Enter The New Age CEO : Snippety Snip

They attribute "Sea Change" to refer to something which has changed drastically. Nowadays Companies go for a "CEO Change" to get a sea change. Ailing companies go for a CEO change to turn around things and get back in Business. Enron CEO was hailed as a super CEO and admired until the accounting scandals rocked the Company to its foundations. in Enron's case, their was little else a new CEO could do when a company is screwed that badly.

When HP had a new CEO some time back, fears of cost cutting started doing the newsgroup rounds. After all Mark Hurd had the reputation of turning things around at NCR Corporation by cutting costs.
Such CEO succession stories always spell doom for Employees of non-profit making divisions.

SONY the electronics giant had a CEO Change. Howard Stringer, the new man incharge went about doing the same. he eliminated some age-old practices @ SONY to identify the bleeding and plug the same.
Does the new Age CEO start with an Axe when he assumes his responsibilities.
the case of MOTOROLA CEO Ed Zander is a study in contrast.

He came up with the Moto RAZR which turned around things at the ailing Communications equipnment maker. RAZR has been such a Hit, that Motorola is back in Business.

That reminds me of Ed Zanders previous tenure at Sun Microsystems. Sun did have a series of retrenchments but could never turn around as much as its hey days.

Why could Ed not accomplish the same @ Sun ?.
Maybe motorola gave him the opportunity to use his creative genius.

the New Age CEO is sure in the hot-seat and cost cutting is one helluva enticing option.
But like Ed Zander showed its not the only one to turn around things.

~P

Fall in Moral Standards ?

Fall in Moral Standards in India ?

• The Congress election campaign of Sonia Gandhi had an item number.
• The recent Mika-Rakhi Sawant episode.
• Rahul Mahajan's drug abuse.

Who's to blame ?

maybe shape of things to come? with the rich-poor divide widening, such Binges bordering on In-Sanity are bound to increase.

Some good news on the international Arena for India. Shashi Tharoor is nominated for UN Secretary General post by govt of india. He is a very suave candidate.

I guess Pakistan is taking note of this strong Indian candidature@UN. They must be already plotting to get some men planted in the UN body.( well that way, pakis get one more place to harp about cashmere)

ALOHA!

While I was Out !

While I was out of Bangalore last 3 months(ie., kohreah)...

Bangalore for the most part has changed for the better!!!

1. There is a Signal opposite LIFESTYLE on Airport Road. Earlier it used to have a Free Right Turn :(

2. Roads are less bumpy from Girinagar to old Madras road.

3. I see MORE people near Garuda Mall :) Bangalore is getting crowded :-(.

4. Not many new faces in SISO. In Fact some faces have vanished(resigned) from SISO.

5. BagMane Tech Park is donning a new look with better Roads and less dust :).

6. Samsung India introduced Sodexho Coupons. Food provided is better than Nandini caterers food.

7. Table Tennis (ping pong) room is provided on ground floor. Sadly it appears to be a Neglected room with no cleaning and NO proper A/C facility.

8. SISO Bus Facility is better. Huge TV is put up @ the Entrance.
But what a waste it is it can atleast show BBC/CNN/NDTV for folks waiting in the Lobby. Visitors will now notice the Widescreen wastage :-)

9. The office interiors have been spruced up. BUT...my cube has been CuebJacked by a different team member!!!,


ALOHA!

Ek Aur Kahani

I was watching DoorDarshan after a long time and it sure did conjure up old memories. The sequel to Ek Kahani was a very interesting story. I hope somebody shares all the videos of the episodes of Ek Kahani. Need to check Torrents for it :).

TubeWatch is sure gettin exciting in India.

Yellow Journalism to the Rescue!

The Recent incidents in Indian Politiks and media are a Cocktail of Lessons for any mature Democratic Setup.

1. The Central Government brought in a Law for a Person to hold 2 (profitable) posts at the same time. Who cares about un-employment. The government showed its have "Power will Exploit" attitude.

2. Reservations were brought into to favour a class of people who were deemed backward class a whole 52 years back!. The Minister in charge responded to allegations saying that there is no statistical basis but just a "NEED" which the Govt sees fit.
Ends really Justify the means, ain't it ?
Votes can be got by such scrupulous means only, by dividing society and depriving future genre of a sense of Equality and Freedom to Education and Employment.

3. Yellow Journalism to he rescue. Last but not the least, I feel the Govt made use of a Family Nightmare in the Late Pramod Mahajan's Family to killfile the current misgivings and current impasse over its decisions. I feel it Muscled all National TV and print media into showing the Rahul Mahajan issue. None of the forms of Media showed anything related to Reservations and or the Presidents returning of the Bill of Rights amendment etc.

It appears the Country is in a state of Banana Republic with the Print and TV Media being on a Holiday and reporting only issues which the Govt in power wants it to report.
People protesting for Individual/Citizen Rights are being neglected.

Really shoddy state of Affairs in India.
Its sure is a bad omen for the World's Largest Democracy.

Well don't complain! chances are Nobodys Listening.
Any Mature Democratic developing Country should have some ways to tackle such one-sided , Fascist powers in Government Machinery. Yeah...My pointers are to Nepal which can take a cue from our fumbling constituitional Setup.

~P

B2B

Hello Bangalore!
I am back from Koreah, the land of the rising Sun.
Had a hectic travel itinerary. But in the end I got to see Neha Dhupia, the bollywood heroine, She was travelling on the same fight from Mumbai to Bangalore. She was looking radiant. But her boy friend was looking a bit jaded.

Now need to get back to some important chores which are left pending from a long time now.

Btw. the opening World cup match was a stunner. The Germans and the Costa RIcans played exciting Football. and as usual the Best Team got to win in the end.

Germany;s performance I feel has improved in its mid field area.

Procession with kids (Inset)

I wish I had a handycam.
Some westerners got into a buying spree here.

traditional procession

people were curious to know what this ritual was...
but no information was available at the place. People had a casual look and then passed on to buy the other traditional goods.

Korean Traditional Ritual.

InsaDong Pics.

At the end of the street in Insadong.

Letter of Fundu Intent

Read Donald Knuth's Letter to the US Government.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/rice.html

Knuth was expecting replies from politicians which is a mission impossible.
Moreover I believe the Moronic crowd which makes up the Political Fraternity at any country don't understand such Letters.

~P

if( UR_Knuth_Fan )

U just got Lucky ..http://scpd.stanford.edu/knuth/

All the Videos of Donald Knuth(spelt as kanuth) are archived here for students pleasure all over the world.

Really feel lucky to get access to his videos despite not being@Stanford.



an Elated.
~Prasanna.

Rewind : Princess Diana's death mystery!

Even as a kid I used to follow the events in the buckingham palace during Princess Diana's torrid time there.
I used to read every article on Diana/ Charles and the British Royal family. After Diana's Divorce her popularity levels had reached a new High.
She was known for her philanthropy through out the world. I was very sad when she died in an accident.

Yesterday I happened to see the Discovery Channel episode which details their separate investigation into the tragic Accident which took Di;s Life.

The Episode systematically debunks the theory of Assasination, even though on one hand it talks about evidence of attempt to murder being there.
The line discovery has taken is that the unkown FIAT car was there in the Tunnel by chance and so it was not a muder but an accident.
They cite Acoustic and actual Simulations of the crash which led to similar results.

But one outstanding question still remains,
The Fiat Uno car is assumed to be driving at a constant speed. This may not be the case. Considering the angle by which the car veered to the Left and Rammed into the Pillars.

The Uno could have suddenly reduced speed once inside the tunnel.
This would have resulted in the Driver having to suddenly apply brakes. Since Diana's car was already at 75 miles/hr the Driver would have tried to avert the fiat uno by veering to the left.

This could have led to the car getting out of control and ramming into the nearby concrete.

Questions still remain, but the people are gone.

Diana I believe deserved a better deal in life.

~P.

pic in front of korean Guest House.

Abhijit is posing with me in this undated photograph.

StackOverflow Gif Animation.

image from http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/assmbly/stck.gif

What an Opera !

Yes,
I am talking of an Opera Performance.
But this Opera i am talking of is the Browser Opera. I have offlate quite taken to this New-Age Browser. Opera is not just your next door internet browser.It transcends beyond the defintion of a browser.

Where IE sucks in creativity Opera seems to be going places.
Opera had many features like integrated email/search capabilties. Innumerable configuration Add-Ons which are a good-to-have in a browser. Now Opera has gone one step ahead with Widgets integrated.Here is a small screen-shot and I guess I don't need to elaborate any more.Guyz go ahead and install this browser beast !!!Awesome Opera Performance indeed.
Cheers!
~Prasanna.

MI 3 : Mission Improper 3

Had been to CGV theatre in the complex near Suwon Station.
Sorry to see that The MI saga does not continue anymore.

This movie seems to be only about car chases some *exciting looking* stunts and thats all. It appears MI makers want to roll out a version every year.
my sense is that it is spoiling the MI image than anything else.

My friends had hyped up a lot about this movie. It at least does not seem to be the Must-Watch. Anyways I had my first experience in Korean theatres.
The Average korean is a silent movie buff. thro'out the Movie there was Silence.
Being used to the cacophony in indian movie houses somehow the silence was eerie :) .
Was it due to the English movie having korean subtitles ???.
Well the koreans seem to be quite and humble people and Noise and cacophony are something foreign to them.
The CGV theatre is just as the Indian PVR or Multiplex theatres albeit on a bigger scale. The Ambience was good. Stereo system was OK.

Overall, I had achieved a personal Mission impossible. That of watching a movie in the hectic schedule I have@Samsung :).

~Just Chill
Prasanna.

After Effect of the Disco Ride...

three Amigos...dizzy moments ...
Culprit : the Disco Ride.
Seeing is believing....isn't it :)

The Baap of all Rides..@ Everland.

This ride has forward and backward spirals which I had not seen before...

you will be decently shaken,stirred at the end of it all...

The following picture depicts one of the most awesome ride experience@Everland.
After gone thru this...we had a "Been there Done That feeling" !

The Disco Station Ride

This disco ride was bit heady...
This was the place where one gentleman got so carried away that he dropped his mobile and was leaving in a hurry, I handed it back to him and he profusely thanked me for it.
I must have saved him from the Lost-My-Mobile blues ;-)