A small newsletter that reads big!The Learner
April 2008/ 010
Editorial
For this issue I have a lovely story to share with you all.How often do you let other people's nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or aninsensitive employee ruin your day? However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly one can get back their focus on what's important. A few years ago, I learned this lesson. I learned it in the back of a London taxi cab. I was there with my wife who waspursuing her DPhil as a Commonwealth Scholar at theUniversity of York in UK. Here's what happened. I hoppedin a taxi, and we took off for King's Cross Station. We weredriving in the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxidriver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed theother car's back end by just inches! The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped hishead around and he started yelling bad words at us. My taxidriver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean... he was friendly. So, I asked, "Why did you justdo that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to thehospital!" And this is when my taxi driver told me what Inow call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck." "Many peopleare like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, fullof frustration, full of anger and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. And if you let them, they'll dump it on you. When someone wants to dump on you, don't take it personally. You just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. You'llbe happy you did." I started thinking, how often do I letGarbage Trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people: at work, athome, on the streets? It was that day I said to myself, "I'mnot going to do it anymore." Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. Love the people who treat youright. Forget about the ones who don't. Believe thateverything happens for a reason.Never let the garbage truck run over you....Enjoy the articles in this issue and do contribute.
Hey, before you begin concluding anything else, let meclarify that the answer to the question in the title is:HR attracts women most!The first fact that I’d prefer to emphasize on is thatHR is not a ‘soft and fluffy’ department as perceivedby a few. The truth is that HR is a profession basedaround people and people skills. Men – and this is toodeep a topic to be specific about – tend to beattracted to areas that are more systematic, more structured and morecompetitive. That is the reason why women, and so many of them, flock aroundHR.“Anyone who gets close to HR knows it is anything but soft,” says a tough woman in HR. “But I think the common misconception is something that has, in the past, acted as a disincentive for men to get involved in the profession.”It is reasonable to reject the popular argument that women are more attracted to HR because they are in some way genetically predisposed to the nature of the job. There may be a slight element of predisposition, but surely nothingdeeper than that.Historically, the roots of HR go as far back as the late 19th century, when therole of welfare workers was to take care of women and girls in the workforce.These welfare workers were all women, and as more women entered the workplace during the two world wars, the number in welfare work increasedand their role expanded to include recruitment and training.Truth is that HR is a job where the amount of power you have lies in your ability to influence other people, whereas in many other jobs, you have power through position. Women who come into HR and do well are particularly goodat influencing other people. The key HR skills in many areas are the ability toempathize, relate and influence, and use emotional intelligence. This does notmean that men don’t have emotional intelligence, but in HR the women who do well have bags and bags of it.It is vital to understand that the days of demanding industrial/ employeerelations roles created macho environments that appealed to men. Now HR isfocused on developing, engaging and supporting people, and it is, therefore,more attractive to women.Hope the readers now understand what attracts women most!#
An article by Ambika Nautiyal, Head - HR, BIFM
“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people willhear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”
(Gautam Buddha)
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here are techniques and then there are more techniques for creation of wealth in the stock markets. You always have two methods of reaching the right technique. One is through trial and error which may turn out to be expensive as well as enough to frighten the wits of any new investor. The other is tolearn from the experts. As we all know that expertise with BLB is very investor-friendly and everyone here is always ready to impart the wisdom of the market toall those who wish to learn. Thus a research analyst at BLB is eager to share his knowledge as well as help investors inhis or her quest for creating wealth.One such technique is the BTST. BTST in simplistic terms means ‘buy today, sell tomorrow’.Here, in this small article the secret of this technique is laid bare for you all.Buy Today Sell Tomorrow (BTST) is an instrument where the client is able to sell the shares that he has purchased even before he receives the delivery of the shares from the Exchange. In simple terms, the client buys the stock in the last half an hour on one day and sells the same on market opening next day, thereby locking aprofit of 1-5%.BTST call is based on price and volume action in the last one hour of trading. Here at BLB, BTST call is a hot favourite among the clients and a lot of delivery positions are being picked up. All that a discerning investor must be careful about is the positive sentiments for the market. Hence, BTST shouldbe given only when you have a informed gut-feel that the market is likely to open strong the next day. However, if next day market opens gap down, then wait for the market to get stabilized and then plan exit.
An article by Ravinder Walia, Research Analyst, BLB Limited
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The role of globalization today
Globalization is interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade andinvestment and aided by information technology.The current wave of globalization has been driven by policies that have opened up economies domestically and internationally. In the years since World War - II, many governments have adopted free-market economic systems, vastly increasing their own productive potential and creating myriad newopportunities for international trade and investment. A defining feature of globalization, therefore, is an international industrial and financial businessstructure.Technology has been the other principal driver of globalization. Advances in information technology in particular, have dramatically transformed economic life. Information technologies have given all sorts of individual economic actors — consumers, investors,businesses — valuable new tools for identifying and pursuing economic opportunities, including faster and more informed analysesof economic trends around the world, easy transfers of assets, and a collaboration with far-flung partners.To find the right balance between the benefits and costs associated with globalization, students need to understand not just how globalization works but even the policy choices facing them and their societies. MBA schools must be able to provide an accurateanalysis of the issues and controversies regarding globalization, without the slogans or ideological biases generally found in any discussion of this topic. Students should be made to understand the meaning of globalization and how it relates to migration,development, trade, and human rights.
An article by Prashant Anand, Sr. BDE, BIFM.
What is graphic design?
Graphic design is just a way to communicate with colors, images, layout, fonts, white space on paper, screen or film. This is a simplistic definition. However,discovering the essence of a graphic design or an advertisment is almost like trying to gather droplets of water with open hand. Of all the wonderful ideas thatflow without a pause, those that linger are the the ones that exist as expressions. It is these expressions that communicate the truth of businesses and individuals.So in a way, design is just lining things up in the right perspective. But to me, Graphic Design is the art (yes it’s an art) of visualcommunication. It’s a little broad, but so is the field itself. As said earlier, designing is all about communicating information to other human beings. It’s a way of presenting this information visually in a pleasant, (anti-) structural way. Thus one can say that designing is also devising ways to visually present and organizeinformation. A good designer generally uses visual elements to convey an emotion or statement. The aim is an intentional collection of pixels toserve as a visual aid. Because it is intentional, this work needs lots of focus in solitude.In a nutshell then, graphic design is the art of placing images and text in such a way that the overall result is aesthetically pleasing as well as informative. It is the arrangement and integration of visual elements — perceived or deemed necessary — composed for the purpose of communicatingan idea or message.To conclude, this function in any organisation is what creates a harmony between aspirations and fulfilment.
An article by Ajay Sharma, Sr. Graphic Designer, BIFM.
“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.”
(William Butler Yeats)
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