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Y#46 January 1, 2016

Window for action loving PROFESSIONALS

Dear Readers

Season’s Greetings and a Happy New Year!People may wish you:12 Months of success, 52 weeks of laughter, 365 days of fun, 8760 hours of joy, 525600 minutes of good luck and 31536000 seconds of happiness.You have to live it – Second by Second!How are you planning?Time for renewing theWALK.

Cheers,Rajiv [email protected]

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SHAPE that may emerge in 2016 3

It’s my CHOICE 4

New Year Resolutions Menu 5-7

Banish This Man 8-10

Who’s packing your parachute? 11

New Year Quotes 12

HAPPY YEAR



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- Rajiv Khurana

I knewSomething new would happen,

Right from the beginning,Days 365 before.Happened. It did.

Surprised me total.UnexpectedI accepted.

Circle completed. Circle begins.Again, I know.

Needless to claim.We all know.

Things happen, we don’t try.We exert, things accelerate.

Why wait?I know. It’s known.

Start. Act. Create an Impact.

Skip talk.Take the walk.



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Globally, we enter 2016 with a good Paris Agreementon Climate Change. Not ideal. But, better than expected and feared.On the other hand, alas, there is some fear of aWorld War 3.The first dangerous hotspot is the Middle East. It is not only Syria, IS,Yemen, etc. but the fundamental, centuries old, intractable conflictbetween Sunnis and Shias, represented, respectively, by Saudi andIran. The second hotspot is East Asia, arising primarily from China’saggressive moves on the South China Sea. The thirdhotspot, alas, isin South Asia, the risk blind-walking into a foolish war between Indiaand Pakistan. Let us pray that the humanist wisdom of the BhagavadGita, the Bible, the Koran and similar scriptures dawns on the variouspolitical and military leaders.

Domestically, there seems to be a revival of the next phaseof high growth, and the upturn of the capital investment cycle. Whilethe good lessons of the Bihar defeat seem to have been learned byNDA 2, some of the opposition parties are still obstructing theParliament, and delaying the passage of vital bills like GST. Thedemocratic hope is that they will return to cooperation, fearingpeople’s anger and punishment at future elections --- Municipal;Assembly and Parliament.

Let us continue our dharma of high performance in Corporates; NGOs;and Governments; and as individual professionals and citizens. Let ussupport deserving startup, business entrepreneurs; and the dedicatedsocial entrepreneurs.

SHAPE

Dr. M B AthreyaPADMA BHUSHAN



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It’s my CHOICE…

I choose to be APPRECIATIVEI choose to be BLESSEDI choose to be CARINGI choose to be CONTENDEDI choose to be GRACEFULI choose to be GRATEFULI choose to be HAPPYI choose to be KINDI choose to be KNOWLEDGABLEI choose to be LOVEDI choose to be OPTIMISTICI choose to be PERMISSIVEI choose to be PLAYFULI choose to be POSITIVEI choose to be SMILINGI choose to be WARM

January 1, 2016 _______________(Your signatures)

Print. Display. Act.

ConceptCourtesy:Rajiv Khurana

16PromisesTo Myself



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I will remember the birthdays and wedding anniversaries of all colleagues, business associates and relations and make sure that I wish them appropriately on or before the occasion.I will send thank you letters, notes or cards to all the persons who provide me products or services that make my personal life and work life much more meaningful.I will seek formal/informal feedback from all the persons I am providing my product/services at least once in six months.I will re-organize my work/personal life so that I can remove wasteful time and earn at least one additional hour per day respectively.I will make a habit of saying ‘thankyou’ to at least ten persons every day.I will scan all my papers on my desk/filing cabinet, at least once a month, to keep my desk and cabinet slim and smart.

New YearResolutionsMenu

Pick and choose justa few from themenu to make surethat you meanserious businessinstead of makingthe routine fashionstatements. Do yourown DELETE,MODIFY or AMEND.Share them withonly a few peoplearound you to seekhelp and support.Achievers, after all,don’t make a noisewhile the non-achievers live for it!

- Rajiv Khurana



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I will prepare my juniors to replace me (say) by 40% for all the activities that I keep doing. I will use the time, thus spared, for my own up-gradation.I will take charge of at least four new employees of the organization and help them settle down without unnecessary constraints.I will avoid spoon feeding my juniors but would always be available in their hour of difficulty as a good coach and facilitator.I will say SORRY and admit my mistakes instead of playing organizational political games to cover up my follies.I will find out the new areas/body of knowledge that may influence my field of work in the coming years and start working on it so that I do not get the shock of ignorance when the right time arises.I will counsel at least two juniors or colleagues who are experiencing difficulties in adjusting in work or personal life.I will attend at least 10 meetings/seminars/conferences conducted by the associations operating in my field of vocation.



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I will read at least 52 articles during the year to upgrade my knowledge about various subjects I will organize at least one, contributory or self hosted, party for my colleagues, juniors and even my seniors, to develop a good informal relationship and understanding.I will surf at least five hours every week on the internet to visit sites of professional interest to upgrade my knowledge and skills.I will invest at least 2 hours every week with friends and colleagues to exchange our experiences/notes about the new learning's in the profession.I will not talk bad about my organization, superiors or colleagues to any outsider.I will review my performance on the 2-4 resolutions I choose for myself at least once in a month to keep correcting myself and keep improving.



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I could be anybody. May be part of you. Itdoes not matter. Some people reading thishardly shared personal account of mine maycall me stupid. Let them. Who bothers? Iknow I am STUPID – Smart Talented UniquePerson in the Department. I am not alone. Ihave hundreds and thousands of clones. Theyare spread all over the country. We havecounter parts all across the globe. We thinkdifferently. We act differently. But we behavethe same. Our un-written one line motto is:TO THINK NEGATIVE, ACT NEGATIVE ANDBEHAVE NEGATIVE TOWARDS OUR WOMENCOUNTERPARTS IN THE ORGANIZATIONALJUNGLE.

How do we do it? Each one of us is anauthority himself. We learn from each other.Where else would you find such a great teamperformance. I will share with you what I do.You can create your own encyclopedia bywatching others and sharing with others.Don’t hide away to read this article. I dareyou to share your negativities openly.

I believe in equality. I believe men are moreequal than women. I extend my negativityequally amongst the women.I admire Bosses who are fond ofembarrassing my women colleagues in frontof everyone. I have learnt new techniques ofembarrassments. I will show them when Ibecome more responsible in theorganizational hierarchy.

Why it's great to be a MAN in the office?

[An imaginative first person confessional narration by the man in the office who hates to give respect, equal treatment and care to his colleagues of the fairer sex-A funny version of serious situations.]

BANISH THIS CREATURE DURING 2016



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I like talking about women in my office. I talkabout them in my chartered bus/sharedcab/metro, in my friends’ circle and withsome colleagues like me. Even the chaiwalaand paanwala near our office enjoys thestories about the women colleagues whoare old spinsters, separated or singleparents.I feel even responsible for entertaining mywomen colleagues. I do share my doublemeaning and sometimes explicit jokes. It’stheir outlook if they do not laugh. Womenhave limited sense of humour, you know.I do not like some of my colleagues who take extra care about their women colleagues. Why should I hold the door or stand up for a woman? I don’t even like it when the Big B holds the chair for a women on KBC.I think women take advantage of their proximity with men. That’s why they get promoted faster even though, I feel, they should at the best be doing only the support roles.Women are not very intelligent. I strongly believe that men are. So what if girls have been constantly scoring the highest marks in the X and XII standard board exams!I don’t think that women are serious about their jobs. They come to pass their time and even claim all medical benefits. I feel that newly married women should not be hired in the office as it amounts to lot of time and money loss within 2-3 years.



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I must tell you that I am very fond of poetry and graffiti. Haven’t you seen my scriptures on the toilet walls and lift cabins. You couldn’t have missed them.Sometimes, I play with them. Making blank calls is a great office hide and seek game.I am gradually learning but some of my friends have mastered the art of making women cry. Great fun! No?I am quite religious minded. Whenever there is an office party, I and my friends adopt the mandir or gurudwara approach. Women one side and men on the other side. After all, we need our space to talk about the three Ws [Wine, Wealth and Women].Some of my friends are quite hi-tech these days. They keep mass mailing/WhatsApping the XXX web-material to each other. Few intentional accidental transmittals do occur and my women colleagues do get them. Technology has some short-comings too. What can be done about it?I am very generous. Who so ever asks me, I do provide the personal home and office numbers of my women colleagues.Many a times, I think that I should be a newspaper columnist on fashion. I have documented every nuance of what I see in the back-up memory of my brain.There are times when I feel reserved or may be a bit shy but my kinds of other colleagues do not. They do indulge in a bit of strip tease when they move around with their 2-3 shirt buttons open in the office.I wish I was a bit more senior than I am. I would have, by position of my authority, made my women colleagues sit in my cabin for hours to have tea/coffee and to witness my ‘majma’ style of management.

I wish I had the time and space to write more. But why should I tell you everything. Go ahead, use experience and creativity. The organizational jungle is big and wild. Roar. Be a Lion. The other part is normally timid and defenseless. Be mean. Be self obsessed. The life of a man will not come again. Go for the kill. Don’t worry about what people say. Be an MCP – Magnificent Creation in this Peninsula.



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Who is packing your parachute?

Air Commodore Vishal was a Jet Pilot. In a combat mission his fighter plane was destroyed by a missile. He however ejected himself and parachuted safely. He won acclaims and appreciations from many.After five years one day he was sitting with his wife in a restaurant. A man from another table came to him and said "You're Captain Vishal ! You flew jet fighters. You were shot down!""How in the world did you know that?" asked Vishal."I packed your parachute," the man smiled and replied.Vishal gasped in surprise and gratitude and thought if parachute hadn't worked, I wouldn’t be here today.Vishal couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man. He wondered how many times I might have seen him and not even said 'Good morning, how are you?' or anything because, he was a fighter pilot and that person was just a safety worker"So friends, who is packing your parachute?Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day.We need many kinds of parachutes when our plane is shot down – we need the physical parachute, the mental parachute, the emotional parachute, and the spiritual parachute.We call on all these supports before reaching safety.Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important.We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason.As you go through this week, this month, this year, recognize the people who pack your parachute

Gratitude!Show it.

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New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.-Sarah Ban Breathnach

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.-Neil Gaiman

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.-Melody Beattie

Awareness

Creation

Broadening

Horizon

Creating

Curiosity

Decluttering

Thoughts

Enthusing

Actions

Rejuvenating PERSONAL BRAND

Accelerating CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Jumping ahead with IMPACTFUL PERFORMANCE

Intensifying INFLUENCING

Vibrant CREATIVITY

Knockout BUSINESS PRESENTATIONS

Harmonizing RELATIONSHIPS

Upgrading LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS

Role-impacting COACHING & MENTORING

Achieving high results through TEAM PLAYING

Novel ways for TRAINING THROUGH MULTIMEDIA

Actioning high calibre CUSTOMER SERVICE

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