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  Continued from previous post …   8. Non-Fiction : Putting the One Minute Manager to Work by Kenneth Blanchard Just like FISH, I had read the 'One Minute Manager' almost a decade ago. This sequel to the famous book caught my attention at the company library when I went to return Fish Sticks. The first book established the principles of One Minute Manager. This book (sequel) aims at laying down a set of principles which help operationalise the One Minute Manager principles and convert them into measurable performance. The book simplifies the philosophy of performance management.   9. ACD Shorts: Danger by Arthur Conan Doyle   This story has a history behind it which is narrated and mentioned in the preface of the book holding the collection of short stories. It talks about this story being a warning by ACD to his own government (Great Britain) who were ignoring a major threat to their country. The story is about how a captain of a small count...

  After a phenomenal July with a score of 33; I thought it would be a tough act to repeat but nevertheless it happened. Score this month is 29. I had read somewhere about Dr. Challenger but never realized that he was yet another character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Finally found some novella and short stories from that series. Will read them in coming months; starting this month. The novels of the month were 'Mayan Destiny' (Last of the Mayan/Domain trilogy) by Steve Alten & 'The Death Relic' by Chris Kuzneski. I also read 2 short novels (less than 200 pages); a Dr. Challenger one titled 'The Lost World' by Arthur Conan Doyle and 'A Scanner Darkly' by Philip K Dick. Departing from the norm, this month has an unfinished abandoned short novel which went completely off / over my head and I was not able to make no head or tail of what was happening in the story. PKD's Scanner Darkly (which inspired the movie by the same name) le...

I had my first serious meeting (as in office meeting) in the air recently. I was seated in the front row of a small plane (a 2X2 ATR … a bit larger than a BUS from the inside) flying from Mumbai to Udaipur last month. And I had company of 2 senior members of the team to which I belong. We had some discussions about the forthcoming 2 days and what we would be doing and our action plan and strategy. The air hostess who was giving the safety instructions was the only disturbance to our meeting (or should I say WE were a disturbance to her). Our meeting started at ground level and continued through the ascent. The meeting was over in some time, but not before we had reached the maximum height and the plane was flying level. So, not just a meeting in air … but it was a gradually rising meeting. Reminded me of Dining in the air - the concept where they hook up a dining table to a crane which then lifts the table 100's of feet into the air and then din...

Marriage is a pretty complex concept ... In India, it is not just 2 individuals who get married but 2 families who get married. Hence the concept of Arranged Marriage is still very prevalent where marriages are arranged / fixed by the family elders. The entire concept of 'Love Marriage' as made popular by Bollywood where the rebellious young hearts go against all odds to get together has made the youngsters somewhat crave for such a fantasy and often mistaken lesser feelings for Love. But of course, many a flames stand the test of time and emerge the so-called 'true love' who eventually lead a 'happily lived forever' kind of life. Some of these love stories go through without a hitch with understanding / open minded parents while a majority of these face stiff resistance from their families and go through a lot of struggle. Some perish (the relationship, I mean) while some fight their families, some others emerge victorious winning the hearts of th...

    Laptops, tablets and smart phones have become pretty common and you are right now most probably reading this on one of these devices. And if you are a user of these devices, then the concept of cloud computing must be fascinating to you. You must have heard about it and might even have used it (knowingly / unknowingly). Cloud Computing in practical application means that you can upload/modify documents/files from one device and it will be available updated on all your devices since the documents are residing in a remote server and not on your device. Think of it as your email (yahoo / hotmail / gmail) which you can access from any device. Cloud computing has actually been around in concept and application for a long time now BUT has gained prominence only recently since the usage of multiple devices has become prominent only recently with individuals having 2 or more of devices like Laptop, tablet, smart phone etc. Also, since we use our own devices these days...

  I was literally laughing at myself (as well did exactly what the picture above shows) when I discovered my error.   For a long time now, I have been reading the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle … and all the while writing his name as Canon in several places. In fact, I have been using both, Conan and Canon, in different parts of my blog.   I am so ashamed and amused by this mistake of mine. I was mis-spelling the name of the author / creator of my favorite fictional character!!

This came as an email forward and I found it interesting enough to share … …………………………………………………………………………………… Moishe the Carpenter, returning home with his week's wages, was accosted by an armed robber on a deserted street. "Take my money," said Moishe, "but do me a favour: "Shoot a bullet through my hat otherwise my wife won't believe I was robbed." The robber obliged. He threw Moishe's hat into the air and put a bullet through it. "Let's make it look as if I ran into a gang of robbers," said Moishe, "otherwise my wife will call me a coward! Please shoot a number of holes through my coat." So the robber shot a number of holes through the carpenter's coat. "And now…" continued Moishe. "Sorry," interrupted the robber, "No more holes. I'm out of bullets." "That's all I wanted to know!" said Moishe. "Now hand me back my money and some more for t...