It’s ALL about ‘CASH and CARRY’

‘CASH AND CARRY’-The name itself defines the business. Pay the CASH and CARRY the goods. This is a unique retail business model. For simple understanding, we can define it as a wholesale model. A wholesaler stocks and sells the goods in bulk. Cash and carry also follows the same. It also stocks and sells the goods in bulk. For more follow this link

http://businesschain.blogspot.in/2012/12/its-all-about-cash-and-carry.html

LAST “1440 HOURS”

Part-1

“I know I’m not ALONE”

It was 21^st March 2012; as usual I woke up from my bed at 6:00am. My roommate Raj was arranging something. He seemed to be busy. He was folding his shirts and arranging them in a large suitcase. I got excited and went near him. This was the second or third time I saw Raj arranging his clothes and other belongings inside a suitcase. Otherwise, most of his belongings, you could say all his belongings were scattered all around the places in his room. I asked Raj, “What happened?” Raj replied, “Bhai, I’m leaving home today. I’m already exhausted. Will you please help me in arranging my book inside this box?” For the sake of saying, I said, “Ok, I do”. It’s always a rare event in my B-School, students touch the books. In order to escape from Raj, I silently closed the door and came outside. I saw some of my batch mates were also busy with packing and getting NOC (No Objection Certificate).

I asked Amit who came out from his room, “Amit bhai, our last working day is on 10^th April 2012. But some of our batch mates are moving to their home. What happened? Amit laughed and responded slowly, “Machi, they got placed. Now it’s their choice whether to stay in hostel or not”. Then he moved towards the bathroom. I contemplated about myself for few seconds. Suddenly, I heard some familiar voice was calling me. Then, I realized that it was Raj’s voice. Raj called me to help in packing his bag. I went inside and helped him in packing his bag. Raj said in hurry, “Bhai, quick. I’m getting late for my flight”. Along with Raj, I lifted some of bags and both of them moved towards the bus stop. I sent Raj to the airport. While walking inside the campus, I thought about the day I and Raj met. I was laughing myself about the days I spent with Raj. I also asked myself, “How did the two years pass away?” On seeing the sky, I replied to myself that those two years were like the shadows which are formed for 2 seconds when the clouds covering the mighty sun. On the spur of the moment I stopped for a few seconds. At that time, I felt the fear of coming out of shadows. I was afraid of facing the sun. I felt alone at that point of time.

On the way to hostel, I saw some of my friends going for breakfast. I joined them and finished my breakfast. Now, my mental state had changed from loneliness to companionship. The next 10 days were also passed in the same way. Everyday anyone of my friends is leaving to his/her home. A few of my batch mates were even joined the companies from which they got the job. So, the change of state was frequent to me. This is the time all the students were feeling the heat. I too felt the same. Only a few of my batch mates realized that they were standing alone in critical stage and they had to take some steps to get out of the heat. Even though the remaining realized that they were in critical stage, they had the mind set like they were not alone. I belonged to this category. I thought that still some of my batch mates were remaining. So, I was not ALONE. It was a kind of secure situation. Didn’t realize about the future consequences. I felt the same. I felt safe when people around me also don’t have the job.

At this point of time, there were various kinds of judgments formed by the students. Those judgments were formed by different people in different mind state. TO BE CONTINUED.............

NOTE: The above names don't resemble anyone.

"Mankind Blue Sea"-"Animals Red Sea"

"BLUE- Earth's color". It represents pleasantness and calmness. Everyone likes blue color. It gives a certain kind of peacefulness to our soul. It makes us to think logically during uncertainties and helps us to take rational decisions. In short I can say BLUE makes humans to behave like humans.

"RED-Aggressive color". It represents love, violence, hostility etc.., Even though it represents love, most of the time it does not represent love. If we ask people to tell something in red, the first thing comes from their mouth is BLOOD. The intensity of red is high. It shows the character of aggression. It shows the character of enmity. In short I can say RED shows the aggressiveness in animals.

According to Darwin man came from an animal(monkey). It is very sad to say that the process becomes reversed now. "Humans transforming into Animals".

"Blue to Red-Humans to Animals". This transformation i.e., humans to animals is induced by something which most of us don't like. The element which of us don't like is "The Anger". The anger element induces this reaction and makes the humans to transform into the animals. This is like mixing the blood in the calm blue sea and turns the sea into an aggressive red sea. 

We people advise others not to get angry. But as everyone knows and still we disagree with the fact that we are hypocrites. We are ready to give advices but reluctant to accept advices. When I was playing hockey, I gave advices to my juniors not to get angry in the field. Because getting angry in the field will hurt our own team. But I never followed it. The same thing happened when I was working in group. Why does it happen? The reason is simple. When I get angry, I thought that my anger is reasonable. The mistake was not from my side. I was right at that moment. When others got angry, their anger was not reasonable. I would think that those people who got angry were insane. Really it's not true.

The reaction for the transformation of blue to red is very fast. It takes only a fraction of time. We people are reluctant to control that fraction of time. "Gentle breeze waves calmness among the villages. Violent storm destroys the villages". The main reason for the anger is the people forget about their senses at that point of time. If their senses are all in their control, they won’t get angry. Since the senses are not in control, they can't think at that moment and they lost their capability of thinking what will happen in future. Once their senses are in control after the anger episode, they feel sorry for it and they have to face the consequences.

Let’s see a real time example for an anger event. In the football world cup final match between France and Italy, a few seconds of wrath by France captain Zidane costs France a world cup. Everyone blamed Zidane for getting angry. No one thought why he was angry at that moment. Anger is common to all the living creatures in the world. The only difference between humans and animals is humans have the capability of control their senses during the point of anger but animals can't. 

It's always in human hands whether to react with anger and transform into animals or not to react with anger by controlling their senses and remains HUMANS

Downgrading "Causes and Consequences"

ALARM FOR THE INDIAN ECONOMY

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http://businesschain.blogspot.in/2012/04/downgrading-causes-and-consequences.html

"Make Yourself Hard"

One of my favourites 'Sir Alex Ferguson' the manager of the football club Manchester United said in many of his encounters with the press that all the players mature at the age of 24 or 25. Most of the players will be in top form at these ages. But some of the players will get matured before 24 like Messi, Christiano Ronaldo. Both of them are world class players. You know players will be in peak form when they get matured. This applies to the people in other professions. You can see a sudden rise in the curve when you draw a graph between career life time and performance.

I don't know how to define maturity exactly. It is very difficult to get matured in all the aspects of life. But, getting maturity in his/her owns profession is very important. See in the case of Messi and Christiano Ronaldo, they are hardcore professional football players. They got all the fame in football. I don't think so both of them matured in other aspects. Sometimes they act really weird inside the ground as well as outside. Some people say those are all some tactics in football. I don't believe it. I'm not criticizing them. Everyone have their own preference. I'm just taking a situation. They don't have control over their emotions.

The first step to get matured in the profession is to have control over the emotions regarding the profession. The profession may be a student or businessman or government officer or anything. According to me, profession means it the thing we can't get rid of it under any circumstances and at the same time it will support us financial. There is no right or wrong action in the profession. That means we can do whatever we want to do in order to achieve the objectives of the profession. I'm going to talk about two extremes a cop and a robber. One is ethical and other is unethical. Their objectives are different. One thing common between them is both are professionals in their own way.

According to me maturity means contemplating about their profession so that they can move fast in their career. When people get matured, they feel the change. They feel like that they have a backup to help them. It's like having a third hand. They are more confident before. They start believe themselves.

I have seen people who matured earlier in their life time. That's really good and I appreciate it. I read somewhere mostly women get matured earlier than men. It may be true. Sometimes people become matured due to spontaneous failure fission reaction (a chain of failures). When they fail, that embarrassment happened to them due to failure made them hard like rock so that no one can break them. Some are gifted naturally. 

Think, all boys seek for matured girls and all girls seek for matured boys, professors seek for matured students, coach seeks for matured players, boss seeks for matured sub-ordinate. Matured people only can handle uncertainties and they can perform under pressure.

According to Al Ries and Jack Trout, in business the first movers always have the advantage. Same thing, person who matures earlier always has the upper hand. She/he will have their hands nearer to the ripened fruit.