The funnel approach

Still remember those days of chemistry when we used funnels to channelize the liquid flows into the glass flasks for various test reactions and titration.Then those days of technology & innovation classes where we learnt about the funnel approach:
From idea generation-> diffusion-> propagation

But from an organization behaviour let me come up with a totally new concept Which I was thinking yesterday:

OB - Funnel Approach

Let the top edge of the funnel be lower level of management receding towards the end of the funnel which represents the top level of the organization's management.

At the lower level; there is less or almost no fluid/ management layer below it. So their stress
levels are low which in turn induces lower strain levels.

With the levels changing from lower level to the upper level, the fluid pressure raises its bar.
Thus creating high performance and conformance pressures leading to higher stress and ultimately strain in the mental faculties.

Thus there are higher mental usages and problems faced by the top management who are handling tremendous pressures not only as an organization in front of the employees but also press, media meets, investors and all different market interactions.


People are trying towards more and more flat organizations, this would not only lead to higher
collaborative efforts but also lesser strains in the system due to distributed pressures. People in the opposing kiosk would argue that it would lead to emerging CHAOS.

The solution to this could be a hybrid organization taking care of the organization along with its organs(people).

Era of Marketing 1

It's a day for the talent long not recognized. He is the heart throb, the creative spark
of the Indian music industry. Many have come and gone. Rahman also called the Mozart of
Madras,has tread a long path. People have speculated the rise and fall of many musicians.
Even when AR Rahman started taking up lesser projects as a music director speculations
started boiling in a frenzy.Though all those non- feasible speculations were easily tarnished by the excellent music provided by the young ,maestro at different times.

His compositions have been liked by one and all. Those still living in the Mukesh-Kishore era to the punk generation, his music has struck the right chord. It was long since his music was not recognized with an international honour.

But the Question arises " was the music of Slum dog better ?" Better than Roja, Bombay,
Dil-Se, Lagaan, Hum se hai muquabla and the in-exhaustible list...? Was " Jai Ho " a
music composition never heard before in Our Bolly industry ?? Or was It too appealing to a new market paradigm brought up by Danny ?

It was not only Rahman/Danny or their genious which has brought this award. The branding, the promotion and the right timing of the movie which has contributed immensely.Branding and promotion,as many papers revealed later was one of the major reasons of the back seat of
Lagaan at the oscars.

The global catastrophe and the eyes turning towards CHINDIA: Only islands left in the
ocean of debt(alive even robbling after Tsunami). All the companies, economies who were
visualizing hilariously at the HINDU rate of growth some decades ago are stumbling at
absorbing the change in the air.All the countries want to know more about INDIA. "Gold
from the so called gutter" was what actually happened and the same was shown in the
movie.

It was so appealing to the foreign masses with the extraordinary performances of the team .The perfect promotion and placing of the movie when the country in an Emerging BRICK(K :think ?) in the Economic wall...that it became an Instant Hit..!

This is called as " catching the pulse of the market."

Welcome to the Era of Marketing....>>!!

India Against Blog..?

India is a democratic country.It is a socialist( removed ) government for the people by the people and of the people.

But is it in reality a democratic country >>?
Is it a democracy..

When a blog has been banned recently by Supreme court of India, while speaking against a political party and its religious and regional policies.

On the other side though a reality; political parties still penetrate the masses by the same old rampant methodology of "Divide and Rule" on the caste, creed, religion and region basis and not on their capacities or potentials for intrinsic growth.



Blog is a medium to convey the public's point of view regarding different subjects.

To ban a blog for this reason, Is it democracy ??
You need to think over and answer for yourself.....

Individualistic togetherness

Organizational Behaviour classes were going on with the general understanding of the individual's behaviour and its impact on the organization and its culture.

Togetherness = 2-gather-ness.
i.e If 2/ more individuals gather for achieving a particular objective.

Individualism= "i"ndivi(sible)-dualism
i.e considering the Vedic thought of Non-duality promoted by Swami Vivekananda in his book Advaita. We can extract the above concept as:

A non-duality of thought propogating in the veins of every living organism when it's ideals are challenged or when its "I" is shaken.

I= ego, simplifying : Whenever a person's ego is hampered. His/her's duality of thought vanishes and the focus is shifted towards the winning of I. This leads to a singular/ indiviualistic behaviour.

A person tries to compromise a bit on "I" suddenly drives in a purpose of group amongst the fellow members; which is very essential for a team to emerge and survive.

In this world of fast changing markets, products and demands it is better not to be Individualistic but promote Individualistic togetherness for overall success .

In-Tution..

I met a small girl yesterday, she was carrying a heavy bag. A donkey was passing by, I felt as if the donkey was smiling rhetorically. Such a contradiction is apparent nowadays almost on every nook and corner. I asked her ," You'r in which standard kid; where are you heading towards ?

She politely replied that she was in 1st standard and she was going to her tution. I found this hilarious statement a referral to the plight of our "globalizing" family values and following the herd syndrome.

It is not only about tutions but nurturing the family values together with the kids on pretext of studies and homework. Experiencing the joys and sorrows about his studies and daily life will apply concrete features on the existing bridge of relationships. If you would put in efforts right now to nurture relationship then MAY BE later the child may think about parents.

Sending the child to tution from the early age makes him/her a laggard. A child IN TUTION restricts its thought within the paradigms subscribed by the tution teacher only.

So,Breast feed-> Spoon feed...comes into place.A slightest of thought regarding the INTUTIVE abilities of the child, its ability to think and perceive the system is hanged up on the hook of constraints. This bookish behaviour may lead to a sort of hampered development for the child. In order to be successful you need to know and develop your gut feeling, intutive drives along with calculated decision making skills.

So If you really want your child to be successful:

Let he/she be freed from the SHACKLES of being in tution to helping it foster its INTUTION..

Demand Web Management (DwM)

Supply chain management is a generic termed used by every other outgoing or stylish operations personnel to flatter his knowledge about the operations function.

Is it a chain ? I think so with an increasing number of suppliers and complexities in requirements of products and services it is becoming a Supply Chain Web (SCB).

Think about the time line and introspect the differences in the market . Thinking of the people has changed tremendously:

Till 1940's : Local Supply Market
Till 1960's : Local Demand Market
Till late 70's: Global Supply Market
Now : GLobal Demand Market

Though you are integrating and managing your backward SUPPLIERS and so calling it supply chain management; but consumer is the king....:

He thinks (though sometimes) and takes an informal or informed decision as per his wish for purchasing something.SO if He/she is demanding and WE as manufacturers thus suppliers are producing this reverse clubbed chain... It goes on then till it produces as per the customers wants finally.


Thus it is falsely said Supply chain management but actually a Demand Web Management (consisting of both Web of demanders and the Internet Web encompassing the global behavioural pattern) .

See the SEA...

I feared may things.. But i need to try out ...
Try out things I never thought about before...

Think about life...professionalism...success and materialism..

I went to gokarna.. with my friends and early
morning went to the beach to introspect...>>

The sea's only gives us harsh blows.. &
occasionally a chance to feel strong..

I didnot know much about the sea.. but thats the way it was there.. I also know how important it was in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong.

To measure urself atleast once..
To find urself once least once..

In the most ancient of human conditions with blind deaf storm and your own hands and head.

To be on your feet and ready to face the challenge.. challenge to survive in the rapidly coming tornedo...

To believe in faith...
To keep faith in God...

Sometimes there are tides and the other times ebbs..But you need to sail through...

Sometimes sea water would come and cleanse your feet.. while returning back it would fill your finger nails with granules of sand...

What should we do...Become crazy and unhappy at the sand..?
Its better to WAIT.. wait till the other tide to clean your feet up.

So is life, inspite of a lot of challenges you get opportunities to thrive against and always one or the other chance...

JUST WAIT FOR THE RIGHT CHANCE... GRAB IT..
BUT WAIT TILL THEN...

THIS IS PERSEVERENCE AND BELIEF..!!

GREY relative reality !!

I still remember when i was in Kindergarten My teacher taught me Grey = Black + white. When I grew older, being a Gujju I came to an understanding that Blacks are negros and White are US/Ukians (though it was a kid's judgement). Grey matter was explained to me in the biology classes in my higher secondary education. It was related to CNS (Central Nerous System).

But now grey matter has been put in a different set of dimensions of understanding. It
explains the mediocrity in between black and white matter. Black has always been
considered at one end of the spectrum and white the other. Black has always been a colour
of fear,doubt and unknown,corrupt,evil in contrast white is purity,perfection,beauty,truth and all the thought after goodies...

But is life always in Absolute terms..??
Most of the terms are relative ( the term made famous by Einstein; dats why used a lot by
technical folk). Ideas, view points,thinking,believing, reasoning all are relative.
All change with time and experience.So absoluty is fantasy. People of the other view would say but we can measure exactly the heights of people but even that thing can be countered that the number line is itself an assumed concept.

I was thinking on this concept and I found nearly nothing in nature which is White or
Black (not in colour), but still nature is soo very perfect in itself.Planets so perfectly spherical, shapes of birds and fishes aerodynamic. Each and every individual of its creation is different and unique. To the rescue of my opposition party comes Darwin with his theory of struggle of existence, survival of fitest and adaptability. The underlying differential aspects still carry the perfection in geometry exist. This diachtomy of perfection and all variation can also be called as natural illusion.

This grey matter can be explained probabilistically as the region in between 0 & 1..
i.e. In between black and white. So grey matter leads us to another path called as variation, randomness or chaos.Degree of unabsolute culture of White/black in grey defines the mix of the grey.

Thus randomness in a person describes his range of insanity/sanity. As many psychologist say all men and women are a bit psycho. Only thing matters is whether it is in socially acceptable limits or not. So Grey is the new trend: moderate, moods as per requirement, balanced.
Enjoy greying..!!

Emerging River

As Forest Gump famuosly said "Life is like a box of choclates". People know that it is a box of choclates but it is not very sure of what's there inside until you open it up. Unless you unleash your potentials, the stallion can never ever think of winning the race.Unless you donot put the stone on the hand-catapult and applying pull-push strategy you can never imagine how far the stone can traverse. Unless you donot raise your limits, goals and pursuade life to agree on your terms it becomes extremely difficult to win, in a place like India where dreams are seen by all. There have been live-wire potentials like Ambani,Narayan Murthy,Saurav Ganguly, etc have made kingdoms from scratch, they are alive examples of people who have thrived against all odds.

Its not that their life was very easy. They also had their own share of problems.When there's heavy rain an alike EMERGING RIVER originates from a mountain out of the force of nature, we also similarly initiate our lives curtailed behind the truth of knowledge. Initial stages of river for the river are fully unknown.. wherever destiny has choosen it moves.. it moves through hurdles, steep paths, deviations and unknown terrains. It moves ahead... and knows where were the concurrent mistakes ad problems occuring by traversing further. It tries to change its path a bit but faces lots of hurdles across the steep mountains... lots of trees, plants, thorns, plastics, human wastes but it forces and urges itself to move forward against all odds.

The river decides to move forward, urges God to provide strength, more water and speed to move faster and reach each and every organism in its way. Its virtue becomes more for-the-people and enlightening.It reaches the plains due to its perseverance...many of the small rivers and streams have already been dried owing due their inconsistency in efforts and perseverance.This river is going forth rolling down the plains and choosing some of its own paths. It knows how to choose right path due to its experiences and understanding of those experiences in the mountains and it gushes itself in the plains where it has to suffer lesser pains due to its sufferings faced initially. It moves forward helping all organisms quench their thirst, get scanitifed and purified thoroughly inflincting all the pain on itself. Increasing its ability to bear pain and work forward. Not being much concerned regarding the problems and more on the aim made for all. Emerging River is nothing but my concise work on life story of many successful people available in the history.

Work truely-fruitfully towards your aim and success is surely awaiting at the golden gates of heaven.

Virtual Integrity

Integrity defines integration of your self with what you actually are and trying to conform to the rules set in by the people. Though both are completing contradicting statements, the issue of integrating this contradictory validation to allign to the rationalism causes integrity.

Its so very easy to dis-integrate this abstractness : integrity ; but would it satisfy you ?
This is a question which i donot want to answer COMPLETELY but it is a puruit which every individual should look forth for.

From organ -> orgainsm -> organization co-ordination is called the virtual integration of the system. The integration within and outside with the existing, non-existential and the expected system as a whole is considered as virtual integration.

The INTEGRITY SUPPLY CHAIN as I call it consists of the following : the basic flow from inside to the outside. Understanding the inner till it reaches the reccepients outside and finally creation of a sub atomic MASS intergation.

This view can be observed in social gatherings, buses, footpaths, institutions, industries, business meetings. Its just like MATRIX. This virtual integration follows you and would add to your personal and public envoirnment. Some people misnomer it as aura, but aura is only a part of this process of virtual integration.

The integrity of the bearers of top management of many financial firms went astray leading to the meltdown, bearers initially gained a lot of monetary advantages but what about the scenario in long run ?
Would they still be happy and enjoying the money left after this shock ? Everyone knows the story of Marilyn Monroe, Divya Bharti, PV Narsihma Rao, Enron, etc.

All who were not able to integrate their innerself, outer-existence and their envoirnment went down. Rigveda also suggests Integrating yourself is very important.


Even companies nowadays have tuned into virtual integration focussing on their core competencies, goals and vision-mission. Technology is helping the firms n even the human envoinment to integrate and connect themselves extra orinarily to the external plaza.

Geographies, nations, diversified people have all come up to a certain level of adjustablity, co-performance and non-performance to build up a virtual integration.

Though there's Black swans like terrorism, communalism, differentiation amongzt one another, dictatorship, food crisis, financial as well as global water and integrity crisis.

If any and all individuals strive towards Virtual Integration by Virtual Integrity building then most of the problem facets of ours would be happily resolved.

Economics Market. redefined

In economics prof was teaching about the markets.
He explained that there are 2 types of markets :

1. Product markets
Consisting of goods and services

2. Financial asset markets
Consisting of bonds and securities, etc

I started thinking about the crisis that we all are facing right now and found that the global recession was owing due to failure in both the markets.

HOW ?

All know about the financial markets crash. Pages and volumes of books have been written regarding it. The sub-prime mortgage crisis and the financial crunch leading to the meltdown of the global financial firms to a 9/11 scenario.

About the other side of the coin, the products market. The FMCG, automobile, manufacturing all the market sectors have been badly driven off the upright platform; to explain product market's downturn. More than that Im concerned about the downtrodden effect and the impact of the food grain crisis, envoirnmental downturn, reduction of biofuels and natural heritage. This product crisis leads us to the ecological back-lash emerging out of our greed-need to assurp.

The point is as many researchers say :

Financial business cycles are sine-cyclical in nature so would jump back on its feet once again.
What about the ecological market.... Would the soo called product market reallign itself without any expectancy of returns like financial markets or is it the end of a yug as written in Hindu dharma or 2012 ??

Still we can work forth towards damage control..!!!

GREEN THOUGHTpile

Green : Yesterday i was thinking regarding green colour and thoughts came ghushing in..
Alan GREENspan, eva GREEN, Vegetarianism, vitality, GREEN revolution, n all such stuff started to prop up in my mind suddenly 4m no where.

Then came another thought linking Green: Pakistan. I'm not a staunch n rebel religious follower or extremist . i like and love all religions. Then why green made me think of Pakistan and not India was my second thought, if the colour was linked to any religion.

Indian fag is tri-colour with a BLUE Ashok chakra in the centre in reality reflecting the ground scenario in India.. Growth, peace and vegetation throughout the nation. Though there are some variations available in point of views or even in our country but overall the picture is vibrant and thrilling.

Blue was more reflective of India growth all around as symbolized by Ashok chakra and also inclucated in our indian cricket team.


When I thought why I thought of green = pakistan 2 basic reasons swept across :
1. pak cricket team
2. Pakistan flag.



The flag basically has 2 different colours: green and white.. White signifies peace tranquility and solitude. All three donot reflect Pakistan of my perception due to terrorism, bundle of problems and issues in all areas : politics, society, economy. Thus GREEN empowers not because White is weak but because GREEN is ALL POWERFUL..!!