On Leadership-2

We all one or other time faced with crises or struggle. Wasn’t it or not. That situation causes hopelessness.  But it’s in this despair situation the best opportunities emerge. If we can  keep our eyes and mind open.  

No matter what type of situation you are in, or what type of crises you lead, one of the keys that will determine the outcome is your mental attitude. If we see it as a problem with no hope, then definitely it is no hope situation. But we can find a new way you couldn’t have imagined before the crisis presented itself. It allows us to practice patience and acceptance and find renewed hope — which is the most beautiful thing. 

A crisis is an opportunity to change grow learn reflect and become better. It’s where we discover who we are and how we can find a new way we couldn't have imagined before the crisis presented itself. It allows us to practice patience and acceptance and find renewed hope — which is the most beautiful thing. 

Say a loss job; it was an opportunity for reinvention and to strike out on my own.

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Ten years back when I've to leave my job in US and return to India because of my father’s health it was an opportunity to reflect on that loved one’s wonderful life and for our family to come together in a way never possible before. I never thought what I am going to do?  

All I knew at the time was that if I could quit job after twenty years of experience, I could do anything. That’s what momentum feels like. (Word from Dalai Lama-pic)

When I moved and missed my job terribly it was an opportunity to learn introspection and self-sufficiency and grow closer to family here in my own country. When I daily face the terror of the void staring at me face to face it is my chance to push back and assert my will and imprint my soul upon this malleable world. And that my friends are beauty. It is the finding of renewed hope and growth when all else seems bleak and lost.

Achieving momentum starts with creating forward progress. Getting started is the most difficult part. It’s like the law of inertia: an object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object at rest tends to stay at rest. Momentum is what happens when you get moving.

It can be harnessed, gathered and used as an incredibly transformation tool.

Getting into the cold waters is difficult but the momentum by trying, experimenting, taking a first step, forgiving yourself for slip-ups and then trying again. Plunge into whatever you’ve been putting off for “some day” and make today the day you begin. Imagine how incredible it will feel to let the current of momentum carry you from this one success towards another. Each can be a wave you ride to the next. 

It can carry you like a strong current carries a fallen leaf. It can ignite your spirit and make you feel like you can do anything. 

It is momentum – that invisible, universal force that can saturate your every choice, your every step, your every breath, and your every moment of resolve with vibrant, joyful energy. Momentum can surge you forward and it can pull you under. It goes with your flow, follows your lead and enhances your opportunity. 

Take that first step in a direction of your own choosing, then with each bold statement, each strong stride; each clear-thinking choice let momentum joyously lift you higher and farther. Exceed your own expectations and strengthen your resolve to be who you were meant to be and nothing less. Don’t strive and stress – instead simplify and find success on your terms. 

As I mentioned in my opening, every obstacle, blocks, turning and twists in our life throws an opportunity. It can be harnessed, gathered and used as an incredibly transformation tool.

Only Insurance in life is your mental attitude. Your compensation in life is measure by how you look into the opportunity around you.

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Read also: Momentum for Leadership

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Lean office is becoming a popular concept every day but what does it really mean?

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For me, Lean office delivers significant improvement in productivity, improved customer service, cost effectiveness through waste elimination and optimized utilization of office and administrative environments – such as man power available, IT, finance, procurement and a proper program management.

Since one of the key principles of lean thinking is to minimize the time between the customer order and the fulfillment of the order keeping in mind the lead time available. Most lean office initiatives are concerned exclusively with making value stream maps and creating a more efficient business process. That’s only part of the solution, but no matter how lean the system, if the people who work within it are inefficient, you’ll still have waste. It’s like relay race, you can make the baton hand off nice and clean, but if the runners are slow, they are going to slow. 

The key to lean office is improving the efficiency first:

If you are losing money due to wasted effort and low productivity of knowledge workers, your office inefficiently leading to low work morale, and high workforce turnover. Dis organised office practices leads to irritating customers and losing customer base. In order to plug the waste we must map this issue first.

A boundary less Office’ is where cross-functional team members are located in close proximity without physical barriers which encourages seamless and direct communication and intense collaboration.  Office was responsible for performing time critical task. Work arrived before staff arrived at work but had to be completed on the day it arrived and sent out. Staff could not go home until the work for the day was completes.

Lean techniques are commonplace in world class manufacturing organisations and help them drive year on year improvements to quality delivery and cost. These techniques are increasingly applied in office environments with amazing results. Yes, the claims about performance are really true. Whenever I have used lean techniques in an office I have never failed to get over 20% performance improvements and usually much more than this.

We can then look at everything that happens in the office and ask ourselves the question,

“Is this what I am really here to do?”

If the answer is “yes” and what you are doing is actually directly useful for your customer then do more of it.

You spent a lot of time making sure that the Focused Office identifies who the real customer is and what you do for them. Adding value is everything you do that the customer wants you to do; everything else is waste. Eliminating or reducing waste means that more time is available to do something for your customer and will always result in an improved performance. An efficient office is an insurance for better compensation on your investments. 

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Microsoft Help

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Microsoft wants to change how we buy Microsoft Office software.  Instead of paying for the software once, Microsoft wants us to be paying for it monthly or annually.

Microsoft offers a variety of subscriptions for the latest version called Office 365.  This isn't cloud software. It still installs on your PC or Mac and the files will also be stored on your PC (though you can set it up to save to the cloud, too).

But the question is: what happens to your files if you decide to stop paying the subscription?

Microsoft does not delete them. It doesn't delete the Office software from your PC either. You can open them and look at them but you can't edit them.

http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/happens-files-stop-paying-microsoft-151500135.html

This certainly isn't going to work well with computers that are not and can not be connected to the internet. It is already a big enough issue with Microsoft but subscriptions? Maybe for some but it won't work in the areas where I work. In this area, computers are connected to the internet on first boot, updated and activated. Then they are scanned for all sorts of "stuff" and disconnected from the outside world, never to be connected or updated again until the next refresh, usually about 10 to 15 years.

However, businesses have to be able to communicate via a compatible standard and MS may still be able to push its hostage ware for a while. Unfortunately for them, everything must come to an end at sometime, and it is just a matter of time before another Office Suite will come along that will be cheaper and more readily available, yet will have all of the necessary bells and whistles - then MS will be stuck with their collective heads in the clouds.

Consumers won't pay for it as a subscription and I think eventually businesses will look for other options as well. I have bought MS Office software before and love it, but I won't pay for it as a subscription. I realize that Microsoft is trying to fix a insurance for their profits in the quickly changing computing environment, but I don't think this will work. Microsoft Office is one of the reasons people went with Microsoft/Windows back in the 90's and the last decade. However, there are too many other options for people now and people no longer feel trapped into Microsoft products. 

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