Whale Done

How to create Leadership and Create High Performance Organizations
How to express and direct your honest feelings ?
How NOT to Manipulate people you care ?

In someway there is a common thread running across these questions and unravels itself as you read the “Story” return by Ken. Yes its a story and its brilliantly narrated with incidence from the world around you......


But don't stop there . There are 3 key observations which when adopted leads to an “Empowerment” of your team , ““Empowerment” of your life n Family and Finally it makes a BIG difference to YOU as a person. Whale Done can be a classic if you read it as a story and a powerful tool if you consciously follow the directions given in the book


Seaworld is a place of whales. All jumping , fun-run and dancing to the perfect tune of the trainer. what makes this monster really obey (or I should say "follow trainers heart") , to perform in front of those 100's of audience? .....Thats the point which leads the book through out. Ken Blanchard fairs really well in narrating the moral and at the same time passing the message loud and clear . “If we can make Whales to follow a direction which entertains audience then we can as well direct our people , Our situation and Ourself to a near perfect world ! “ .


Author continuous to experiment what he learnt in Seaworld ,to be applied in the work place and in the family
Over his journey makes many more observations .One of the touching lines personally to me was an incident of a kid . The incident explains how re-direction helps to by-pass kids behavior and take it to a world of wisdom.



Finally , Ken re-iterates 3 definitive points through out .

1.Build Trust
2.Accentuate Positive
3.When mistakes occur , re-direct


Simple but yet makes lot of sense when adopted . So Whale Done Guys !!!!

Blue Ocean Strategy By Kim Chan (Book review)

If you think , you got the best strategy for your company to compete , think again.There is somebody who is Making the competition Irrelevant !!


Well this book is one of the best Management Strategy which has come from Harvard's kitty.
Kim has excellent talent of narration on how and what aspect of company is earning billions for the corporations.

He gives number of statistical and analytical tools to aid the company in its directions

There are numerous examples and pattern matching done from a huge inventory of corporations like Dell , IBM , Walmart to name a few

The book gives a startling revelation of what goes terribly wrong for the companies and how the competition has turned the the industry to red ocean where survival is the key


Kim compares competition of the industry to a red ocean where every body fights for a pie and bloody ocean sets in where most company drown.
and Hence he navigates the company to find an ocean where there is no competition and the Big pie is all lying to be explored and ate and he calls it Blue ocean. Blue because , there is nobody to fight and you are your own competitor !!!!



So in Summary

Book mainly talks about Competition and Value Creation.



1. Competition becomes irrelevant for a company when it swims in a blue ocean. Company then does not care for the bottom line but goes on to create "Value Innovation" for the customer
2. There is no "Great company nor Great Industry for ever " and corporation should continuously move to "Strategy Canvas" to create one more blue ocean


Completely off the track book which is an eye opener . So go and grab one !!!!

Freakonomic India !

I am happy to share that I became the proud father of an angel
She was born on Aug 16 2008 . It was indeed a happy day for me .

She became a meaning to our lives. Kids are always there to fill your heart n it was true in my case also
But its surprising to know not many were happy when they came to know it was a baby gal and that astonished me.

People tend to bias towards baby boy though they change their stand later. why so much buzz around boy's

Any reasons...not that I can think of except for 2 mostly likely reasons

1. Gals need umpteen attention for ever till they get married
2. They are harassed at every stage


and N why baby boy...well again 2 reasons for the same

1. They are little safe in their teens compared to gals
2. will take care of the parents when they are in death bed ( sorry to be harsh here)


Isn't it funny , people percieve the kids in different forms. Isn't it bad to pre-judice them and what is more surprising is , history tells that daughters have sacrificed more and always for their parents .There are movies , stories n incidents all around us which claim the same....Though all these are mostly agreed but there is more than just these ...


So why crave for Boy...Dig into little deeper and we would know why people still vouch for baby boyz...its not b'coz of the 2 reasons I told you earlier ...its only one and that truth is " Bein parents of a boy has less responsibility towards him (after he gets married) and his immediate family tree :) " . They are just too selfish to accept that !!!!

Lets be frank , we all dnt like more responsibility and commitments...Yes generations have changed and people dnt anymore distinguish boy or a gal . Economic gap between them has decreased and gals fair well or better than boyz everywhere and every body are aware of it.....

but then its a irony in our society , people tend to mean differently than what they talk ......

Kids are god and they are only how their parents perceive them... lets stop bein biased ....

India in 21st Century is still the same !!!!!