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Do you ever think that your job keeps you from your true life’s work?

One day a known person approached Chankya and enthusiastically started

saying, “Do you know, just a while ago, I heard few things from you friend about you?”

Chankya was famous for his wisdom, knowledge and good behavior. He said to his known person, “Before I listen to what you have to say, I would like to test it through my three step testing.” “What is this three step test?” the person asked.

Chankya made him understand, “Before you tell me about what my friend has said, let us test it. I call this testing – a three step

test. The first test is of truth-ness. Is it sure that whatever you are going to say is a truth?” “No”, the person dais, “I have heard it from somewhere.”

“Okay”, Chanakya analyzed. “If you don’t know whether this is truth or not, we will do another test. The second test is for goodness. Are you going to tell me some good thing about my friend?” “No, it’s opposite to it…..”

“Then”, Chankya asked further. “Whatever you are going to say, is not the truth, is not positive about my friend then let’s do the third test. The third test is of usefulness.

Whatever you are going to tell me, is that useful to me?” “No, it’s not like that.”

Chankya then said the last thing.“Whatever you are supposed to tell me, it is not true, it’s not positive and it’s not useful also, then why you want to tell me?”MORAL: Any information must be checked on these three parameters of – truthness, goodness and usefulness.

OYou can’t win your internal battle by fighting it with other people. Yes

you can continue to fight but it would be a futile effort. You will soon get tired, frustrated and become cynical.

Sometimes it may seem to you that you are winning. You may feel that you are right and other people are wrong. You may advocate that it is better to fight and win instead of taking unnecessary pain.

What you ignore in the process of fighting is your own internal battle. Nobody is fighting with you. There is only one person involved and that is you.

Yes, I know that it takes two people to fight and here you are alone! How can there be a fight. True that you are alone but there are two voices inside you; it may be good and bad, it may be past and future, it may be right and wrong or it may be personal and interpersonal.

In a nutshell you are fighting with yourself only. Other people, other situations are mere triggers. They prepare a ground for you to fight. They may provoke you to start a duel.

The impact is: people would suddenly appear to be irritating. Even strangers would seem to be idiots. It is not because they are

like this. It is because of your ongoing internal battle. You start to see the world as a battle field even if nobody is fighting with you.

Thus be your best friend. Solve the internal battle within yourself. Accept yourself and forgive yourself. Be your best buddy for life. Believe me things and people will start appearing different.

Why Everybody Seems To Fight With You? - By Tapas Dasmohapatra

The Real Test


Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice -- Zig Ziglar

We Get What We Focus Upon

An unmarried girl used to pray day and night, “O god, lease give my mother

a good son-in-law.” Many people asked her to pray directly to get married. She used to say, “Well I don’t want anything for myself. My mother is in a hurry.” God listened to her prayers and her younger sister got married soon.I went to conduct a program for a Pharmaceutical company in Baddi, Himachal Pradesh. One of the VPs of that company shared a unique problem which was haunt-ing him for the last two and half years. His problem was number 13. He used to think that there is one number around him which is 13. For example his date of birth, his wife’s date of birth, employee ID no. or phone numbers would always have 13 or total of the digits would be 13. He was being haunted by this number through-out the day. He was trying to find the reason behind this and perhaps he was expecting me to give him some meaning to all this.Suddenly I asked him, “What is

the time?” and he said, “It’s 8:24”, I asked him the number of car in which we have travelled that morning from Chandigarh to Bad-di and he said “6969”. I asked him some other questions such as date of birth of his kids, Flat No., etc.

He was surprised to see that most of the numbers were not 13. I ex-plained him a simple fact that his focus was only on number 13 and so his mind would never miss number 13 or total of which would be 13. His mind as a faithful ser-vant was never missing number 13 as it was always on the lookout of that number only and other num-bers were overlooked by his mind. I told him to find out other num-bers available around him and was so relived to find other numbers were also present around him.

I have heard that one gentleman has written a book, “Friday the 13th”, just to prove the fact how inauspicious this combination is. To prove his fact he had collected all authentic data from all over the world about plane crashes, train accidents, divorces or earthquakes

on 13th. Soon, he reached a con-clusion that this is not just a myth that this combination of date and day is deadly inauspicious. I re-ally salute his hard work and the detailed research done.

This researched committed just one mistake; the same kind of data, in equal or more numbers of incidents, can be collected even for Thursday 12th or Tuesday 7th also. It is not that on other dates and days combinations, wrong things don’t happen. They cer-tainly do. The fact is, “You will get what you focus on.” So, keep your focus on correct things, ev-erything is available around us, it is our choice where we keep our focus.

Choices - Alisha JainExcerpts from Suresh Semwal’s Book - ‘WOW In Life’

A very successful partner in a big firm had a peculiar habit. He would go to his

desk every day, open a locked drawer, look inside, lock the drawer again, and start his work. This continued for many days.

His subordinates knew that he hid the secret of his success in

the drawer, they waited for the opportunity.

Then, one day when the partner had gone out of the city, the juniors decided to make a break.They broke into the drawer, breathlessly, and looked inside. There was one small piece of paper inside – it said – “Left is

debit and right is credit.”

Moral – Life is what you make!!

Secret of Success


A goal properly set is halfway reached. -- Zig Ziglar

Robot Resource Management - Sandip Grover

Last couple of days, I have been party to various discussions wherein the futuristic way of

working was being discussed. Why it is not possible to eliminate humans from manufacturing activities completely, well almost. If that’s possible, What will happen to third world countries like India, China, Bangladesh, that thrive on the cheap labour resources. And the big question, if that’s so, what is going to be the role of Human Resource Managers, sans the Humans ? This question first made me feel uncomfortable and then lead me to thinking, how the manufacturing world would be minus the labour. But before that, I tried to understand evolution of robotics. The first computer operated mechanical hand was developed at MIT, USA in 1961. The first industrial arm robot - the Unimate - was introduced in 1962. It was designed to complete repetitive or dangerous tasks on a General Motors assembly line. Many more researches continued to happen to unveil this psedu human being. Later, in 1986, Honda began a robot research program that started with the premise that the robot “should coexist and cooperate with human beings, by doing what a person cannot do and by cultivating a new dimension in mobility to ultimately benefit society.” By 1989, scientist had invented a walking robot named Genghis at MIT. It becomes known for the way it walked, popularly referred to as the “Genghis gait”.So far, the way scientists were working, it was almost abundantly clear that in next few years, there would be a machine (Robot) that would be able to assist the human

beings in doing certain mundane chores or any specialised work that could be dangerous to the mankind, such as defusing a bomb. But the imagination of human mind was also testing its limits. The word Robot was first coined probably as early as 1921 by Czeck playwrighter Karel Capek. Through various movies and TV series, Robot was projected as a super human being that can even go against its creator. So how real is a scenario that we HR folks would be required to change our profession to deal with robotics. A Feb 2015 Boston Consulting Group study reveals some of the things that are likely to come. Just picture this : * At Sweden-based Charkman Group, robots slice and pack high volumes of salami, ham, turkey, rolled pork, and other cooked meats. At the heart of the line is an intelligent portion-loading robot that can handle 150 picks per minute across multiple sizes and types of meat.* Robot density,” a metric indicating the number of robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers, is currently highest in South Korea and Japan. Approximately, 40 percent of the industrial robots used today are in the automotive sector, in which robot density already tops 1,000 in five countries—Japan, France, Germany, the U.S., and Italy. * In the Netherlands, Philips uses 128 robots to make razors. The only humans are the nine workers who perform quality checks.* Since Robots can also do without lighting, heat, air conditioning, supervision, food, and bathroom breaks. As a result, “lights out” manufacturing plants that offer significant cost and energy savings are emerging. * At some factories, robots are even building other robots, producing

about 50 robots per 24-hour shift and operating unsupervised for as long as 30 days at a time. Even in the non manufacturing side, Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, paid $775 million in cash in 2012 to buy Kiva Systems, which makes warehouse robots. Small, fast, and flexible, these robots are constantly in action, moving large merchandise lots from shelves to the packing and shipping areas. Once a Kiva customer, Amazon acquired the robot maker to improve the productivity and margins in its massive network of warehouses and fulfillment centers. The move has helped Amazon maintain its low-cost advantage and stay a step ahead of the competition by providing a key advantage: the ability to offer one- and two-day guaranteed delivery for a wide range of goods. The company recently announced plans to increase the number of Kiva robots from 1,400 to 10,000 by the end of 2014, which could cut fulfillment costs for an average order by 20 to 40 percent. If Jeff Bezos has his way, robotic delivery drones will be next.The spending on robots is expected to rise from 15 billion dollars to over 67 billion dollars by 2025.considering the economics of scale would eventually be reducing the cost of parts, CPUs etc., this is a huge amount by any standards. Today when I was surfing on the web, I came across various robots that were quite close to human beings. And with the technology now developing sensors which could eventually lead to an artificial skin that can sense touch, heat and humidity in the same way real skin does - it’s only a question of time that robots would eventually tie nuptials with humans and later perhaps amongst themselves.


Remember that failure is an event, not a person -- Zig Ziglar

Digital Relationships - Mahak Vaish

More than we see the faces of our friends, mother, father, spouse, children,

peers etc in real life, we see the two by four inches of screen. This small equipment has taken a big space in our lives. From “All the best” to “Congratulations”, from “festive wishes” to “wedding wishes”, from “Invitations” to sharing the “condolences” all we are conveying through on-line. It’s amazing that when a wife does wish to her husband “Happy Wedding Anniversary” first on face book than personally, and husband too hit the like on the status before he wish her personally.Where are we heading towards? Are we not relying too much on technology and losing the personal touch in our relationships.

The fact is that family life has changed in the last years quite apart from the rise of technology. The size of homes has grown by 50 percent, meaning family members can retreat to their own corners of the house, so there’s less chance that parents and

children will see each other, husband and wife see each other, friends do see each other. Because everyone is so busy, so occupied with work, home and extracurricular activities that there’s less time for families and friends to spend together. It’s gotten to the point where it seems like parents and children, peers, friends, couples at home are emailing or texting each other more than they’re talking—even when they’re at home together.

Can we please change this Life’s equation a little bit?Can we please take a shift from from being more technical to more close when it comes on relationship?Can we please keep our tech savyness to work only and not with our close people?Can we have at least one meal together in the family by keep our phones aside?

Yes, we can do that, at-least take the first step towards introducing life to relationships.

On this New Year, let’s take an oath to make our relations more real, more genuine and more felt. Lets make the bond more stronger.

Meet people more, try to fetch time sometime.Pick up your phone and call them personally. Have atleast one meal together without keeping our phone nearby, may be for half an hour only.

Investing your real time with your loved ones can give you and your loved ones a big and real smile. Lets be delighted, lets be more joyfull, lets enrich our togetherness.

Wish you all a smiling New Year.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it -- Zig Ziglar


Life’s Lesson!!


Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. -- Zig Ziglar

“A Green Link to Heart” - By Shubham Rajput (EICHER)


Every choice you make has an end result. -- Zig Ziglar

SANDIP GROVER (Managing Partner - HR Consulting Division)

With over 30 years of hands-on management of human and execu-

tive resources with prominent In-dian and global corporates, Sandip Grover is among India’s leading thinkers and practitioners of hu-man resource management, sus-tainability, and social engagement.

Beginning with Philips, Mr. Gro-ver’s work folio has included Honda Gen-sets (Head Plant HR), Singer (Head HR – India operations), and Triveni Oil-field Services (Head – HR) Fed-eral Mogul Corporation (Head Plant HR) & Welspun Group (Group Head – HR and CSR).

Mr. Grover’s expertise in hu-man resource leadership, strat-egy, planning, implementation, engagement & sustainability at multiple levels of the organiza-tion has been widely recognized. His active involvement in plant-level assignments such as han-dling strikes and De - Registration of Union, Gheraos or downsizing over 700 Blue collared & white collared employees (without a sin-gle hour loss) to being officiating Unit Head of Federal Mogul, has provided businesses with a unique practical perspective on how to lead and nourish a business’s most valuable asset—its human capital.

In his most recent engagement with the $3.5 billion,27,000 employee Welspun group, where he worked for over 10 years, he has particu-larly been credited with building a culture of Performance Man-

agement with specific emphasis on giving constructive Feedback. He was also instrumental in re-vamping the Talent Management function by ensuring real Train-ing needs are assessed & training attendance is improved from less than 50% to over 85%. Improve-ment in Employee Engagement satisfaction score to over 88 % in the Textile vertical, having over 18000 employees. Besides this, he introduced psychometric Tests & BEI in Talent Acquisition.

In the Talent Development space, he initiated Succession Planning exercise for the N-1/2 levels in a structured manner.

Mr. Grover spearheaded the suc-cessful cultural integration of two acquisitions, one of them an Ad-itya Birla Group company, with the parent group. His HR, OD, and employee engagement initia-tives are custom-built business environment (evolution-stage and need-based) solutions rather than one-size-fits-all quick fixes.

In the CSR space, he was respon-sible for running 8 Women Em-powerment Centers in the Kutchh region comprising of 250+ wom-en, working with over 60 Govt. schools with 42 para teachers to improve the quality of education with the help of smart classes, Adult Education Centers, Balwa-dis, Mobile Health Vans, Micro Finance and Rags to Rugs Cen-ter. Besides this, he was looking after a CBSE affiliated school having 1600+ students and over

70 teaching staff. He has helped bringing in quantifiable objectives to the area of CSR in the Group.

For his contribution, Mr. Gro-ver was awarded the Certificate of Appreciation, the group’s highest recognition of em-ployee performance, by Group Chairman Mr. BK Goenka.

He was invited by the Eastern Institute of Management, New Zealand, to speak at an inter-national conference, ICBM, in Bangkok, on Cultural Integration. Besides, he has conducted work-shops in USA, UK, Saudi Ara-bia, Ghana, Senegal & Sri Lanka.

Articles and interviews fea-turing Mr. Grover have ap-peared in prominent publica-tions such as the Economic Times, Times of India, Mum-bai; Mint, Business & Econom-ics; Business Manager; and 4Ps.

He was a member of the Gujarat government’s Committee on Technical Education & currently Heads CII – western Region Com-mittee on Waste Management.


I’ve got to say ‘no’ to the good so I can say ‘yes’ to the best -- Zig Ziglar

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