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Sunday, May 24, 2009

MBA Vs TECH (4 Students of B.Sc,Bca,Mca)

why mba?...

hmmmm.interesting question.....here are some possible answers :

1) my dad told me to do so (papa ne kaha tha)
2) had spare 1100 bucks
3) i am not good at tech
4) ROI(return of investment) after MBA is good
5) everyone seems to be doing mba ....so i also joined the race
6) u ask me why ....and i ask u why not


The sad fact is that a lot of ppl attempt CAT because of them. So first, a critical look at these reasons

(1) "my dad told me to do so (papa ne kaha tha)"
: and then think that they ll manage big organizations, though they cant manage their own lives and take their own decisions

(2) "had spare 1100 bucks"
: good one, probably closest to my reason for temporarily planning to give CAT last year, but then realized that a lot of chocolates (even vodka) can be bought with 1100 bucks.

(3) "i am not good at tech"
: so what makes you think that not being good at tech, naturally qualifies you to be good at management?

(4) "ROI(return of investment) after MBA is good"
: potentially good ROI after an MBA. the avg salary in best of IIMs is 6 lacs CTC, which isnt that great coz after 2 yrs in a good company (compared to 2 yrs of MBA), your salary can be 10 lacs (obviously you have to excel in your work for that, but dont expect MBA and thereafter to be a cakewalk) ROI in the share market, and in any business is much higher. Actually if ROI is all you care about, start a garbage collection and disposal company. You ll break even in 2 yrs, then add a garbage recycling unit. You ll be a crorepati in 5 years. I am not joking, I know someone who did the above in 4 years total, I am sure all of you can do it in 7 definitely.

(5) "everyone seems to be doing mba ....so i also joined the race"
: What would you call this - peer pressure, or crab mentality? But before you snicker and laugh at the rest of the world who does this (and you dont), just pause to remember your admission into college. Why did you put Computers as your no. 1 choice? Did you actually like the field? How much experience did you have in the field? How many of you chose it, even though you didnt have any real affection towards it? Would you have chosen it, if the computer industry crash (temporary though it was) had happened 2-3 years earlier i.e. just before your decision making time came? So whats the difference between doing an MBA coz your friends are
doing it, and the above?

(6) "u ask me why ....and i ask u why not"
: You ask me why I should not be insulting other humans, and I ask you....... why not?


On a more serious note...see its all a question of where you see yourself say 5-10 years from now (although very few of us think that long term)......if your a 'techie' at heart you would probably be quite happy to be working on the tech side of things and you can make a great career that way as well.....but if you want any of the following things then an mba probably makes sense -

(1) A career move to an entriely different domain say finance or consulting.....it could be done without an mba as well but then the struggle is a lot harder

(2) A fast foreward button for your career.....in the corporate world degree holders from top b-schools are given positions of responsibilty and authority very quickly considered to those without an mba irrespective of any amount of 'mangerial' acumen you may show

(3) Money.....lots of it ...at the end of the day there's no denying the fact that this plays a very important role besides your work...infact for many it's the sole reason for many who pursue an mba.....the hard fact is that those who do the actual work get paid far less than those who 'manage' them... But The highest paying job (after an MBA, and maybe after anything else as well) is in the field of Investment Banking. You work 20hrs a day, 7 days a week, sleep during flights, and earn crazy amounts of money. And get burnt out in 6 years max. Thats what a high up guy in Lehmann Brothers told Neha Singh, when she got through for internship. The guy said that he has worked for 6 years, hasnt met his wife for a while even though they live together, and is planning to quit soon. So if its money that drives you, remember to be in the top 5 in IIM-A,B,C
and also be prepared for the above.

have a look at the following statement :

There are 2 extremes in the work arena. On the left side you have the most productive people (who actually do the work). For eg. a junior programmer spends every second that he is working producing actual code. On the far side you have the non-producers ie. people who produce nothing tangible. At the end of the day they don't grow food, they don't help sick people, they don't write code etc. These are CEOs, lawyers, management partners, program managers etc. But the kick is - the left side gets paid the least and the right side gets paid the most so if you plot $ on the y axis its a 45 degree line.

Almost everyone spend their time trying to traverse that line so the further to the right side you begin the sooner you get where you want to go. Trust me - I still am a big geek - but I want money - so I can buy all the cool stuff I want.

MBA is going to help me traverse that line faster. The most direct benefit I see out of an MBA is that an opportunity of a dream career with a wonderful employer, one who likely would have filed any previous resume submissions from me in the circular file. Save a remarkable stroke of luck, there is no way I can land this dream position without an MBA. With my BSc. MCA degrees, the pigeonhole is simply too deep. An MBA is one of the few reliable routes to a career change.


Bottomline - an mba from a top b-school can propel you to a career beyond your wildest dreams..

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Increase Your IQ

Increase Your IQ: Act Now

If you want to improve your IQ for an important meeting that is scheduled in the near future or anything important you can certainly do so. Try the following methods:

Breathing Exercises
Deep Breathing helps: This is very easy for anyone to practice. Deep breathing opens up your brain. You help more amount of oxygen flow into your brain which relaxes the brain. It has been known that higher the oxygen amount in blood the more it is easy to relax. Most of the people do not deep breath, hence this is a quick and effective way to relax. I recommend you to breath through nose, since this helps you in breathing deeply.

Meditation: This is immensely helpful because it involves deep breathing. Meditation involves observing breathing pattern and this induces relaxation. Close your eyes and start breathing deeply for some time. Later you can breathe at your own pace. You will have a flood of thoughts coming to your mind, ignore them all and concentrate on your breathing. Practice this daily for a few minutes.

Hypnosis and self-hypnosis: Practicing hypnosis oneself can help you increase your IQ.

Exercise
Improve your posture
Sit with your back straight and keep your mouth closed. If you have a good posture you can improve your concentration and clear up your thought process. Try it yourself. When you attempt to do some math problem sleeping or mouth opened, you will notice that you don’t do it as fast as when you sit straight with your mouth shut.

Exercise :Physical activity helps regulate the blood flow into your brain. You need have a rigorous regime. An activity that is sufficient enough to pump blood will wake up your brain is good. Walking is good and aerobics is even better to enhance IQ.

Sleep: Everyone knows that sleep refreshes you. But remember to sleep deep, it’s the quality and not the quantity of sleep that will help your IQ.

Improve your Food Habits
Coffee: Experiments conducted have shown that scores can improve if you consume coffee before you take an important exam. Be cautious because the effect is short and caffeine if consumed regularly can have harmful side-effects.

Ginkgo biloba: It is available in the form of capsules, tea or leaves. Have it as you like since it increases flow of blood into your brain. This helps improve your memory and concentration capability. It is very fast and the effect is long lasting if regularly used.

Reduce Sugar: Not only sugar, but any carbohydrate if consumed more or regularly can affect your thinking capability. This is due to the insulin that the body generates to digest sugar. Avoid items like white flour, sugar, potatoes especially before anything important like a meeting or an exam.

Be concerned only with the boosting your IQ
Don’t bother yourself with debates like what is real intelligence. You should be concerned only with the results, only your score in IQ test. Test always test your intelligence albeit only at a particular point of time. You have to score higher at these points of time. So if you slept well, drank coffee or employed any of the above techniques and others to boost your IQ, you will have nothing to lose. If you inculcate some of the above, you will be alert to do your tasks perfectly.

BRAIN ! ! !

How To Enhance your Intelligence : 5 Tips


Brain is very similar to a muscle. Like muscles, brain also needs the right kind of exercise and nutrition. The more you use your brain in the right direction, the more you will enhance your ability to focus and think sharply. On the contrary, if you feed your brain the wrong chemicals you will harm its functioning and your thinking capabilities.
Listed below are 5 easy techniques to extract a little more of creativity from your gray cells.

1. Avoid Watching Television : This is perhaps very tough to convince people about. Many people including myself love to just sit in front of TV. Watching TV is not at all productive. It neither enhances your mental capability nor recharges your brain. It is very similar to having all energy drained out of your brain without reaping the benefits of exercise.

TV does make you feel tired after a few hours. Don’t you agree? Eyes hurt and crave for rest after you watch TV for a long time. You are not left with any energy and motivation to read a book.
A good way to relax is to read a book. If not a book, then listening to music is a great idea to relax. Whenever in the company of friends and family have a chat with them instead of watching television. This will utilize you mind more than when you watch television.

2. Work Out: Earlier, I used to think that reading a book is more useful than exercising. But over time I realized exercise is more helpful since it helps you learn more in the long run. A work out is a good way to cleanse your body and rejuvenate it. You will find that exercise helps you focus for longer periods of time.

3. Read books that stimulate thought: Fiction is what most prefer to read, but it is hardly useful for enhancing the thought process. Reading books which are mentally challenging will help you improve your ability to read and write. Classics will improve your vocabulary to think in English and may even change the pattern of your thinking. Never ignore the words you don’t understand. Look up for their meanings. Also put all your effort in understanding paragraphs which appear complicated. Read them again and again to understand the full depth. Cultivate this habit and you will soon be able to grasp any complicated matter.

I am sure that once you get hooked to stimulating books, you will no longer be tempted to read fiction. Learning and imbibing fresh ides is far more thrilling than reading a fiction novel.

4. Sleep Early, Rise Early: Insufficient sleep is the main cause of people not being able to focus for extended periods of time. Sleeping early and rising up early will keep you very fresh and active. Remaining awake till late in the night , you will end up waking up late and feeling lazy . Moreover, you ability to focus will also take a hit. Waking up early in the morning enhances your productivity and keeps you alert all through the day.

If you feel tired and sleepy, take a nap which is not longer than 20 minutes. Anything more will make you lethargic. Short naps do rejuvenate you.

5. Find Time to Introspect: We become so much involved in our daily life that we don’t find time for ourselves. Concentration reduces. Find time where in you are alone and can think about issues. This will help organize your thoughts and you can prioritize your tasks and duties. You will be able to make clear cut decisions and focus on the most important issues. You cluttered mind will be a lot more clear and you will know why you are doing activities when performing them.

All said and done, I am not advising that you do yoga or chant some mantra. Any technique that allows you to sit alone and think is good. Personally , I prefer talking a long walk all alone. Experiment and try out new methods to find out which one suits you the best.

Recommendation: I am sure you do appreciate the techniques that I have suggested above. Remember, it is more often that things which sound simple turn to be most relevant. The crucial part is to implement them for longer periods. Follow the above 5 and I am sure you will greatly enhance your mental abilities and ability to reproduce what you have imbibed. From time to time test your intelligence...

Friday, December 5, 2008

Taglines and brands of some major companies:-


ABN AMRO Bank - Making More Possible
Accenture - High Performance. Delivered
Adobe - Simplicity at work. Better by adobe.
AIG or American International Group Insurance Company - We know Money
Air Canada - A breath of Fresh Air
Allianz Group - The Power on your side
AMAZON.COM - Earth's Biggest BookStore
ANDHRA BANK - "Much more to do, with YOU in focus."
Apple Macintosh - Think Different.
ARCELOR - Steel solutions for a better world
AT&T - The World's Networking Company
Bank of America - Higher Standards
Bank of Baroda - India's International Bank
BANK OF RAJASTHAN - Dare to Dream
Barclays - Fluent in Finance; Its our business to know your business
Be Fearless. - SYMANTEC
BIG BAZAAR - Is se sasta aur Achcha kahee nahee milenga
BIOCON - The difference lies in our DNA
BLOGGER.COM - Push Button Publishing
BLOOMINGDALES - Like no other store in the world
BMW - The Ultimate Driving Machine
BOEING - Forever new Frontiers
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) - The Edge is Efficiency
BPCL - Pure for Sure
British airways - The Way to Fly.
British Petroleum - Beyond Petroleum
BUSINESS INDIA - The Magazine of the Corporate World
BUSINESS TODAY - For Managing Tomorrow
BUSINESS WORLD - Play the Game
Caring for life - CIPLA
CAST AWAY - "At the edge of the world, his journey begins "
CEAT - Born Tough
CENTRAL - Shop. Eat. Celebrate
CHEVROLET AVEO - When Good is not good enough.
Chevron Corporation - Human Energy
CHIP - Intelligent Computing
Choose Freedom - TOSHIBA
CITIGROUP or CITIBANK - The Citi Never Sleeps
CNBC - Profit from it
COMPTRON and GREAVES - Everyday Solutions
Dell - Easy as DELL.
Deutsche Bank - A Passion to Perform
DIGIT - Your Technology Navigator
DR. REDDY'S LABORATORIES - ÿLife. Research. Hope
DUPONT - The Miracles of Science
EBAY - The World's Online Market Place
EPSON - Exceed Your Vision
Ernst and Young - Quality in Everything we Do
Essar corp - A positive a++itude
Exxon Mobil - Taking on the World's Toughest Energy Challenges
FIAT - Driven by Passion. FIAT
FORD - Built for the Road Ahead
GAIL - Gas and Beyond
GM - Only GM.
HAIER - Inspired Living
HINDUSTAN TIMES - The Name India trusts for News
HOME DEPOT - You can do it. We can Help.
HONDA - The Power of Dreams
HP Invent - Everything is Possible
HSBC - The World's Local Bank
HYUNDAI - Drive Your Way
IBM - ON DEMAND
IBM - " I think, therefore IBM."
IBP - Pure bhi. Poora bhi
Infosys - " Powered by Intellect, Driven by Values; Improve your odds with Infosys Predictability"
Intel - Intel inside.
IOCL - Bringing Energy to Life
Jet Airways - The Joy of Flying
JVC - The Perfect Experience
Kingfisher Airlines - Fly the good times
KMART - The stuff of life.
Kotak - Think Investments. Think Kotak.
KROGER - Costs less to get more
LARSEN and TOUBRO - We make things which make India proud
LEE - The jeans that built America
Lehman Brothers - Where Vision Gets Built
LENOVO - We are building a new technology company.
Life's Good - LG
Lufthansa - There's no better to fly
Macromedia - What the web can be.
Malaysian Airlines - Going Beyond Expectations
Master card - There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there'sÿMASTERCARD.
Max NewYork Life Insurance - Your Partner for life
McDowells Signature - The New Sign of Success.
METRO - The spirit of Commerce
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company or Metlife. - Have You Met Life Today
Microsoft - Where Do You Want to Go Today ; Your Potential Our Passion
MITTAL STEEL - Shaping the future of steel
Monster.com - Never Settle
MRF - Tyres with Muscle
NASDAQ - Stock market for the digital world
NDTV Profit - News you can Use.
NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) - The world puts its stock in us
ONGC - Making Tomorrow Brighter
PHILLIPS - Sense and Simplicity
Prudential Insurance Company - Growing and Protecting your wealth
Reliance industries Limited - Growth is Life
Sahara - Emotionally yours.
SAMSUNG - Everyone's Invited or Its hard to Imagine
SANSUI - Born in Japan Entertaining The World
SBI DEBIT CARD - Welcome to a Cashless World.
Servo - 100 % Performance. Everytime.
Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) - Tomorrow Market's Today.
SKODA - Obsessed with Quality since 1897.
SONY - Like. No. Other.
Speed - High Performance Petrol
Standard Chartered Bank - Your Right Partner
Standard Insurance Company Limited. - Positively Different.
Star Sports - We know your game
Sun Microsystems - The Network is the Computer
SUZLON ENERGY - Powering a Greener Tomorrow.
TATA MOTORS - Even More Car per Car
TCS - Beyond the Obvious
TESCO - Every Little Helps
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - Read a Bestseller everyday
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW - Where will you be
THE ECONOMIC TIMES - The Power of Knowledge
The Indian EXPRESS - Journalism of Courage
TIMESJOBS.COM - " If you have a reason, we have the job "
TITANIC - Collide With Destiny.
TOYOTA - Touch The Perfection
Toyota Innova - All you Desire.
UBS - You and Us
Union Bank of India - Good People to Bank with
VIDEOCON - The Indian Multinational
VIZAG STEEL - Pride of Steel
VOLKSWAGEN - Drivers wanted
WALMART - Always low prices. Always.
Windows XP - Do More with Less
WIPRO - Applying Thought

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Some more Taglines:-

Thai Airways - "Smooth as Silk"
MICROSOFT- "Your Potential. Our Passion"
Ford ICON - "The Josh Machine"
NOKIA - "Connecting People"
The Economics Times - "The power of Knowledge"
DLF - "Building INDIA"
Rivolta - "Undress Code For Men"
WILLS CLASSIC - "Discover a Passion"
ZEE NEWS - "Haqueqat Jaisi, Khabar Waisi"
MARUTI SX4 - "Men are Back"
AVIVA LIFE INSURANCE - " Kal par Control"
Thai Airways - "Smooth as Silk"
Panasonic - "ideas for life"