India's defeat in W.C.

Was hearing to news other day when Mr. Pawar decided to get up and give a quite touchy speech about the loss of his boys in West Indies. Presure ( please try not to laugh on this one ), was what according to Mr. Pawar responsible for Indias dismal performance in world cup. Intellectuality hits all time low when politicians make speeches and this one was no different. Is it wrong on Indians part to have high hopes from the elite 15 selected from the very rich talent pool of cricketers.

No is my answer. Cant handle presure , no room for you sweetie, probably you better off joining Indian politics for the obvious reasons. Mr. Pawar wouldn't have ever in his lifetime seen the atmosphere of a private company, where a sword is hanging right over yours head and you got to perform well over yours capabilities, that too keeping in mind that lots of other lifes depend on how you perform. One mistake and thats it, end of road for you, either bosses way or the highway as they say. The battle is on, and you got fight every second you are there. What people expected from Indian team is not to win the world cup but to atleast perform on a reasonable level. Mr. Pawar was least embarrased when India had to wait for the outcome of Bangladesh and Bermuda match, think thats the lowest time of Indian cricket that this generation would have witnessed.

Right presure can get onto you, but there are situations when it can be understood. First match presure, last match presure, boy what sort of presures you have. Presure gets on to you be the fear of loosing, anyways how many matches has India won this year, they must have conquered this fear and presure long time back. FYI Australia, SAF etc dont have any presures, people in those countries are totally hopeless about their teams, isn't Mr Pawar.

Mr. Pawar is so sympathetic towards the team not because he is a admirer of cricket or Indian team but because he knows that the buck stops with him. If the players, coach and board is responsible, so is he. Politicians do know very well how to downplay their role in defeats.

Phrases that make my blood boil.
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May or may not be:
Ever hear someone say "that may or may not be the case," as if there's some hidden third possibility that we weren't aware of? Thanks for pointing out the only two possibilities in the universe. These are the worst kind of people to talk to because they try so hard to be open-minded that it sounds like the debate in a political science class where no opinion is
too stupid for the professor to consider and the same fat kid keeps raising his hand to tell you his dumb ideas about free market capitalism as you fantasize about repeatedly stomping his face into a jar.

Well that's just your opinion:
Any time you say something wrong around someone who disagrees, they try to validate
their taste in music/movies/clothing by reminding you that you still only speak for yourself, as if their opinions are in jeopardy of being monopolized by your own. Everyone already knows it's my opinion by virtue of the fact that I said it, no need to restate the obvious .

I'm a child at heart:
eah, you're a child at heart, just as soon as children start going to work every day to rot in a cubicle for a meager pay check so they can drink their troubles away in a shitty bar for the rest of their lives. Unless you're an astronaut, secret agent, vampire
hunter, or all three, you're probably a sellout; screw you.

Hmmmmm / Uhhhhh:
It's especially noticeable when you go to a restaurant and the waitress asks what you want
to drink; there's always some fickle fingered thumbing through the menu, sounding off like a moron with "uhhhhhh...." as if the waitress is just going to walk away without taking your order if you don't give her an audible cue that you are still breathing. These are the same type of people who repeat the question you ask them to buy time when they don't
know the answer, hoping you won't notice that they're stalling. You don't need to make a sound while your five good neurons crank out the next malformed sentence from your cretaceous skull, numb nuts.

The grass is always greener on the other side:
The message that this proverb is trying to stumble through is that everything always
looks more attractive when you don't have it. I'm sure there are millionaires crying themselves to sleep every night because they don't live in a trailer park. Just face it: sometimes nobody envies you. There has to be a bottom and that bottom is probably you.

The solution lies in effective collaboration.

Give a careful thought to what we were actually do when we exchange mails, chat or exchange docs or presentations. We are working on a activity. Simple as it may sound, its quite difficult to conceptualize in organizations day to day work. The activity may range from a simple task of deciding the layout of a web page to devolopment of a project module. The problem lies in how we conceptualize the activity.

Instead of making the technology work in manner we want, we work in a manner that is suitable to a particular technology. We get a word file, off we go create a folder for it thinking its logical, comprehendable and can be easily relocated, untill ofcourse we end up with a huge number of folders, one may be having all the FRD's, one with all the PPTs but how are we supposed to chat transcripts and emails and then correlate everything with each other. I am not suggesting its impossible to work that way, but its certainly not the most effective way.

Welcome to the realm of activities. Where you are the one who decides how the technology works for you. More than a technology its a approach, approach towards effective collaboration within and outside an organisation. Lemme get a bit more specific, we go back to our web page designing example.

Well you and me have a chat, they all go in one place and the place is certainly not yours archive niether mine. You ring me up and tell me about a URL that was particularly useful in yours analysis, the URL is stored in same central space, we exchange mails and yeah you guessed that right they go in the same central space. No more we store all the word, ppts etc in ours respective hard disks they all lie in the space. Now how to arrange all that material in a logical manner. We arrange that in a hierarichal manner, your views, my responses to your views, my views your responses, stage wise devolopment. A new devoloper comes in, what we share with him, the URL. Yeah only the URL and he can trace back to the step one of ours devolopment cycle. We save on, obviously on the dollors but also increases mine, yours and the new devolopers efficiency and overall the comapnies efficiency. Now comapny wants to know why the web page is white, simple go back to the URL find the activity designing web page and thats it. Every bit of information that the employees were able to lay hands on, lies captured there. Nothing and nothing of companies business logic is ever lost. Now you are in command how you wanna structure the tree of information, how the tree grows and what the tree captures. The technolgy allows you to bring all the storage techniques under one umbrella namely, emails,chat scripts, urls, pictures, word documeents, presentations, customer feedback etc etc. Now the most impressive thing of all, you never leave the url, yeah you never leave the url to open a word doc, not to play a video file, not to open presentaions etc.

Lets discuss the advantages of such a system in place.

Reviews : Reviewer asks you about the mehodology you followed, show him the URL.
Easy no more messy searches through mails, harddrives, networks etc.

Templates : How about getting all the templates being followed unknowingly within the organisation recoginsed and put down at one place. Can include almost
everything, Procedure to make claims, procedure to work towards a bug
fixation problem etc.

Time Effectiveness : Effective collaboration obviously brings in effective time usage in the
comapany. No longer employees search for the information at
different places. Also it saves on time to search for softwares to render
that information.

Cost Effectiveness : Time is Money as they say. The scenarios have changed a bit today.
Money to time proportion has grown rapidly, so the more time you save
you save much, much and much more money.

Unending support for kind of Information : Imagine a new kind of format rolls in. Simple
provide the application server the new plugins, thats it, Activities
supports the new format.