Energy and Age

I accept that age is linked with less energy.

As a kid, you have grown seeing your grandparents treated "specially" more often as though they are disabled. Your mind has registered that if someone's old, he will have no energy.

Probably, because of this we always love to live in "sweet 25". We know that once we grow, we will also see similar fate as we had seen elders in our childhood. I know, You had wished if you could return to your 25!

And dear friend, you can return to your twenty-five - the one that comes with the feelings of ever youth, energetic, enthusiastic, etc. If you want to know, then open the eyes of your mind. Your mind is the Ubiquitous owner of your body. What your mind says is what your body is.

Your mind orders that your body is growing old, and your body shows the symptoms of aging. Let your mind "order" that you are ever young, your body believes it. One word of caution here. Your body obeys your mind's order only when it's beyond doubt!

Got it? Practice it!

Dimensions of Global Project

Good Read: Four Dimensions of a Global Project on Gantthead.com

Rampant Acquisitions

These days acquisitions are on a rampant. Every company is trying to improve its solidarity by acquiring in vertical or horizontal way.

The bigger players try for vertical acquisitions so that they spread their risks and also provide one point solution to the customer. For example: Symantec acquired Veritas. Symantec, a high profile in Antivirus software wanted a "solid" platform to increase its market share. Veritas, being a very big player in Storage and backup services was a good hit. Now, Symantec can directly sell its Antivirus to the corporate with Backup, Email servers etc.

* Sun's now marketing hardware with OS (Solaris) package.
* RedHat will sell Linux with Application Server
* IBM will promote WebSphere Application Server with Bowstreet Portal framework

Acquisitions bring many benefits to the corporate like a few mentioned below:
* The client database will increase
* One point for Client Maintenance (Marketing and Sales)
* Products sold as a Stack (License & Support)
* Increased Revenue Generation


Acquisitions also make the world a smaller place. How?
* By making one point entry for all his needs (this might be a little exaggeration)
* His work will be reduced in searching for multiple products sold by different vendors
* One transaction will suffice his multiple needs
* One Company to interact for support and maintenance

Finally, it's going to be one place for the customer, where he can buy all his software/hardware needs. World is asking for it and Corporate is leaving no stones returned in their efforts to help them.

Does it mean that smaller players will be stopped from venturing out? It will never happen. The smaller players will continue to play the part of the game and remain as they are. They will give ways to be acquired by bigger players always.

Technical Vs People Management

In my previous blog I had mentioned about the desired qualities of a manager and the deficiences. Going forward on the same topic, my observations have been a little painful on this topic.

There's a conception that a person who's a techie will not be a good people manager and a good people manager can't be a techie.

If you have a manager who's a techie but not good at communication or people management, he's excused blissfully as though it's a norm.

If you have a manager who's good at management but not a good techie, he's laughed at and most often the source for poor jokes.

I am sure you would have observed what my eyes have caught? Can't a person be good at both people management and technical know-how? People management can be acquired as much as technical knowledge. Then why's the disparity?