Common Man's view on Demonetization

On demonetization :

India is a huge country with gigantic population of over 1.2Billion thats why inspite of "Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna" we do not have adequate  banking  infrastructure .
Standing for more than 8 hours and then not getting enough cash is unfortunate.The major problem of demonetization lies in its execution.Standing in long ques creates agony,pain,discomfort and struggle.

India was not ready to face such massive and sudden change which came like a tsunami.

You,as a comman man can't give your time to your work,education and other social responsibilities. Imagine those who do not have enough money to buy medicines !
When you do reality check you will find hospitals,petrol pumps,chemist etc are not accepting 500-1000rs notes but some are accepting it if your bill is above 500 which is ethically not correct and undesirable.

People opposing demonetization does not make them anti-national but they are unhappy because of discomfort and we should respect their stand on it.

On Other hand-
Demonetization is one of the toughest and boldest decision by the Indian government.
We should not forget that those fake notes of 500-1000 were manufactured and circulated in India by our neighbouring country as a part of their terrorist funding activity  and were used to create unrest in India. 
Remember Terrorist attacks?Kashmir unrest?Smuggling?
So to comprehensively defeat those tactics India needed Demonetization.
Demonetization is also needed for the healthy economy.

Ok we all know that it won't end corruption as majority of black money had been stashed abroad  but something is better than nothing. We need to work together towards it.
We should applaud our Government,common man,bank staff etc for taking some serious effort. Being a bank employee these days is the toughest job.
So one section of our society is supporting demonetization and we should respect them also ! So supporting the move of Indian government won't make you BJP Supporter. 😊

Jai Hind.

Management Lesson

There was a farmer who had a horse and a goat …

One day , the horse became ill and he called the
veterinarian , who said:
“ Well, your horse has a virus. He must take this medicine
for three days .
I ’ ll come back on the 3rd day and if he’ s not better,
we ’ re going to have to put him down .
Nearby , the goat listened closely to their conversation .
The next day , they gave him the medicine and left .
The goat approached the horse and said :
“ Be strong , my friend. Get up or else they’ re going to put
you to sleep !”
On the second day , they gave him the medicine and left .
The goat came back and said: -
“ Come on buddy, get up or else you ’ re going to die ! Come
on , I ’ ll help you get up .
Let ’ s go ! One, two , three …
On the third day , they came to give him the medicine and
the vet said:
“ Unfortunately, we ’ re going to have to put him down
tomorrow . Otherwise,
the virus might spread and infect the other horses .
After they left , the goat approached the horse and said:
“ Listen pal , it ’ s now or never !
Get up , come on ! Have courage !
Come on ! Get up ! Get up !
That ’ s it , slowly !
Great ! Come on , one , two , three …
Good , good.
Now faster, come on ……
Fantastic! Run, run more !
Yes! Yay ! Yes!
You did it , you ’ re a champion!!!
All of a sudden , the owner came back, saw the horse
running in the field and began shouting …
It ’ s a miracle! My horse is cured. We must have a grand
party .
Let ’ s Cook the goat !!!!

Lesson : Management never knows which employee
actually deserves the appraisal .

THE IMPORTANCE OF WORDS

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THE IMPORTANCE OF WORDS
What are words? What is language? Why are they important?

One of the great paradoxes of education is that as we climb the ladder of learning, we keep narrowing our vision. It is called specialisation.

So, some of you will become finance MBAs and bore the hell out of this world with your pivot charts. Some will become marketing consultants and spend half their working week in preparing presentations and the remaining half in coming up with new management jargon. There will be many who will specialise in human resources. You will think of new ways to spend the management budget on bonding at an offsite, but you will also wonder why employees are never happy when they are back in the office. You will plan another offsite and the cycle will continue.

But the world is not only about complicated Excel sheets, or inventing management jargon that will become the butt of jokes. It is about learning, and we learn through words.

The media landscape today - be it mainstream media or social media - is like a battleground. Instead of a resplendent sunrise, we see the bright red blood of those who have lost the war of words. The winner is often who shouts the loudest, not the one who makes the most sense. 

Which perhaps explains why a Salman Khan movie with little or no story credentials makes Rs 200 crore across 3,000 cinema halls while a Katiyabaaz struggles to find a mainstream release. It also explains why we still remember with fondness the greatest poems of Gulzar, Shahryar, Sahir and Kaifi in the times of Chaar Botal Vodka, and Hookah Bar.

It is significant because it is words and our ability for verbal communication that define us as the human species, and set us apart from the rest. Alarmingly, we are fast losing the ability to communicate, and it is making us stupid.

I am not making this up. In a study published last week in The New Scientist, psychologists said that between 1930 and 1980, human IQ rose three points. But since then, it has dropped 1.5 points, and it is falling further. By 2050, scientists say, our IQ is slated to fall 1.3 points more. A Dutch study last year was even more dark - it said humans have lost 14 IQ points since the 1900s. There may be various factors at play here, and statistically, it would be impossible to pinpoint one reason.

My feeling (and I may be completely wrong) is that new avenues of media are doing just that to us. Or, rather, we explore new media that way. 

We scan, we don't read. 

We look, but we don't observe. 

Our media universe is now restricted to 140 characters and video-driven status updates. 

We use jargon. A lot of it. But it gives us no context, and without context and the consequent consciousness, we are not human anymore. 

This is the paradox I was referring to at the beginning - that we are becoming a more and more information-heavy society, but we are also Knowledge-Lite. We know more, but we are aware of less. We know things happen; we just don't know, sometimes, why or how they happen.

Which is why, as future nation-builders, it is important for you and your generation to keep knowledge alive. And for that, we need words.

We need words that communicate, not obfuscate.

We need words that open minds, not close doors.

We need words that simplify our lives, not complicate our existence like our tax laws.

We need words that bring us closer, not distance ourselves like four friends with smartphones in an expensive restaurant who are more interested in Instagramming their food than in talking to each other.

I could not give a profound speech on the media in India, and for that I offer my apologies (for not writing a speech, that is, and not for the state of our media). 

However, as you enter the world of entrepreneurship or corporate megastructures, you will realise that the difference between a VC funding of $10 million and being rejected is always ideas, and how you communicate that idea with words. You will realise that the difference between retaining a top-class employee and losing her to a competitor is not just by paying her more, but also by making her feel good working there. And you can only do that with words.

Your words ultimately define you. Today, I urge you define it well.

Wise Words from a Judge in New Zealand - for Young People and Adults

Wise Words from a Judge in New Zealand - for Young People and Adults.

I shake my head in disbelief at some of the things judges say ... but this hit the mark:

"Northland College (NZ) principal John Tapene has offered the following words from a judge who regularly deals with youth.
"Always we hear the cry from teenagers 'What can we do, where can we go?'
... My answer is, "Go home, mow the lawn, wash the windows, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job, visit the sick, study your lessons, and after you've finished, read a book."

"Your town does not owe you recreational facilities and your parents do not owe you fun. The world does not owe you a living, you owe the world something. You owe it your time, energy and talent so that no one will be at war, in poverty or sick and lonely again."

"In other words, grow up, stop being a cry baby, get out of your dream world and develop a backbone, not a wishbone. Start behaving like a responsible person. You are important and you are needed. It's too late to sit around and wait for somebody to do something someday. Someday is now and that somebody is you...""

Eleanor Roosevelt on Happiness,Conformity and Intergrity

Eleanor Roosevelt on Happiness, Conformity, and Integrity
by Maria Popova“When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”

Eleanor Roosevelt endures as one of the most memorable thinkers and doers in modern history —
a relentless champion of working women and underprivileged youth, the longest-serving American First Lady, and the author of some beautiful, if controversial, love letters.
When she was 76, Roosevelt penned You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life (public library) — an elegantly written, relentlessly insightful compendium of her philosophy on the meaningful life.

In the sixth chapter, “Learning to be Useful,” Roosevelt considers the secret of happiness — that elusive, shape-shifting aspiration of which such great hearts and minds as Henry David Thoreau, Alfred Hitchcock, Alan Watts, Martin Seligman, C. S. Lewis, Annie Dillard, and a range of TED speakers have had their own theories.

Roosevelt writes:Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively. After a short time, a very short time, there would be little that one really enjoyed. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.[…]

It is easy to slip into self-absorption and it is equally fatal. When one becomes absorbed in himself, in his health, in his personal problems, or in the small details of daily living, he is, at the same time losing interest in other people; worse, he is losing his ties to life.
From that it is an easy step to losing interest in the world and in life itself. That is the beginning of death.I have always liked Don Quixote’s comment, ‘Until death it is all life.’Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: ‘A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.’But there is another basic requirement, and I can’t understand now how I forgot it at the time: that is the feeling that you are, in some way, useful. Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive. And it is its own reward, as well, for it is the beginning of happiness, just as self-pity and withdrawal from the battle are the beginning of misery.In the following chapter, titled “The Right to Be an Individual,”

Roosevelt considers the moral responsibility of living what you believe and fully inhabiting your inner life as the foundation of integrity and, more than that, of what it means to be human:It’s your life — but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else or a community or a pressure group, you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

Indeed, this sentiment is at the heart of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous words: “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest"