Which place or city is best for preparation...???

Few days back someone asked me a question, Sir, which city is best for preparation, should I go to a metro city B or C or D or stay at my place (a tier II city) ...!!!

My Take :

The most important element of preparation is your knowledge about yourself (SWOT) then your work towards your goal. Improve S, work on W, O & T will change automatically. 

For any test preparation, you just need 3M: Mission, Material & Mentor

1. Mission : Mission is the most important, it's your goal - Where you want to go, what are you targeting at (your aim of your %ile bracket or college or job). 

2. Material : Materials means online and offline materials along with mocks (test series). Here mocks do not mean All India Rank (AIR), but availability of it. AIR is important but most important is you should know your S W of (SWOT) after analyzing mocks.

3. Mentors : Last but not least, your guide is important. I believe your best mentor is you and only you, but I suggest find a guide or mentor for you, they give you a direction. 

Find a place where you will get all 3M's then move to that place. Rest factors are just perceived notions. 

If you feel that at place XYZ you can perform better for other reasons, you should go to XYZ. Perceived notions helps us or not is a question mark but works against our perceived notions are not as fruitful.

Now you decide where you want to go, but remember, at the time of preparation you are one man army. 

Be Commander, mentor and guardian of your one man army and start working.

All The Best...!!!
AMIYA

P.S.: You can add an extra "M" mehfil (peer group)

How to solve questions in minutes or in seconds...???

How to solve questions in minutes or in seconds...???

Please give me tricks and some shortcuts..???
Above two questions are generally asked by aspirants to their mentors.



✪ If you want to solve questions is seconds "PRACTICE, PRACTICE & PRACTICE"

Remember your school days, In the examination, some of you know the answer of the few numericals, because you solved that questions several times in class and at home.

So my request to you, you have ample time, start solving questions practice more. Start from basic then application. Make a plan topic-wise, set small targets and execute.

I want after 6 months, if you see any question your first reaction should be, ohke this is questions of Number system or change in % or arrangement, blah blah blah....

If you know the question and its ingredients you are 75% near to answer. Rest is just start to solve. And you would be winner.

Last but not least "FACEBOOK IS FOR YOU, YOU ARE NOT FOR FACEBOOK".

Start from now, ASK FOR HELP, YOU WILL GET HELP.

Essential to being a good manager

WHY EMPLOYEES LEAVE ORGANISATIONS ? - Azim Premji, CEO- Wipro 

Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile. 

Early this year, Mark, a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer. 

He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary was great. The company had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources (HR) policies, a spanking new office, and the very best technology, even a canteen that served superb food. 

Twice Mark was sent abroad for training. "My learning curve is the sharpest it's ever been," he said soon after he joined. 

Last week, less than eight months after he joined, Mark walked out of the job. 

Why did this talented employee leave ? 

Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away. 

The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called "First Break All The Rules". It came up with this surprising finding: 

If you're losing good people, look to their manager .... manager is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he 's the reason why people leave. When people leave they take knowledge, experience and contacts with them, straight to the competition. 

"PEOPLE LEAVE MANAGERS NOT COMPANIES," write the authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. 

Mostly manager drives people away? 

HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave, but a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job. 

When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the boss crucial information. Dev says: "If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. You don 't have your heart and soul in the job." 

Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by being too controlling, too suspicious, too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a trivial issue. 

BEWARE OF SOCIAL MEDIA’S “THIRD RAIL” LESSONS FROM DISNEY

At a recent conference in Europe, two Disney executives tell the audience that Disney learned it needed to operate by completely different rules when it interacted "socially" with a consumer. Offering cross-sell deals, discounts and other promotions to email newsletter subscribers was fine, but the company quickly learned that whenever they tried to make such offers to the Facebook friends of one of their many Disney characters, a large number of them took offense.

It wasn't just that the response rate of Facebook friends was lower. Disney found that just making the offers generated so much negative feedback and ill will that it was worse than no marketing campaign at all. Disney had accidentally electrocuted its marketing program by hitting social media's "third rail."

This certainly doesn't happen to all social media campaigns, but it is likely to happen whenever your business wanders across the unofficial but sharp dividing line between what people consider "social" and "commercial" activities. We can visualize the problem easily with an example from the offline world:

Suppose you run into a friend who asks you for a favor. His sister is just out of college and is trying to break into consulting. Since you work at a big consulting firm, he wonders whether you might be able to arrange an interview for her there. You say sure, you can arrange that, you’d be more than happy to.

But what if, when he asks for this favor, he says he’ll pay you $100 if his sister gets an interview, and another $500 if she actually gets a job at your firm? Wouldn't you be totally put off by this? Maybe he's not really your friend after all, you might think. This is certainly not how friends do favors for friends.

As your firm revs up its social-media presence you’ll need to keep in mind the very big differences between how we interact in the commercial domain versus the social domain. We don’t often think about these differences, but this story perfectly demonstrates how obvious they are to everyone. They’re so obvious that if you do try to use commercial-domain marketing in a social-domain setting, you will run the risk of electrocuting yourself on this “third rail.”

Not that you shouldn’t ever offer free stuff and incentives to customers via social media, but you have to think more carefully about how and what you’re communicating to them. In a future post I'll take up the issue of how to motivate brand advocates and fans without hitting the third rail.

Courtesy : LinkedIn

Article link : http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130318130854-17102372-beware-of-social-media-s-third-rail

Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 (AFSPA)

Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 (AFSPA)

• It conferred special powers upon the armed forces in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Nagaland.


• Extended to J&K in 1990


• Provisions in the ‘disturbed’ areas:-

• Armed Forces can use force, even to the causing of death, against any person acting in the contravention of the law, against any assembly of five or more persons, or possession of deadly weapons
• Arrest without warrant only on the basis of suspicion
• Enter any premises and conduct search

• Gives the armed forces immunity for their actions. Proceedings against personnels under this act can be made only after the permission of the central government.


• Central and state governments have the power to declare an area as disturbed. Their decision cannot be challenged in the court of law. 


• Th. Manorama was arrested in Manipur under AFSPA. She was later raped and killed. Irom Sharmila has been fasting for last 10 years for the repeal of AFSPA from Manipur. 


• Justice Jeevan Reddy Committee had recommended the repeal of AFSPA from the North-East


• Central govt has a stand that it will withdraw AFSPA from Kashmir when the state govt withdraws the Disturbed Areas Act

Arguments
o Army contends that the situation across LOC needs a robust military presence


o Without the AFSPA, the Army will not be able to stage counter terrorism operations in an emergency


o Some argue that AFSPA free enclaves will be magnets for terrorists

Counterarguments
o Mr Abdullah proposes only to lift AFSPA from two areas where the Army in any case has no security responsibilities 


o AFSPA did not have to be imposed to allow the Army to assist in the defence of Parliament House when it came under attack in 2001 – and that Army staged many successful counter-terrorism operations in Jammu province before AFSPA was imposed there in 2001


o This too makes little sense, since the Army is not present in the enclaves anyway – and it is improbable that terrorists have not established themselves there for fear of a mere law

MY TAKE :-
1.Considering the present law and order situation the AFSPA induces a threat amongst terrorists who otherwise will freely operate to destabilize the valley.


2. Army needs these minimal powers to carry out its operations and INDIAN ARMY is professional enough to check the excesses of the act if any.


3. As and when the situation improves, AFSPA can be repealed from some regions based on the recommendations of a competent authority after a well laid out investigation of the situation on the ground over a fixed period of time.


ADMIN : LAV

NPD (New Product Development ) [From My MBA Days]

You Can use this in your Interviews and discussions.

Generally, there are four types of new products/services.

✔ 1. BREAKTHROUGH : When Supplier and Customer both know that it is a Breakthrough.

e.g : APPLE I-phones before i-4 

✔ 2. INCREMENTAL : When Supplier and Customer both know that it is an incremental improvement over others.

e.g. Samsung Galaxy Smart phones can come in this category, since supplier and customer both knows that it has just an incremental technology improvement wrt competitors and existing products

[Above cases are a win situation for supplier, since they have a  SUCCESSFUL pre and post product launch plan.]

✘ 3. SHADOW :Shadow product is one in which the Supplier believes is an incremental development, but consumers see  more as a breakthrough. 

e.g. A classic example of this is 3M’s Post-it Notes. While customers quickly found an array of uses for the Post-it Note, 3M slowly began to realize this product’s potential. Shadow products are often under-priced, or under-produced.

✘ 4. Delusion : Supplier believes the product is a breakthrough development, but consumers see  more as a incremental. 

e.g. NeXT is a desktop developed by Steve Jobs. It has optical drive instead of floppy disk. This new feature [which was a breakthrough]  created a problem for the product, since costumers didnt want to work on a system which has not a floppy drive. Students feel it is expensive and others thought that work station is better.

It creates a big cash loss for the company. Generally it happens due to bad product launch planning.

Suggestion : Supplier should educate customer before a great breackthrouh. Now few of the suppliers starting this (educate customer) YOU CAN SEE THIS IN i-5 new add, they are teaching how to click PANORAMA image.]

SHADOW & DELUSION IS MISMATCH between suppliers and customers perceptions.

♛ THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS: NPD should be start with customer voice.

♛ YOU CAN USE THIS anywhere, Take example of Bollywood:

► 3 Idiots - A Breakthrough

► Special 26 : Incremental

► Gangs of Wasseypur : Shadow

► Dil Se: Delusion [That time death of leading role (sad end) was not accepted] 

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♛ NOTE : LAKHAN FUNCTION was SHADOW launch by me, I didn't thought of 2700+  shares within 2 days. (still counting). 

This is the power of EDUCATION (here I got this from MBA) which teaches you everything, now it's you. Are you using it or deleting it from your active brain.

Link of LAKHAN FUNCTION : www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=522414831143971

Union Budget 2013 - An Analysis By PWC

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India headed for economic doom, prominent US thinktank says

India is heading straight for economic failure post-Chidambaram's budget as a direct result of the lack of meaningful economic reform, says Heritage Foundation, an important conservative thinktank in the US. Assessing finance minister, P Chidambaram's budget, Derek Scissors of the Washington-based organization said that it "leaves India on the same, failing course it's been on of undisciplined spending and unrealistic expectations".

The Indian economy is in dire health, he said, not only because Indians' incomes have stagnated, income growth slowed and consumer inflation is high, but because manufacturing that should lead the Indian economy that would create jobs for the swelling ranks of young Indians is refusing to take off.

"Services lead in large part because the labour market is more flexible in services industries than in manufacturing. Rather than labour market reform, the Indian government offers a state-led infrastructure program. But the infrastructure program has no chance to succeed while property rights to land remain so ill-defined," he explained.

According to him, India is making the same mistake as the US like substituting spending since reform is politically difficult. "The proposal for this year is a triumph of hope over courage: Spending is to increase by 17%, yet the deficit is to fall to 4.8% of GDP. This won't happen. Spending will have to be curbed or the deficit will balloon again," he said.

The high growth between 2004 and 2007 was largely due to the reforms of the years before. "Without a sustained reform process, which will take considerable time, India will not return to the days of fast growth. Government revenue and GDP will continue to disappoint, deficits will continue to be high, and consumers will continue to suffer. This is the path India remains on," he added.

Article Courtesy : TOI

Link : http://goo.gl/gfsIb

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