Written by As part of the biennial free medical checkup provided by my employer, I had a good time getting all the attention (and getting vials-full of blood sucked out of my body) from the lady doctors that checked me up(and shamelessly shared their private clinic visiting cards for ‘ further follow-ups’, at a cost, of course) [...]
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Sun outage – why do NSE and BSE have to worry about them?
Sun outage is an astronomical phenomenon where the earth’s receiving station, the (geostationary) satellite and the sun all come in one straight line. This happens twice a year, and lasts for several days in a row, lasting a few minutes once each day. Due to this, and due to the fact that sun, in its [...]
READ MORE »The dirty tea cup
I have recently been, for work, to another tea-drinking Asian country. I had heard that some (self-proclaimed?) tea connoisseurs do not wash their tea cups and keep drinking their milk-less green/black/white tea from the same cup year on year, apparently under the belief that washing the cup would distract from the earthy tea flavour that [...]
READ MORE »BHAG 3 – Overcoming Cheapness
There’s been a time gap since the implementation of BHAGs 1 and 2, and this one. Apologies – the gap is due to my toying with the various ideas mentioned by Steve Pavlina in an article ‘Overcoming Cheapness’ at: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/07/overcoming-cheapness/ (By the way, Steve’s website at stevepavlina.com is among internet’s top sources of free personal [...]
READ MORE »BHAG – Big Hairy Audacious Goals – 2 Weekly Planning
Energy Management is to a large extent also about stress management, and stress can be managed by proper planning. Once a week, when you have spent time and given thought to what you are going to address and achieve in the week ahead, based on your medium and longer term goals, it becomes very easy [...]
READ MORE »BHAG – Big Hairy Audacious Goals – 1 Run Twice a week
What motivates you to really challenge your limits and go after the Big Hairy Audacious Goals in your life? Come on, you have them. Everybody does. You may not yet acknowledge them publicly with your conscious mind, but they are still there. Deep within you is the innate desire to be the best you can be – and there’s no real limit to how better you can be, in any area!
READ MORE »Chevdas (farsans) of Maharashtra – giving the Gujjus a run for their money?
Until I landed in Maharashtra, little did I know that each region of Maharashtra has its own variety of world-famous chevda. The ones I have encountered are all in business for at least half a century, are revered by the locals and visitors alike, and you aren’t allowed to return to your office without some [...]
READ MORE »The Pregnant King – a review of the book by Devdutt Pattanaik
In present day life, we face many struggles. We do our best to learn as best as we can about the problems, ask for opinions and advise from well wishers, and generally sail through the problems, or at least develop the wisdom to accept them and take them in our stride. What would happen if [...]
READ MORE »What is the difference between DMA(Direct Market Access) and SA (Sponsored Access)?
While the terms DMA and Sponsored Access are often used together and in the context of market access models, there is a slight difference between the two which needs to be understood. When a buy-side investor uses DMA for sending orders to an execution venue (e.g. exchange), his orders are not touched (not necessary not [...]
READ MORE »PMP – Importance of communication
I came across the following paragraph in the Harvard Business Review book on ‘Making Smart Decisions’ and found that to be very relevant to the importance that PMP lays on the importance of communications (in chapter on Communications Management). While it is clear that the project managers of today spend more than 90% (phew!) of [...]
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