Educational Trust – Experiences

I received the honor of contributing to a meeting of the education trust that manages my alma mater. The trust wants to start a computer training institute and the meeting was to conduct a preliminary discussion on the subject. A lot of fascinating items came forward. Managing a large educational trust is a big deal […]

My DJ Experience

Last Saturday we had a party in the office. As it goes with most of our in-house parties, we needed music that would pump people up and get them to dance. The experience has been that if we keep a playlist, people come with their song requests, stop songs in between and the focus shifts […]

Trusting your employees, to do or not to do

About three years back, I went to Germany to attend CeBIT. Magnet was doing very well and we were looking at new markets. There was a strong team in place and we hoped to find some partners in Germany who would subcontract work to us. The CeBIT experience was good, but the IT industry had […]

Rediff GetAhead – Interesting items from last week

Rediff’s Get Ahead covers Money, Living, Career and Leisure. It covers interesting articles. Not too long and generally a good read. Here are a few items I liked from last week. Watch your money grow fast is a basic guide to the different methods of investment. Especially if you are new to the field and […]

If I am not for myself, who will be for me?

Food for thought: If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? Rabbi Hillel – (30 BC-9AD)