About 7 months back a group of Entrepreneurs from Chennai who had a common thread of running their software companies got togehter to form a cohesive group - The IT SME FORUM - as a Strategy to accelerate their individual growth through synergy. Each one of these entrepreneurs are successfully running their software companies fighting individual battles to keep the company up and running, maintain a steady growth rate, increase their customer base, etc. Running a company in India is not a easy task - it is literally getting pulled in thousands of direction and believe me - A business leader is supposed to concentrate only on Growth - Marketing - Sales. But I have found that typically in the Indian environ, we get pulled into operations and managing to spend some time for the most crucial aspect of the business. This gave rise to the idea - why not have a platform to share the best practices, to learn how to tackle problems, get a better voice and get a big bandwidth in terms of out rea...
My earlier blog post was about Arthanaeeswar temple in the small village called Arakkuparamba. There is a anther templei n the next village called mattarakal. The Shiva Vishnu temple is situated amongst groves of banana araicanuts, coconuts etc. The villagers say that the Shiva lingam was built for the pandavas to offer their prayers. This makes the temple also to be an ancient one dating back to Mahabharata times. Of course the current temple premises is built only in the last century. I presume that the Vishnu was the later time addition for the benefit of the namboodhiris living here. In this temple Vishnu is in the form of Vanana, who was supposed to be born in Kerala to conquer Mahaballi. The beauty of this Diety in the form of a small child is seen to be enjoyed. Such a graceful and charm that it makes you rooted to the sannidhanam. The Siva lingam is of medium height and is on the west side of...
Everyday the papers carry at least 2-3 items about the Satyam episode and a lot has been discussed about the corporate governance , the role of independent directors and the accountability . No, I am not going to talk about all these things - But I am going to talk about something else which also revolves around these same core issues - So when will the nation be talking of the accountability of the government, government offices, etc. Like the corporate sector,where we hold the CEO responsible for the acts of commission, omission , etc, why aren't we holding the Heads of the States and Country accountable. Let these people run their departments like a corporate entity - let there be a quarterly results published for each state like what the public limited companies do. The public limited company have the obligation to the general public to publish their accounts because the general public has invested money in their company. Aren't we all investing our money in ter...
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