DailyPost 135 UNCONVENTIONAL KNOWLEDGE, CONVENTIONAL WISDOM The knowledge available to us on a fingertip seems to have far exceeded our capability to handle. Its available on imaginable array of forms, formats, analysis, sources and mediums strewn all around mainly in the digital world and some in the physical world, not decipherable to the most of […]
DailyPost 134 LET’S DO THE UNTHINKABLE! It’s an irony of our existence that the most unthinkable activity in our lives has been, having an independent & individual based thinking. The biological evolution of our brain has been in exactly the opposite direction. We are born to think and thinking happens to be the only differentiator
DailyPost 133 THE PONTIFICATION OF INDIA Free advice and the capability to talk endlessly on topics / issues we are unaware is in the Indian DNA; the progress to similar talk shows, debates by way of sermonising came naturally to us, with the proliferation of 24/7 news channels. Everybody become an expert. To pontificate is
DailyPost 132 BIG DATA – THE FLIP SIDE We are being datafied is a reality of life ; when location apart, feelings and sentiments have also become data. The surge of data creation and its usage seems to be unstoppable. Herein, comes Big Data; still in nascent stage, but having the capability, to deliver one
DailyPost 131 LANGUAGE – LAPSE OR COLLAPSE! Being a historian by training, one is aware of the fact that the zenith of a rule; monarchical, despotic or democratic, is its manifestation of literature, art, architecture and culture. It presupposes the growth and consolidation of the empire and good governance. Language at its core and literature
DailyPost 130 AWARENESS & TRAINING For any issue plaguing the nation, society, organization and individuals, the blame is squarely put on lack of awareness. If we move a step further, the next reflexive response happens to be the quality of training or no training at all. Awareness & training alone can become the panacea to
DailyPost 129 KNACK A gardener with a green hand, a speaker’s connect, an industrialist’s turn around of sick units is the knack we talk about incessantly. Knack remains as undefined as ever, the people who have it, know it; people who experience the knack, know it even better. Its genesis and its operation has never
DailyPost 128 Collaborative Research- A Necessity One guide one researcher model is the mainstay of the Indian basic research. Small teams working on a one research project is a rarity and bigger teams working on a pathbreaking research project is the rarest. The lab to field transfer remains at the lowest ebb. The humungous resources
DailyPost 127 Probity – the ultimate arbiter of public life. Since the time of the Greek philosophers probity in public life has been a matter of great concern. Monarchs & monarchies did their bit to bring this change with a few success stories to give us the strength to move ahead on the same lines.
DailyPost 126 Punchlines, Certifications & Deliverables – Do they connect? “High Performance. Delivered”, “Powered by Intellect, Driven by Values,” “Applying Thought,” and the like are flaunted punchlines to manifest the conscience / essence of the business entity. If this not enough, certifications, CMM3/CMM5, displayed conspicuously will certainly win your heart. Advertising does the rest of
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DailyPost 125 SIMPLICITY – By design or default! Simplicity either by design or default or a combination of the two, ought to be be the basic behavioral trait of a professional, to gain clarity out of this complex world and gain confidence to decide and deliver. It provides the filter to the cauldron and cacophony
