Homeostasis

I definitely did not recollect the meaning of this one. But per dictionary.com:

ho·me·o·sta·sis
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Any thoughts on doing Workflow Analysis from the perspective of:

1. Risk indentification - what can go wrong?
2. Process improvemeny - what can be done better (faster, cheaper, with fewer resources)

WARNING RANT AHEAD!!

OK. So I work with a bank.

But the family has been banking with another "MNC" bank for many years now. It is a reputed global bank, the largest British bank.

Anyway, like most banks these days we have a designated "Relationship Manager (RM)" who we are supposed to talk to and who is supposed to assist us with our banking needs and ( Read more... )

I am looking for a translation of the मंत्र पुश्पांजलि (Mantra Pushpānjali). But am unable to locate one. Google has failed me.

ॐ  यज्ञेन यज्ञमयजंतदेवास्तानि धर्मानि प्रथमान्यासन्न। तेहनाकम महिमानः सचंतयत्रपूर्वे साद्यासंतिदेवाः।
ॐ राजाधिराजायः प्रसय्ह्साहिने नमोवयम्वैश्र्वणाय्कुर्महे समेकामांकामकामाय्मैय्हम
कामेश्वरौवैश्रवणोदधातु । ( Read more... )

ॐ गम्गणपते नमः।
Aum Gam Ganapataye Namah!!

How do we get people to do what they are supposed to do? That is the key to Management. Be is Family management, business management, relationship management, environmental management, or any-other-thing management. What changes, based on the thing being managed, is what it is that people are supposed to do. A business for instance is supposed to ( Read more... )

Can we make 'friends' online? People we have never met, people in other countries across the seven seas, people we may never meet in real life - yet people with whom we are in touch often - almost daily. Reading about their lives, sharing our ideas with them. Often during the day when something blogworthy occurs thinking "This I must share for so ( Read more... )

I suppose it is a peculiar cultural thing - but in most Indian / Hindu homes, (except perhaps in the north which has cold winters), we do not wear shoes or any other footwear inside the house. Shoes are removed and placed in the shoe-rack at the door - it is a semi-religious taboo, in a way I'd think. It is now so habitual for us, we do not even ( Read more... )

Now why on earth would that phrase pop into my head!!! I didn't even know what it is?! I'd have guessed it is the name of a book, but wiki tells me that it is a British Television serial.

I haven't seen it, I haven't read a book it is based on. The only possibility is that it lay on the shelves at the British Library and my eyes scanned over it.

I ( Read more... )

Sound. The beginning of music. Which comes from the pain of piercing Silence.

Mārwā and Jaijaiwanti, I have spoken of thus far. Have also talked about Bhoop elsewhere (may cross-post the old entry here someday).

But there are a few others also, who never fail to cast their magic.

Chief among them is Yaman, also known as Kalyān. (Yes, this had a part ( Read more... )