My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

Today the technology is taking us places - of course , there are positives and negatives of its use. While a century ago, even to send a message to somebody living in a far off place, we needed a bird to carry it over to them, today, we get instant connectivity through telephones, online chats, etc. You can see your near ones, even if they are continents apart through webcams and hold a daily conversations through Skye, VOIP , etc. I am typing this blog from the aircraft flying over the skies of East coast of America. I am currently on board the flight from Atlanta to Newark and there is this availability of wifi connectivity which enables me to do this. Yesterday , we were having a conference call with 5 participants - each participant from different locations - Chennai, Bangalore, Pune , Phoenix and Chicago through gotomeeting . What a amassing technology it is isn't . All our teams have regular conference calls and scrum meetings with people from different loca

At one time, I was a very avid blogger, I probably got into a hole where I wanted to write, but wasnt in the mood to pen down and there has been a lot of gap. But one thing I have learnt is that it has got me great friends, it has got my friendships strengthened, it has opened up new avenues etc. Now these days, I am very much bogged with whats happening within my office. There has been small, medium, large issues with each teams. One of our friends used to say that - what your power is determined by how many number of issues you can face head on in your daily life and still continue to go ahead. Life hasnt been great these days with so much tension - all of course related to business - with competitor being very aggressive and trying to eat into our business ( this is the pain of being small - that you cannot counter the biggies aggressiveness every step of the way), taken by surprise by these attacks, recruitment pressure, operations pressure - Oh life is so sweeeet .......