DailyPost 691 INSTANTANEOUS! A new entrant to a job is tensed that he has not been able make an impact. On the job for only ten months! History of mankind teaches us that is a long haul to make an impact, to deliver something worthwhile. But this is the millennial generation & the best way […]
DailyPost 690 CYBER SECURITY: SYLLABUS, CONTENT & PEDAGOGY The news of hacks, breaches & lots of day to day irritants of the digital world is slowly having to toll on a society, which is certainly not very comfortable with the digital world. There are two harsh realities, first we have got addicted to the ease
DailyPost 689 DIGITAL COSMOS With prophecies of doom the world over & few dastardly acts like the Bank of Bangladesh heist & many Lazarus exploits, the Indian banks remained unresponsive to the frenzy. The expected happened in the most unexpected manner. The quantum of money siphoned off in the breach is the minor part, the
DailyPost 688 GOOGLED FOR LIFE! There was a time when storing documents for eternity was one of the toughest jobs one could have imagine of. Today it is the other way, leave the self created data, every single movement is under the prying eyes of the IT Giants. Permanence of data is the done thing
DailyPost 687 FAILURE SKILLS For the uninitiated, failure skills does not mean skills to fail but on the contrary, it means skills to withstand failure and bounce back successfully on the road to the final goal / success. The internal experience all of us have when faced with failure is one of shame, dismay, disappointment
DailyPost 686 THE TOP PERFORMERS / ACHIEVERS? Unravelling the key to be a great performers has been an area of research for quite some time. That might open the vistas of large scale development of top performers. The conclusion of the book “TALENT is Overrated,” by Geoff Colvin, tries to make this enigma more understandable.
DailyPost 685 FACEBOOK’s PRIVACY! Being completely opaque is their DNA. Even after the Cambridge Analytica type episode, we are forced to take at it’s face value. Different Governance mechanisms & enforcement systems have made no impact on this company. Lip service has to privacy has become more professional. Facebook has reported a quarter of slowest
DailyPost 684 RUMOURS, FAKE NEWS & POST TRUTH! The information regime the world over is getting disrupted. The pace & reach of information is mindboggling. A post can get viral in not time. The ease of communication has brought immense benefits but nefarious too can reach their constituency & beyond, in no time, with breathtaking
DailyPost 683 “DAY 1” A veteran public speaker may get a feeling that he is getting on to the stage for the first time, every time he appears on stage. Steve Jobs worked with the philosophy; “If today were the last day of my life…” For last 33 years of his life he asked to
DailyPost 682 SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER, SOC The recently inaugurated Symantec’s Security Operations Center at Chennai happens to be the largest of the six operated globally by this world renowned Cyber Security MNC. This might mean the country coming of age in the Cyber Security arena. SOCs as days pass by would become an integral part
DailyPost 681 HUMAN NETWORK A long standing research at Harvard University showed that way beyond success and money, the robust social relationships if created & maintained gave the maximum happiness in life. Cisco had a Human Network campaign. With machines getting into human operations rather successfully the reverse logic was also propagated, that professional work
