Great leaders and great leaders:

I have been in IT ecosystem for descent amount of time.I think I can now highlight what actually makes companies or teams successful.

1. First and foremost thing in any success is the Integrity. I can quote number of examples of people who have always retained integrity it’s none other than “Ratan Tata”. Tatas have never run away from retaining the integrity, business ethics, there are number of instances that they never bribe no matter what. Tatas is one of the mostly ethically run companies and like they say Rome wasn’t built in a day, Tatas weren’t built in a day! So yatha Raja tatha praja. Same with Mahindra they never compromise on national interest. Anand Mahindra’s leadership is another classic example.

2. There are many short term visionary leaders in order to save their own roles, they will blame or throw someone else under the bus. The smartness is not standing by them, because there is no guarantee when it comes to safeguarding the team they will surely throw the team under the bus. I have seen this happen multiple times. Such kind of leaders are always going to be toxic and will always create toxic environment always and in the long term it’s only going to be more damaging.

3. Decolonisation mindset is the need of an hour: Many leaders unfortunately are still in the mindset of always trying to please their bosses, super bosses even when the top leadership is completely wrong but then in order to retain their position they will stand by knowing they are wrong. I have seen cases, where the leaders are technologically zero, not even great visionary leaders by simply forcing employees to pick up their top leadership from airports and treating them like hotel management staff and forcefully asking employees to organise potlucks( literally shoving up the throat) . But now I can confidently say I never stood by all that, torturing my teams to the core.But today I can confidently say that I am happy I wasn’t standing that side of the party. I don’t enjoy in the psychopathic behaviour of torturing people 😀.

I strongly think that if you cannot have a healthy disagreement with your top leadership you are definitely in the wrong eco system(unfortunately it’s true in most cases) not only you are feeding a snake, sooner or later that snake will bite you.There is a difference between nurturing a cattle and nurturing a poisonous snake. We should know the difference as to which will yield better results. So, ALWAYS do the right thing. If you don’t get accepted move on, WORLD is your oyester.

Trust me after all these years of being in corporate, everytime something terrible has happened to me, I have always got better roles, better salary. So, the pain of making a right decision is temporary but FAR more beneficial in the long term. 

PS: hey why worry when you have done the right thing, worry should be for those who climbed ladder on the dead bodies of others hardwork and such careers which anyways is short lived 😊

 God bless the UPSC toppers. The most happiest and the interesting thing about this is all 4 toppers are women. It shows our future women are much more stronger and far more successful and especially the story of the topper, Ishita Kishore its just unbelievable journey. 

Ishita was born to arm force family lost her father at a very young age, brought up with her own mother. She is such a brilliant student and her journey is superb. 

I was recently having a conversation with my friend, we were just walking around in our apartment. I was mentioning how good Marvelous Mrs. Maisel last episode was. One thing struck me in that conversation.

Women have struggled generations to reach where we are today, our aim is to make the next generation women even more easier than make women's life more suffering. I feel most women dont understand that. Its very important we stand by each other than going against each other.

In the mean time, I watched the video of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv75rDixlqM

Amazing knowledge on history.

I ordered Jai Sai Deepak's book "India that is Bharat", all set to read this amazing gem about India.

I also follow Ashish Dave, who is the venture capitalist for Mirrae assets and he started a lot of historical book and he is the reason I started reading the books!

 Younger generation and their ignorance towards our culture. I am really worried for the Gen Z, Gen Alpha etc etc.

They dont know the value of our culture, they dont believe in their own culture. They question everything about the hindu religion rather than following the right thing the religion offers, not make the same mistake of wrong things and getting better with not playing the mistakes.

Surprisingly, this is exactly what Rishab shetty said in his interview, he clearly said follow the right practices of the culture , make corrections to the wrong things of the religion. I totally agree to him.

I also like that he mentioned that, whole intent behind kantara is to show the world that the younger generation dont understand the culture and value of our tradition. He wanted to communicate and show cause it to the world and aptly so it did.

 Finally, Karnataka elections happened and I did my bit,I voted. Waiting for Todays chanakya's exit poll have given clear majority to congress.

 In the last 10 years Today's chanakya has never gotten it wrong. They always gotten it right every time. Their appreciation to be so accurate in every election is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n6HsaLnvv8&t=328s 

This gives more clarity for the election results.

Watched Jai Sai Deepak's Podcast. I love this advocate Jai Sai Deepak. Probably. I will buy his books and read also. Beer biceps podcast with Jai Sai Deepak was very apt.

There are two people I wouldnt stop listening is Jai Sai Deepak and Abhijit Chavada. The way I learn history is either by reading or listening to legitimate  people definitely Beer Biceps are doing a fantastic job in that way.

 Kantara - Magnus opus of Kannada industy                                      Om Namah shivaya

I studied in the RSS/VHP school till 10th grade, even though it was a state syllabus but the way school operated was really amazing. The kind of education I had was too good.

We were never taught to discourage other religion and we had many muslims and other religion as my class mates. I dont know it was different times or whatever but we were never taught to hate any religion.

But coming back to the school process, yes our prayers were from Bhagavadgita, we had every session with prayers, morning prayers, once you enter class it was 12th chapter of bhagavadgita and ekatmata stotra and  during lunch it was annapurne sada purne and evening again vande mataram or nattional anthem

i didnt realise for long why was my concentration power so good which i struggled in Engineering was those shlokas and mantras. I topped in whole of my city back in 10th ofcourse it was with the effort of getting up every day at 4 am. Not even a single day i missed it. I also feel it was my shiva and raghavendra swamy's blessing. Family was very happy. One of the events in my life I am going to cherish that forever. I am popular in my town for this and my dad's fame.

Anyways, Kantara was a divine experience, i have always loved Rishab's movies but this movie was exceptional. When we were kids my dad always used to take us to Dr. Rajkumar movies. After that if I really started watching movies in theatre was for Rishab. I also have telugu influence in my family due to few of my close relatives spread across andhra due to which I had watched most of the telugu movies but I am a proud kannadati, I am so glad that I started watching kannada movies now in theatres.

Even though am not a great movie buff but this movie was very different. I will not say much about the movie as lot of people have said so much about the movie. i came back from berlin last october the first thing i did was to watch this movie in theatres and again I went to theatre to watch it on 52nd day the theatre in PVR koramangala was packed! thats the impact this movie has created.

 Finally, I re registered Berlin.. After such a rigourous training in 2020 where I was really looking forward to the race and when due to covid everything got cancelled, it killed my morality. I felt lot of things went down the drain in my life in 2020, I had a different motivation I was doing solo runs on my own and I had a great training going on with motivation but then every thing went in vein.

I felt what I wanted so badly in my life nothing was happening, runs getting cancelled, Honeywell leadership being so shitty in making their own decisions without our consultation changing our roles and personnelly I was finding it hard to accept K's chapter was over, even though deep down I knew it somehow that its all over.

Anyways, 2022 is totally different, I guess am out of all of this mess. I have a fairly satisfied job, personnelly I am feeling much better . Hopefully I get to train well for the future races.

How did I reach this level: Ofcourse I had no option I had to find my ways to get out of this loop. Letting go a lot of those things.

Ofcourse I started dating other guys. But I am not in a mental space for a commitment. This is the first time ever I dont feel anything for anyone. In the sense I was always the one guy at a time. I was never ever into casual dating neither I thought I could do casual stuffs. But I feel I am not the same anymore. I have never been like this in my life,  the guys I met or I have seen recently I am just not feeling anything anymore. Is it because am I scared to put my self out there or  trying to shield myself so i dont hurt myself or I have not found the one whom I really interested. But I dont know If I am ever going to feel the same way ever. I feel my emotions are totally dead. I just dont feel anything anymore with any guys. The number of guys I did meet  since 2021 i havent even dated those many guys in my entire life. I am literally not feeling anything to any of these guys with whom I encountered. I am surprised at myself I was never like this its so unlikely of me. I have always dated one guy at any given point in time through out my life.  But this time I really dont know, are my feelings dead? Will I ever fall in love again? Honestly I dont know. But one thing I am sure and  am glad its saving me a heart ache. I feel am shielding myself to go through the heart ache.

Anyways, coming back to training I had my first DNF, I have to train really hard and I hardly have few weeks left for Berlin. I really need to focus and get back to the same confidence i was in 2020.

 As I already mentioned that I wasnt hired by Google. But then the SAAS company I got hired is no less.

My biggest hesitation to joining this new role was even though it was the same SAP eco system but I never managed SAP programming as a core team. My core area has always been customer onboarding/B2B integration . SAP has never been my primary skill. My work has never been related to the core SAP work except for the SD integration. But I come from a very strong SAP OTC  and little bit of  logistics, finance and other functional knowledge and to my surprise I am actually filling my team's knowledge gap and team is really happy about it. They look forward to my contributions. The team was missing that kind of guidance I guess. i was telling one of my friend that I dont think I can make any justification to this role as I dont have any experience on the primary skill ABAP programming.

I still dont have the core ABAP knowledge but I am glad that at overall level when it comes to solution desgin I do a much better job. I feel this is even better