My Experiments at losing weight

In the year 2011 crossed 80kg - touched 81 – ever highest

I let it go there thinking that I would lose it in 2012 as would be off drinks and Non-veg food as Usual for a year. To my surprise by end Jan touched 81 Kgs in spite of no alcohol and No Drinks. Had controlled my diet and exercised for at least 15 days in Jan.

I understand my constitution – if I consume 2500 calories a day I will maintain status, for additional consumption of 3500 calories I gain 1 Kg. 30 to 40 min of Exercise like walking or running and I burn 500 calories. I have to get the balance right. I think 1 was good in January and should have lost 2 kgs but to my surprise gained one.

My Boss Suggested I consume Oats daily – so from Feb. the consumption started. In two months I have lost 5 kgs. Yes oats helped me reduce my food portions, I did exercise 10 day each month and kept my daily intake around 2500 calories. I increased my daily water intake, reduced my carb intake too and skipped dinner on few occasions.

I have set a target of loosing 5kgs buy May end let’s see if oats dose the magic…

Won the Regional Appreciate Award for Managing the Assessment and Development Process at Ranbaxy.

Won the Regional 1Appreciate Award for Managing the Assessment and Development Process at Ranbaxy.
A 5 stage process was established with help of external Consultants.
Stage 1: Inviting applications from eligible candidate: approx 4000
Stage 2: One line Test: 2000 candidates took Online Test under supervision
Stage 3: 2 day ADC: over 1000 candidates attended over 100 ADC. Each ADC involved 10 candidates evaluated on relevant competences by 3 assessors.
Stage 4: Panel interview: over 500 candidates attended the panel interview.
Stage 5: promotions: over 250 candidates were promoted

What made this process unique?
Lager number of people to be assess through a complicated assessor intensive process.
To achieve this over 50 Managers ( HR, Training and sale) were trained on the assessment process – Good internal capacity building & cost saving.
This lager number was achieved in a span of 7-8 Months.
Huge saving on account of Recruitment Cost – 250 internal promotions
Customized assessments done for STF, FLM, SLM, TLM, BMT, Training manager and Support Functions.
All the 1000 candidates given an individual development plan during the ADC
Plan to train & support candidate who were dropped at each stage for future ADC developed.
Also has had an impact on reducing attrition
Tremendous good will created as the process was transparent and fair.



This is my second appreciate Award – happy to win it – sad not in the system

Love Dancing - Still can compete - won a prize for that

Ratangad

Took a train from kalyan past midnight - stayed at the Igatpuri Bus stand to catch the 5 am bus - took a one hour boat ride to the base of ratangad - visited the beautiful Shiva temple - 4 hr treaked up to ratangad - enjoyed the climb over the rusted staircase - ratangad was covered with yellow flowers - we were among the first group to reach ratangad post monsoon - awesome beautiful .... 3 hrs trekked down - took a jeep, bus and train to gets home by 4 am

Last few days i have been contemplating change

Got this offer from Alkem as GM training with a decent salary hike on 12th Oct - was busy with M2L programs then

took 18 day to make up my mind that i should change, boss and many others played a important role in helping me take this step, traveled to chennai, Farast resigned an joined Ashtra at Bangalore, these things kept me swinging like a pendulum either to change or not, so finally on 1st Nov i resigned from Ranbaxy.

i have been talking to lots of people and the confusion still exists, Mr. YS and Mr. RV want me to continue, Mr VV thinks Alkem is not a good choice, few say i must go, few want me to stay back. when people say bad things about Ranbaxy - i feel like staying back, when they say Alkem is not a good option i feel like moving on, i have been requesting for a 1st Dec relieving, but yet not sure what will happen, i have left it to the end game - i too am waiting for the mystery to unveil.

its a strange feeling to let your fate hang this way, i don't know what will happen, i am comfortable with any outcome, have been thinking and acting and planning with both these outcomes in mind, planning my Dec JFW at Ranbaxy and looking for which model of car i should buy at Alkem. this is a strange state of mind form which i am operating. recognizing fully that this is a big decision and yet staying on the fence and yet operate so comfortably. i am leaving it to the end game tomorrow. just keep telling my self god will help me take the right decision

i have learnt or experienced something different about handling and managing change or have i?

Design Thinking

Design Thinking by Roger Martin

Read this beautiful book that talk about how business is run and what it take to run it efficiently

Key concepts to remember

•Exploration Vs Exploitation

•Difficult Problem Vs Wicked Problem

•Inductive/ Deductive logic Vs Abdicative Logic

•Reliability Vs Validity

•Operative Vs Generative

Must read – enjoyed

Kailash Manasaovar trip

from the 16th June to 10 July 2010 visited

China - Kailash , Manasarovar 16 10 30 June

Nepal - Kathmandu, Pokhra & Muktinath 31 June to 3 July

India - Srinagar, Amarnath 4- 7 July

i had the time of my life - want to go back there soon