Time Out: Visit to Srivardhan, Diveagar, Harihareswar

Recently I went out for Konkan darshan with my family at Pune. I loved this weekend trip with my family, nice one. It was planned nicely after exploring a lot on Internet. The first day we traveled through Pune - Mulshi - Taminighat - Mangaon - Masala to Srivardhan where we had booked a resort. We went to resort directly after all our site seeing through the journey to get rid of the travel pain. The drive through Mulshi lake & Taminighat was amazing. The resort where we stayed for a day was also pretty good. In the evening we went to Harihareswar teample & beach. My family enjoyed a lot there, then we came back to resort. The resort was very close to Srivardhan beach, so during evening also we went there to chilled out. The beaches were nice, specially the Srivardhan one. Next day we checked out and went to Divaygar. In between we stopped by the famous Sri Ganesha Temple. Oh I forgot to tell one thing...near to our resort in Srivardhan there were small temples and Ashrams. It was a special experience of visiting such places on our leisure time. After Divyagar we drove back to city though we stopped at the Mulshi Dam for few minutes. Overall it was an excellent trip.

Got a different role to play...

I am now out of my current team and moved to a different one to play a different role in a different hierarchy which is different for me and I aspired for same. Wow this is something good for me. A complete new team, a complete new domain, no technology (though I hate it, but I won't leave it), no team, more of managerial work. Dealing with large stakeholders and only SLAs. Nice experience and I think it's good for me to go with this to certain extend before exploring something else in this line.

Two programs I watched on TV without missing...

I love to watch 2 programs on TV one is Dance India Dance & another is Satyamev Jayate. One that brings amazing talents to us and another who spread awareness about social issues but also brings some excellent people, I would say sons of GOD. I salute the people who brings such programs to us. I can feel the change coming to our society and also in our life.

Back with a challenge

Wow refreshing...it's been long time I have not been active in blogging. Today, I am back as something inspired me today to get me back to this blog site. Today we had an article writing competition where I contributed a little & then I thought about to write same on my blog. The article was all about the last difference I have made in my organization. I did not take much time to write as i have many things to write, but restricted to 800 words as per instruction. I mentioned about my goal which I got while joining current team & how successfully I capitalized the same. I added more to it by adding what I have done till now during my tenure of leading the team. Wow ...yes tenure... which is gradually coming to end probably as I am planning to move on to new role assignment. I am not prepared well but I want to jump into as I remember the conversation I had long back with my mentor. If I don't take risk then how will I do something different. Yes I want to do something different, want to come out of my comfort zone & do something which I believe I can do much better way. It will be learning for me & that will give me confidence to move faster & do something more. Not only for me but mostly for my team members and last not for the least the organization. Anyway ..let's wait & watch how I am going to get that opportunity where I can do something different, learn something new & do something for all. Please please wish me best of luck.

Powerful thoughts...

Strategy: We as a team have to work together to create our strategy. The strategy provides the North Star for each person. : Work within budget, on time, high quality release.
Structure: Creating a structure that enables collaboration and provides clarity of roles and responsibilities. This is more than an organizational structure; it is creating a system so people can work together effectively and productively, in an environment that makes it possible for each person to give their best.
People: Choosing the right people for each role is critical, but insufficient. Even more important is empowering every person to be their best, to work with others, to be as creative as possible. It’s about providing each and every person with encouragement when they’ve done something amazing and constructive feedback when they are off track.
Team: While each individual is important, success requires a team. The team is more important than the needs or capabilities of any individual. This is what makes a team much more than the sum of the parts, and a joy to be part of.
Results: Results are built when people act with integrity and deliver their best. Results are all about the positive impact we have on the world – transforming personal lives and revolutionizing ways of doing business.

A new role that brings lots of challenges

I got a new role in my current team. First impression from me was 'Cool', 'Exciting' like a red cap thinks and then 'Can I do it?' 'hell lot of work' like black cap and then 'good to manage team', 'do something for team/client' like yellow cap, then started dreaming about creativity like green cap and then started collecting info quickly like white cap but unable to think like a BLUE cap from all of these context. See I am thinking like a manager - "Six Thinking Hats", I am inspired. But does that cap can help me in people management where I have seniors and juniors to make them part of all initiatives and challenges we have in future path to achieve all goals that customer has set for us. IT'S TOUGH really really tough and challenging.

Then I kept calm and pray the God to help me. As I am not thinking about personal goals which I know I can achieve; this is team goal and getting it done with all helping hands or discouraging hands will show me my real talent. It's another EXAM, i am preparing for - School thinking, and that's the basic thinking. Do we have any name for this kind of management or I am a fool preparing for bad result?

It's my first anniversary

Yes, I completed one year of my marriage on 9th Dec. I remembered just one year back I did posted my marriage invitation here and today, ..see I am posting another blog for my successful loved marriage life. It was splendid year with my lovely wife rather my girlfriend. We had fallen in love almost one and half years back and married just one year back. I would thank GOD and both of our families for lovely support and blessing under which we have started our second innings.