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My work over the last few months also involves intensive people management. I lead a bunch of 10 souls of different age groups, not much variance there though and the oldest member of my team is not older than me. I have realised that the following facets of human behaviour need to be considered by anyone in leadership position. These must have been definitely written in some book on leadership, but I have learnt them the hard way: Ego - Mostly observed in senior team members who have as much work experience as you. These people could have been in your position but for some bad appraisal. Such team members mostly do not take any work allocation lying down. Typical responses are 'I will see what I can do' or 'Let me see'. And by the way, these people may also think that you have 'sucked up' your way into leadership. Incompetence - These people may not necessarily be dumb. They may be acting dumb to avoid work. Or they may have earlier worked in a place where comp

दुनिया सिकुड़ते सिकुड़ते मुझ तक रह गयी है कभी दुनिया का मतलब होता होगा मनुष्य, प्राणी और जीवन जात लेकिन कुछ साल पहले दुनियाने अपना रूप बदला ...और थोड़ी अपने आप में छोटी हो गयी मेरी दुनिया मेरा देश बन गयी तब सोचा न था कि इससे भी छोटा कुछ हो सकता है मेरी दुनिया के लिए जान देनेकी तक बातें हुई थी तब लेकिन फिर और बटवारा हुआ और मेरी दुनिया मेरे मजहब तक आ रुकी मजहब से फिर गाँव, मोहल्ले, गली और घर तक का रास्ता ज्यादा मुश्किल नहीं था अब तो मै खुद ही मेरी दुनिया हूँ, बस कुछ ही दिन की बात है जिस्म का हर पुर्जा अपनी आप में दुनिया बनने वाला है और खुद की दुनिया बसाने के लिए, दिमाग, एक दिन, दिल की दुनिया उजाड़ देगा

I took this picture on a Sunday afternoon at Chandanagar MMTS Station. The kid in the background, at a railway platform, noise, dusty & sunny was sleeping peacefully. Looked like the street dog watched over. It made me take the picture and think ... what zindagi (life) the kid has???

My Photography Workflow 2009 Hat Tip: Bijou

About a couple of months ago, I shifted to Digital Photography. Earlier, I used to shoot on film using my Nikon FM10. But because of the labour involved in getting the film developed or sharing these photographs over Internet , I chose to take up digital photography. Having bought a Panasonic FZ 35, I have realised that I have shot more photographs in the last 2 months than I have shot in 5 years of film photography. This comes with it's own set of problems. I now have hordes of pictures (and videos!) taken with different purposes at different times which should have their own life cycle. There are some really good pictures which I have lost already! Lot of junk pictures that are eating into digital real estate! So what now? The answer seems to be lying in discipline...or workflows ! Each picture or video should have it's workflow . They all should go through consecutive filtering and land up in different buckets based on classification criteria. How to decide these criteria is