A failed story

I was a lonesome lover,

Searching her with hopes undeterred,

Don’t be disheartened what friends would say,

The day of success isn’t a distant away…

With gentle promises in my heart, gave every day a novel start,

Dreamt of caring for her more than self, and would face evils with all the stealth!!!

One day, the remote prospects became an idealistic truth,

Didn’t happen by chance, but we were made for each other’s good,

With bud of love carved on my heart, forever to stay,

The day of success wasn’t anymore a distant away!!!

Overlooked friends n foes, lived in a world reincarnated for her,

We swayed to love till our last breath, and promised to bid a bye together!!!

Dynamics of time flew past at an alarming pace,

Is love a dream or reality, she would pray,

I would hold her hands in my hands,

 “This day of success would last an infinity...”, I would say!!!

But the actions of past, formulated a circuitous future,

With life and love not lasting forever,

I stood waiting, when she was gone one day,

The day of success is no more alive today!!!

                                                                                                A failed love story….

Life Factors

Factors of life

The various facets of life, be at experience, knowledge, learning plays an important role at various stages and that too simultaneously. Do we ever give it a thought as to how do they define the future course or the trend they follow for every individual?

Well, I’ve tried explaining them with a graph I could conceptualize which depicts how these important and implicit parameters shape us up. This may neither be the correct way to explain things nor the right version, but my experience certainly goes against the argument.

Experience: - Experience is something we inherit from the day we are born into this world. Culture is one what we learn in this social society as an institution, experience is something that keeps building as we progress (in age) with time. Certainly, it shows a balance between what we learn and what we understand, or in a more apt manner, a balance between the ‘flowing’ time and the life factors. The graph depicts it to be present at an angle of 45* with the abscissa showing an ever-lasting positive slope in life.

Knowledge: - No knowledge can be gained without learning process in place, but then, the learning process starts right from the stage an infant is born. In fact it learns various tasks in mother’s womb like calling for food, sleep needs etc. even before birth and once it enters in this mysterious external world. Hence, knowledge keeps getting assimilated at every subsequent stage, in every subsequent second of growth. The books give an implied knowledge during adolescence, the facts give a rationale-building knowledge in prime, and experience give knowledge during adulthood. However, knowledge is a process, which, initially increases at a rapid rate, but after a considerable age, begins to slow down and finally becomes constant (with almost negligible enhancement).  The slowing down occurs due to acceptance of all that is present in this world, due to unwillingness to question anymore, due to introspect and retrospect with self. And finally it remains the same during the stage of retirement, when one’s own view point becomes stronger than world’s and thicket seems to build within.

Understanding: - Understanding is one such life factor which somewhat shows an equal rising and declining trend. Yes, it grows first at a much slower rate, but with passage of time and gain of experience, it begins to pace up and starts assimilating at rapid rate. The initial slow down is due to the lag occurring because of slow comprehension. A baby learns to accept who her mother is due to knowledge, but is not able to judge what makes it do that. A toddler shows inquisitiveness on interfacing with nature, but does not meet with all the desired answers. It picks up speed due to continued presence of fast ‘knowledge’ garnering, which increases ‘understanding’. This makes a young individual, rational, logical and strong in all decisions he/she make. However, after a considerable period, the understanding begins to show a declining trend owing to a large passage of time (when various kinds of gaps begin to set in) and due to redundancy in knowledge.

Hope the above mathematical representation of life helps in clearing most of our doubts and show that the most universal language in this world is indeed mathematics!!!

Thankyou, Raghav

Creative retention strategies that can be used by organizations today

This is context to the need of a system in place in today’s corporate world to hold back the potential carrying, & talented employees. Although I’m neither a market researcher, nor a person involved in human resources specialization of management, but having worked with an organization in past for two years, I wish to express few ideas that can be put to use in almost all the organizations. The ideas would help an organization to retain its employee’s pool, gain trust and a feeling of belongingness with the company not as a business firm but as an institute that musters growth.

I would begin by a famous quote, “Always love your work, never love your company, for you may never know when company stops loving you!!!”

Here are few methods I have enumerated to highlight about creative retention strategies that can be used by organizations of today:-

·         The greatest motivation for an employee to continue working with an organization doesn’t lie in perks given in form of petty gifts time & on, but in form of regular rewards & recognitions, the three R’s (Regularity in recognition, Recognition, and rewarding the recognition). Yes, that’s the key word. An employee would only feel encouraged if he/she is rewarded at business unit/organizational level for the task/project he’s been involved into. This remuneration can come in form of timely certifications symbolic to applause offered depending on the complexity & priority of the task at hand. The varying degree of work would determine the kind of certificate issued, vis-à-vis something catering to organizational level, or BU level or team level. And to compliment these certificates, the best option for any company would be to distribute rewards in form of gift vouchers, movie tickets, club swimming passes etc with them. These petty vouchers would add to the cost to the company, but the level of productivity increase and goals clearance would surpass all costs incurred.

·         Next big factor that keeps an employee glued to a company is the desire to grow, not just financially but also holistically, both at work and personal life. The three areas of concern can be looked into by different strategies that need to be devised and implemented timely with full effectiveness:- 

• Financially: - This would be the most important growth factor for an employee esp. for the ones who are at the starting levels. An efficient bonus tracking system needs to be taken into consideration, which could be made online to the extent that an employee keeps feeding in his/her work/tasks completed (with code assigned to each task) and manager’s approval (again online) in the system, so that all those feedback can be taken into account while deciding the bonus for an employee at the end of the period. This would give the organization an advantage to introduce transparency in the system, make the whole process of project completion more efficient and productive and encourage greater employee participation. On one hand where coming up with such a system would incur some costs, the benefits reaped out of it for long term would supersede all the costs automatically. This would also allow variable bonuses to be offered to employees for doing different levels of work, rather than judging two employees with different levels of work on the same scale.
• Work growth: - This would include provision of latest trainings required, both offline and online to all the employees of the company at all the levels. External vendors/ trainers need to be called in on regular basis and training sessions conducted. Also, to encourage employees to go and attend trainings externally arranged by the company after incurring heavy costs, a company can offer petty certifications (not much cost constraint for a company) to all the trained employees. But this would mean, an employee needs to pass the necessary tests at the end of the training (to get that significant certificate), and make self available for any work required outside the peripherals of his/her team. This would allow effective utilization of trained resources across teams and hence across spectrum.  This may also ask an employee to devote self as an effective collaborator for other teams working in the same organizations on different platforms.
• Personal growth: - This would include making the work friendlier for an employee by giving him/her the right to have flexibility at work. /this may not include a flexibility in time, but yes, a flexibility to report at work when desired by an employee on basis of an authenticate reason. This factor would help an employee of not deducting his/her approved leaves, and would be most effective if immediate senior/superior is well informed beforehand.

·         Moving ahead, the next big factor for winning the hearts of employees for an employer is to have regular team-outings in form of lunch, dinners, gaming sessions, birthday celebrations etc. This would generate greater camaraderie among all employees and higher levels of interaction would help in siphoning off all the everlasting hiccups that exists between two colleagues or between a subordinate & his/her boss. Regular conversations would keep the employees abreast of the prevailing market situations and hence provide them an informal platform to discuss all the issues they face on day to day basis. All views are personal...

Voting - A compulsory act????

Apropos to the news published in respected newspapers about Narendra Modi’s statement of making voting compulsory across the country, I would like to propose a better alternative than coming up with a humungous task of making a billion and rising population accountable (also who would keep a check on fulfillment criteria?).

It would be wise for Indian government to come up with a website (portal) which could carry the whole process of casting your vote during respective state & assembly elections. To increase the voting numbers, the portal would work in coherence with the manual way (ballot process) of casting votes. Only modification that needs to be introduced is generation of a unique number series on all voter Identity cards issued by the authorities. All poor households and rural people who are not exposed to operate a system or doesn’t have an access to one would continue voting the way they have been doing till today and all the savvy and literate people with an easy access to internet can go and cast a vote online. This step would ask for a high security website to be in place with few mandatory details that needs to be furnished by every individual for avoidance of double entries/ fake entries.

The benefits of such a system would be manifolds on the other hand, which will include:-

1)A greater transparency in entire process of voting.

2)A greater response from Indian population who otherwise avoid casting a vote owing to troubles involved.

3)The on set of an era which would entrust government with the responsibility of promoting education and expose people to computers in coming times.

4)Huge savings on expenditure incurred during the whole process of voting/ huge savings on exchequers’ money spent during the same period.

5)Using this online database created as a result of registration of citizens for conducting periodic surveys/census/assessments by government agencies. 

6)Making possible the conception of the provision of Social Security Numbers (SSN) which is prevalent in countries like US and is the need of time for a country like ours.

 

Aahat

Aahat kissi ke kadmon ki, ek umeed ki kiran jagaya karti hai,

Durr koi awaaz sunne par, ghungroo ki khan-khan sunai padti hai!!!

Mann daudta hai har chehre ke peeche, kissi kii talaash mein,

Karodon ki bheed hai wahan, fir bhi kissi ki kami khalti rehti hai!!!

Band khidkiyon ke us par, kissi ko paane ka mann karta hai,

Khulte darwazon ko dekh, soti aankhen jaag jaya karti hain,

Aahat kissi ke kadmon ki, ek umeed ki kiran jagaya karti hai!!!

Aate jate is zindagi ke safar mein, har gadi kissi ki lagti hai,

Saath aaj chutta hai hamara,

Lekin kadmon ki aahat wohi manzil ki taraf ishara karti hai,

Aahat kissi ke kadmon ki, ek umeed ki kiran jagaya karti hai!!!

Kissi ke bulane par, har awaaz ussi ki lagti hai,

num khamoshi mein har ehsaas, kissi ki sansein sulgaya karta hai,

dil aaj bhi hai kissi ke paas,

sirf dhadkan idhar sun jaya karti hai,

Aahat kissi ke kadmon ki, ek umeed ki kiran jagaya karti hai!!!