Right Vision

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Success is the combination of the hard work with smart minds.  However, to lead a team of hardworking professionals and sometime naughty smart minds, the leader should possess strong intellectual charms.  The capability to drive the team towards the objectives without messing it up while adapting various skills in composing a winning song is possible if the leader has the charismatic intelligence.  Because, use of those talents in the journey of successful campaign is altogether a different proposition as they will all be using different instruments to create a perfect symphony.   While the business leader knows how to handle hard working professionals and smart minds, the article is also about necessary ingredients for a successful advertising campaign.  Any successful campaign starts with defining the objective in clear terms and securing the resources including talents to hit the results.   The necessary ingredients are: a)   ...

Abdul Kalam is a Arabic name meaning, slave of speech.  Kalam is from the root word of ‘kallam’ which means ‘say or speak’ which is popularly referred to the words of Allah, the Quran.  True to his name his speeches or advises or lectures are always thoughtful, innovating, inspiring, important, relevant and much needed.  His wisdom of knowledge coupled with versatile experiences in life made him a precious human asset for India.  He present his thought and ideas by touching the emotional chords of listeners, be it to intellectuals or school children is a unique quality.  He is not an idealist, but idea generator by igniting the inquisitive minds of listeners with his wisdom of sparks.  The listeners either they are European Parliamentarians or assembly of world leaders, he spell bound them with his idea of world that is nothing but the grandeur of blossoming peace and prosperity.   When asked once, what will you send with the missiles, he an...

Most businesses fail not because of external competition or threats only, but due to internal conflicts aided by external pressures.  Failing to recognize internal changes leads to organizational conflicts resulting in tremendous disorder among people and further affecting the product and profits.  Internal transformation is vital in adapting external inevitable.  Recognizing internal transformations and further aiding them to positive effects are necessary to cope with external alterations.  If not, the unnoticed internal transformations will eventually leads to painful failures.   Failing to recognize or guiding or terminating internal transformations due to human conflicts existing in every small to big organizations.  Eighty percent of companies falter over a period of time due to equivocal challenges in market place, losing the battle in new competitions, erosion of talents to competitors because of inflexibility in adapting business transforma...

I have recently conducted a one day marketing training course to young and established marketing executives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Knowledge is a powerful tool if it is allowed to exchange.  While the experience is absolutely mine but the knowledge is not. Knowledge and experience need to be shared in order to enlarge our own knowledge bucket and be ready for new experiences. Marketing is a phenomenal ability combining ideas, relevance, values, strategy, planning and communication.  Marketing is the backbone of any business and contributes immensely in business growth if it is performed with due relevance.  Many of the companies in Saudi Arabia, especially, the small and medium establishments thinks that Marketing is all about setting up sales agenda and outlets.  Marketing is not sales or advertising only.  It is more about exchanging values between company and customers.  People may buy the products for a price, but expects uncompromising values t...

Young India is in despair, angry and often helpless due to extravagant approach and attitude of ‘I know it all’ politicians whose style and functioning have generally splinted their own fraternity in covering one another faults and crimes.  They dug under the pretext of wisdom and experience and prevented Young India in giving any space for active participation in politics.  Wisdom and experience may have its association with time, but not necessarily connected with the advancement of age only.  The old horses were pulling India at their own speed and clamped the progress of the country; otherwise, the natural growth is often pulling the country out of woods.  The law of natural growth is taken as the personal achievement of some of the political parties and individuals and failed to give necessary impetus to nation for the growth it deserved.  Young India is pushed to IT corridors, university campus, night clubs, employment offices, street corners and use...

Saudi Arabia is planning to issue five years residence permit for expatriates.  This is a fantastic move considering present one year residence permit which brings lot of instability to expatriates living in Saudi Arabia.  In addition, it is also draining Kingdom's expatriates economy.  If expatriates are allowed to have stability in their employment, they will substantially improve the domestic spending that is vital for Kingdom's economy. You may also read my views mentioned in the article. Businesses urge govt to scrap exit/re-entry visa

If you want to rule India, the first quality is that you should be shameless and the second quality is to know how to manipulate the emotions and foolishness of people.   In India, it is possible and possible again and again, because of our foolishness, ignorance and emotions.  The political parties thrive from our emotions, ignorance and blind followings.   Political parties and leaders were able keep the momentum and add more followers to keep us remain ignorant and fools.  All the political leaders are almost doing the same thing and now we have two distinctive examples.  One is Modi and another is Jayalalitha.  Modi uses the emotions of educated and uneducated mass by offering rhetoric promises with a time frame to achieve.  He promoted himself as the savior of the nation and promised to bring back black money to India within hundred days of his government.  Now his government says that they cannot disclose the names to...

Naratha Muni have found a celestial mango fruit and brought to Lord Shiva to share with his children Ganesha and Murga, the two son gods.  Lord Shiva would like the mango to be shared equally between brothers, but Naratha had another idea.  He suggested a running race for brothers to encircle the universe and the fruit will be given to the one who can come first.  It was fascinating and thrilling to both gods and competition begins.  While Muruga jumped on his famous rider, the peacock, Ganesha with huge body and elephant face knows that he cannot match his brother’s agility, and decided to use his mind by posing a wonderful question to Lord Shiva.  ‘Is not Lord Shiva the universe?’ Lord Shiva amazed with the intelligence of Ganesha and has certainly affirmed with him. Ganesha just took a simple walk around of Lord Shiva and won the competition.   After making exhaustive circum of universe with his peacock, Murga disappointed to witness that Gane...

A college girl took some mobile photo shoots of her domestic furniture and used electronics and uploaded on an internet site for sale.  She sold it for Rs. 45,000 and paid her first semester fee in pursuit of her career dreams.  This was a television commercial for online trade website and is the perfect depiction for India’s government policy and budget presentation.    Messers Modi and Jaitely want us continue to buy their dreams in pursuit of ‘Ache Din’.  Yes dreams only and not even their vision and road maps.  After 45 days in power, Jaitley was able to understand the ‘mess’ created by UPA and decided to mess around with the ‘same’ instead of offering a new road map that can entice a new economical growth.   Instead of offering a new road, they decided to travel on the same road with different carrier.  Mr. Jaitely had to agree with his UPA predecessor for the estimated 4.1% deficit.   Perhaps, is an indication of confusi...

Modi should have thanked in heart to Congress President and Vice President for helping him to reach the coveted position of PM.  Modi knows that the hard battle of winning election is more important than sustaining a progressive government, because he can comfortably continue the programs and policies initiated by UPA without many changes.  Modi talks about development without elaborating what is development means to entire India, because he knows that UPA programs are not that bad, but required impetus.  Women reservation, public distribution system, nuclear policy, foreign policy, FDI in retail, labour law reforms, and above all crony capitalism are all already on government agenda during UPA rule, but failed to take off due to UPA’s arrogance attitude in power.  Now, Modi can smoothly sail it to harbor because of his majority in parliament.  So, why worry about policies.  It was all about election and can speak anything because it is a matter of win or...

Be ready for a larger struggle.   Modi’s victory is a part of larger war in changing the political culture of India.  His victory was forgone conclusion when Rahul Ghandi was selected to lead the Congress campaign.  Congress was mentally defeated themselves before the election began.  Thanks to reactive politics of Congress, BJP able to win the battle.  However, everyone in Indian political fraternity including media have conveniently ignoring or unaware of the seeds of change that has been laid by the force of truth in a war against false. Not many would agree with me, especially now, but soon they will realize that 2014 Indian parliament election is not about Modi’s version of development against impotent government of Congress combinations.  It’s a turning point in the history of India.  It is a beginning of a new struggle that India is ordained to engage.  This election is clearly the beginning of polarizing the people and urging th...

“When written in Chinese, the word ‘crises’ is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity’ – John F. Kennedy. It is plausible for most of us to get coiled or trapped with the ‘character’ of danger when we encounter crises.   We have been conditioned by our traditional values, inherent principles, teachings, consequences of burden and logical responsive stimuli imbibed in our value system are all programmed to create an instant deterrence to work on the crises, mainly attacking from the character of ‘danger’.  Crises alert our fearful sense and stimulate the mind to look for references, experiences and information that are associated with fearful state.  Further depends on the quality of references, experiences and information, either it exhilarates more fear and discomfort or calmness. Humans are always like to live in a comfort zone.  Everything in life is executed and performed based on expected comfort ...

Friends, you may read my comments and views appeared on today's Arab News on the occasion of their 39th anniversary. Torchbearer of media revolution

There are intensive discussions and analyses on all media including social media about whom we should or can vote in India’s 2014 parliament election.  I believe, the question is further narrowed to AAP versus BJP, of course Kejriwal verses Modi.  Let me write my analyses as well. Modi will bring much needed growth in our economy and no others can. This is nothing but a myth.  First of all, our economy is not that bad comparing with other nations in Asia, Europe or West.  Not to forget that the world experienced worst economic crises and India still able to produce average 6% GDP.  Well, I don’t want to credit Congress for this sustainability.  It is because of the policy that has been taken by previous governments including Narasimha Rao.   Further, the growth has reduced due to low influx of foreign investments not because of Europe and West strict policy about their own unemployment issues. Furth...

Receding of quality leadership may be a global phenomenon, but is getting worse in the biggest democracy of India.  India is suffering from quality leadership for almost six decades, though we do not expect every politician to be Mahathma Ghandi.  However, 2014 parliament election magnified the leadership crises more than ever.   Issue based politics is history now, and the politics is centered on personalities whose leadership quality is nowhere impressive in the context of country’s fundamentals and principles. We have lots of politicians but hardly any leader in Indian politics.  No present politicians are graduating to leadership grade.  There are significant differences between leaders and politicians.  A leader should be beyond socio-political divisions and exercises his or her leadership to benefit all people of the country.  The leader serves to country without any expectations and not belongs to any particular group or community....

Two years before a Chaiwala (Modi) and a Panwala (Rajnath) were propelled to the lead actor roles for BJP’s new version by the producer and script writer RSS.   It was a well thought out strategy to tame Congress young leader, the Shenshah Rahul Ghandhi.   Chaiwala Modi can be the perfect here because of his carefully cultivated image with the help of industrial tycoons and waning Congress opposition in Gujarat.  In fact, he deserved to be a lead hero for his impeccable performance as chief technician of Hindutwa Gujarat laboratory that killed; raped, maimed and displaced thousands of innocent people.  Heroes are selected and villain also identified at national level and it is a matter of releasing the movie to people’s theatre.  Paid trailers were shown in all media as Chaiwala Modi is the only hope for India and has the talisman to change Indian’s fortune as if India is in deep economic trouble.  The fact is that RSS believed Modi has got ...

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Everyone wants to be an intelligent and no one like to be an idiot.  Being an idiot is also a kind of contribution to others that many idiots would not capable of understanding it because, they are idiots.  But the fact is that every one of us is an idiot and continues to be so in some part of the life, but seldom agrees and promulgates.   We do not want to be perceived as idiots even though we are.    Being idiot is not easy for us because we feel that it is an inferior state of life.  On contrary, the fact is that being idiot is the happiest of way of life.   How many of us able to observe the life of idiots?  They are happier than the intelligent people.  They enjoy life better than clever people.   In fact, they are the people who make the life interesting for themselves and others.  There are several reasons while idiots enjoy the life better than intelligent humans.  The first reason is they are h...