First Trip to the United States Of America

Visted the US from 20th October to 5th November Places visited Morgantown New Jersy New York Washington DC Verginia Beach Charlotte Austin wow missed the west coast

Trip to Jageshwar

I had a wonderful unplanned trip to Jageshwar I had planned a trip to Patna followed by Nagpur for JFW with HIV care Guys. But later decided to visit Lucknow as women’s care was having their CBM there. I reached Patna and update the profile and had too many people calling in. spend some time with the team there and rajendra arora. Apart from the review and 4 call dint do much. Had the desire to visit the shakti temple in Patna but dint go Instead shopped at the PN mall that I was staying. Found the city just the same as I remember 10 years back, this comment on fb offended many Patna guys. Wanted to give the WC team a surprise, dint have a confirmed flight ticket to lucknow, so spoke to Gopal and brijesh but Travel desk was able to organize a ticket for Thursday morning. Asked gopal to make my stay arrangements at the same place as that of the WCs meeting in Gomati Nagar. So Thursday morning took a flight from Patna and reached Lucknow by 1pm. Had a review with vishwadeep and then called on the top KOL in Lucknow Dr. Tripathi along with Satendra. Visited Vishwadeeps house and then parted with WC Managers. Later in the night had a drink with Rahul and Vaibhav too. By now had spoken to Saurabh about that I was in Lucknow, he booked my train ticket from Lucknow to Barelli for Friday night and had planned this trip to Jageshwar. I told him that I wanted to get to Mumbai on Monday, so the plan was to reach Barelli on Saturday by 2am, leave by car to Jageshwar early and after darshan spend the night at nainital and on Sunday take the train to Delhi from Katgodham at 4pm. I would then reach delhi by 11pm and spend the night at Veveks place and take a flight to Mumbai on Monday Morning. Now while this got fixed and I received my E-tickets, Reshma called me and checked with me if I could travel to Jaipur for taking the session on MIB, I told her I was ok. Couple of hours later I I received my tickets for Mumbai to Jaipur on Tuesday morning and return on wed night. I informed this to Ajay Sharma who was insisting that I should come to Jaipur on Sunday. But I told him that I have personal plans and would be there on Tuesday morning. On Friday morning HR had organized interviews so after morning chat with Ajeet and Amitesh, and watching sachin play his last innings got into the act and Interviewed 6 candidate. Took the MIB 2 session from 4 to 6 pm then attend the Global Call from 6.30 to 7.30pm. Amit had planned to drop me to the station, so along with Nanda and Navin went to the market ate some chat and reached the station in good time. Reached Barelli by 3.30am, the train was delayed. Saurabh and Tanuj picked me up reached the hotel close to the station and caught a wink for a couple of hours. We started by 8 in the morning, Nishant and Ashish joined us. We hit a traffic Jam early on and reached Haldwani by noon, dropped saurabhs bag, Nishant was not doing good due to motion sickness. Within the first 30 minutes of the climb Nishant started throwing up and we kept taking breaks, we reached Almora by 4pm and by the time he was in a bad shape. I drove the car from Almora to Jageshwar slowly and we reached there by 5.45pm. there was no way we were going to travel now and took a decision to stay here. Booked the hotel room and organized the dinner. I saurabh, Ashish and Nishant caught a Nap for 2 hours, while Tanuj helped the hotel guy cook the 3 kg chicken we ordered. We partied till 11pm, took a short walk to the temple and crashed for the much awaited sleep. The temperatures we single digit. Morning all took bath and were ready by 9am, we reached temple and for the next 3 hours did pooja at all the various shrines. It was a wonderful experience. The pooja at the Murtunjay shrine was the most elaborate poojas that I have ever performed at a shiva shrine. We all were simply delighted, it was unplanned but truly beautiful. We had breakfast sitting in the sun and it was 12.30 and there was no way we would make it to katgodam by 4 for my train. We dint have mobile connectivity. So planned to stay back at nainital for the night and plan my travel to Delhi on Monday morning. I planned to go to Jaipur from Delhi and not travel to Mumbai for the night. When we got the mobile connectivity, Tanuj organized to cancel my ticket and book me a new ticket. As per the new itinerary I would catch the train from Kathgodam at 8.50am on Monday morning and reach Delhi by 3.30pm. So I planned that will spend the night at Viveks place and reach Jaipur on Tuesday in time to take the MIB session. All except Ashish were ok with staying at Nainital. So we dropped Ashiish at Bhawali for where he would take a jeep to the train station and reach barelli before mid night. We reached Nanital by 6pm. took a walk on the mall road shopped for a few shawls and picked dinner and got back to our room by 9.30pm. while buying the shawls Ajay called me tell me that he liked t-shirt and I told him about my plan to reach Jaipur. He told me that he would book my travel from Delhi to jaipur by a train that leaves delhi by 5.30 and reaches jaipur by 10pm. I checked with Vivek and told him to go ahead. Before I reach my room the ticket was in my message box. Had Drinks till 12, but the enthusiasm was I bit low as both Tanuj and Saurabh were not able to see their aspirations being fulfilled anytime soon. We were up by 6, got ready and were on our way to Kathgodam by 7.30am, Had breakfast opposite the station and boarded the train in time. Pawan came and met me at Rudrapur station when it stopped there for few minutes. Reached Delhi at 3.50pm had a struggle to get from one station to another but got there in time. Vivek and Ajay (Viveks boss) met me at the station.

Falcons Story

Once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons from Arabia. They were peregrine falcons, the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. He gave the precious birds to his head falconer to be trained. Months passed and one day the head falconer informed the king that though one of the falcons was flying majestically, soaring high in the sky, the other bird had not moved from its branch since the day it had arrived. The king summoned healers and sorcerers from all the land to tend to the falcon, but no one could make the bird fly. He presented the task to the member of his court, but the next day, the king saw through the palace window that the bird had still not moved from its perch. Having tried everything else, the king thought to himself, "May be I need someone more familiar with the countryside to understand the nature of this problem." So he cried out to his court, "Go and get a farmer." In the morning, the king was thrilled to see the falcon soaring high above the palace gardens. He said to his court, "Bring me the doer of this miracle." The court quickly located the farmer, who came and stood before the king. The king asked him, "How did you make the falcon fly?" With head bowed, the farmer said to the king, " It was very easy, your highness. I simply cut the branch where the bird was sitting." Moral :- We are all made to fly - to realize our incredible potential as human beings. But instead of doing that, we sit on our branches, clinging to the things that are familiar to us. The possibilities are endless, but for most of us, they remain undiscovered. We conform to the familiar, the comfortable, the mundane. So for the most part, our lives are mediocre instead of exciting, thrilling and fulfilling. So let us learn to destroy the branch of fear we cling to and free ourselves to the glory of flight..

Shiva

Visiting Shiva Shrines have been on my mind from 2007 its Vivek who took me to Amarnath

after this trip till 2011 was able to visit amarnath every year with many odds
the visit to kailash was the most mesmerising

Have been wanting to visit the 12 Jotirlingas, Managed many few waiting for the call...

1. Bhimashankar - the most frequently visited Jotirlianga

2. Rameshwaram  - Visited in July 2012

 

3. Kedarnath - This was a unplanned visit in August 2009

4. Trambakeshwar - have visited sereval time, Visited along with family in April 2011

5. Kashivishwanath - Just before leaving ranbaxy visited in feb 2012

6. Sirsalem - AP - visited 2 time first visit in 2010 and 2nd Visit in September 2013 after getting business Role

7 Somanath - Visited in Feb 2012 on thistrip visites Dwarka & nageshwar too

8. Nageshwar - In Gujrat 
    Nageshvara - in Maharashtra - Aundya Nagnath
    Jageshwar near Almora

9 Mahakaleshwar - Was fortunate to witness the Bhasma Aarti in Dec 2011 - Visited after conducting ADC

10. Omkareshwar - after the Bhasma Aarti when to visit Omkareshwar, the camera battery died this Picture was taken on the way

11.  Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra  & Baidyanath Jyotirlinga in Bhiar
12. Grishneshwar  in Maharashtra and Ghushmeshwar in Rajashthan
Waiting to visiting these 4 temples

Managing Business

Way back in November 2004 Mr. Naik told me that i was a front end person doing a back end job and that i should aspire managing a Business.

It has taken almost a decade to realise that dream. from first september 2013 have got additional charge of managing HIVCare at Mylan.

Happy - Raring to go!

Met my team at hydrabad from 11to 13th September.

we restrured the team from 100 people to 70
will have 50 BMs, 14 RBMs, 3 SMs, 2 Brand Managers and one Marketing Head in my team

This will be the first time i will have such a large team

Session With Marshall Goldsmith

Good learning session with Marshall Gold Smith on 5th November 2012 at Hydrabad

some fantastic take home points

Marshall Goldsmith

• Success Delusion

o Remember that I am successful in spite of doing so many stupid things

o Four Key belief that help us become successful – prevent us from changing

 I have succeeded

 I can succeed

 I will Succeed

 I choose to succeed

o The Concept who have a more skewed self perception :

 Individual athletes, Sales people, Politicians, College professors, College dean, Investment bankers, FBI agents, Jesuits Priest, Pilots, Medical Doctors

• Transactional Flaws that leaders should avoid

o Winning too much

 Rao Gave 400Mill to charity but grumbled loose Rs 200/- . No one likes to loose

o Adding too much value

 Adding value may increases the impact but definitely decreases the ownership

o Telling the world how smart we are

 65% interpersonal communication is about “ how good I am or how bad others are “

o Passing Judgment

 Check with people if they want to bet on it – instead of passing your judgment

o Avoid using “ No” , “But” , “However” in your conversations

 Punish yourself if you use these works in your conversations

o Avoid speaking when angry

 “When I lose control the problem is within”

o Punishing the messenger

 “Say thank you more often”

o Avoid Favoritism

 The Dog example – we all love suck ups – avoid encouraging the suck up culture

• Feedforward instead of feedback

o Steps to feedforward

 Listen

 Think

 Respond

 Involve

 Change

o Action Plan for Feedforward

 Ask your partner what can I do to be a better partner

 Do this to all people who you care for and who matter

 Do this repeatedly

 Even if they give you suggestions that you may know or may not agree – say thank you

 “Problem is not in understanding it – problem is in executing it”

• Change

o Important Changes you can make

 Focus

 Make life simple

 Celebrate with people

 Accept what is

o How Can we change for better

 Feedback / Feedforward

 Apologizing

 Telling the world

 Listening

 Thanking

 Follow-up


• Decision making and power

o Decision in the world are made by people who have power to make them – make peace with that

o These decision may or may not be rational but are made by people who have the power

o Treat others as customers especially the ones who have the decision power

• PDQ computer case – late coming + big breakthrough ( Missed celebrating the big break )

o We get fixed on our goals and forget our mission. We tend to focus on task and lose relationship

o It’s not important what or how I say – its important how we make people feel.

o We convey lack of trust – and unknowingly doubt people and loose leadership.

• Cognitive dissonance - Roman Number watch activity

o The disconnect between what we believe and what we experience or see

o We see what we think and not what is there

• Active and passive questions

o If we ask passive questions we will get environment answers, but when you ask active questions you get right answers

o Active questions focus on what you can do to maximize a positive difference for yourself

o List 6-10 active questions and follow through on them in daily basis

 Did I do my best to …

• be happy

• find meaning

• be fully engaged

• build positive relationship

• set clear goals

• make progress towards goal achievement

o do something stupid every day

• Coaching

o Coaching lesson

 If they do not care - don’t waste your time

 If you don’t care – don’t waste your time

o Don’t make coaching your own Ego

o The most important factor for successful change is client – not the coach

o Best Coaching Advice – Achieve success

 As a person

 As a professional

o Great is the need of the student to learn; greater is the need of the teacher to teach.

o Rajat Example – Prof asked students to slap him for not doing their assignment.

• Employee engagement

o Focus on what the organization can do to engage you – not what can you do to engage yourself.

• • Important Quotes

• “World is not a better place by what we learn it becomes a better place by what we do”

• “We receive feedback from others only consistent with what we think of ourselves”

• “For great achievers- it’s all about me …, for great leaders – it’s all about them.”

• “Real values are not what I say it’s what I do”

• “Help more judge less.”

• “Great achievers are not always great leaders”

• “Empathy is an important trait of a leader”

• “Ego and pride go hand in hand. Our Ego doesn’t let us accept negatives of what we pride.”

• “Lower your aspiration, increase your impact”

• “In Leadership , it is not about what we say, it is about what they hear”

• “Our default reaction to life is to experience inertia”

TTT - BEI

Adding Another Video -

Shriharsh Kaushik BEI Video 1.mp4

This Video is a mock Behavioral Event Interview
This was true Learning Experience
The program was conducted by Pune based organization called

Key Learning were