Cosmic Oneness

Adi Babu - Story of true Linguaphile and Passionate Teacher( Who Else?)

2018-11-03T04:15:00.000-07:00

A man who lived by his own defined terms all his life, a lone Eagle, and who really taught me the peaks of Individuality is not there among us. The day which I thought should never come has finally come.
Anna, we are shattered by your demise. You truly transformed thousands of students like me. You were my living hero. The brutal truth of you not being among us is impossible to digest. You have been a maverick personality with an enigmatic lifestyle. In the battle for life, you have fought the toughest ones and taught us how to embrace the tough times. For all of us who know you, we can mark this day as the darkest day of our life’s. Your passive influence has personally transformed me as a man of value.
Lucky are those who attended your lectures and i am more than honoured to spent some life changing time with you.
Your love for literature and books have made many fall in love with you including me. Your wisdom was impeccable and you will be remembered for life. You have been a teacher for teachers. Where ever you are, your invisible presence will still transform the lives of many. We will miss you for life. May your soul Rest in peace.

In his own words - Penned By Enigma

“I read to know who I am; I write to tell who I am and I teach to know who I am not.”- Adibabu

He did not know it when he was born that it was an outcome of a well-orchestrated coincidence between two people irrationally or otherwise passionate about each other.

He was innocent enough to believe that he was born immortal. But realised almost in no time that it was not to be so. He never believed that he was born for a cause.

His Achilles' heel was his nonchalance to everything that life brought with it day after day after day.

He grew up to adore the company of fellow humans from a distance and loathe the same when he found himself in their proximity.

Did he ever come to know that he could be more than what he thought he was?

Did he ever come to know that what he had thought about himself and then, had thought against the same to be the actual one that he was destined to be?

An immortal, that was...

An immortal, who did not allow the sands of time to erase his name from the annals of history...

Time must have told. Yes, time must have told.

Who else?

What few friends and students have to say about him

By Sriram Karri

Adibabu passed away last night after combating an illness and bad health for several months.

He led a band of people who defied the British Queen's monopoly to Knight. They called him Sir.

Sir, Sir, Adi sir. He was born to teach. He taught. He mastered a language, its history, its grammar and rules. An autodidact. He was passionate about teaching, and English. And with his classes impacted lives of thousands of people who would vote him best teacher year after year.

For friends like me who knew him, teaching had become an art with him, even as life began to slip. It was amazing how he could smile when there was nothing to smile about.

But in making your final exit, friend, you made a mistake. They did not ring the bell, the class was still on... Now go fly fast to the heavens, meet 'em two guys Mr Wren and Mr Martin and finally tell them what all they got wrong

By Pavan Aditya

--> Rest in peace Adi. My world will never be the same again.

By Abinav Gomatam

I am at vacuum for words to express how deep this loss of life is. Probably because he was the only teacher who never taught because he had to and I never attended his classes because I had to.

His style of teaching far precedes the subject he was teaching. It was a joyous ride. A student would never leave his class feeling satiated. That’s true of me more than any other student of his.

I was also fortunate to have bumped into him long after he was done teaching me. And those meetings would live on along with me until the end.

To the only teacher, who I would miss dearly and to the only human being who could have and had nourished more lives, clearly.

Adi Babu Sir, you were a trailblazer. Rest in peace.

Kiran Murala

So sad to know this! He was my teacher at Time institute and he always tried to imbibe humour in to his teaching which made his classes engaging and interesting. Rest in peace sir.

Suman Alla

Your are a true teacher who transformed me as a man of value. Without you my life would never have been the same as it is today. Thank you for everything you have done for me. You are a true moving Bibliophile . It would be never be same without you in our lives . Rest in peace Anna .

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CYBER SECURITY –AFRICA

2017-10-02T03:37:00.000-07:00

Africa is growing quickly in terms of population, the economy, and global influence. Today, Africa is home to 1.21 billion people (up from just 800 million in 2000), with a median age of just 19.5 years, the youngest population in the world. With this prominence of youth comes a diverse population that is looking for productive employment, social engagement, free expression, and increased global connectivity. Technology adoption continues to rise in Africa, with mobile smart device ownership growing exponentially, social media use increasing, and the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming a reality. Even the most conservative metrics show that Africa is poised to make great gains and help fuel global growth into the future. With this growing prosperity and digitization however comes new risks and vulnerabilities that could undermine progress.

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For Africa to realize its full potential and to reap the full dividend from the development of the digital economy, the most important driver today for innovation, competiveness and growth, policymakers will need to implement effective policies and awareness initiatives to stem the rising tide of cyber threats. These same policymakers, technicians, and other experts have long noted the lack of detailed and reliable threat information regarding cyber-crime threats in the region. Such information is invaluable in assessing and managing cyber risks by providing governments a more complete and nuanced understanding of how criminals and other actors are targeting and exploiting cyber-related vulnerabilities in African Countries.

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Africa’s thriving economies have an undeniable link to the success of technology on the continent. However, with these advancements comes the threat of hacking, cybercrimes and malware. Cybersecurity is a growing concern for African organizations – as technology evolves, so will the nature and prevalence of cyber threats. Much like taxes and death, cybersecurity has become a part of our day-to-day lives and it is something that can have a negative impact on both individuals and organizations. With companies attempting to find more effective ways to connect with their consumers, cybersecurity is posing a huge risk, and has potential to compromise customer loyalty and trust.

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QUICK FACTS
Ø 8.8 million South Africans were victims of online crime in the past year. Globally, there were 602 million cyber-crime victims over the last 12 months.- Source Norton Cyber Security Report 2016

Ø Estimated cost of cyber-crime in Africa has soared with: Nigeria ($550 million), Kenya ($175 million), Tanzania ($85 million), Ghana ($50 million) and Uganda ($35 million)

Ø Ransomware (Locky and Zepto) has a ected thousands of organisations and individual users in the region.

Ø Insider threat is still the biggest security concern in organisations.

Ø Most organisations in Africa are ill prepared to deal with information security threats.

Ø Lack of practical regulatory guidance from industry regulators and government.

Ø Inadequate training and awareness amongst the law enforcement and judiciary fraternity.

Ø When it comes to management of cyber security, 83.4% either manage cyber security internally or don’t have any management system in place.

Ø Cyber Crime: Ransomware Increased 35 Percent in 2015

Ø Cyber criminals are using encryption as a weapon to hold companies’, governments and individuals’ critical data hostage

TOP PRIORITIES TO THE CONTINENT

Technical Training

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With the many reported cases of system misconfiguration, open ports, default passwords, there is a need for technical staff to be equipped with hands on technical training in the concepts, principles and techniques required to successfully prevent and/ or mitigate security issues on computing devices in a networked environment. In this day and age, it’s evident that adversaries are not beating us because they have more technology, it’s because they’re more creative, patient, single minded and they explore limitless pathways. Organisation’s should leverage their own creative, curious analysts and set them free to explore. If you don’t have hunters, grow them. Free your people to chase the Why? Empower them with tools and education to enable them get relevant skills

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Awareness and Information Sharing

The levels of awareness and information sharing in Africa needs to increase. What we know today will never be enough. Just like in sports, in order to have a good strategy you should know who you are playing against. In today’s African organisation, most employees don’t know who they are defending against and they sometimes don’t even know the game being played. Our information sharing is too slow. As a continent therefore, there is need to raise awareness through online programs, class based trainings and workshops. With regards to information sharing, we need to create a “Wikipedia” sort of phenomena where we can share information about incidents that have occurred and ways of mitigating them.

Collaboration

With everything moving to the cloud, physical barriers no longer hold water when it comes to the fight against cybercrime. African organisations need realize this and work together in order to realize reduced cybercrime rates. This will require leadership at country level, although teams can work collaboratively to obtain greater resources, and expertise in this fight against cybercrime

Government Policies

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African governments need to strengthen the implementation of their existing cybercrime laws and policies. This will involve adopting more mature processes for cybercrime prosecution and raising awareness to citizens on reporting of Cybercrimes. Another critical area that governments should focus on is involving more sectors during development of these cyber policies and laws; Universities, local groups, organisations and cyber security specialists

Eco System Engagement

There is need for each member of the Cyber security eco systems to be first, aware that they are part of the eco system and second, understand their role in the eco systems. The ecosystem should contain but not limited to Universities, research Institutions, Government Department of Defense, cyber security experts, Media houses etc.

Last but not the least its a great opportunity for the private sector to fill the gaps by providing world class technical trainings and solutions to the customers .

For more details on our Technical Offerings you can visit our website www.bizoneer.com

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2015-10-22T12:07:00.000-07:00

A defector (EDWARD LOWASA) vs. an accidental candidate (Dr John Magufuli).

With a United opposition, led by a high profile political heavyweight candidate Edward Lowasa vs. a last minute accidental John Magufuli so far these elections are turning out to be the most closely contested election in the history of Tanzania.

It all started after a high level drama in selecting the presidential candidate of the ruling party John Magufuli. A sudden coalition of the opposition under an alliance known as Ukawa, was formed by an artful crafty long serving public servant Edward Lowasa in response to one of the one most thwarting plots played by the outgoing President Jakaya Kikwete. One can say that the grey-haired 62-year-old political stalwart Edward Lowasa brought Tanzania’s elections to life over the past few weeks. Buoyed by their heavy-hitting presidential candidate, the opposition –– is more hopeful than in any previous election, and they believe that when the polls are held on 25 October, the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party could be in for a surprise.

To give a brief Edward Lowasa was born in 1953 to a herdsman climbed the ladder of Tanzania politics for decades serving various positions as Prime Minister, Minister for Lands and Human Settlement Development, Minister of Water and Livestock Development, and many more. He is known to be hardworking and diligent at his work before the huge Richmond corruption scandal which halted his political carrier for a while. But they all say he is just a scapegoat in the entire drama that happened in 2008 and he saved his party from embarrassment by walking away.

Dr John Magufulli was born on 29^th Oct 1959 who has served in the Cabinet of Tanzania as Minister of Works since 2010. Previously he was Deputy Minister of Works from 1995 to 2000, Minister of Works from 2000 to 2006, Minister of Lands and Human Settlement from 2006 to 2008, and Minister of Livestock and Fisheries from 2008 to 2010. He has served as a Member of Parliament since 1995.

United Opposition Vs Ruling CCM

United opposition strongly feel the time has come for them by signing their popular slogan of “change” but it’s not that easy to throw away the incumbent party who is in power for the last four decades and one of the longest serving ruling parties in the continent . Popular journalists say “There’s no stopping him” pointing out that the campaigning network – known as mtandao – which Lowassa previously set up is still in place. This time round, it could be used to boost the opposition. “This solid network has been reactivated and it will almost certainly deliver,”. The shifting political landscape in Tanzania could also help Ukawa. After decades in power, many Tanzanians are growing impatient with CCM and looking for change.

At the same time one cannot deny CCM’s support base among the rural electorate remains solid, and although he was not the candidate most were expecting, John Magufuli’s reputation as a no nonsense industrious politician puts him in good stead. Magafuli has also launched an energetic campaign in recent weeks that Team Lowassa has struggled to match.

Whatever may be the outcome I request Tanzanians for a peaceful polls. Already the continent has seen so many disturbances post elections and the disastrous outcomes of the disturbances. May the best candidate win.

BARACK OBAMA VISIT TO KENYA – HISTORICAL, YET EMOTIONAL -MIXED FEELINGS!!!

2015-08-10T00:14:00.001-07:00

His infectious grin and his charismatic attire as he embraced his host President Uhuru Kenyatta and told “Happy to be Home”. Ululations and screams rented the air in Kenya capital Nairobi and other cities around the country when television screams beamed images of US president Barack Obama emerging from Air force one and literally springing down the steps onto Kenyan soil. Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan is the first sitting President of the United States to visit Kenya. “I’m proud to be the first US president to visit Kenya, and obviously this is personal for me” – these were the words during his recent visit.

Started off his first public engagement with the official opening of the global entrepreneurship summit in Gigiri, Nairobi and later laid a wreath at the memorial park at the site of the former US embassy that was bombed by terrorists in 1998.

The bilateral talks concentrated more on the counter terrorism and precisely on the fight against terror from Al Shabaab. Extending its support, US have released $100 Million as aid package for counter terrorism in 2015 to Kenya. The talks also centered on the stability in the region because of the current conflicts in South Sudan and Burundi. President Obama stressed his stand on the recent Burundi elections saying the elections were against the wishes of the majority and considered were not credible. He also announced that Kenya will be a part of the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-Free, Mentored and safe initiative (DREAM), which will see the country will receive additional support to help fight AIDS and other communicable diseases. The extended talks also brought up the issues like Minority rights, Poverty & Malnutrition, Tourism and conservation and Infrastructure.

Not to miss the personal side of President Obama “Any Question of where he fits in the world has long since been answered. But how Kenya fits into his identity remains one of the enduring questions of his presidency.” As the world knows that, Obama has been celebrated as a son of Africa who reached the pinnacle of power and at the same time he also found himself besieged by a conspiracy theory that he had actually been born in Kenya and was therefore ineligible to be president- a theory he felt compelled to dispel by marching into the white house briefing room in 2011 with his birth certificate from Hawaii.

One of the questions from the media personnel, President Obama responded saying” Obviously Kenya holds a special place for me, the roots are from here “it might had been more convincing if he might had visited his Grand Mothers and Sr Obama’s home town Kendu Bay. Hundreds of local residents of the village expected and were well prepared to receive the supreme hero of Africa, but unfortunately emotions shattered. Even if one part of the audience say he is on official visit and can’t mix his personal emotions but other part says blessings from the elders is one of the important traditions to be fulfilled. Overall it’s a mixed feeling other than missing part of his visit to his father land; the positive side is the bilateral talks and the crucial agreements in Health and Energy sector from both the Countries.

RIP Dr APJ Abdul Kalam- A True Visionary

2015-07-27T12:15:00.001-07:00

A Visionary thinker, A Patriot, A Great Scientist,Missile Man Dr APJ Abdul Kalam passes away at the age of 84.Nation Mourns with his death .

Born in a lower middle class family on the shores of Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu Dr Kalam With his Book " Wings of Fire " shown the world especially the young generation the true power of dreams. Indeed he taught India how to dream. Today, India lost one of her most influential sons. We have lost a flame that inspired millions(through his Book "Ignited Minds") with a message of hope and excellence.Dr Kalaam's Clarity of thought can be envisioned with his book Vision 2020. With his Motivational speeches and his unique love towards children, he will be long remembered in the hearts of Billions.

With High Regards and Great Respect Sir I Bow you to Say " You are the True Bharat Ratna " . RIP

Adieu to Legendary Master Blaster “Sachin Tendulkar”

2013-11-16T01:10:00.000-08:00

Ask him what he has lived for and the answer will be prompt, "To play for India". Somehow, when he says it, you know it's not just a platitude but a heartfelt truth.

I was 5 year old, when a 16- year old Sachin Tendulkar faced his first ball in test cricket from Pakistan Waqar Younis in Nov 1989, the Berlin wall was standing, Saddam and Osama where still US allies, oil was at $19 per barrel and the sensex was under 750 points, the Maruti 800 was a bold young challenger to the Ambassador and Fiat, the Internet and Mobile phones hadn’t come to India, and Doordarshan was the only TV Channel. A mountain of mind-boggling statistics later, he retires as arguably the greatest batsman and unarguably one of the finest Gentlemen to ever grace a cricket field.

The only batsman against whom Sachin can truly be bench marked is Sir Don Bradman. But Bradman never played with the pressure of carrying the hopes of a billion-plus people on his shoulders, never had to deal with a situation where a loss was similar to a criminal conviction with the world's second-most populous country sitting in collective judgment. Bradman played a sport. Tendulkar has presided deity of a nationally-unifying religion called cricket.

The applause that was attended with Sachin’s last walks to and from the wicket has reverberated around the world. Sachin Tendulkar has made his peace with the fact that there is life after cricket. But millions of worshippers are consumed by a feeling of hollowness as they try to come to terms with cricket without Tendulkar and the fact for the fans remains the same “there are two kinds of batsmen in the world, one is Sachin and the two all other batsmen”

I conclude with a Bow saying “Cricket is the best entertainment that God ever created on earth – but Sachin is more entertaining than cricket”.

2013-08-25T02:35:00.002-07:00

AFRICA: A Continent “Making others Rich”

This blog is indeed a continuation to my previous post “Africa the Spectator”. This post gives us more insights with approximate numbers of the gigantic wealth (Minerals Resources) Africa possesses. Not only that, but also how much of gadgets of everyday life depend on resources from Africa and indeed we can say “How Africa’s Minerals fuel the world”. With all those fantastic resources, one would expect that folks living in Africa would have outrun Europe a thousand years ago and should had colonized Mars by this time. Not only west, but now from their lessons China and other Asian countries started extracting rich mineral resources in whatever way possible from the continent.

“Africa: The richest and the poorest Continent, Rich in terms of natural resources, poor in terms of life standards. Practically speaking from Laptops to cellular phone, cars to airplanes, all kinds of everyday items are made using minerals that come from Africa. Let’s get into some details

Catalytic converters are fitted to cars to reduce pollution, and platinum and rhodium are key components. Africa produces most of the world’s platinum and Rhodium for this purpose. In 2012, South Africa produced 128 tonnes of platinum, 170 tonnes of Gold, 8.2 million carats of diamonds and 255 million tonnes of coal.
Cellular Phones, laptops and other small electronic devices use parts made from Tantalum. Africa produces approx. 70% of World’s Tantalum in which Mozambique produces 24%, Democratic Republic of Congo 11%, Rwanda 20%, Ethiopia 9% and other African countries contribute 7%.
Rechargeable batteries often use cobalt in their electrodes and demand for portable electronic devices has created a huge market for the mineral. Here Africa accounts for 58% of the world’s cobalt

With all these, a simple Question that keeps pestering me, If Africa is so rich in resources, why are millions of its people living and dying in poverty?

Post your views….

2013-07-01T06:42:00.001-07:00

Africa the Spectator

As the famous saying goes “No hurry in Africa”, indeed it’s the same thing that’s happening in the continent. A continent with its richness in natural resources is turned out to be a spectator as the titans, US and China clash for their dominance.

As the Chinese make deep inroads into Africa, America is counting on soft power-and the continent’s young people-to stay on top. With the recent explorations of crude oil in Tanzania and other Africa countries, each of the titans are having their own strategy to extract as much as possible before the rest of the economies open their eyes. The best strategy followed by china so far is funding infrastructure development in Africa and extracting valuable minerals.

If we go into statistics, America’s trade with Africa rose from about $30billion in 2001 to just over $100billion 10 yrs later, while china’s grew more dramatically, from $10billion to $130billion over the same period, according to the collated figures from the UN. In reality, there is very little direct competition between Chinese and American firms in Africa. Most of the US firms are involved in the higher end of the market, such as renewable energy, computer software and medical equipment, while Chinese firms dominate the lower, consumer goods category.

The point of confluence is oil, but both the US and China dominate the trade in Africa’s natural resources. A lot of the growth in trade over the past decade has been fuelled by an increase in exports of crude oil from Africa to the two powers. The difference is that China has diversified its appetite for other natural resources and grown its exports to Africa much faster, overtaking the US in this area a decade ago in 2003. Both china and the US are playing a long term game.

Ultimately, however, the battle for Africa is not one for present resources but future potential. The real contest is between China’s hard power and America’s soft power and the real tragedy is that Africans and their governments are largely spectators, rather than contestants, in the battle for the future of the continent.

Far from arguing about which of the two giants is better, it’s time for Africans to get busy and figure out how they can benefit from the “clash of the Titans”.

2011-02-06T13:02:00.000-08:00

Man & Woman

While reading the famous book “Men are from Mars & Women are from Venus” by John Gray, got this idea of posting something interesting on Man & Woman.

Before going into the actual gist of this topic let me keep something funny, sometimes true & indeed one can argue about the same. A humble request for the woman who reads this post (it’s just not true, read it and forget)

Let us now see how a newly married couple gets into a serious discussion which started from a small thing called shopping...

Wife asks his Husband early morning at 8.30am while the husband is having breakfast, “darling in the next week Valentine’s Day is coming , hope you remembered that” ..

Husband thinks for a couple of seconds and says “Ya dear I do remember it” …Wife says

“I should do a bit of shopping for that memorable day, so it will be great if you come a bit early today”…

Husband cleverly replies “Valentine’s day is for lovers, not for couples….and it’s great to celebrate our marriage day rather than valentine’s day..”” Now wife gets angry and says “You don’t love me anymore the way you used to love me before…..anyway for small thing called shopping you denied me…its ok...”

Husband immediately replies “Shopping is not a small thing, you woman are still struck there, if you want to get it more clear please read this message giving his mobile to her”...The message is

Man discovered COLORS and invented PAINT;

Woman discovered PAINT and invented MAKEUP.

Man discovered the WORD and invented CONVERSATION;

Woman discovered CONVERSATION and invented GOSSIP.

Man discovered AGRICULTURE and invented FOOD;

Woman discovered FOOD and invented DIET.

Man discovered FRIENDSHIP and invented LOVE;

Woman discovered LOVE and invented LOVE TRIANGLES.

Man discovered TRADING and invented MONEY;

Woman discovered MONEY and invented SHOPPING.

That’s it!!!

Thereafter man has discovered and invented a lot of things... While women are still STUCK with shopping.............. . !!!

Now coming to the gist of the topic, John gray in the book imagines that Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus.

He successfully explains with practical insight and logical touch how difficult it is for

both the sexes to maintain an everlasting relationship after marriage. This insightful book gives really some amazing facts to understand both the sexes in a more amicable way.

I am here underlying some key words and sentences from the book where in John gray has elaborated the context exceptionally well.

1) Mr. Fix-It!!!!! (This is what men feels about themselves)

2) Women Talk while Men go to their Caves

3) Communication is the Key.(Different Languages, since Venus has different Language and Mars has its own Language)

4) Avoiding Arguments( Very Critical)

5) Men are like Rubber Bands

6) Women are like Waves

7) Scoring Points from the opposite sex is the Key

8) Communicating the tough feelings(It’s really tough)

9)Keeping the Magic of Love Alive

Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!

Sales, Sales & Sales......

2010-05-27T05:11:00.001-07:00

A guy walks up to a woman. She is lounging under a tree, obviously taking great pleasure in the fruit she nibbles at provocatively. "You won't believe how good this tastes," she smiles and wipes a succulent dribble from her chin, offering the piece of fruit to him.

"Yeah, but isn't that…?" the guy looks about uncertainly.

"How could anything this good be bad?" She winks at him. "Go on, try it. Just one bite and you'll see what I mean."

“But, I don’t know if I should…what if…?” he says with great unease.

“Come on. Trust me. I would never steer you wrong. Try it. You’ll see.” She replies enthusiastically.

The guy is intrigued. The fruit is delightfully red, sounds crispy every time she bites into it, and if her reactions are any indication, the thing must be really great.
"Oh, all right." He lounges beside her, reaches for the fruit and sinks his teeth into it. She made the pitch, he bought it, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Welcome to the exciting world of Sales, this might be the first recorded sale in the history of humankind: the moment Eve sold Adam on eating the forbidden fruit.

Sales! It’s a great stuff, a big mover and shaker in the human equation.

If you closely observe the development of the art and science of sales from early barter economies through the invention of currency, from the nomadic markets of retail stores and then to hyper malls, from road shows and to door-to-door to telemarketing and TV shopping. In every single case the medium was new, and sometimes amazing because of the exciting stuff used, but the message, the systematic process of getting a customer to buy, has been the same.

Let’s look at overview of sales, industry wise

Finance Industry:
The main Strength of this industry is the sales force with services as an add-on. What are generally sold here?
 Current Accounts and Savings accounts (so called CASA)
 DMAT accounts for trading in the share market
 PMS (Portfolio management services) there will be relationship manager so called RM, from a bank who will be guiding you in investing in the share market.

Now coming to one of the toughest and exciting sales which generally most of the sales professional feel. It has been considered as a separate industry even though it falls under finance, because of the potential it carries.
 What ,if you die tommorow?this is the first question that should be raised to customer while selling an insurance policy, but the way to put forward it ,is the trick of the trade.

Today more than 70% of my business school batch mates are selling either of the above services... Guys keep going...

Education Industry:
The main strength for this industry may not be the Sales, but the importance of sales professionals in this industry also is increasing day by day..

The classic example is the business school from which I passed out, ICFAI business school. The name may not be that popular, but we guys who passed out making it ...lolssss
Key features of the University:
 The turnover of the University is more than 4500cr.
 It’s purely a sales driven organization.
 They sell both full time and part time educational courses.
 The target audiences are middle class, upper middle class and the higher class. If you closely observe, India’s more than 40% population lies in either of the classes.

By now your mind might be asking you a serious question...What is generally sold in this industry??

The answer is Dreams…..

Selling educational courses is nothing but selling dreams to either the student or the parents...Unfortunately in India parents fall for the sales professionals who sell the educational courses rather than the student because in India mostly parents take a decision of the child’s education course.
Going deep into this industry, now the trend is for online education which is doing exceptionally well.

Media Industry:
The so called happening industry in the world. Totally dependent on the sales force, and require very energetic smart sales professionals.
This Industry broadly divided into
 Print
 Television
 Radio
 Online

Now what exactly is sold in this industry?
• In print they sell the newspapers space.
• In Television they sell the time.
• In radio also they sell the time and
• In online media they sell the space on the web page.

Overall if we see the main source of revenue for this industry is sales.

Information Technology Industry:
The buzz word for more than 2 decades, a small machine called Computer which changed the entire world. Thanks to Charles Babbage, the father of computer.

Overall if we see services are sold in this industry with Infrastructure and Software as the main driving factors.

Before it used to be totally a service driven industry, with less involvement of sales force. But gradually even in this industry also sales started playing a major role and fortunately I am also a part of this industry successfully selling both infrastructure and software.

The other important industries like Telecom, Automobile & Pharmaceuticals all are driven majorly by the sales force.

This is an exciting field for the guys who are interested, wherein sky is the limit .

Differentiate or Die

2010-02-24T14:05:00.001-08:00

Thanks to Philip Kotler (Marketing guru) .I have taken the title “Differentiate or Die” from his famous book “Principles of Marketing”. This is one of my catchy titles during my business school course.
Kotler in his book explains with real life business scenarios how multinational companies differentiated themselves from competitors and moved ahead with a winning string and at the same time the companies who failed are out of the race.

Here if you closely associate your day to day activities to the title, differentiation plays a revolutionary role for your life’s winning string and at the same time dying is more or less compromising or becoming stagnant in life( according to the present context)

Ideally speaking Differentiation requires some basic amenities like a
 bit of logical thinking
 quick at grasping
 swiftly response
 high level of common sense
 Out of the box thinking
 Seizing the opportunity
 Knowledge to some extent and so on …
This doesn’t mean that people who don’t have the above mentioned amenities are dead but in a way up to some extent they are in the process of dying.

I can’t end up this article without mentioning about one of the most differentiating personalities in the history of mankind. Some interesting differentiating facts before knowing the name of the giant
 Drop out of Harvard-shows how bored he is at studies (lolssss)
 Has spent more than 10,000 hours in front of PC at the age of seventeen-that to in mid of 1960’s (Cool).
 Timings for using the PC- mostly from 9pm to 4am and this happened for more than a year (Woooooooo at least it’s not possible with me)

I think by now you might have guessed the name of the giant. Yes you are true- “Microsoft’s Bill Gates”

All the above mentioned differentiating facts from Bill gates have some way or the other related to some of the basic amenities of the individual. Let’s see how it can be related

 Logical Thinking - Bill gates from childhood is very good at mathematics.
 Seizing the opportunity- He got the opportunity to use the PC’s at that odd time
 Quick at grasping and swiftly response – Grasped the subject and responded with real time programming
 Out of the box thinking and Common sense- Rather working under anybody, started his own company “Microsoft” and with common sense utilized his own friends.

There are so many other Differentiating personalities in the world and you can relate accordingly. But here the
Question to you and myself - Is differentiation really necessary??

Hmmmmmm my answer is obvious yes …

What about your Answer???

Post it now...

Change-Transformation-Paradigm Shift

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The reason for me to start my blog with this post (in a way I am in this endless process)….hmmm sounding vague.

I strongly feel every individual undergoes this process (here not mentioning about the apathetic people) of Changing, then transforming and reaching the acme of paradigm shift. Here paradigm shift is nothing but creating a benchmark in that field or something like becoming an ideal. Even though very few people reach the last stage, it is all about people who started the process and who are already emotionally committed to the endless process.

Why I mention it as an endless process is because the wheel of Change moves on and on and on, those who were down…go up and those who were up…go down. We change, we transform and we may reach the paradigm shift in that particular domain or area or field whatever you feel is applicable for you and the process continues accordingly when we change…

The toughest part in life is change. It may happen according to time, situation, individual etc
Just think, what if situation immediately demands to
 Change Your Job
 Change your area of work
 Stop your present business or start a new venture
 Change according to your New boss
 Change your diet
 Change your life style
 Change your plan of action
These are just a few examples in day to day life where in these days most of the people are used to it, but the question here is how many are transforming and excelling in that field to reach the pinnacle of paradigm shift. The answer is an emphatic NO in most of the cases.

I have been continuously questioning myself…is change really that tough??

I found that Change is not really tough, it’s practically tough. If Change is practically tough,
How about the transformation which is a part of Change?
How about the Paradigm shift?
Are they really Impossible?? Not really, and even practically because impossible itself says “I’m possible”.
Then, why is it so that most of the people don’t want to change?

“It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not” – James Gordan.

The below mentioned are the periodical reasons why people find it difficult to change and the counter for the same is supported with the famous quotes from some renowned personalities.

 Comfort Level-
“A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar” Confucius

 Totally Different or a new Challenge.
“Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed” Irene Peter.

 To get accustomed to a new situation
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” – Commonly attributed to Charles Darwin

 Security“Our only security is our ability to change” John Lilly

 Getting through “When you are through changing, you are through” Bruce Barton

So Change is one of the toughest exercises, which every individual undergoes in his/her life. Optimistic view - Change and transformation are very essential for a human being to become successful. It depends on the given individual to take it forward.