Hope... the only best thing

As the hero says in The Shawshank Redemption, "Hope is good, may be the best thing", yesterday our launch pad demo was successful. There was an initiative inside our company to launch new product ideas. there was huge price money for the winners. 

It started with whyne and cry as this is extra work compared to your project. My team is going through some tough days at work. There is so much work and our idea required lot of learning's on new components. the event was competitive and guess what! we put out a good show. 

First time inside the company many new not just my name, but all other team members name, their work in the project and our VP, Director told us these will be productized soon. No better reward on our hope on us, our innovation

I m happy now!

Raghu

Two Unattended issues

In 2008, i believe we faced two main unattended issues unlike other years. Unfortunately we are not attempting to solve the root cause of these problems, it is fitting case of humans causing damage to fellow humans.... 

The award goes to 

Terrorism - Here humans kill fellow humans in the name of religion, caste, region, cult etc

Global Warming - Here in the name of industrialization or development, we are failing to create healthier world for our future generations.

As they say nature will have its say one day on these issues

State of Indian States

if you ever want to choose a new state in India for business / personal migration, you know which one to choose from the list below.

• Andhra Pradesh - Naxalism, Communal Riots, Telenga issue
  
• Arunachal Pradesh - Naxalism, Border issue with China
  
• Assam - Naxalism, Terrorism, Illegal migrants from Bangaladesh
  
• Bihar - Naxalism, Gundas, Regional issues with Maharastra
  
• Chhattisgarh - Naxalism
  
• Goa - Terrorism
  
• Gujarat - Terrorism, Communal Riots
  
• Haryana - TBD
  
• Himachal Pradesh - TBD
  
• Jammu and Kashmir - Terrorism, Kashmir issue, Communal Riots
  
• Jharkhand - Naxalism
  
• Karnataka - Naxalism, Terrorism, Communal Riots, Regional conflicts with neighbors
  
• Kerala - Budding Terrorism, Regional issue with Tamilnadu
  
• Madhya Pradesh - Naxalism, Communal Riots
  
• Maharashtra - Terrorism, Communal Riots, Regional Conflict with Karnataka and Bihar
  
• Manipur - Naxalism
  
• Meghalaya - Naxalism
  
• Mizoram - Naxalism
  
• Nagaland - Naxalism
  
• Orissa - Naxalism, Communal Riots
  
• Punjab - Terrorism
  
• Rajasthan - Terrorism, Gujjar Issue
  
• Sikkim - Naxalism
  
• Tamil Nadu - Regional Issue with all neighboring states, SriLankan Tamil support (?)
  
• Tripura - Naxalism
  
• Uttar Pradesh - Naxalism, Communal Riots, Terrorism
  
• Uttarakhand - Naxalism
  
• West Bengal - Budding terrorism, Illegal Immigrant issue, Singur
  

Lessons from Italian GP

Did you see yesterday's Italian GP, if not, you missed one of the wonderful races in F1 history. It was a dull day to start with at Monza, with rain, overnight rain, track was wet. In fact for the first time i saw race starting with Safety car, just as a precautionary step towards avoiding mishaps like what happened in the past (FYI, Italian racing track is one of the deadliest tracks and is known for its accidents leading to death).

I thought there were moments that requires special mention... these are my thoughts.. obviously i may miss some, feel free to add,

1. Sebastian Vettel, youngest ever F1 champ. The following is the excerpts from www.f1.com site. 

They laughed when Sebastian Vettel and Toro Rosso snatched pole position in qualifying - but that turned to cheers of admiration on Sunday when the 21 year-old German became Formula One’s youngest ever winner after a brilliant wet-weather victory at Monza.

2. It was a treat to watch Hamilton during yesterday's race. You start at 15th place, you are a title contender, your nearest driver is 6th in starting grid, what will you do? Hamilton showed pure character, aggression and technical perfection and speed of execution during yesterday's race. it only shows his self belief and driving skill... He would have bettered his position, if he need not pit for 2nd time to change intermediate tyres

until next

Raghu

Leader (Everyone) should accept his failure

If any of you seen the finals of IPL yesterday, you will now know, as a leader how to generalize failure to the team you belong to rather than accept it on you. Yes, In the presentation Dhoni mentioned that his team failed in all the 3 departments (i.e. bowling, batting and fielding). It is team's failure or his failure to provide competent team member's opportunity to fair play.

In Batting, they promoted Kapugedera instead of Badrinath in 17th 0ver which was a blunder by him. Badrinath is a known big hitter and in form. easily we could have scored 15 more runs and could have set a good target.

In bowling, again, they did not provide Badrinath an opportunity to bowl. When choice for bowler for 20th over came, again ball was given by Dhoni to balaji whose figures were 3-0-34-0. what do you expect the result of 1 over 8 runs?

In fielding it was raina and partiv patel to be blamed for dropping Y. Pathan @13 (who went to score half century) and parthiv giving away easily the bye run on a wide ball in the last over.

I guess the entire team would have felt bad on what Dhoni mentioned in the presentation. They put in their best efforts and some of Dhoni's move did not click well. Rather than attributing it against team it is better to accept failure on him. This will improve his image and make him a better person to work with.


it looks like chennai played well, but Rajasthan definitely played like champions. they deserve this victory.

-Raghu