Miss you Steve

it has been a really long time since I wrote a blog.I would not have written this too if I didnt have this new iPad in my hand.But this has made me to scribble again and ...yep back again...as always I promise myself to write regularly.The problem with under achievers(ppl like me)is indiscipline.we take hell lot of resolutions and when it comes to delivery we miss the bus.probably that's the major difference between "average " and above average.using this iPad,iPhone and iPod and king of apple products iMac has made me huge fan of Steve jobs (probably the other way round).Still....he is a dream come true and life in a fantasy..but death the ultimate destination Steve talked about has come to him RIP....the world will his magic...and his on stage presence...his lovely Stanford speech is as good as his successful products(great thing is that it's available for free online)....such are the ppl who make their creators proud...hmm it's really nice to write a blog with iPad...feels gud and makes you Proud may be this is the feeling that fairer sex get when they flaunt those expensive jewellery.To me apple and stevejobs in particular seems to be a rare mix of art and technology and that's why ppl love him. He made his profits but the users of the products know it's worth....miss him a lot...now it's real test watching the apple without steve at the helm.Great ppl make great organisations and apple has proved it again....

Why should I be proud to be an indian

We have a great culture they say....but ppl are such a hypocrites....we are one family they say....ppl fight with each other....Mumbai has a great spirit they say...ppl dont know whether they return home or not when the leave in the morning and thy know tht its not the spirit but its the  helplessness....we are a developing nation and our economy is growing they say...farmers commit suicide.....women are worshiped here they say....girls are raped brutally in every corner of the country....satyameva jayete they say....but truth is the last thing we discuss in meetings and forums.....sacrifices are made by the great leaders who gave their lives to the country they say...but i dont understand that their sons and daughters are billionares and  rest lay naked in the streets....

I used to take pride in being an indian as a child. Every August 15 was real festival and republic parade was a dream happening. "I am proud of my country"---This is wht i used to think. Ppl leaving this country are so selfish...Asutosh gowathrikar made the Swades movie using this concept. It is really wonderful to live in a world of pseudo patriotism which is encouraged by every teacher to his student. But every great brain has left this country.....I used to think it as betrayal.....we are taught to ask what did u do for the country rather than what the country did for you...put your duties before your responsibilities....is it wrong to question "what this country has done for her honest citizen"... one question kept on bothering me is why are ideals so wrong....why ????

Well it took some years to find a rational answer.....without a bias tht i love my country however dirtyy and filthy is its state....slowly i realized ppl lied about this massive patriotism....every being is free to choose its life in a better way....."selfishness" ...is condemned here but every god dam patriot here is selfish and thats the right way to be....but only thing that hurts is this "brotherhood"....if there is true brotherhood why do we fight every other day...it is this "hypocrisy " that is the route cause of all evils....
The hypocrisy is very dangerous this which i observed in every other person i see around....This is the danger....you are supposed to worship elders how ever rubbish they preach you.....either you act or you cheat yourself....right from morning to night this hypocrisy is evil that is biting this country and god knows whether they recognize this.....

My one question is ..."Do you love India?"----Answer this in your hearts...one thing i request is be true to yourself......

My dream team of one day cricket

Siva Spurthy Dream Team-Oneday

Openers:
1. Striker: Adam Gilcrist(WC)-Disastrous batsmen and willy keeper
2. Non-Striker: Sachin Tendulkar-Maestro

Middle order:
3. One Down and my captain: Ricy Ponting-An example of "lead by example"
4. Second Down: Aravinda Diselva-Every captian's dream middle order batsmen
5. Third Down: Michel Bevan-Such an honor to see him bat according to situation

All rounder:
6. Andrew Flintoff-Dangerous with both ball and bat

Bowlers:
7. Glen Mcgrath-Consistent good length bowler and the more u try to score with him the more is the chance of him getting ur wicket
8. Bret Lee-Pace
9. Wasim Akram-King of swing
10.Shane Warne-Legspinner(magic fingers)
11.Muralidharan-Offspinner-Killer Bowler

The smile of a kid

Its something interesting that I have noticed in the smile of my son.This smile is a source of some energy.The same energy which makes my life as a parent wonderful.It provides me a purpose to live.This is precious.I dont have a unit to measure happiness.If anything that comes closer to the measure of happiness is this smile.The child tends to smile at things around him.There would be plenty of things in the world that seem amazing to the child.Searching out the joy is probably the man's natural state of existence.So I feel that there is nothing worthier than this smile.A simple smile of a child.

Bill Gates speech: 11 rules your kids did not and will not learn in school

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it! 

Rule 2: The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. 

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. 

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. 

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity. 

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them. 

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. 

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. 

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time. 

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. 

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Miss being a child

Life has a strange way of teaching things.They say that the experience is the best teacher....but i beg to differ....I feel a fresher mind like that of a child does things better fearless about the consequences, feeling the world in a most rational way.I miss being a child. I miss my childhood as it was a wonderful dream in which every day had  a surprise hidden in it. Everything around me was worth an exploration. Everything seemed possible . Living this life is the best part of existence and nature is the closest friend.I fell in love with this beautiful world around me for the fact that I was a part of it. There is no fear of failure in that child as failure was such a big fun.Learning by making mistakes is the best part of the childhood. Stories of good winning over the evil and heros thrashing the villains made me to crave to be a hero when i grow older.



As i grew older there seemed some disturbances affecting my beautiful world. Being in love is seen as sin,mistakes were not tolerated, Living well is synonymous to living wealthier, In order to survive we need to beat the rest by hook or crook....things were getting weird.

World has become stranger and sense of familiarity and belongingness to this world seemed to fade away.
A sense of insecurity seemed to creep in. But there is something deep in me which has become milder.Milder but present. This makes the child in me smile and look forward to life and that something is ........HOPE.

 Hope that the purpose of life is to live and live happily..... 

Business School Summer Reading Lists 2010 Posted by: Francesca Di Meglio on April 16, 2010

Recently, some business school professors weighed in on what aspiring MBAs current MBA students should be reading during their summer vacation. For the last few years, professors have excitedly shared their book suggestions with Bloomberg BusinessWeek readers, and every year a different theme seems to emerge. This time around the economic crisis and ethics dominated the reading lists from the three professors featured in “Summer Reading List: B-School Edition”.

Here, you will find these professors’ complete summer reading lists with their explanation of why each is an important read for soon-to-be MBAs and aspirants: 

Hassell McClellan, associate professor of operations and strategic management
Boston College Carroll School of Management (Carroll Full-Time MBA Profile)

Fooled by Randomness
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Random House, 2008

“It provides interesting perspective and insights into issues and relationships between uncertainty, probabilities, risk, and decision making.”

Talent Is Never Enough 
By John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson, 2007

“It stresses the importance of mindset, character, values, preparation, perseverance, passion, and qualities other than just talent as determinants of achievement and successful leadership.”

The Lords of Strategy
By Walter Kiechel III
Harvard Business School Press, 2010

“Exposure to the integrative power of strategic frameworks can be invaluable for individuals embarking on an educational and learning process focused on management. This book provides an insightful look into the historical development of strategy as a management tool and some of the ‘sowers’ of its seeds [who] have found fertile ground among management practitioners.”

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
By Stephen R. Covey
Free Press, 1990

“Management of your internal self is as critical to success as any management tool.”

The World Is Flat
By Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2005

“The book is a good starting point for thinking globally at a broad level.”

Heather Elms, associate professor of international business
American University Kogod School of Business (Kogod Full-Time MBA Profile)

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
By Albert O. Hirschman
Harvard University Press, 1970

“[These are] your three options and how to make the most of them.”

From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
By Rakesh Khurana
Princeton University Press, 2010

“Read this to understand the original motivations behind the institutions in which you’ll study, and the issues associated with management as a profession and why it might be good for you if it were.”

Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
By Stanley Milgram
Pinter & Martin Ltd., 2010

“Key characteristic of those organizations you’ll be working for? Hierarchy. This book describes some of the most profound and provocative psychological experiments of the 20th century, and if you didn’t read it in your undergraduate Psych 101 course, do it now.”

My Years with General Motors
By Alfred Sloan
Broadway Business, 1990

“It is an insider view of the early history of General Motors, offering evidence that many of the issues managers face today are the same ones they faced in the first half of the 20th century.”

Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad
By Michael Walzer
University of Notre Dame Press, 2006

“It is a contemporary and politically active philosopher’s straightforward account of how to think about ethics across borders.”

Dan Brooks, professor 
Arizona State University W.P. Carey School of Business (Carey Full-Time MBA Profile)

Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impactby Vaclav Smil (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties by Vaclav Smil (MIT Press, 2005)

“These books have a great feel for the science, the dynamics of change and the sense of risk that people feel in those times – and they have a ‘personal’ tone in the way the information is conveyed.”

The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
By Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Cambridge University Press, 2005

“Instead of focusing on the 1400s when all books were hand copied or the 1600s when books were printed, Eisenstein focuses on the 1500s when it wasn’t clear which technology (efficient forms of hand copying or [mechanical] printing) would end up dominant.”

Fool’s Gold: The Inside Story of J.P. Morgan and How Wall St. Greed Corrupted Its Bold Dream and Created a Financial Catastrophe
By Gillian Tett
Free Press, reprint 2010

“It not only explains the technical details behind the economic turmoil of the past three years but ties in the behavioral influences of the investment community, the regulatory agencies, governments, and markets.”

Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
By Dan Senor and Saul Singer
Twelve, 2009

“The authors give what they believe to be the reasons behind Israel’s world-leading success in attracting investors despite the challenges of doing business in that country.”

Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football
By Wayne L. Winston
Princeton University Press, September 2009

“[It demonstrates] how some structure can aid a person in understanding and better decisions when making ‘investments’ in risky ventures like sports teams, sporting events, and gambles.”

The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
By Geoffrey Robertson
Anchor, 2007

“This is the story of the English lawyer who constructed a case against Charles I in England…The story provides a great perspective for the legal struggles going on now in devising court cases against a wide range of relatively new international ‘crimes’ that are not well defined nor is the legal authority under which they will be evaluated.”

Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations
By Martin Goodman
Vintage reprint, 2008

“The complexities of Middle East relations aren’t new and this history provides an interesting take on the violence that occurred during the decades when the Roman Empire had jurisdiction over Israel and the ways in which it might have gone differently.”