Reaching There

Here is a small exercise you can do to find something relevant (or totally irrelevant!) about yourself. Interested? Here's what I want you to do......write ten line each on the following topics: Your childhood memories Your school/college memories Your profession memories so far Your aspiration Remember just ten lines each. Now copy the stuff you've written. Now go to a website called http://www.wordle.net/ and paste it in their " Create your own." section. Now see what words stand out among the word cloud your words have created. Here what my words made: Please do read about their privacy notice before publishing your wordle on the website. It would be better if you just take the screenshot for you records. The website agrees too!

I recently participated in an online discussion on why engineers resist change? Almost everybody agreed that engineers don't resist change, in fact they are the one who suggest change in the first place. So was the topic of the discussion an incorrect interpretation of an engineer's mind? No, I don't think so. I believe nobody resists change but everybody resists the desire to change. I am assuming the change here is in the direction of betterment (like the trees shed their leaves, but in a beautiful way; that's why the picutre if you have been wondering!). How many of us agree that we should be in a better physical change? But most of us resist the desire to workout and give various reasons on being unable to do so! So we can all agree that change is inevitable and most of the time uncontrollable. But it is not unmanageable! We can always deal with the change in the most beneficial way. The management of a change decides how we will get through it. I can think of two p...

Hi, I made a presentation on Effects of Globalization & Risk Management on Supply Chain a while back. One of the most interesting topic in the current economic scenario. The reason being realizing and increasing visibility across a company's supply chain helps to remove unwanted waste and improve quality as well. It encompasses every activity which originates from getting the raw material till delivering the finished goods to a customer. Another concept which is emerging is managing the demand chain. Think of it as the other side of a scale. Unless both the sides are not balanced the scale would always be tipped to one side. This would lead to unnecessary waste and reduced quality. After all we all seek for balance in our lives as well! Let me know what you think! Thanks. Supply Chain Globalization View more presentations from pbajpai2 .

Continuing from my previous post about trying to define a dream and some basic reasons behind our dreams. In this post I'll try to explore the types of dreams we have and can we align the different types of dreams into a single wholesome dream? The world has been continuously changing ever since the man decided to explore his surroundings. As a human being we like living in a small world of our own. We try to make our professional and personal lives as comfortable for ourselves as we can. But in the very thought of making our lives more comfortable lies the inevitable change from the current. Sometimes this change is difficult to comprehend from our "sensible" mind so we dream about it! So we can say that a dream is an instrument of change. The question that arises next is what are the "things" we can change using this instrument? To understand this we have to delve into our everyday life. In today's world an everyday life is lived at various fronts. But her...

A dream is a cherished desire within us which always gives us with a hope of doing something better with our life. As a kid we've fantasies of becoming a fighter pilot or an astronaut when we grow up. As a kid we're influenced by movies and our childhood dreams are normally of gigantic proportions. Would a kid dream of becoming a mechanical engineer (by the way I've a mechanical engineering degree) or a dentist (and I knew a very smart guy who is a dentist)? Although the answer is "no" but there are two important underlying aspects associated with it. First of all as a kid we're used to dreaming big, the reason being we haven't faced failures in our lives. Secondly we don't know how the world really works, for kids the world is a giant circus. As a giant circus the kids see the clowns, bears, elephants believing this is the reality. We don't understand the clown is a guy who has to make a living out of it and the animals are living a life of captiv...

http://www.betterprojects.net/2009/09/storyboarding-as-requirements-tool.html Came across this link in one of the LinkedIn discussions. One of the guys in the video talks about pushing on the story from every aspect possible and working out every aspect of the problem. The interesting thing about this is how in it's simplicity the storyboarding is showing us a way to go about any problem.

I decided to open my own blog a few days back. I'll have to figure out how I can use it in an interesting way!