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Indian IT Industry - A Long Due Course Correction

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No personal mails No personal phone calls No personal work No going out of premises in office hours (i. e. Lock-In) I don’t know where this is going to lead the blue eyed IT industry. Definitely not to the solution of the problems they are trying to address like decreased productivity and quality. The root of these problems lies in how industry culture is developed. Over 25 years, we have messed up industry culture falling prey to many factors. We blindfolded ourselves from reality and foresightedness in the hoopla of growth and increasing profit margins. We are reaping the results of our shortsightedness. We spoilt our employees with hefty salaries which went on becoming literally filthy as industry flourished and reached to the peak. Companies could easily afford it because it was dollar\pound to rupee conversion. People kept doing same or less amount of work while they kept getting grand increments and bonuses. We lacked the foresight of where this will take us.
We The Humans And Our Tools

Think Differently

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Think Differently! It is a very common advise we keep hearing around us. What does it mean? Just two words, simple meaning but what does that indeed means. Teacher tells the class, "Think differently". Manager tells the team, "Think differently". Mentor tells mentees, "Think differently". Among the audience, most do agree that they need to think differently but still cannot fathom what it means. As many people, as many brains, as many personalities. We look different, we dress differently, we eat different. Likewise shouldn't thinking differently be but natural? Doesn't appear so, right? So then are we saying most of us think alike? The answer is - NO . Let's take an example. A class is appearing for logical reasoning test with multiple choice(A, B, C & D) question. On every question, the class gets divided into 4 groups(assuming questions are good) based on what option they chose as answer. And with every que

Solutions Are Welcome!

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We always have the tendency to be selective in interpreting the things so that we can create a bias which in turn help add weight-age to our opinion. It is not a good practice rather it is a kind of manipulation. Of course a knowledgeable reader will notice the bias and will not take it at face value however many people who don't give enough thought or don't have time to do that will fall for it. Let's take this quote: "Don’t come to me with problems, come with solutions." There are loads of articles mainly disagreeing with quote and trying to portray that since they disagree with the quote they are better in the leader fraternity. First of all the above statement is part of a dialogue and not a quote. This has to have a prologue and a situation. Hence no one can judge a person just because he or she uses this sentence with subordinates. We should not necessarily imagine the quote coming from a frowning manager who is trying to run away from responsibili