Coke and Pepsi

In the 1980’s the two big soft drink giants Coke and Pepsi were in business in USA. Both companies had good management.

Every meeting of the Pepsi and Coke teams in their conference hall used to be towards taking over the market share of each other. Very soon they realized that they were not making any headway in boosting their sales or profit.

But Coke team realised their mistake and changed their strategy. So Coke changed their agenda now to get their own sales and profit to increase by 0.1 % every month. In fact, their endeavor now was now to compete against their own capabilities.

The Coke company was initially succeeding in achieving their goal of 0.1 % increase in sales monthly. But after a few months the company found that even this small 0.1% increase in sales becoming difficult to cope with.

One day the CEO of Coke thought to change the strategy once again. He did a market survey to find out what is the total consumption of fluids of an average American.

The results were amazing. Each American drinks about 1.5 liters of fluids including water, tea, coffee, beer etc a day on an average and out that only 30 ml was soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi.

Now their conference was concentrating only on how to increase this 30 ml quota to at least 300 ml to start with. One of the executives suggested that they should make Coke available to the people when ever and where ever they felt thirsty or wanted to drink some thing.

To this end, Coke put up vending machines at every street corner. Coke sales were up more than ten times from then on and Pepsi has never quite caught up since.

Moral of the story : “Challenge and compete against your own capabilities, if you want to excel.” 

Balika vadhu and Soaps

  
This is a post to demonstrate 'LIVE' the effects of daily soaps like BALIKA VADHU.

After my office hours,i go for dinner at Dilipbhai's tiffin service(actually his home).He and his wife serves really good home-made food and that too at decent rate.

His house is a two storey building in which dilipbhai's parents stay on the first floor and dilipbhai himself stays on 2nd floor.

Sometimes i dine as early as 6.30pm but since people here are still orthodox,i have to dine on the first floor at dilipbhai's parentswala floor.


They daily follow a soap called BALIKA VADHU on COLORS Channel.
The word for that soap is BULLSHIT.


I have literally observed that dilipbhai's mother watches soap very intensely and she applies the reel situation in her own house on her daughter-in-law.


Both dilipbhai's parents have became sick as far as human nature is concerned and this is due to these bloody saas-bahu soaps.


If we apply simple calculations,that society contains such 50 homes and there are such 50 societies in satellite area(this is the minimum count).Suppose there are 10 such areas in ahmedabad then the total people involved in such atmosphere is 50*50*10 * 4(parents and son-wife) =1 lakh.

Even if literacy rate is 50%,then also 50,000 people get SICK due to these soaps.Mind well i am not considering the children here because ultimately they also get affected because their mother stays under depression due to such in-laws thinking.

Moral of the story : Please stop watching the daily soaps and make people stop watching it.Even a small change would change many lives :)

           
 

Decision Making

The story given here is quite interesting and really gives us an insight into decision making :

A group of children were playing near the railway tracks,one of them was active track while the other was disused.Only one child played on the disused track,rest on the operational track.

Suppose you are the driver of the train and you are just at the track interchange.
You could make the train change its course to the disused track and save most of the kids.

However,that would also mean that the lone child playing on the disused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way ?

Think over this situation for 2 minutes(10 times the original action time).


Most of the people would divert the train to sacrifice only one child.To save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision most people would make,morally and emotionally.

BUT,have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had infact made the right decision to play at the safe place ?

Nevertheless,he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was.

This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday.In the office,in community,in politics,and especially in the democratic society,the minority is often sacrificed for the majority no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are,and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are.

The child who chose not to play with the rest,on the operational track was sidelined.And in the case he was sacrificed,no one would shed a tear.

To make the proper decision is not try to change the course of the train because the kids playing on operational track should have known very well that the track was still in use,and that they should have run away if they heard the train's sirens.

If the train was diverted to the disused track,we could put the life of all the on board passengers at stake.And in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child,you might end up sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few kids.

Moral of the Story : What's right isn't always popular and what's popular isn't always right !

Trading and ethics

I have been really attracted to that stream where one can make money through what he has learned.
Then you can tell people that "Yea,i learned this and i earn this from what i learned !"
Studying is is is important even if you are not able to link the course with its practical field application.

Coming to the point,have a look at this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_trading

The hot shot industry these days with oodles of money flowing (oodles+oodles work hours too !).
In simple terms,applying algorithms (basically math) to trade the derivatives.

Our parents and indian culture always taught us that gambling is a sin.
Isn't applying math to gamble money a greater sin !


P.S : Just a fluky thought related to education ethics.In practice,its the most sought after and Intelligent industry right now.

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Management Lessons:

Lesson Number One
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A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day?"

The crow answered, "Sure, why not." So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Management Lesson:
To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.
Lesson Number Two
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A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy." "Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied the bull. They're packed with nutrients."

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the first branch of the tree.

The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch.

Finally after a fourth night, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree. Soon he was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Management Lesson:
Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.
Lesson Number Three
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A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold, the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was. The dung was
actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.

A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him!

Management Lesson:
1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
3) When you're in deep shit, keep your mouth shut!

Get to know what it is getting More than 100%...........

We have all been to those meetings where someone wants "more than 100%."

Well here's how you do that. Here's how you can achieve 103%. First of all,here's a little math that might prove helpful in
the future. How does one achieve 100% in LIFE? Begin by noting the following.

IF :

A = 1

B = 2

C = 3

D = 4

E = 5

F = 6

G = 7

H = 8

I = 9

J = 10

K = 11

L = 12

M = 13

N = 14

O = 15

P = 16

Q = 17

R = 18

S = 19

T = 20

U = 21

V = 22

W = 23

X = 24

Y = 25

Z = 26

Then:

H A R D W O R K = 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = Only 98%

Similarly,

K N O W L E D G E = 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = Only 96%

But interesting (and as you'd expect),

A T T I T U D E = 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%.....

This is how you achieve 100% in LIFE.

But EVEN MORE IMPORTANT TO NOTE (or REALIZE), is

B U L L S H I T = 2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

So now you know what all those high-priced consultants, upper management,

and motivational speakers really mean when they want to exceed 100%!

Meaningful Image

Here is one of the most meaningful image i found on the internet :

Moral of the Story : Yes ! You got that correct !

Maths

It was during my 4th semester that i had a monotonous routine which goes like:
Wake up at 9.30am,brush up and run 2.5km to college for lectures.
12-12.40pm lunch time.
Again 2.30 hours of lectures.
15 minutes short break.
Again 2.30 hour of crushing lab work.
Return back to hostel,
(I am just building the scenario for the talk).
have a shower and sleep orelse surf.
Dine at 7.30pm and then go to shopping center(which actually is a food court for hostellites).
Eat something which gives a feeling that yes my stomach is now full.

Now comes the core part.I daily used to talk with one of my besties bhavi at night.
So i used to buy and keep vodafone coupons of 20 and 50 rupees with me,those scratchwala coupons.

Once it so happened that i scratched it real hard that 3 numbers were partly destroyed.It was 3rd,4th and 6th number.
I tried randomly 3-4 times but it was always the error message on my nokia 6300 at that time.

Frustrated,i sat on the bed and said "bc zindagi haav jhaath jevi che"!

Hardik (rommie) - Su thyu ?
Manoj (rommie) - Laughing !
Me - Described the problem.

While describing there was a sudden click.
Since it were 3 numbers,the total possiblity of trial and error would be 10*10*10= 1000 possiblities and that was too huge to deal with.

We all observed that the 3rd number has a curve on the downside,so it could only be 0,6,8(no 9 or 3 coz the visible curve was going west to south).
For the 4th number,it was a pointed shape like structure on the top.So this could definately be 1,4,7 (even 7 was doubtful but whats the harm!)
We could not identify the 6th number.
Hence now the total possiblity was
3*3*10 (worst case) = 90.

Still it was tough to deal with.While we were thinking on the solution,i was desperately trying with possiblities and to utter luck i got that correct in just the 3rd try itself and there was the message "RECHARGE SUCCESSFUL".

And it felt so bloody good.
Cheers Maths.
Respect.