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What do you look for in a leader ? If you do a Google search , it may throw you some of these characteristics : Accepts Challenges ,Courageous , Risk taker , Objective about things ,Decisive , Communicates well ,Won’t give up, firm but fair , great listener, Keeps promises , unrelenting focus ,straight forward , Open door policy, let bygones be bygones attitude , Open and honest, follow through Patient, gets everyone involved , operates well under pressure , sense of urgency , being humble. I saw all of these in Mr T.N . Manhoran ( TNM ) as he walked us through the Satyam Revival story. TNM is no small fry. He was the past President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and is very well recognised and respected in his Profession and by Society as a Outstanding Person. It was a honour for us as he accepted to come and speak to us. When the Government called him to be a Government nominees on the Board of Satyam in the thickest of messy times ( post the Scam ) , TNM accepted...

This may be a lousy topic to write on , but I am penning this down just to provoke some thinking on we can do - on grooming and managing expectations. Two incidents that I thought , I can share to get our thoughts going on how we can refine , manage expectations and be good leaders. Situation 1: On the TTK Road and CP Ramasway road in Alwarpet ( where I live and have to wade through these two roads often ) traffic was allowed to flow both ways until a couple of years back or so. Then ,in the name of traffic pattern study ( devious way to implement a change-- how nice ), changes were made and both TTK and CP Ramasway became one way for traffic flow. Then some more changes were made on "side roads" to ensure that vehicle flow through a particular road would be minimum or not allowed at all. It looked stupid but the change was made. We all realised the changes were made to accommodate a Minister of the old regime who lived on that road. People protested , bus stops changed and t...

It has been more than a month since I had my last post in to the blog. . For good reasons . I took off on vacation for three weeks . I have never been off from my work that long ! Did I miss work ? Not really. Why ? I was wired all the time . But I did stop writing the blog and enjoyed the lovely break from routine with family , relatives and friends . Why no break from work ? Can we get away in the current Techie Mad World -- NO !! With the technology support that is available , the need to stay connected is very high. So, I packed my laptop , soft phones and accessories along with my packing for the vacation trip. It proved so useful and I did not repent for carrying the Laptop. I also cannot imagine coming back from this long holiday to be up and running at work from day one which is the normal expectation. My daily email traffic is very heavy ( in my own terms ) and I cannot imagine having to clear a backlog of fifteen work days.. I also used the time zone to my advantage to work o...