Just wanted to share this...
Twyman Towery, Ph.D., a professional speaker and consultant who studied the lessons of leadership in nature, has captured them in a book for Simple Truths called Wisdom of Wolves. Twyman shares the parallels between the wolf pack and human behavior...in business life, family life, and personal life.
The attitude of the wolf can be summed up simply: it is a constant visualization of success. The collective wisdom of wolves has been progressively programmed into their genetic makeup throughout the centuries. Wolves have mastered the technique of focusing their energies toward the activities that will lead to the accomplishment of their goals.
Wolves do not aimlessly run around their intended victims, yipping and yapping. They have a strategic plan and execute it through constant communication. When the moment of truth arrives, each understands his role and understands exactly what the pack expects of him.
The wolf does not depend on luck. The cohesion, teamwork and training of the pack determines whether the pack lives or dies.
There is a silly maxim in some organizations that everyone, to be a valuable member, must aspire to be the leader. This is personified by the misguided CEO who says he only hires people who say they want to take his job. Evidently, this is supposed to ensure that the person has ambition, courage, spunk, honesty, drive - whatever. In reality, it is simply a contrived situation, with the interviewee jumping through the boss's hoops. It sends warnings of competition and one-upsmanship throughout the organization rather than signals of cooperation, teamwork and loyalty.
Everyone does not strive to be the leader in the wolf pack. Some are consummate hunters or caregivers or jokesters, but each seems to gravitate to the role he does best. This is not to say there are not challenges to authority, position and status - there are. But each wolf's role begins emerging from playtime as a pup and refines itself through the rest of its years. The wolf's attitude is always based upon the question, "What is best for the pack?" This is in marked contrast to us humans, who will often sabotage our organizations, families or businesses, if we do not get what we want.
Wolves are seldom truly threatened by other animals. By constantly engaging their senses and skills, they are practically unassailable. They are masters of planning for the moment of opportunity to present itself, and when it does, they are ready to act.
Because of training, preparation, planning, communication and a preference for action, the wolf's expectation is always to be victorious. While in actuality this is true only 10 percent of the time or less, the wolf's attitude is always that success will come-and it does.
by Twyman Towery
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
carzy time
I have been away quite long .. didn't felt like writing for weeks. Life has been damn slow and its just the "crazy time" again that will pass tomorrow not if today.
So, what goes to humans when he/she is going through this crazy time period. They are struggling with the happening just happening cuz its not going their way. Lot of pressure, lot of fighting back to change things but the things just becomes more worst then what they were earlier.
There are few things that we can not fight back. The best way to defeat them is to accept them.
So, what goes to humans when he/she is going through this crazy time period. They are struggling with the happening just happening cuz its not going their way. Lot of pressure, lot of fighting back to change things but the things just becomes more worst then what they were earlier.
There are few things that we can not fight back. The best way to defeat them is to accept them.
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
You won't understand
I am certain that we all happen to say it to peoples around us in relations,"You don't understand". There are times when its really hard to prove oneself to others, even to one we love and with them for a long time. The only part matters that what they mean to us.
We have to take initiative even though we know its difficult to make someone understand something which is true for us but to them its a vague action. Even for simple things the situation becomes so tough that we give up and say you don't understand and move ahead but its a decision that we make either accepting the defiance or losing the patience to take the pain to make them believe in our thoughts.
It's also a matter that to them our step or activity is not a true thing to take place but not everyone is perfect. So one just need to put a point that even his actions and steps are wrong but he/she wants the other person to be on his side and see things through his/her perspective which will let them understand the situation in a better way. None of us like to be wrong but we fail to make an attempt to make that understandable to the persons we love.
So, do take initiative to explain yourself even you know he/she wont understand.
We have to take initiative even though we know its difficult to make someone understand something which is true for us but to them its a vague action. Even for simple things the situation becomes so tough that we give up and say you don't understand and move ahead but its a decision that we make either accepting the defiance or losing the patience to take the pain to make them believe in our thoughts.
It's also a matter that to them our step or activity is not a true thing to take place but not everyone is perfect. So one just need to put a point that even his actions and steps are wrong but he/she wants the other person to be on his side and see things through his/her perspective which will let them understand the situation in a better way. None of us like to be wrong but we fail to make an attempt to make that understandable to the persons we love.
So, do take initiative to explain yourself even you know he/she wont understand.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Fathers Day : How special is it for you
I just didn't wanted to miss this auspicious day to wish my father and al fathers a happy fathers day for been with us since our birth and all of the hard times when we need them the most.
As a friend to play when we dont have a language to communicate but he knows what we are saying and manages to communicate back too. A person yo count on for everything, a friend, a guardian and all what we wish to have in our lives and also things that we didn't wished are fulfilled by him in all his possible ways.
We learn to learn all the survival ways , the first teacher of us in all ways, a friend to listen all our issues and concerns, happiness and sorrows, advicing best with his sheer experince expecting nothing in return.
Thank you father for been there for all times. Friends and brothers do wish your father not only on this day but in the days amid.
Happy Fathers day to all Fathers for been with us when we needed them the most and always.
As a friend to play when we dont have a language to communicate but he knows what we are saying and manages to communicate back too. A person yo count on for everything, a friend, a guardian and all what we wish to have in our lives and also things that we didn't wished are fulfilled by him in all his possible ways.
We learn to learn all the survival ways , the first teacher of us in all ways, a friend to listen all our issues and concerns, happiness and sorrows, advicing best with his sheer experince expecting nothing in return.
Thank you father for been there for all times. Friends and brothers do wish your father not only on this day but in the days amid.
Happy Fathers day to all Fathers for been with us when we needed them the most and always.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Decisions with realtionship
We take decisions now and then in our daily life. Few small one's and few big one's. There are decisions that are personally focused but there are more which we think as personal decision which tends not to be the one. There are decisions as such which just don't involve us as an individual rather there are more persons attached to it directly or indirectly.
We tend to take decisions not for ourselves but for others too may it be your friend, parents, kids, spouse or anyone. The point is that not all decisions make them happy. There are things that we fathom on parameters which are in-important for the one or they feel like that. We happen to measure things our way but we need to be double sure of the parameters we chose to come to a decision. We should always be sure that the pain our loved ones are going because of the "decision" we are making thinking better of them really worth that pain or not. We ignore this point and we will left our loved ones hurt.
I would rather chose a discussion on the same before making a decision as there are perspective we may ignore or consider not important when in the matter of fact they are equally important. We are not sharing things and that is where we fail to make our first decision that I as an individual can make better decision. One may be correct but the probability to be so increases when we have a different opinion on the same.
So be sharing and be a good decision maker cuz that is what will make you a better individual and more trustworthy amongst your loved ones. Trust others first to share and feel the difference in what your decision entails on.
Happy decision making peoples...
We tend to take decisions not for ourselves but for others too may it be your friend, parents, kids, spouse or anyone. The point is that not all decisions make them happy. There are things that we fathom on parameters which are in-important for the one or they feel like that. We happen to measure things our way but we need to be double sure of the parameters we chose to come to a decision. We should always be sure that the pain our loved ones are going because of the "decision" we are making thinking better of them really worth that pain or not. We ignore this point and we will left our loved ones hurt.
I would rather chose a discussion on the same before making a decision as there are perspective we may ignore or consider not important when in the matter of fact they are equally important. We are not sharing things and that is where we fail to make our first decision that I as an individual can make better decision. One may be correct but the probability to be so increases when we have a different opinion on the same.
So be sharing and be a good decision maker cuz that is what will make you a better individual and more trustworthy amongst your loved ones. Trust others first to share and feel the difference in what your decision entails on.
Happy decision making peoples...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Excerpt from The 100/0 Principle, by Al Ritter
Just felt sharing this part with you all,
What is the most effective way to create and sustain great relationships with others? It's The 100/0 Principle: You take full responsibility (the 100) for the relationship, expecting nothing (the 0) in return.
Implementing The 100/0 Principle is not natural for most of us. It takes real commitment to the relationship and a good dose of self-discipline to think, act and give 100 percent.
The 100/0 Principle applies to those people in your life where the relationships are too important to react automatically or judgmentally. Each of us must determine the relationships to which this principle should apply. For most of us, it applies to work associates, customers, suppliers, family and friends.
STEP 1 - Determine what you can do to make the relationship work...then do it. Demonstrate respect and kindness to the other person, whether he/she deserves it or not.
STEP 2 - Do not expect anything in return. Zero, zip, nada.
STEP 3 - Do not allow anything the other person says or does (no matter how annoying!) to affect you. In other words, don't take the bait.
STEP 4 - Be persistent with your graciousness and kindness. Often we give up too soon, especially when others don't respond in kind. Remember to expect nothing in return.
At times (usually few), the relationship can remain challenging, even toxic, despite your 100 percent commitment and self-discipline. When this occurs, you need to avoid being the "Knower" and shift to being the "Learner." Avoid Knower statements/ thoughts like "that won't work," "I'm right, you are wrong," "I know it and you don't," "I'll teach you," "that's just the way it is," "I need to tell you what I know," etc.
Instead use Learner statements/thoughts like "Let me find out what is going on and try to understand the situation," "I could be wrong," "I wonder if there is anything of value here," "I wonder if..." etc. In other words, as a Learner, be curious!
Principle Paradox
This may strike you as strange, but here's the paradox: When you take authentic responsibility for a relationship, more often than not the other person quickly chooses to take responsibility as well. Consequently, the 100/0 relationship quickly transforms into something approaching 100/100. When that occurs, true breakthroughs happen for the individuals involved, their teams, their organizations and their families.
What is the most effective way to create and sustain great relationships with others? It's The 100/0 Principle: You take full responsibility (the 100) for the relationship, expecting nothing (the 0) in return.
Implementing The 100/0 Principle is not natural for most of us. It takes real commitment to the relationship and a good dose of self-discipline to think, act and give 100 percent.
The 100/0 Principle applies to those people in your life where the relationships are too important to react automatically or judgmentally. Each of us must determine the relationships to which this principle should apply. For most of us, it applies to work associates, customers, suppliers, family and friends.
STEP 1 - Determine what you can do to make the relationship work...then do it. Demonstrate respect and kindness to the other person, whether he/she deserves it or not.
STEP 2 - Do not expect anything in return. Zero, zip, nada.
STEP 3 - Do not allow anything the other person says or does (no matter how annoying!) to affect you. In other words, don't take the bait.
STEP 4 - Be persistent with your graciousness and kindness. Often we give up too soon, especially when others don't respond in kind. Remember to expect nothing in return.
At times (usually few), the relationship can remain challenging, even toxic, despite your 100 percent commitment and self-discipline. When this occurs, you need to avoid being the "Knower" and shift to being the "Learner." Avoid Knower statements/ thoughts like "that won't work," "I'm right, you are wrong," "I know it and you don't," "I'll teach you," "that's just the way it is," "I need to tell you what I know," etc.
Instead use Learner statements/thoughts like "Let me find out what is going on and try to understand the situation," "I could be wrong," "I wonder if there is anything of value here," "I wonder if..." etc. In other words, as a Learner, be curious!
Principle Paradox
This may strike you as strange, but here's the paradox: When you take authentic responsibility for a relationship, more often than not the other person quickly chooses to take responsibility as well. Consequently, the 100/0 relationship quickly transforms into something approaching 100/100. When that occurs, true breakthroughs happen for the individuals involved, their teams, their organizations and their families.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
I was going through one of the article by Dr. Y.L.R.Murthy and felt to share with you all that how important it is to have a perspective and a viosion in life beyond what we fail to think on. Happy reading....
Have Breakfast Or Be Breakfast
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India ? Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon.
The answer is - None of the above ! The winner is NOKIA whose main line of business in India is not cameras at all, but Cell Phones – the reason being, that cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cell-phone from replacing the camera outright ? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note of this fact !
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India ?
You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma ?
Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling Caller Tunes ( that play for 30 seconds ) Airtel makes more than what music companies like HMV make by selling music albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti ( Airtel's parent ) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.
Nokia confessed that they all but missed the Smart Phone bus. They admit that Apple's i-Phone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future.
But you never thought that Google was a mobile company, did you ?
If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or music or camera or emails ?
The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's personal digital device"?
Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a phone ? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question –
" WHO is my competitor ? "
Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. I ask " What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain ? " The smart ones get the answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as Audio ( music from the famous ‘Walkman’ ). They never ever expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their Audio market domain with the I-Pod.
Come to think of it, is it really surprising ? Apple, as a computer maker, had both Audio and Video capabilities.
So what made Sony think they won't compete on pure Audio ?
"Elementary Watson".
So also Kodak defined its business as Film Cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "Digital." In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going Digital and sacrificing money on camera film, or staying with Films and getting left behind in Digital technology.
Left undecided, it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the BIG question " WHO is my competitor for tomorrow ?"
The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad !" ... and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape.
The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India ? Singapore airlines ? Better still, Indian airlines ?
Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not YET mentioned.
The answer is video-conferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT Executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use video-conferencing to shrink travel budget.
So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. (India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession! ).
So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on.
In short term yes. In long term a resounding NO.
Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware.
Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR ( grandparent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India. PC's prices dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of these airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be R.I.P !
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans ( Aamir, Shah Rukh Salman and the other Khans who followed suit ).
That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie.
Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned, both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment) . Cricket season might push films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last see a black and white movie ? When did you last use a typewriter that had a limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se, are nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning ? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came the quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms."
What do we use today for waking up in the morning ?
Our Cellphone !
An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning - thanks to these cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers.
You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding !
On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors ? Joke spewing machines ? Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a Polish joke telling machine to a telephone pole much to the mirth of Silicon Valley. Or will the competition be story telling robots?
The Future is scary !
The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called “Competition”
He said " Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast "!
That, sums it up really well !
Y.L.R. Moorthi
Have Breakfast Or Be Breakfast
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India ? Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon.
The answer is - None of the above ! The winner is NOKIA whose main line of business in India is not cameras at all, but Cell Phones – the reason being, that cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cell-phone from replacing the camera outright ? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note of this fact !
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India ?
You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma ?
Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling Caller Tunes ( that play for 30 seconds ) Airtel makes more than what music companies like HMV make by selling music albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti ( Airtel's parent ) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.
Nokia confessed that they all but missed the Smart Phone bus. They admit that Apple's i-Phone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future.
But you never thought that Google was a mobile company, did you ?
If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or music or camera or emails ?
The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's personal digital device"?
Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a phone ? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question –
" WHO is my competitor ? "
Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. I ask " What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain ? " The smart ones get the answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as Audio ( music from the famous ‘Walkman’ ). They never ever expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their Audio market domain with the I-Pod.
Come to think of it, is it really surprising ? Apple, as a computer maker, had both Audio and Video capabilities.
So what made Sony think they won't compete on pure Audio ?
"Elementary Watson".
So also Kodak defined its business as Film Cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "Digital." In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going Digital and sacrificing money on camera film, or staying with Films and getting left behind in Digital technology.
Left undecided, it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the BIG question " WHO is my competitor for tomorrow ?"
The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad !" ... and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape.
The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India ? Singapore airlines ? Better still, Indian airlines ?
Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not YET mentioned.
The answer is video-conferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT Executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use video-conferencing to shrink travel budget.
So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. (India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession! ).
So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on.
In short term yes. In long term a resounding NO.
Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware.
Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR ( grandparent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India. PC's prices dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of these airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be R.I.P !
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans ( Aamir, Shah Rukh Salman and the other Khans who followed suit ).
That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie.
Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned, both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment) . Cricket season might push films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last see a black and white movie ? When did you last use a typewriter that had a limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se, are nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning ? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came the quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms."
What do we use today for waking up in the morning ?
Our Cellphone !
An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning - thanks to these cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers.
You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding !
On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors ? Joke spewing machines ? Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a Polish joke telling machine to a telephone pole much to the mirth of Silicon Valley. Or will the competition be story telling robots?
The Future is scary !
The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called “Competition”
He said " Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast "!
That, sums it up really well !
Y.L.R. Moorthi
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