many of the times people who reach the top have a feeling of guilt. the guilt may be because in the process to reach the top they did things that they feel they should not have done. these may be things like cheating, hurting- people, etc. these people sometimes try to find themselves in young, aspiring and innocent persons. they see a mirror-image in the youngsters. they try to find whether they were correct or not in life's decisions. they see that the youngster can remain honest with the same amount of problems or not. the credit goes to the youngster if he can find a rightful and honest way through the problematic situation.

there are always two ways to solve a problem, i.e. a rightful way and a dishonest way. the dishonest way may be easy and may give short-term happiness, but it cannot give happiness and peace for ever. Whereas, the rightful way may be a bit difficult but it will ultimately lead to long-lasting happiness.

C.K. Prahalad - India's own Management Guru

India-born Prahalad is world's most influential thinker

C K Prahalad, the India-born management guru and academician, has been voted the world's most influential living management thinker ahead of hands-on managers like Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan and Richard Branson.

Prahalad, who is the first Indian-origin thinker to claim the title, was ranked number three in last year's Thinkers 50 list brought out by Suntop Media.

A professor at the University of Michigans' Stephen M Ross School of Business, Prahalad specialises in corporate strategy research and is a globally known figure consulted by the top management of many of the world's foremost companies.

"Best known for his work with Gary Hamel (ranked 5th) on resource-based strategy, which gave rise to the term core competences, more recently, Prahalad has turned his attention to the plight of the worlds poor," said Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove of Suntop Media.

"'In The Bottom of the Pyramid', his 2004 book, he argues that capitalism can be the engine to eradicate poverty," Crainer and Dearlove said in a statement posted on the website Thinkers50.com.

If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden, and start recognising them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs, a whole new world of opportunity will open up, Prahalad explains in his book.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been ranked second and former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan third.

Virgin group founder Richard Branson is placed at number nine.

Three more Indians have made it to the top 50 list include include CEO coach Ram Charan (22), and Vijay Govindarajan of the Tuck Business School (23) and Harvards' Rakesh Khurana (45).

Really alarming

Publication:Times Of India Kolkata;

Date:Nov 8, 2007;

Section:Times Business;

Page Number:15

Indian youths unemployable: Study TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Mumbai: If its jobs India’s youth are looking for, there are many waiting to be snapped up. The problem, says the India Labour Report 2007, is that the Indian youth are simply “unemployable”. “90% of employment opportunities require vocational skills. But 90% of our college and school output has only bookish knowledge,” says the study commissioned by TeamLease Services, a human resource and staffing agency.

While only 8% of the youth are unemployed, 53% have some kind of skill deprivation. This becomes critical, as nearly 90% of jobs in India are still skill based, with the bulk of employment coming from farming, fisheries and other related work.

“Youth unemployability is a bigger crisis than unemployment as poor quality of skills or education show up in low incomes rather than unemployment. 58% of graduates make less than Rs 75,000 per year,” the report says. Little wonder then that India’s per capita income continues to be among the lowest in the world, despite being the fastest growing economy in the world.

That is also the reason, economists say, while India will grow to be among the richest countries in the world, its citizens will not be as wealthy as the average American and European citizen. The math is fairly simple. Between a little over a billion people, even a marginal increase in their earnings can propel the country’s GDP into a different league. For the people who put it there though, things will change only marginally.

The India Labour report estimates that repairing this skill deficit could cost Rs 4,90,000 crore, or 10% of our GDP over the next two years. While current budgets facilitate for 25% of this amount, merely allocating more funds is not the solution.

Failure in quality education and skills, lack of technical and vocational training and policy blunders make it imperative that our system needs a structural change, the report states. A negligible percentage of children who complete the primary level of education continue to the diploma level and an even smaller ratio go on further. The discontinuation of education leads to the accumulation of job seekers in the bottom of the education pyramid and the immediate fallout of this is the low skill levels among the working population.

For example, India IT professionals may be highly in demand all over the world, but figures reveal that only 30% of them are actually employable in the IT sector. With almost all big multinationals looking to set up shop in India, the gap between the supply and demand for IT professionals is estimated at 500,000 in the next three years.

The fact that only 25% of engineering graduates, 15% of finance and accounting professionals and 10% of professionals with any kind of degree are suitable to be employed in global organisations is more alarming.

a finance manager - is it a compromise

when i began my career in class 10, wayback in 2000, i had never imagined that i will become a finance manager. honestly speaking, i never read the business-pages of times of india. i avoided them saying to myself, "you will never need them, u are never going that way." but today i read a full newspaper which has only economic and business news.
my family members all say that my shift in career is a God's act. but i am still a researcher from heart. thats why i like finance much more than marketing or HR. finance is unpredictable and cannot be understood easily. i always had a crush on difficult and complex things. i always try to make complex stuff simple. thats why finance attracts me.
the shift in my career is just an indication of His presence. He tries to test us and make us do the things that we never imagine of doing. He is really mysterious.
am i comfortable and do i love finance more than biotech or maths or computer science? the answer to that is not simple. i am atleast not making a compromise. i am doing what i like the best. i may not like finance more than biotech or maths but i do not like it less than biotech or maths. i will give to finance what i gave to biotech and maths... i.e. my heart and my 100%.

James Blunt - hear him once

James blunt created history once again with his new album - "all the lost souls." he was superb in "back to bedlam", but he sounds much different in ATLS. I am in a fix; i cant decide which track is my fav. all of them sound different and lovely to hear.

u can hear to one of the song from ATLS at :
http://music.download.com/jamesblunt/3600-8691_32-101075905.html?tag=MDL_listing_song_artist

great going James Blunt !!

Hyderabad - my 2nd home

when i left hyderabad in 2005 it was much different then what it is today. hyderabad has moved on and so do the hyderabadis. but there is a difference in the condition of the city. the roads are worse, the traffic is unbearable, the city administration is sleeping. there is a sense of indifference around the city. the hyderabadi-fire is somehow missing. but my experience with apollo health city is the best one. they are really professionals.

"durga puja time in hyderabad" since three years, have really haunted me. i really missed my city during this dp.

i had thought that this time in hyd i will refresh many of my memories. but check-up lasted much longer. my memories of my grad days still remain in me waiting for their revisit."those classrooms, those playgrounds, those laboratories,
those khatti-places, ...."

everytime i revisit a road or a place in hyd, it seems that they ask me

"how are u sudipta?"

hyderabad, u r a mystery in urself.
only sufis understood u half.

oh my hyderabad bid me farewell for one more year, till i come back again and wonder at ur enigma.
i love thee and i will, unconditionally forever.

whats the most important thing in life

Thats a ques. many have tried to solve and many are desperate to know. so what is exactly the most important thing in life. Is it money, is it friends, is it power .......

Had it been two years before, I would have bluntly told that money is the most important thing. But after a bit of management touch in my life, I feel that it is "the human skills." By human skills I mean the way we deal with others. Ya, thats right !! Human skills... If we know how to deal with the best and the worst of persons then we know how to succeed in life. I believe the most successful person is that who has the least no. of enemies and the max. no. of friendz. So friends, if u want to remain happy in ur life, then learn how to manage people. Thats the key to happiness.