My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

Last month was a pretty bad month for me - both in official and personal terms. While I was on my business travel triggered by an emergency situation of my business being at risk, I had to return back urgently to India as my mother in law was battling for her life. With Gods grace, both my self and my husband could travel from different parts of US to be with her for at least one and half days before she breathed her last. This is a tribute to her - Not because she is my mother in law - but being a Very Great Woman she was. It is a tribute to all those women who silently struggle to bring up their kids and retain a family value in all that they done. She was a treasure trove of information. She was 84 when she died, but what an intelligent brain she had. It became frustrating for us to answer her intelligent questions. She was an avid reader of books, magazines and news paper. She could tell what was happening in US markets to my husband just by reading the Tamil newspa

Here is another sharing - The article from connectITusa which takes a game to teach about how we need to behave in public as a professional owning up moral responsibility for acts of commission omission or error . Quote: Three lessons for dealing with a crisis 22 July, 2010By Liz Guthridge Baseball and big oil have been very good to me, to paraphrase the late baseball great Roberto Clemente. Baseball and oil both run in my blood. My first job was hawking peanuts, popcorn and crackerjacks at Tulsa Oiler Park, home of the Triple A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. As the first female vendor dubbed "Goober Girl," I broke the gender barrier back when Tulsa, Oklahoma was still the "oil capital of the world" and teenage girls babysat to make money. My first professional communications job was a paid internship in the Public and Government Affairs Department of Amoco, now part of BP , in its Chicago headquarters. Over the course of two academic years in college a

This post is about the celebration of our company winning the Madras Management Association Excellence award under the SMB category. The selection is based on the following criteria: Company's Key Performance Company KPI vs Industry performance The Marketplace The Internal Processes Learning & growth initiatives of the company CSR activities All the above in relation to how the company as a whole performs as a team rather than just the performance. In fact, the title itself is Managerial Excellence and all the companies have to showcase how they have done all the above from the perspective of collectively we achieve more. So it was with pride that we got the award from MMA on 2 nd July as this goes to prove our capabilities of being focused on what we are doing as a team. For press coverage please visit the following link which shows all the 3 winner - under Manufacturing, Services and SMB categories. http://www.hindu.com/2010/07/03/stories/2010070353980400.htm My si

I find that whatever I do, there is a climb and then there is a lull and then once again the journey starts. Of course, every time the climb is higher than ever... So is the case with my blogging too, though there are no peaks that I climb here. But the effort is larger every time to create a good blog. Coming back to my blog, I wanted to write about a lot of things, but I didn't have that mind space to log in to the site and write the post. So breaking out of inertia , I am here with a post about the etiquette that most of us forget or dont even know in the first place with our emails. (I admit this is also a copy paste from something that landed in my email, but let me do some value adds too) Mind Your Manners: Salutations Think of the basic rules you learned growing up, like saying please and thank you. Address people you don't know as Mr., Mrs., or Dr. Only address someone by first name if they imply it's okay to do so. Today’s forum indicates that people no

It has been a long time since I came back to these pages, penning what is catching me in interest - it can be anger, anguish, pride, info - anything of value. When I am away from blogging for quite sometime, I feel very very guilty within myself. But inertia takes over and prevents from coming back. I have to fight that resistance and get back to it. If writing, within the comforts of a table and chair itself needs so much mental work, just imagine what it would require to climb the highest peak. so this post is all about some known facts about my most fascinating topic MOUNT EVEREST Recently amongst all those heart rendering scenarios about Mangalore Air crash on the same day, there was yet another Human Endurance tribute that happened On 22 nd May, 2010 Early Saturday morning, 16-year-old Indian schoolboy from the National Capital Region, Arjun Vajpai , became the youngest Indian to successfully climb the world's highest peak, 8,848-metre-high Mount Everest, via the tradit

When I first read the headlines, I was surprised as how a new player can become the Telecom Player of the Year. But reading through the article, I got all the answers and I am reproducing herebelow some excerpts from the article. Softbank Mobile has just become the first Japanese operator to report more revenue in data than voice. Since it began business out of the shell of the old Vodafone KK in 2006, Softbank Mobile has done things it own way in the clubby Japanese market. Softbank Mobile wins the trophy of Best Asian Telecom Carrier for having "changed the rules" of Japan's wireless market. . It focused on data, it cut prices, it shut down its 2G service, it pioneered the iPhone - dismissed by some as bound to fail in Japan. It started with just 4.8% of the 3G market; it now has more than 20%. The first thing about this mobile operator is it doesn't consider itself a mobile operator. As senior executive vice president Ted Matsumoto puts it: "We are not t

One more article that landed up in my inbox - The story of Mothers Day is a long one. It is neither a recent phenomenon as many people believe it to be. Nor it is the creation of card and gift marketers syndicate as assumed by cynics of Mothers Day festival. To the surprise of lot many people Mothers Day celebrations are first said to have taken place in the time of ancient Greeks and Romans hundreds of years ago. Even Mothers Day celebrations in UK began much before the tradition saw the light of the day in US. In US the efforts of Ms Julia Ward Howe and Ms Anna Jarvis are greatly recognized for starting the tradition of Mothers Day but several other women too made remarkable contribution to further the cause of Mothers Day holiday. Celebrations in the time of Greeks and Romans The tradition of Mothers Day started with the ancient Greeks who celebrated their annual spring festival in honor of Rhea, the mother of many Gods and Goddesses in the Greek mythology. Ancient Romans too celeb