can blame others for my mistakes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: What are your expectations from our company?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate: Not much.&lt;br /&gt;1. I should at least get 40,000 in hand.&lt;br /&gt;2. I would like to work on a live EJB project. But it should not&lt;br /&gt;have deadlines. I personally feel that pressure affects natural talent.&lt;br /&gt;3. I believe in flexi-timings.&lt;br /&gt;4. Dress code is against basic freedom, so I would like to wear&lt;br /&gt;t-shirt and jeans.&lt;br /&gt;5. We must have sat-sun off. I will suggest Wednesday off also, so&lt;br /&gt;as to avoid breakdown due to overwork.&lt;br /&gt;6. I would like to go abroad 3 times a year on short term&lt;br /&gt;preferably 1-2 months) assignments. Personally I prefer&lt;br /&gt;US, Australia and Europe. But considering the fact that there is Olympics&lt;br /&gt;coming up in&lt;br /&gt;China in the current year, I don't mind&lt;br /&gt;going there in that period. As you can see I am modest and don't&lt;br /&gt;have many expectations. So can I assume my selection?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interviewer: he he he ha ha ha. Thanks for your interest in our&lt;br /&gt;organization. In fact I was never entertained so much before. Welcome to&lt;br /&gt;INFOSYS..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The fellow was appointed in a newly created section 'Stress Management' in&lt;br /&gt;the HRD of Infosys.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-963323872913568818?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/963323872913568818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/963323872913568818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2009/07/here-is-another-funny-cool-interview.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-4288156778675478159</id><published>2009-07-21T09:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T09:33:34.857-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Are you going to finish strong'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The most inspiring video: It does not matter how many times u fall down, just stand up each time and try again.. what matters is the end result.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the most wonderful video:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.maniacworld.com/are-you-going-to-finish-strong.html"&gt;http://www.maniacworld.com/are-you-going-to-finish-strong.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-4288156778675478159?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/4288156778675478159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/4288156778675478159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2009/07/most-inspiring-video-it-does-not-matter.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-2425733769718304005</id><published>2009-07-21T09:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-21T09:38:53.611-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dsqOI5YEnrc/SmXukE_kzKI/AAAAAAAABmY/SRecWNqLYIw/s1600-h/lamborghini-reventon-side-view-thumbnail.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 146px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dsqOI5YEnrc/SmXukE_kzKI/AAAAAAAABmY/SRecWNqLYIw/s320/lamborghini-reventon-side-view-thumbnail.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360953235037539490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Here is my favorite car: Lamborghini Reventon ($1,600,000)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most powerful Lamborghini ever built. It takes 3.3 seconds to reach 60 mph and it has a top speed of 211 mph.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-2425733769718304005?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/2425733769718304005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/2425733769718304005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2009/07/here-is-my-favorite-car-lamborghini.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dsqOI5YEnrc/SmXukE_kzKI/AAAAAAAABmY/SRecWNqLYIw/s72-c/lamborghini-reventon-side-view-thumbnail.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-7226300167478455672</id><published>2009-07-19T05:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-19T05:09:16.186-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XnrRS20_CsQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XnrRS20_CsQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-7226300167478455672?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/7226300167478455672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/7226300167478455672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-8414027910521124621</id><published>2009-07-17T10:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-13T08:41:22.596-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='About Me'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;About Me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a complete description about myself - for all those who want to know me.. Here I'm about to do a lot of sweet talk about myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a person with big dreams, and always look for ways to reach and achieve them. A very determined person - I give my best to achieve my goals. And thanks to God I have also been fairly lucky till date. God does listen to me..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to live life to the fullest and love the fun, zeal and challenges that life has to offer.. Well a 'tadka' of challenges makes life interesting.. Well obviously this shows I have tremendous risk appetite. I love to experiment new ideas, try out new and interesting things, and I am also not afraid of making small mistakes. Because God has given me enough courage and strength to stand back if I fall.. Well obviously major mistakes / failures need to be avoided and I do try to keep cautious about that, since I don't like to fail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are also a few people in my life who have immensely influenced me. Professionally I have been trained under the best people. I have learnt many skills from them. I shall always be grateful to them and it's a commitment that I have made to myself.. that I shall be always bring pride to them for our association. God help me in returning back what I have taken from your angels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rest I am a fairly honest person, good person, always help others - always like to keep everybody happy. Small trifles - r never what I create an issue of .. Low in materialism, 'money' is just 'expenditure power' for me, and my expenses are not very high.. I want to earn a lot of money as a mark of achievement and power. But it does not and can not take a more important position than that. Any day, human emotions, people respect would be more important for me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, to my relationships, friendships - I give my 100% and expect 100% in return. It is difficult to give ur 100% and not expect anything from the other side.. I don't believe in the concept - karm kiye jao fal ki ichha mat karo. I would rather prefer to b at a place where I am able to give my complete best as well as get equivalent returns in return.. That is also my biggest weakness that I resent when my expectations do not meet.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-8414027910521124621?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/8414027910521124621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/8414027910521124621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2009/07/about-me-here-is-complete-description.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-7652336353982130891</id><published>2009-07-14T10:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-18T09:51:48.870-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='6 questions to ask while starting a business'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;6 questions to ask while starting a business&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inc.com/ss/6-questions-ask-starting-business#0"&gt;http://www.inc.com/ss/6-questions-ask-starting-business#0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-7652336353982130891?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/7652336353982130891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/7652336353982130891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2009/07/httpwww.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-4354909021204304824</id><published>2009-07-12T02:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-12T02:54:58.796-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;AIR INDIA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The corporate mistakes of Air India is striking and is worth writing of..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Air India's financial health was poor and as a means of caution the management deferred the salaries of the employees for the month of June / July. But the move back-fired as it alerted all the vendors, lenders and other service providers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Frankfurt Airport, the carrier's international hub of operations is demanding the bank guarantees for continuation of services. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Civil Aviation Minister Mr. Praful Patel has held the company employees responsible. Air India has accumulated a loss of Rs. 7200 Cr. upto March'09.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hold the management responsible for the crisis...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-4354909021204304824?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/4354909021204304824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/4354909021204304824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2009/07/corporate-mistakes-of-air-india-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-4535855326292913952</id><published>2009-07-12T02:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-12T02:38:55.168-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cyber insurance'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;CYBER INSURANCE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cyber insurance is fast becoming a necessity for companies. For the Insurers it promises to open up a new avenue of growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Why cyber insurance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's face it - what is the most dreaded thing today? Fire? Well, the insurers take care of that, don't they? Death of the director, maybe… Nope the insurers are there again with their key person insurance. Loss of data, right? Well we all have excellent disaster recovery plans - and the back up sits in such idyllic locations as Alaska, so no problem there either! Traditional insurance covers just about everything a Brick and Mortar Company can face today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what if someone defaces your site with inflammatory messages leaving everybody visiting your site doubting your credibility? What if someone steals your cyber money? If someone introduces a virus into your system and all your partner companies' systems go kaput, who answers? Talking of which, who do you think is responsible should a partner's system inadvertently infect your site with a virus? When someone steals your customer information, are you responsible for the breach?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Ecommerce world thus poses a range of risks - fraud, theft, espionage and a million other such things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's clear, the more technology advances and increases the quality of life, the more will the cyber crime brains help keep the economy from becoming hyper efficient.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A recent CSI/ FBI survey*** of 223 companies that were able to estimate their financial losses due to cyber crime, revealed the figure to be a whopping $460 million. Theft of proprietary information accounted for 37% of the estimated loss while fraud set the companies back by about 25%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The risk is undoubtedly there and the need for insurance imminent. The question we need to ask is whether there something we can do about it. The answer seems to be cyber insurance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hour has produced the product, but it's still as naïve and immature as a newborn baby. But at least, it's begun and a good start is half done. So let's leap into the brave new world of cyber insurance and how the future looks. Before we do so however, we need to understand the evolving relationship between the Internet and the Insurance industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Major Players and Products in market&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AIG, Chubb, Marsh and a host of others have already entered the fray with a host of policies covering different types and levels of cyber risk. While third party insurance is more commonly offered, first party products have also begun to appear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recent reports from studies by reputed bodies indicate that Ecommerce Insurance would generate $2.5 Billion in premium by 2005. In anticipation of this boom, the players have started offering products that cover all the key risks specific to the new economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A presentation from AIG summarizes the risks which are most relevant today* - Web Content based liability (libel, slander, copyright and trademark infringement), Professional Errors and Omissions Liability such as in the rendering or failing to render professional services for others for a fee and Network Security Liability &amp; Loss. All these risks can now be covered, albeit in a limited way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Trends and Issues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the industry is now getting a good handle on the key risks that need to be insured, the science of quantifying cyber risks is still in its infancy.Traditionally, the actuaries had a lot of historical data, which helped them predict the incidence of risks to a nicety. Errors in estimation were few and far in between. The definition of the fine print in the policies was rather water tight too - both the insurers and the companies knew what was being offered and what wasn't (sure there were quite a few disputed claims - but then now we are stepping into the lawyer market!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With cyber insurance, none of this is true. Historical data is scarce, and what little is there is not cast in stone either. Estimations of damage due to virus attacks vary dramatically. The perceptions of possible future risks are equally volatile. Companies and the insurers have no real answers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The result is that we have rather expensive guesstimates - in 2001, the average annual cyber policy premium was $45,000 with a $10 million liability limit. One other issue is the rather low liability limit. While liability coverage of over $100 million may interest a corporate behemoth, cyber insurance today offers a very low liability coverage ($10M to $25M).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Endpoint&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question though is how cyber insurance will grow over the years. It is clear that lack of enough data and the resulting uncertainty is proving to be a bit of a dampener. The smaller companies are content with lower coverage but at low premiums while the corporate types may be willing to part with sizeable premiums but need large coverage. The insurance companies today are able to provide only limited coverage at rather exorbitant prices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The solution seems to be in the hands of the IT consultants. These people understand technology better than most and need to be in a position to evaluate future risks to survive in the industry. Thus, they are perhaps best equipped to help the insurance companies predict the risks and define premiums.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps comprehensive technological audits in view of a company's current technological infrastructure and future Ecommerce needs are the key to success, perhaps not. One thing is however clear - a "brave new world" is unfolding. There will be successes and failures, but the biggest victors will be those who get their hands dirty first.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-4535855326292913952?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/4535855326292913952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/4535855326292913952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2009/07/normal-0-microsoftinternetexplorer4.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-115186660801920605</id><published>2006-07-02T10:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-11T10:00:37.675-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Gender and Communications in Business&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neelam Dhawan of Microsoft India; Kiran Mazumdar of Biocon, Lalita Gupte of ICICI Bank, Naina Lal Kidwai of HSBC Bank, and the list continues. With women working head on with men, it is important to understand, respect, and bridge the communication differences between men and women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let us analyse what are the differences between the males and females, which lead to communication gap / grievances in the work place:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a. The most glaring disparity is in the listening styles of males and females.&lt;br /&gt;As men and women talk, women rely heavily on non-verbal cues eg, nodding and smiling, to indicate that they understand (not necessarily agree with) their perspective. Where as men keep silent, and nod only when they agree with the speaker's perspective.&lt;br /&gt;b. Women are likely to form deeper personal relationships and bondings that are longer lasting than men, who form business relationships just to do their purpose of doing business and nothing more. At times, because of this, they also tend to take business problems home and their managerial abilities suffer.&lt;br /&gt;c. Generally men use language to preserve their status and independence.&lt;br /&gt;Women generally use language to create connection and intimacy.&lt;br /&gt;d. In case of conflict, women tend to rely on indirect forms of aggression rather than direct expression of disagreement. For eg. instead of confronting some body in case of conflict, she prefers to email him later.&lt;br /&gt;e. Approach to solve problems also differs b/w males and females. When women deal with problems, they view it from a holistic angle, where as men tend to look for the surest and quickest way to find a solution.&lt;br /&gt;f. It is found that women are generally transformational leaders, form long term relationships, mentor, inspire and foster innovation and teamwork. Men, in contrast were more transactional - appealing to subordinates' self-interest and using reward-punishment incentive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With changed times, and both the genders pacing up the corporate hierarchy, it is imperative for all of us to bridge this communication gap between males and females.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I recommend following for the women managers, while working with male colleagues:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a. Market yourself well. Maintain your pace in the competition. Let others know your achievements, results and ideas before someone else takes credit for them!&lt;br /&gt;b. Always speak up! Never allow men to misbehave with yourself. Stand up for yourself.&lt;br /&gt;c. Take more confident decisions. Don't use unsure words like "Don't you think so" etc. which display you under confidence.&lt;br /&gt;d. While presenting, don't indulge in story telling. Be logical and avoid giving unnecessary information.&lt;br /&gt;e. Avoid discussing anything too personal. Instead talk about job-related issues and current affairs.&lt;br /&gt;f. Be direct and straight forward in the criticism. Don't dilute the comments by being indirect.&lt;br /&gt;g. Don't be too polite. No need to say sorry just to be polite. Apologise only if you are wrong.&lt;br /&gt;h. No need to take male comments personally. Learn to separate business matters from your personal feelings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Recommendations for Males, while working with Female colleagues.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a. Invest time in building a rapport.&lt;br /&gt;b. Make a polite conversation with women, by using words such as "please” and "thank you" when making a request or giving an order.&lt;br /&gt;c. Avoid dominating conversations. Listen her well.&lt;br /&gt;d. Be aware that women tend to take thing more personally since relationships are importanct for women. What might be just a direct communication for you, might be too harsh for them.&lt;br /&gt;e. Respect her abilities. Most women take their work responsibilities very seriously and expect you to take them seriously.&lt;br /&gt;f. Don't call a woman names like "sweetheart", "honey", "dear" or "darling". Unless they know you very well they will probably think you are chauvinistic and condescending.&lt;br /&gt;g. Work on creating a friendly and comfortable environment&lt;br /&gt;h. Control any outbursts of anger or frustration. Women are uncomfortable when men yell and curse.&lt;br /&gt;i. Pay attention when women are speaking. Use good eye contact, nod while listening.&lt;br /&gt;j. Encourage women to speak more succinctly by asking questions or bringing them back to the point.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-115186660801920605?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/115186660801920605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/115186660801920605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2006/07/gender-and-communications-in-business.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-115022699679184146</id><published>2006-06-13T12:22:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-11T09:58:51.375-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7931/3103/1600/logo_smiley.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7931/3103/320/logo_smiley.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey, now some cool content!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JOB APPLICATION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an actual job application a 17 year old boy submitted at a McDonald's fast-food establishment in Florida... and they hired him because he was so honest and funny!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NAME: Greg Bulmash&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SEX: Not yet. Still waiting for the right person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DESIRED POSITION: Company's President or Vice President. But seriously, whatever's available. If I was in a position to be picky, I wouldn't be applying here in the first place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DESIRED SALARY: $185,000 a year plus stock options and a Michael Ovitz style severance package. If that's not possible, make an offer and we can haggle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EDUCATION: Yes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LAST POSITION HELD: Target for middle management hostility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SALARY: Less than I'm worth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MOST NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT: My incredible collection of stolen pens and post-it notes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REASON FOR LEAVING: It sucked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOURS AVAILABLE TO WORK: Any.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PREFERRED HOURS: 1:30-3:30 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL SKILLS?: Yes, but they're better suited to a more intimate environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MAY WE CONTACT YOUR CURRENT EMPLOYER?: If I had one, would I be here?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DO YOU HAVE ANY PHYSICAL CONDITIONS THAT WOULD PROHIBIT YOU FROM LIFTING UP TO 50 LBS?: Of what?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DO YOU HAVE A CAR?: I think the more appropriate question here would be "Do you have a car that runs?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY SPECIAL AWARDS OR RECOGNITION?: I may already be a winner of the Publishers Clearing house Sweepstakes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DO YOU SMOKE?: On the job no, on my breaks yes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE DOING IN FIVE YEARS?: Living in the Bahamas with a fabulously wealthy dumb sexy blonde super model who thinks I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread. Actually, I'd like to be doing that now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DO YOU CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND COMPLETE TO THE BEST OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE?: Yes. Absolutely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SIGN HERE: Aries.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-115022699679184146?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/115022699679184146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/115022699679184146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2006/06/hey-now-some-cool-content-job.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-114987553402256359</id><published>2006-06-09T09:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-11T09:57:43.185-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TURNING POINT TO MY LIFE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;I went to Mussoorie recently, for a youth camp, trekking and Yamuna River Water Rafting. But it changed my life, complete thought process..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I understood quite a few things there, which I would enlist here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;strong&gt;Difference b/w I and my body&lt;/strong&gt; - My body is different from me. It's just a part of wider me. A healthy and beautiful body would make me(I) happy. If I exercise, it's my body, which takes a little pain to make me(I) happy. If I study on nights, it's my body that is taking a lil pain to make me(I) happy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;strong&gt;Difference b/w needs and desires&lt;/strong&gt; -&lt;br /&gt;To lead a happy life, following are &lt;em&gt;essentially needed&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;- a healthy body,&lt;br /&gt;- a prosperous life-style,&lt;br /&gt;- knowledge,&lt;br /&gt;- love and trust relations within family / corporation and,&lt;br /&gt;- respect by those around us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every human needs all these things all the time. Rest every-thing, more and more money, a trip to London, or biggest restaurants... are just desires.&lt;br /&gt;Hence every-one must ensure to fulfil his needs and try to achieve his desires, whereas generally many of us do the opp, we just work to achieve our desires&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;strong&gt;Difference b/w knowledge and skills&lt;/strong&gt; - Skills are just a subset of knowledge which is actually very vast. Much of this concept I could not understand. I could just understand the skill part of it, which is very easy to acquire, with some dedicated practise. Be it technical skills, dancing skills, swimming skills, writing skills, sales skills... Knowledge is a very vast concept as knowledge is about self, about humanity...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;strong&gt;Difference b/w special and great&lt;/strong&gt; - Many people want to be just different from everybody, just want to be special, but this desire to be different creates jealousy in them. Special and different people are never respected / accepted.&lt;br /&gt;Great people always respect other great people and greatness can never be compared? Because if you compare great people, either wrong standards would be used, wrong results would yield.&lt;br /&gt;This fact violates the preferential grading system of the Indian Education System.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;strong&gt;Language is just a medium&lt;/strong&gt; - This simply means that those speaking good English are not necessarily superior to those who r yet to learn English.&lt;br /&gt;Those doing more of communication thru emails, are not necessarily superior to those who r yet to explore comps.&lt;br /&gt;Those in the work of farming are no inferior to a businessman. Oh, it's just a profession.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. &lt;strong&gt;Every action of every human is based on some logic. That logic might be right or wrong.&lt;/strong&gt; That logic might not be logical. Egs of commonly accepted 'wrong' logics / assumptions:&lt;br /&gt;- Assumption - 2 guys holding hands are gays&lt;br /&gt;- Assumption - He who does not speak English is not civilized / intelligent..Fact - He can be the brightest guy around.&lt;br /&gt;- Assumption - He, who has done MBA / Engineering is more educated than an M.A. Fact - The 2 can't be compared.&lt;br /&gt;- Assumption - Anybody who has got good marks in 10th should take science.. Fact - Commerce / Arts also have good money. All bright people should not only be engineers / doctors.&lt;br /&gt;- Assumption - He is from IIT, he has to be more intelligent than any other engineer. Fact - Bright people are all spread across the world and industries. IIT graduate does not mean more intelligent or so, it simply means that he worked hard and practised hard before the entrance exam, and cleared it. Anybody in his place who had realized the importance of entrance exam and worked that seriously and passionately, could have done it.&lt;br /&gt;- Assumption - A person from IIT engg coll will perform better than a guy from some other engineering college. Fact - It just depends on who is ready to work hard now, and who has worked harder and gathered knowledge and skills during his college days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world is living on certain illogical assumptions, and we are just following them. I think, its time now, we start working on facts rather than assumptions..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-114987553402256359?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/114987553402256359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/114987553402256359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2006/06/turning-point-to-my-life-i-went-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29192899.post-114967721876538591</id><published>2006-06-07T02:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-11T09:46:29.543-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;JOINING IMT N&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi!! Here is my first post into this blog. Now, first of all, the reason y I have started writing this blog... as I would be away from my family and friends. This would be one of the major means through which I would be communicating with everybody.. Oh!! Did I tell you that I am joining Business Management (MBA) Programme of IMT Nagpur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though initially I was a little confused about the decision.. because of heavy fees and the Indian education system, where students are taught to think in 1 way only.. the bookish way. But, considering the +ves of MBA..&lt;br /&gt;1. I wish to understand the perspectives of various management gurus.. very important to develop my own managerial perspective.&lt;br /&gt;2. I wish to understand, what is that cause / reason / passion, for which I can toil beyond limits without getting tired. I don't want to do a half-hearted job, just somehow manage my targets.. take my salary and curse the corporation / managers / colleagues around. I want much more than money.. I am yet searching for that more..&lt;br /&gt;3. I wish to understand certain things like stock markets, investment fundas, all the hoopla about marketing.&lt;br /&gt;4. Last but not the least, I really want to enjoy my life for next two years, have some fun..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then comes the question.. Is 5 Lac and 2 years not too big an investment for this?&lt;br /&gt;But I guess I don't have an answer to this question.. I have discussed with so many people.. troubled so many senior guys.. but to no decision.. So, I am just going with the wind..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, hey I am not so disappointed. IMT Nagpur is known for having the best infrastructure in India.. So, I am excited about different sports - Basket ball, Tennis, Table Tennis, Swimming and monthly parties and ofcourse new friends at IMT.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29192899-114967721876538591?l=samridhigandhi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/114967721876538591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29192899/posts/default/114967721876538591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://samridhigandhi.blogspot.com/2006/06/joining-imt-n-hi-here-is-my-first-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Samridhi Gandhi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11775418445241942925</uri><email>samridhigandhi@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17595272637221237448'/></author></entry></feed>