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India Inc. - Investors required?

Every time when it comes to March, most people start thinking about their tax saving investments and decides to make some quick investments just to save some bucks. Even though due to this final minute rush we tend to lose hard earned money easily by opting for wrong investments. But the very human nature within us which once made us open textbooks on exam eve without even know which chapters to look for, makes us do this quick investments. Some guys can be really good at these final minute investments and they earn great benefits from it. But this trade is not for common man. We need to plan tax in advance and do everything we could to save those bucks. In this blog, I am not going to discuss on how to plan for tax savings, because this could be the billionth blog to write that. So let's think about a plan of investing on India Inc. Now how is it possible to invest in India Inc. as a whole? We don't have any such physical entity called India Inc which could be found an...

Power of tomorrow!

Disclaimer would say something like "I am not representing any political party or views" but sharing a blog from my heart. As my title says, I felt like writing it and now I am hear blogging it out. In recent past, newspapers in India are flooded with scams & issues of corruption. Maybe it was the case before also but never dared to get necessary media attention. Now things are changing, with more private media and international media floating around and also because of the competition, most secret news are brought out. We often think about all these news being true and at the same time also doubt its political motives. Many a times some political party A or B gets benefits from them politically or makes it a political issue with a pseudo representation of the people. We have also noticed that no news stays for more than 2 weeks time in television or newspapers or rather loses its importance and would be replaced with a better or more spicy one. Now is this human behavior...

Happiness @ work - Part 3

6. Community Contribution This explains the contributions made towards the welfare and growth of the society. It is very important to contribute your time for the benefit of the society. Financial contributions are only required if you can afford it and continue to operate your needs after sparing some for others. This key indicator helps us to understand how much time the individual is getting to engage him in such positive activities. When combined with other key indicator scores like psychological well being etc shows whether an individual is erratic in answering the questions. 7. Living Standard Advancement The living standard key indicator talks about the rise or fall in living standards considering the society a person lives his/her life. This could be indication of whether a person(s) are able to enrich their life with necessary & desirable entities, be it materialistic or non-materialistic. This also helps in understanding whether the current remunerations are able to sati...

Happiness @ work - Part 2

How to? I have selected different key indicators based on study from various great psychologists around the world along with the ones I considered apt based on my experience and analysis. I am very thankful to them for giving me a chance to know about their research on human life and behavior. The following are the sample key indicators I have identified to measure the happiness in corporate structures: 1. Time Utilization at Job 2. Medical/Hospitalization Record 3. Work Environment Contentment 4. Personal Space Availability 5. Psychological Well Being 6. Community Contribution 7. Living Standard Advancement 8. Goal Setting & Accomplishment 9. Financial Stability Triumph These identified key indicators would contain different questions with a score attached to each question. Each question will contain different weight-age based on a scale of 1-3. The total score will be calculated using the answers for all questions under different key indicators. There would be a threshold identif...

Happiness @ work - Part 1

Introduction: As Paul Hawken had put it into perspective recently, “You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can’t print life to bail out a planet, At present, we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. Whenever we exploit the earth, we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich” GDP had always been a boasting factor representing the growth for great nations. The whole world is counting on what is spent by their people or what is earned by people during a given fiscal period. The data accounts to the computation of the greatness of a nation which is basically where it stands in the economic winners stand. We as humans are not realizing anymore, the simple fact that subjects that were of utmost priority for our ancestors become our priority too unknowingly. And how often h...

2012: Doomsday?

The whole world had been talking about doomsday during this New Year when quite a lot of people are seen celebrating New Year so much as if this is the last New Year they’ve got. Is this really going to end this time? I am not a great believer of any calendar be it Mayan or Indian. But there are quite a few things that I would like to bring it across. Let’s leave alone the fact or myth that world will end this year but can we try to evaluate the facts that we have & the observations of great men before us? Let’s start with what is a Yuga . A yuga is an era within the cycle of four ages. The four ages being Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga & Kali Yuga. All this is caused and controlled by the stars revolving and rushing above our heads. The end described in some of the spiritual Hindu texts share that it will start raining continuously until everything is flooded and drowned. By this time the people’s mind would have been corrupted beyond repair. The seeds would have given u...

Life - Live it!

The greatest memories that we treasure had always been from our childhood. When we happen to crash onto an old childhood friend most times we get a wave a events in our thoughts which had happened years back. That very night most of us would love to sleep early to dream about those days. Our age at this time is forgotten and doesn't affect. Our mention about past experiences and memories are ubiquitous in all forms of conversations. As great men always said, you should be child when it comes to learning. The key attribute that a child or baby possess is observation skills which we overlook as we get older. We overlook this considering the pattern that is build in our brain based on our observations as a baby, child and adult. We tend to assume as we get older and consider ourselves more wise than the next generation. I think I had been floating around my topic without actually catching the flag. Let me come to my subject for the day which is impact of TV, Internet & Computers ...