My Top Reads – WK 20 – 2012

1. 5 Manifestors for the Creative Life – http://bit.ly/JPwGY6

2. Why ask Why ? Sethgodin – http://bit.ly/JATunZ

TED Video : Paul Lewis: Crowdsourcing the news – http://bit.ly/KyOeTR

My Top Reads – Week 19 – 2012

1.The Best Path to Success is Your Own – http://bit.ly/Lwj94s / Via @hbrblogs

2. Reverse Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan – http://bit.ly/IrySi8 – Amazing thoughts

3. Cognizant Technology Solutions – Far Horizons – http://bit.ly/JJ7A6l – /Via @subbins&Sathish Rajamani

4. Retail is etail http://bit.ly/41wUvc – Trendwatching and future of Retail -/ Via @prakasank

5. The art of Storytelling – http://bit.ly/JFAfuD – Intresting read

Interesting Video – TED on Reverse Innovation – http://bit.ly/yiBLKD – Vijat Govindrajan

 

My Top Reads – Week 17 – 2012

1. Creating Value Through Business Model Innovation – http://bit.ly/GBD7tf – /Via Sloan Management Review

2.  Story Telling – World views  http://bit.ly/IiyOmW / Via @Sethgodin

3. Stress is not your enemy – http://bit.ly/JCikIL / Via @hbrblog

4. Rework – “Meeting” , ” Workaholism ” – http://bit.ly/bUOD3L / Via @Subbins

TED VIDEO :- Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! – http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html 

My Top Best Tweets for the Week 16 – 2012

1. Work – Life Integration – http://www.elsua.net/

2. Girls around me App – http://onforb.es/HrIUz8 – Danger through Social Media Applications. via / @rsukumar

3. Amazon vs. Best Buy . A Tale of two retailers http://rww.to/JGe5He   via/@subbins

4. As learners, we must stay open to questioning our understanding and maintain a willingness to rethink http://bit.ly/IUReLL    via /@dorait

5. Innovate business models by adding new activities, linking activities in novel ways, changing who does what http://mitsmr.com/HB2CKg

 

Top Video Blog : Four Ways to think like an Innovator ”  –http://bit.ly/IXPXUj

 

Best Links of the Week 15 in 2012 – Top 5 Links

1. Four Characteristics of Mentoring – http://bit.ly/HmtXzy

2. Your Words Determine your Thoughts http://t.co/3sBfFfCp by michael michalko /via @rsukumar

3. 12 Trademarks of an Innovative Leader. http://t.co/xMDwGofF /via @amanet

4. “Emergent Strategy” is more interesting http://bit.ly/qV2Lq5

5. ‎5 Things That Waste Your Time at Work [INFOGRAPHIC] – http://t.co/K1wnp5y2 /via @subbins.

Week’s TED Video : – Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work –

http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work.html

Introduction :-

To understand more about Social Media (www.facebook.com/learnsocialmedia

Social Media Summit Key Takeaways :-

Social Media Summit(www.socialmediasummit.in)  was organised by MOP Vaishnava College and echovme on November 4, 2011with the objective to create awareness on Social Media and to discuss on latest trends and future of Social Media. Key Takeaways from Social Media Summit 2011 :-

•  Social Media is the future of Business Communication
•  Social Media is in its infancy and plenty of opportunities need to explore
•  Social Media is not about facebook and twitter ( many tools available like youtube, tumblr, digg, quora, blog, slideshare etc.,)

Why Social Media for Business  ? – Reasons :-

Speaker : Sourav Jain, Thinker in Chief ( echovme)

1.  World is going Social Media Centric
2.  Social Media is the future of Business Communication
3. Facts about Top 5 Social Media Channels :-
   1. Facebook has 15,000 Million Page Views per day
   2. You Tube 1200 Million Page Views per day
   3. Blogspot 170 Million Page Views per day
   4. Orkut.in 1200 Million Page Views per day
   5. Orkut.com 110 Million Page Views per day
4. In India , 380 Lakh Facebook Users have registered compared to 65 Lakh Users in 2008
5. 10 Million Twitter Users are in India
6. 10 Million Linkedin Users are in India
7. Forrester estimated 14 Billion USD Spent on Social Media in the year 2014 worldwide.
8. Forbes says Interactive Marketing spend will near $77 Billion by 2016 as equivalent to Television today.
9. NewsPaper and Television  Advertisements will be replaced with Facebook Ads.Because, in social media we can expect target audience.
10. Customer will discuss about your good and bad. Anyone may shout about you

The Circle of Influence – Social Media

On 5th August 2011, mild afternoon with cool environment “Blogversary 2011” celebrated with grand manner by Knowledge Management Team of Cognizant.

Tagline for Conference was very impressive “I blog! therefore I am”.

I registered to attend this function and promptly sat in the auditorium by 2:00 pm. Rajshree Natarajan,Vice President welcomed the audience.

Manikandan Phisarody, Senior Manager, Knowledge Management provided the statistics of Blog journey in Cognizant from 2006 to 2011.  If anyone want to write a History of Cognizant, Ch1blogs will play a major role, and the pattern of thinking of our associates can be easily tracked.

Dorai Thodla, CEO of Imporph Inc, popular in Social Media ,Student Community and Entrepreneurs world. He is also Board of Director of Knowledge Community, Chennai (kcommunity.ning.com) . He is prolific speaker and the coverage provided by him on social media was excellent.

The topic of his address was “Leveraging Social Media” . Very intersting topic and excellent to hear his speech with seriousness, personal experience and humor. The attendees were so serious like me in hearing the talk.

The following are the important points shared by Dorai Thodla :-

Social Media :- Why, Who, What, How

What is Social Media :-

Share and Engage is the primary thought behind Social Media.

Tools of Social Media :

– Blogs

– Social Networks ( Linkedin,Facebook,Twitter, Google+)

– Social Bookmarks (delicious)

– Social News ( Reddit, Hacker News)

-Question and Answer ( Quora, Stackoverflow)

-WIKIs ( Public, Industry)

-Sharing Networks ( Youtube, Slideshare, Scribd)

 With the above tools, I have personally experienced the influence of Blogs, Social Networks and WIKIS are really sharing and engaging in larger manner.  

Why Social Media :-

Engaging by both Inbound and Out bound.

INBOUND ( Consume) :- In today’s information overload, we are consuming lot of information through media.

Why we consume ?

         – Competitor Intelligence

         – Market Intelligence

         – Industry Intelligence

         – Reasearch

        – Tracking Trends

        – Discovering possible disruptions

        – Detecting Weak signals

OUTBOUND (Produce) :- As everyone of us know, everyday tons of content are produced in different forms.

Why we need to produce ?

      – Credibility

      – Transparency

      -Mass Reach

      – Evangelism

     – Influence

     -Authority ( showcasing expertise )

 How can we use Social Media ?

          – Evangelise

          – Listen

          – Educate

          – Entertain ( Tell Stories )

          – Engage ( Build Connections )

          – Establish ( Showcasing expertise)

          – Gain Influence

 More Information on Social Media :-

Linkedin Group – Future of Social Media

Association of Social Media

Sniki Wiki? Social Networking WIKI ( Share, Compare or Leverage Social Media)

Sniki Wiki  is a categorized encyclopedia of Web 2.0. It includes social networks, social marketing campaigns, a comprehensive list of companies that utilize social media, bloggers, and freelancers

 Tip :- Relevance drives Influence . Find the influencers who matter most to you.

Analysis of Tweets : “Engaging News Hungry Audiences Tweet by Tweet: An audience analysis of prominent mainstream media news accounts on Twitter” –

http://blog.socialflow.com/post/7120243870/audience_study

Trends can derive from Social Media:-

– Social Data Aggregation

– Social Graph

– Big Data and Predictive Analysis

Book recommended by Dorai ( not on Social Media) : Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, Founder of Zappos

At the end, I feel very happy to attend this session ,  enriched knowledge and enabled many thoughts on Social Media.

Thanks to Cognizant KM Team for this wonderful event.

A Johari window is a cognitive psychological tool created by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham in 1955^[1] in the United States, used to help people better understand their interpersonal communication and relationships. It is used primarily in self-help groups and corporate settings as a heuristic exercise.

Johari name derived from the names of authors Joesph and Harry.

The Four Quadrants has lot of meanings and it really triggered me lot, when it was shared in the Leadership Catalyst Meeting.

Quadrant 1 {OPEN} :- The area of free activity , refers to behavior and motivation known to self and others.

Quadrant 2 {Blind} :- The blind area, where others can see things in ourselves of which we are unaware.

Quadrant 3 {Hidden} :-
The avoided or hidden area, represents things we know but do not reveal to others .(e.g a hidden agenda or matters about which we have sudden feelings).

Quadrant 4 {Unknown}:- Area of Unknown activity. Neither the individual nor others are aware of certain behaviors or motives.

For Example, I need to have your information about me, this is called “Feedback”

When I ask for and receive feedback, I decrease my BLIND area and increase my OPEN area. By decreasing my BLIND area, I have more of my

Truth – more of me –available to me.

When you give me feedback, you give me information about you in how you frame the feedback and what in my behavior has stimulated a reaction in you. You thus decrease your HIDDEN area or your BLIND area by saying or doing something that is out of the BLIND part of you and my pointing the response out to you decreases your BLIND area and increases your OPEN area with me.

Courtesy : The Johari Window : A Graphic Model of Awareness in Interpersonal Relations. By : Joseph Luft

 

 

 

The Seven Habits of Innovators

Sow a thought, reap an action;

Sow an action, reap a habit;

Sow a habit, reap a character;

Sow a character, reap a destiny.

— Samual Smiles

OVERVIEW:

According to Webster Dictionary, “Innovation” is a new idea, method or device.  Innovation comes from the Latin innovationem, noun of action from innovare. The Etymology Dictionary further explains innovare as dating back to 1540 and stemming from the Latin innovatus, pp. of innovare “to renew or change,” from in- “into” + novus “new“.

Innovator:- An innovator  in a general sense, is a person who is one of the first to do something and often opens up a new area for others and achieves an innovation.

“Habits” are routines of behavior that are repeated regularly and tend to occur subconsciously. Habit is the intersection of  Knowledge (What to, Why to ), Skill (How to ) and Desire.( want to ).

                                                             

SEVEN HABITS OF INNOVATORS:-

Habit 1 : Be Different

Habit 2 : Be a Learner

Habit 3 : Begin with an idea to a problem

Habit 4 : Combine Ideas

Habit 5 : Embrace Failures

Habit 6 : Build a Creative Cooperation Team

Habit 7 : Aim for Altruism

	The following are the recommended books for Great Executive Assistant:   The New Executive Assistant: Advice for Succeeding in Your Career
	The Organizer : Secrets & Systems from the World’s Top Executive Assistants
	The Definitive Personal Assistant and Secretarial Handbook: A Best Practice Guide for All Secretaries, Pas, Office Managers and Executive Assistants
	Be a Kickass Assistant: How to Get from a Grunt Job to a Great Career
		Administrative Assistant’s and Secretary’s Handbook
		Administrative Assistant: The Training Course (Volume 1)
		The Administrative Assistant: Starring in a Supporting Role (Fifty-Minute Series Book)
		Building a Partnership with Your Boss (Take-charge Assistant)

 

Based on my training on Innovation, I have found the future is going to be on Innovation in our day to day life. Even for simple issues, people will go to a Innovation Catalyst for solutions.

Take notes:
An ancient Chinese proverb states: “The faintest writing is stronger than the strongest memory.

Unless you have a photographic or phonographic memory, be prepared to take notes on pertinent information or advice given. Don’t make him repeat names, locations, or statistics just because you couldn’t be bothered to write them down.

Taking notes is a show of respect. It also means you need to be told something only once and he can rely on you to know it.

Have you been to visit http://www.changethis.com ? if not go immediately and browse…

One of my favorite Management author Rajesh Setty published an free ebook in http://www.activegarage.com/projects/defiant

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better – by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams.

The American Management Association named Dr. Goldsmith as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years.  Major business press acknowledgments include: Business Week – most influential practitioners in the history of leadership development, The Times (UK) – 50 greatest living business thinkers, Wall Street Journal – top ten executive educators, Forbes – five most-respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence – top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India) – five rajgurus of America, Economist (UK) – most credible executive advisors in the new era of business and Fast Company – America’s preeminent executive coach.

Marshall’s Books : http://www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com/html/marshall/books.html

Marshall’s Free Library : http://marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com

Marshall’s Blog : http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/goldsmith/

Intelligent Entrepreneur – A New Magazine in India with a collaboration from http://www.entrepreneur.com. Really excellent.

What got you here Won’t get you there- by Marshall Goldsmith.

Tom Peters – Uber Management Guru

Tom is one of the world’s most influential management guru.

“Tom Peters has probably done more than anyone else to shift the debate on management from the confines of boardrooms, academia, and consultancies to a broader, worldwide audience, where it has become the staple diet of the media and managers alike. Peter Drucker has written more and his ideas have withstood a longer test of time, but it is Peters—as consultant, writer, columnist, seminar lecturer, and stage performer—whose energy, style, influence, and ideas have shaped new management thinking.”

If we find answers for this powerful questions, we will have our life so brighter and get elevated :

• What do others think of you?
• What do you think of you?
• What is your impact on others?
• What are the “little things” you (perhaps unconsciously) do that cause people to shrivel—or blossom?
• What do you want?
• Are you aware of your changing moods? How fragile is your ego?
• Do you have a true confidant?
• Do you perform brief or not-so-brief self-assessments?
• Do you talk too much?
• Do you know how to listen?
• Do you listen?
• What is your style of “hashing things out”? Are you perceived as (a) arrogant, (b) abrasive (c) attentive, (d) genuinely interested in people, (e) etc? [Are you sure?]
• Are you flexible?
• Have you changed your mind about anything important in a while?
• Are you comfortable-uncomfortable with folks on the front line?
• Do you think you’re “in touch with the pulse of things around here”?
• Are you too emotional/intuitive?
• Do you spend much time with people who are new to you?

Tom’s website : http://www.tompeters.com

MBA in a Web Page : We can find all the management concepts in www.valuebasedmanagement.net.

Really interesting and bookmark it.

“Success, however you define it, is not an accident. It is not a result of good luck versus bad luck. Even if you have not taken the time to clearly identify how you got from where you were to where you are today, there have been a series of specific steps that you have taken that have brought you to where you are at this minute. And the fact is, they could have brought you to no other place. You are where you are, and what you are because of yourself. It has been your choices and your decisions over the months and years that have inevitably determined the condition of your life at this moment.”
– As a Man Thinketh

Become a Member in twitter.com.

It will follow you and good to be a member.