Reality check!

Its a rainy and windy weather today outside...reflecting my thoughts...Just now completed 9 years in corporate world...in normal situation, it could have been a time of jubilation for its an anniversary...but now a days normal situation doesn't exist. The day came and slowly went by on its own lethargic pace and dragged me along with itself. As IT is people intensive and people driven, the maximum problem comes from people...the one you mentored, shows eyes to you someday, the one you groomed from beginning, shows attitude to you...I think, and have started feeling, expectations are wrong as people have their own brains and sometimes some of the brains or rather most of the brains are not conditioned to be able to respect knowledge, capability or competitiveness, those taking stairs of success keep breaking the 'passed' stairs themselves, There is a sense of betrayal, this is the experience of the life, they say. But one thing is forever common...Don't get emotional in corporate world!...its more of a negative thing than positive feeling...Learning is forever and its ON...

Incompetence breeds Incompetence!

How many times have we heard from people around that we are doing something wrong...possibly a zillion times!...But the essence of 'Incompetence'  doesn't lie in doing things wrong, first time or second time rather it lies with the repetition of same mistake several times!. The most damaging situation, I think is, an incompetent person as a decision making authority- first it impacts all the logical senses required in a decision making process and further on, it will impact the 'right' people working under him/her...reason: an incompetent person or behaviour(if rewarded) can be identified easily but the subordinates and becomes a role model for the ones who wish to climb success ladder by following him. Hence the behaviour and patterns are replicated, repeated: as a result you see another incompetent idiot in making. The behavioural aspect doesn't end here. Incompetence can be bred by competent people as well. Here comes the concept of reinforcements!...Sample this: If a (wrong)subordinate(into the limelight kinda person) is praised by a competent boss, the behaviour gets a boost to hold on to the limelight and not to develop competence to scale up...overall, a general observation has been, an incompetent boss will have incompetent subordinates....but the same is not true for COMPETENCE! Competence doesn't breed Competence, it inspires but cant be replicated because of the sweat, blood and tears that goes into it so it comes to ONLY those who are game for it!

I'm Back!

Hi

Well, i am not Arnold nevertheless, I am back after a span of almost 2 years...A full circle of life is going by like a train passing through forests and trees leaving behind..
I am still in Amsterdam...in the meantime, a trip to India in Oct-Nov'14 happened...
The little one has become 18 months old with her own initial views of likes and dislikes now:)
Its amazing to see how human brain understands and adapts as per the need of times..
It has been quite a while that I have written a blog so wont keep it too long...
Meanwhile, the latest one was an India day celebration with Cricket in VRA, Amstelveen ground with 3 teams participating from Infosys v/s several other teams from different companies. Finally, Team 1 got the glory back with unbeaten record for winning all 4 matches on their way.
2015 is going to be an year of huge events for my life. Hope decisions made this year prove out to be right in long run- will keep this message cryptic for now:)
P.S: Recently Vivek pointed out on my missing blogs for some time so thought of re-starting again. Hope to continue.

Take care.