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Awesome Mysooru City Dasara lightings

Today, I was home a bit early; had plans to go around the city to see the lights. My parents were waiting to join me. [Shruthi and Yashas are in Chickmagalur for Yashas's Dasara vacations :( ] On my way I picked my granny from her place and we all set out to view the lightings. I saw the distant Chamundi hill's outlined lights. It was looking as though an elephant has kneeled down to carry Godess Chamundi on its back (could see the temple on the elephant's back) This was my imagination though, but the lights on the hill are splendid. We followed the lights starting from JLB road (from Hyundai showroom) and we reached the City Railway station. I feel, this the first time the city has more lights than every before. The Railway station circle lights were very beautiful. We entered the Sayyaji Rao road and this road was looking magnificent; five columns of serial lights were hanging over the road. It was truly a majestic feeling !!!! Though its a Mysore road, the traffic mad...

Paperized with Papers

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The literal meaning of Paperized is getting married, so you may ask me whoz marrying the papers ?!! In India, many offices / people working in them cannot live without paper. Forget about govt offices, the so called ITans use paper for their referrrrenccce !!! I'm working in an pvt IT co. (laid out in its factory campus) and people maintain papers in all the departments as RECORDS. You apply for leave on a paper, take permission to go out ('coz its a factory campus) on a paper. LTA application, make your travel claims, apply for additional hardware items etc etc ...all on papers !!! Imagine even having so many automated systems at the office, finally you have to take printouts of the final FORM, get signatures from multiple people (on multiple copies for multiple departments) and submit !!! Lets come to govt offices; the project I'm working on, is for govt utilities. Can you imagine the final output of the product? PRINTOUTs (filed) !!!! of all the reports generated from th...

Matching behaviors

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I am not sure whether this particular subject has been explored / discussed / debated upon. If not this might be a very interesting psychological subject. Though I am not a student of psychology, this particular subject fascinates me a lot. I’ve often observed and wondered when I see people having among commonalities in their physical appearance and their behavior. You might agree with me on this that you have observed many people resemble each other on their looks / physical appearance. But have you observed they also resemble the behavior and attitude they carry!!!! Yes, it is true!!!! I have seen people resembling on their behavior and attitude. If a person is a stranger to me… or recently if I have acquaintance with him / her… I try to match his / her behavior with people I am close with or known from long time. This helps me a lot to predict the persons behavior and also guess his / her thinking. Sounds interesting… explore more on this and let me know what YOU feel. Sta...

Make you team feel valued

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How you manage your human resources and handle their conflicts and goals directly influences the company climate. When companies recognize employees by offering tangible rewards, the business becomes more productive and better at retaining talent. In addition, setting policies that make employees want to stick around is cost effective. Besides boosting profits, a stable staff cuts the costs of recruiting and training and avoids downtime and irate customers. The route to making employees feel that they matter takes some attention, which, of course, will pay off for you. Here are some proven strategies: Recognize the individual: Let each team member know that their individual contribution (how ever small) to overall output makes a difference Be responsive: If you solicit ideas from your team members on any subject like team work or how to do a particular task in a different way, follow through. Don't just ask for feedback or suggestions and then simply ignore it. If you are unable...