My three books published in Google Play Stores

I have published my three books in Google Play store.  You just go through https://play.google.com/store/books?hl=en and type “ Books by Anand Mehra” and there are three books appeared in your screen as follows

1)       VMAGO : This is a handbook published for every professional which covers VMAGO – Vision , Mission , Aim, Goals and Objectives.  There is a detailed description of all these words. There are others interesting chapters in this books which can be very useful to professional for their itinerary of professional life.

2)       Karvaa Jaree hain ( In Hindi ) : This is a short novel in Hindi.  This is a story of a mathematics teacher who retired from his service then he went through a serious illness.  How his students helped him? This is in the book.

3)       Golden Words : 365 Quotations – A Good Thought for a day :  This is a collection of 365 finest quotations said by the great leaders of world.  I believe a great thought can change a life.

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My New Book – VMAGO

I am in the Finishing stage of my book  as “ VMAGO”.   VMAGO is actually the acronym for Vision, Mission , Aim , Goals and Objectives.

I have divided this book into Five Chapters.  First Chapters is the detailed description of VMAGO- How to formulate and execute them. Second Chapter is about the PDCA Methodology to achieve the VMAGO.  Third Chapter  is of BPR- Business Process Reengineering.  Fourth Chapter titled as Career progression and requisite parameters.  In this chapter , there is an illustration that what type of people required in various level of the organization and what should be they have within.  Fifth chapter  is some stories of business houses or individuals : How they have changed the world ?

This book is a result of my 15 experiences with in the industry from manufacturing to Service Sectors and as a quality management system professional, I am fortunate to come across through the various domains of businesses.    I am trying to release this book in Amazon Kindle first and then I will try to publish the same.

I hope you will like it.  Wait for 1st March,15. 

The Greatest woes of Communication ….

A great saying regarding the communication is :

“ The biggest communication problem is we don’t listen to understand.  We listen to reply. Pause yourself and think one more time.”

One of my friends sent this message to me through Whatsapp and I don’t know who has coined these golden words but after reading these words, I was surprised and amazed after going through these words.  This simple sentence has deep meaning itself.

These words have cent percent relevance.  In our daily life, whether we are in office or at home, we listen only to reply –so that we can defend ourselves.   Sometimes, we give reply in the middle of the conversation without listening the entire thing and often its backfires. 

Sometime at Home, we immediately reacts to our relatives without listening them properly and later on, we realized our mistake and same thing happened in our office too. 

The thumb rule of effective communication is – First Listen carefully and understand it and then react, only if it is necessary. 

My advice is , first listen very carefully , understand it thoroughly for the intention of the communication and then reply it.   We are always in a hurry to replying.  Start Pausing yourself before replying , it will definitely keeps you above from the rest.

George Bernad Shaw further added through this quote , “ The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

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Amazing : Interesting use of Vowels in Words with Consonants

OUENOUAOU (a stream in the Philippines) has nine letters but only one consonant. It is the longest known place name with only a single consonant.
The English dictionary word with the most consecutive vowels (six) is EUOUAE. Words with five consecutive vowels include QUEUEING, AIEEE, COOEEING, MIAOUED, ZAOUIA, JUSSIEUEAN, ZOOEAE, ZOAEAE. The Hawaiian word HOOIAIOIA (meaning certified) has eight consecutive vowels and is listed in the 1976 Guinness Book of World Records.
HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS is the longest word consisting entirely of alternating vowels and consonants. 
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES is the longest name of a country consisting of alternating vowels and consonants.
The longest common word without any of the five vowels is RHYTHMS..
ASTHMA begins and ends with a vowel and has no other vowels in between.
The longest word in dictionaries having only one vowel is STRENGTHS. The longest word with only one vowel (if repeats are allowed) is CHRONONHOTONTHOLOGOS (twenty letters). STRENGTHLESSNESSES contains only Es and is just two letters shorter.
The Five VowelsThe shortest word containing all five vowels exactly once is the six-letter EUNOIA, meaning alertness of mind an will (and also the title of a book by Canadian poet Christian Bok). However, it is not included in any major English dictionary. There are several seven-letter words containing all the vowels, including SEQUOIA, EULOGIA, MIAOUED, ADOULIE, EUCOSIA, EUNOMIA, EUTOPIA, MOINEAU, and DOULEIA. The relatively common French word OISEAU (meaning bird) contains all five vowels, once each.
The shortest word with the five vowels occurring in alphabetical order is AERIOUS (airy), which has seven letters. The longest such word is PHRAGELLIORHYNCHUS (a protozoan) with 18 letters. There are two seven-letter words in Portuguese that contain the five vowels in alphabetical order: ACEITOU and ALEIJOU.
SUOIDEA (the taxonomic group to which pigs belong) is the shortest word with the five vowels in reverse alphabetical order. The longest such word is PUNCTOSCHMIDTELLA (a crustacean).
ULTRAREVOLUTIONARIES has each vowel exactly twice. The shortest such word is CUBOIDEONAVICULARE, and the longest, USSOLZEWIECHINOGAMMARUS (a small crustacean).
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Youth Day …. It is Swami Vivekanand’s birthday

Narendranath Datta was born on 12^th Jan,1863 in Kolkatta, West Bengal ( India) and later , he became Swami Vivekananad and his thoughts always inspire and guide the youth all around the world.

He gave a talisman in his following quote to get the success in professional life.

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants / leaders are produced.”

This is a very powerful talisman for everyone.  If you want to excel in your life, you have to design your goal in such a way that every activities of your life revolve around that goal until it is not achieved. 

In one another quote, the great saint of India says , “ Arise, Awake , stop not until your goal is achieved.” 

His speech on the Parliament of world religion on 11^th Sep, 1893 at Chicago , USA where he addressed the crowd with famous beginning of “ Sisters and Brothers of America “ was a milestone in his 39 years short Journey from 1863 to 1902.

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Some One liner Definition of some key words to burst your stress at Office .. LOL

1)After Marriage: A state in which husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
2)Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.
3)Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
4)Classic: A book which people praises, but do not read.
5)Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.
6)Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such away that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.
7)Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
8)Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens & everybody disagrees later on.
9) Dictionary: A place where divorce comes before marriage.
10)Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
11)Divorce: Future tense of marriage.
12)Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with his bills.
13)Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.
14)Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.
15)Father: A banker provided by nature.
16)Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of either".
17)Love: Something You can't buy, but pay dearly for it
18)Love Affairs: Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five-day test.
19)Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her master.
20)Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
21)Opportunist: A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river.
22) Optimist: A person who while falling from Eiffel Tower says in midway "See I am not injured yet.
23)Pessimist: A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, Instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.
24)Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.
25)Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.
26)Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.
27) Smile: A facial curve that can set a lot of things straight.
28) Tears: A hydraulic force which makes feminine waterpower to conquer over masculine will-power.
29)Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth. 

I don't know who send it to me but I loved it because atleast , by reading this,I am able to burst my stress at office many times. 

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The Inspiring Story of Tiny Frog....A must read Story

There once was a bunch of tiny frogs, ..who arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower. A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants... The race began... Honestly...No one in the crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower. You heard statements such as:"Oh, WAY too difficult!!! " They will NEVER make it to the top!!!" or:"Not a chance that they will succeed. The tower is too high!!!"
The tiny frogs began collapsing. One by one...Except for those, who in a fresh tempo, were climbing higher and higher... The crowd continued to yell, "It is too difficult!!! No one will make it!!!" More tiny frogs got tired and gave up...But ONE continued higher and higher and higher...This one wouldn't give up!!! At the end everyone else had given up climbing the tower. Except for the one tiny frog who, after a big effort, was the only one who reached the top! THEN all of the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this one frog managed to do it?A contestant asked the tiny frog how he had found the strength to succeed and reach the goal?
It turned out...That the winner was DEAF!!!The wisdom of this story is:NEVER listen to other people's tendencies to be negative or pessimistic... Because they take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you...the ones you have in your heart!!!Always think of the power words have . Because everything you hear and read will affect your actions!!!
Moral : ALWAYS be...POSITIVE!!!
This is forwarded to me and this is my moral responsibility to share it with you.
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Take very good care of yourself coz we all are very precious.

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Bye Bye 2014 : Some key events and their lesson

Thanks 2014 for giving us 52 Weeks, 365 Days, 8760 Hours , 525600 Minutes………..You will always in our memory.

2014 is almost gone and added another page in the history books.  2014 has taught us many things and

some key events are as under :

-          Ebola virus epidemic in west Africa in Feb,2014 and it was a real threat to the world.  But we will able to survive.  Thanks to all doctors and Nurses , who really handled this deadly threat to the world.

-          In Feb,14 : Satya Nadella appointed as CEO of world largest software company – Microsoft and this shows that anybody who has the talent and caliber can reached upto the top most post of any corporate.

-          In March ,2014 – Malayasian Airlines Aircraft 370 disappeared and till date, there is no traces found of this flight.  This incident realized us that there are many things we have not done in this very high tech development.

-          On 16^th May,2014 – results of general election of India declared and BJP won a sweeping victory by taking 336 seats and Mr. Narendra Modi elected as Prime minister of India.   First Time in India, A party emerged as single largest party with clear majority after congress.   This shows the power of democracy and proved that one single leader can change the fortune of any party and nation.

-          In June-14- We have witnessed the emergence of ISIS in Iraq and this shows that still , there are some people who are not in the main stream of development and human kind.

-          July ,14 : 2014 FIFA world cup held successfully at Brazil and Germany won the world cup.  This shows that a developing country like Brazil can host a successful Football world cup and Brazil is not only the super power in world football.

-          In Sep,14 : Alibaba IPO has created the history and Jack Ma proved that if you have basics clear , you can run an e-commerce company without knowing much knowledge of IT.

-          In September, 14 – India successfully established its MANGANYAAN  to Mars orbit with a cost of Rs 450 Crore.  This proved that all Space projects are not too costly and success can be achieved in very low cost.

-          In December,14- USA and Cuba announces the resumption of their relation after many years. This incident shows that relations can be improved at any time.

-          Indo Pak duo of Kailash Satyarthi  and Malala Yusuf awarded the highest award of humanity and peace – Peace Noble prize.   This clearly established the fact that good work is always appreciated without borders.

Career Progression Ladder and Requirements Building Block ( CPRB Diagram)

Is Gandhian’s Talisman relevant today ………….

When I was in school, we were used NCERT book and every NCERT book has a special page in which , the Gandhi’s talisman was printed and we used to read it many times.  But I was not so much aware about that what actually Mr. Gandhi wants to say by this talisman.  Years has been gone and yesterday, when my daughter brought a book and when I was flipping the pages of that book, I saw this talisman once again.  I read it again after many years.  I felt very good and I was gone into deep thinking.  Now, somewhere, I felt that I am able to understand the meaning and importance of this talisman.

"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test : Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?  Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."”

Try to read it many times as you can , you feel something is melting  inside you and you will start recalling some incidents of your life and feel it.  

Why I am illustrating this thought in this forum?  This is a big question.  But I feel, this talisman is strongly applicable in this corporate arena.  Think about it and you can feel the importance of this talisman.

This talisman can give you some guidelines to you whenever you are creating or implementing some policies or guidelines across the company and you have to think about the effect of policy to the lowest or bottom leveled employee of your company.  Although , I know, this is not very practical in today’s world but if you really want to make a company people centric and believe people are the best assets and every individual contribute a lot in the progress of the company then you realize the importance of this talisman.

My suggestion :  Read it once , think twice and take the best from it wherever you can. 

Thanks Mr. Reid Hoffman and other team members for creating “ LinkedIn” – A great platform for professional

I don’t know exactly the date when I created my profile on LinkedIn when one of my friend recommended me this website.  He suggested me to open an account to this website to enhance your reach to other professional people around the world. 

But , now, I feel this is really a great platform created by Mr. Reid Hoffman and his team members who brings out their thought in creating this website.  First of all , we all LinkedIn members should thanks to all of them because of their efforts we are connected with each other.

Today , I have more than 4600+ connections and all connections are great in their respective field and I feel humbled with connecting them irrespective of  geographical boundaries ,  ethnicity ,religion.  They are really professionals and like to connect with each other and wish to share their thoughts in this platform.

I have always a passion for writing and always want to do it but I did not find a platform but now , my passion for writing on various topics increases as I know there is an audience or reader available for me. 

When I posted a update  regarding my book of “ Continual Improvement”  , I got a huge response for it.  There are more than 3000+ connections viewed my update.  More than 80+ connections like the update and more than 75+ give their comments and request me to send the soft copy of the same. This is increasing day by day.

I feel very satisfying that people are reading my posts regularly and this gives me motivation to write more and more.

Now, I feel this is my platform where I can share my knowledge which I have acquired in my life.   This feelings force me to write this post to thanks Mr. Reid Hoffman and his team.

This is my wish and suggestions to use this website regularly and keep updating about your professional itinerary and we don’t know where , how, when – we can help each other  in any manner.

And Most important , thanks to all my connections who are connected with me.  Thanks to be the part of my professional family.  Thanks once again and keep reading………..

Today is 29th October- A special day for computer Networking

We all are living in the era of computer networking and today, we cannot think to live without it.

This is the day in 1969, when the first ever computer to computer link was established on ARPANET ( Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) in US.

The first message which was transmitted between computers was , “Login” but only the word “ L” and “O” were successfully transmitted from host computer to another computer before crashing of the system but then after one hour, the message is successfully transmitted.

The first message on the ARPANET was sent by UCLA student programmer Charles S Kline at 10:30 pm on October 29, from the campus’ Boelter Hall to the Stanford Research Institute's SDS 940 host computer. 

Another milestone occurred on Nov 22, 1977- The first date where three network transmission took place among SRI International, Menlo Park and University of Southern California via London , England and the network involved ARPANET , the bay area packet radio network and Atlantic Packet Satellite Network.

Rest is History now and we all are connected today because of this day.