Be all that you can be... Not necessarily

I am on a diet for the first time in my life.... The Diet includes most things I like. It still cramps my style. That style in my native language is called "Sappadu Rami". A long standing friend of mine loosely translated it as "Piglet". I realised her affection for me in not shortening that lovely word. And all this came about since I took this term meant to maximise potential too literally. I am all I can be and more. The silver lining to this is that I am able to lose about a kilo a month.


The second area one should not maximise potential is credit card debt. I did not fall into that trap because shopping exhausts me. And I was born a decade too late to be comfortable enough with the Internet to merrily click and buy stuff. In the heart of my heart , I am suspicious about this whole thing. My laziness does propel me to use it for banking and trading.. but not much more. The same argument goes for taking loans beyond one's reach which mortgage all possible future earnings


The US Army has had the Slogan--"Be all that you can be" for a long time. The results of becoming part of that potential maximising exercise has not always been a happy experience. If being all you can be involves warfare, conquests etc..., you may want to pause and reflect.


\What one needs to do is to go back to old theories and be all that you can "Comfortably" be. Mr.Abraham Maslow called it self -actualisation. To reach it there are certain things you need to be able to check out as accomplished. they are:
This achievement is grounded in reality and not fleeting.
It lacks prejudice and does not depend on someone else' rise or fall. Wanting to be the best looking person in the Gym is asking for a lot of potential heartbreak.
It is motivated by growth and not deficiency.

I hope to get there someday . I am on the look out for goals which are worth striving for. Care to join ?

Transitioning ahead of Time

It is now 12 years since my father Prof.Y Satyamurthi (1931-1997) passed away. I started my freelance career in 1994. My very first assignment was a 1 day programme at Maxworth Orchards ( Which ia also no more...) I did it with him by my side as a co-faculty.
Before I started off my own, we zeroed in on the name Transitions . He helped draft this note describing my one woman outfit which I had named as TRANSITIONS. I remebered this because a local management School has asked me to design an module (I will make it interactive since that is the way I like it) to help transition their students into their working life. There will be hopefully some inputs which will help them experience , if only briefly , what it feels like to be a part of the work force. I want to share this which seems to hold good. So here it is:


Transitions from
Loyalty to Competency
Cost Centres to Profit Centres
Selling to Marketing
Intuition to Information
are driving individuals and organisations to self - development and subordinate development as an integral part of the managerial process. TRANSITIONS undertakes `IN- COMPANY` programmes on a `ZERO BASE CONCEPT` beginning with identifying training needs and skills inventory.

Transitions from
Pyramid Structures to Flatter Structures
Centralisation to Decentralisation
Single Business to Multiple Businesses
are seen even in traditional organisations. TRANSITIONS is available as consultants to carry out Organisation Restructuring , Business Clinics , Performance and Potential Appraisals, designing `COMPENSATION PACKAGES`, developing HRD Systems and Personnel Information Systems.
Transitions from
one POSITION to another
one FUNCTION to another
one LOCATION to another
one ORGANISATION to another
are more transparent and frequent in today’s changing world order with the focus on globalisation, competition and customer orientation. Today’s high fliers are the hoppers and quitters who have the `ACQUIRED SKILLS` ready to be procured by organisations short of `GIVEN SKILLS` . It amounts to pinching Paul to pay Peter, very often at Paul’s request. . This is an ongoing process and TRANSITIONS plays the role of a catalyst to organisations in bringing ROLE < > INDIVIDUAL alliance.

Please let me know if you think this is still relevant.

Ciao