Elevator Pitch

I am really excited about this concept ; Its about being able to express your idea in an elevator ride , minute or so . If you log in to twitter – it also speaks about “one line bio” and even the messages are limited to 140 character (single sms).

So your single “tweets” has to be of 140 character or lesser and still be carrying the message for your followers. I tried to be clear , effective and powerful in 140 characters .

Hi,am vikas , am working on a text based idea 4 ur weekend plan. Say u want to go to watch play just sms “ plays 10 march powai” and sen

That’s where my 140 characters end . That the challenge of brevity .

I think that’s what we all need to master while meeting seniors, making presentations, meeting clients, peers etc. If you are not able to express yourself / your idea in first couple of minutes or even lesser , you are wasting space .

Q&A - Cutting Salaries

Do you think cutting salaries accross the board is a better option than laying off ( due to present turmoil ) a certain number of employees ?
(Do you think cutting salaries across the board is a better option than laying off a certain number of employees ? Why lay off 5-10% of employees and ruin their lives , Shouldn't this cost cutting be achieved by passing this cut to all employees )

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Run for your Cause, Run for a Better Mumbai!

18th January , 2009 . Mumbai will run , and You ?

Posting couple of pictures i clicked during the last Marathon , see you at the Mumbai Marathon.

Keep Looking .. Don't Settle

My first embedded video on this blog , it has to be "steve jobs" . Its very popular "Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005" . I could have posted the text version but nothing like hearing from the genius himself.

"Its impossible to connect the dots looking forward , you can only connect the dots looking backwards. Trust...., and believe that the dots would connect into your future because believeing that the dots would connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart"

Must watch & hear video.

Work-Life Balance !- What's that ?

Earlier also i have dwelled upon this topic but lately i have realsied that its actually "worklife balance" is a misnomer , the very concept of work life balance is flawed .

Actaully we don't seek balance between work and life ( for some work can be life ), we seek balance between What we love to do and What we don't love .

Its generally assumed that work is what we don't love but, Is this always true ? Most of the time yes but not always . One of my biggest inspiration seems to be the film indsutry .

Recently I was watching Karan Johar interviewing Abhishek , John , Bobby & Priyanka on his new movie "Dostana" . All four said one thing , " We had great fun shooting for this movie at Miami". While all of them were actually working ,they had fun so if we ask them may be they don't seek what others called worklife balance.

Ask Shahrukh Khan , he also says - " I enjoy what I do" .

So when we say we seek worklife balance , one thing is sure that we agree that we don't enjoy our work that much .

The ideal way is to find what you love doing and try earning your living out of that , if you are not that lucky, try - having friends at work , develop genuine friendship at your workplaces .With freinds around work is less gloomy.

Have fun at work ( while it lasts , did some one say - layoff? )