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Monday, 17 August 2015
Thums Up's Tribute to The Indian Army!
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Facts about the Indian Army that will make you respect them even more!
The Indian army is the reason why we sleep peacefully at
night. We owe so much to these brave souls! But there's still so much we don't
know about our men of steel.
1.The Indian Army has about 53 cantonments and 9 army bases, spread across India
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2. The
government of the East India Company in Kolkata formed the Indian Army in 1776
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3.The Siachen glacier [5000mt above MSL] is the highest battlefield in the world, and this field is controlled by our very own Indian Army!
4. Our country has the biggest “voluntary” army in the world.
There is a provision for forced recruitment in the
constitution which has never been used because all serving and reserve personnel
actually opted for serving the country!
6.There are no provisions for reservations based on caste or religion.
So all those people who thought they could
get through the army tests easily because of how you were born. You are wrong!
The army recruits purely based on their overall merit and fitness based on
stringent tests and trials. This is not very easy.
7.The rare horsed cavalry regiment.
Our army’s horsed cavalry
regiment is among the last 3 regiments in the world.
8.The Indian army has built the highest bridge in the world.
This bridge is located in
the Ladakh valley between Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains.
It is called the The Bailey Bridge and it was built in august 1982.
9. Our army is one of the biggest contributors to the UN peace making operations
10.Soldiers of the Indian Army are considered among the best in jungle warfare.
We respect and thank
every single soul of the Indian army for their dedication to our motherland. Take
a bow Indian army!
This is one among all the beautiful videos giving a tribute to the Real Heroes of India
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Thursday, 13 August 2015
Tips to increase employee productivity
An article
in 2010 in the New York times cited a study form Daniel Gilbert and Matthew
Killings, who used an iPhone app to contact roughly 2,200 individuals asking
them what they were doing at the moment, and how they were feeling. They
received over 240,000 replies from this activity. The results: the people who
reported the highest levels of pleasure were having sex, when contacted.
Surprisingly 99.5% people were not having sex. They reported that their minds
were wandering. This actually means they were not focused in whatever they were
doing. Also those who focused reported higher levels of happiness than those
who were not.
Why are we not so focused?
The answer to this question and how to
remain focused can be found on the first few pages of the HBR August
2014-January 2015 edition.
According to
me, (in agreement with the article quoted above) we are not focused because we
don’t want to be. Unless an individual finds something motivating or
interesting enough to be spent time on, the individual tends to not focus. Thus
our minds wander, and we end up day dreaming. Some people rely on caffeine to
get their focus back. And some others jump on to the internet to get a break,
and then get back to what they were doing.
According to
a study (HBR-Aug2014-Jan15) People
spend 30-40% of their time at work attending to unplanned interruptions. Then, some more time is spent trying to get back their focus. This is because the number of tools of interruption is very high. Even during a meeting it’s
hard for employees to not check their smart phones, and not to stop their minds
form wandering. They think of everything except, for what is being
discussed at the meeting.
It’s not
that we humans can’t focus. We can. And we can do justice to being focused. The
reason why people avoid focus is because,
staying focused is hard work.
“Nature tends towards disorder. Focus imposes order. So focus requires energy. It requires work. It can hurt. And people often avoid work and pain.”- Edward Hallowell
So what’s to
do with this broken focus? When at work, if the mind is distracted, turn off
the distraction. I mean turn off the gadget. The mobile or the computer. One
can go to the lobby and just sit and
breathe. If there’s problem, find a solution till the bulb shines above
your head.
Get involved. Persist.
Spend as
much time as you can on the three most important things,
1- what you are good
at,
2-what you like to do,
3- what people will pay you to do.
At the
intersection of these three areas lies the area of happiness and the order to
disorder. When work is motivating and interesting one WANTs to go to work every
morning, getting stuck in the long line of loud traffic. One wants to be able
to sit late and work over a project. When work becomes pleasure, you will work
even if it hurts. Why? Because you are focused.
To ensure
the employees are focused they should have meetings, avoiding anything that is
distracting. The
conference room should be painted sliverish-gray, or blue, or green or purple,
to bring good thoughts and great ideas to the minds at the table.
Companies
could have a brief meeting every 2 hours about everything but work. Talk about music, art, movies, children,
pets, anything but work. This would calm the minds of your team and help
them come back quicker to what they were assigned to do. The risk here is too
much of fun talk may never bring them back. The time of such meetings should be
short and memorable, but never long and something for them to day dream about.
Laugh. Laughing is that cure to any irritation or
disorder. Where there is laughter there is health. To ensure that the minds of
your team are healthy, invest on ensuring that they laugh, as much as they can.
This can also be considered a physical exercise. Hire a stand-up artist to
office one day. Surprise them. Make them laugh. After all the laughing, focus comes automatically.
Organizing your
mind and your team’s minds will bring in a good payoff at the end of the year.
Adding high quality focus at workplaces is a great place for HR managers to
start working on.
After all,
good focus has the power to grow your business.
Monday, 10 August 2015
Football a religion; Feel the Game
Fans today follow a sport like it’s their
religion. Imagine the stress a player goes through at a crucial moment in a
game. Imagine how players feel when they get tackled by their opponent in a
soccer game. Well now you actually FEEL all this if you have the “ALERT SHIRT”.
Wearable
Experiments (We:eX) launches a revolutionary new technology in conjunction with
Foxtel and Che Proximity, to get fans closer to the action during the game.
Alert Shirt
The alert shirt is a fan jersey that makes
the wearer feel as though they are on the field. We:eX combines fashion and
technology for Australian football fans to give them an experience of what
players feel when they are playing the game. Foxtel and Che Proximity are
Australian broadcasting outlets that helped in integrating hardware, software
and design to help people connect to the television in a completely urban way!
How do you feel it?
The Alert Shirt takes game data and transmits it to an app; here the data again gets transmitted to electronics in the jersey via Bluetooth, thus converting the data to sensations and vibrations to mimic actions to those on the field.
Billie Whitehouse, Designer and Art Director
for We:eX says
“Your favorite fan jersey just got technical. Alert Shirt is completely
unlike any other jersey in the sports market. Wearable technology must be
intuitive and seamless within our daily lives, enhancing our life experience
while connecting us to other people and the world at large. Our new product is
a major first step in the right direction.”
The
Alert Shirt is that advancement in wearable technology that connects emotions
and feelings of a live action game among people over vast distances. This is a
technology that enables fan experience into the physical and brings them closer
to their team like never before.
Fans
can now feel the shock of being hit when players collide, a thumping heat beat
when the game is on the line, lungs burning every time the team puts in a hard
effort, the feeling of despair; the sinking feeling of every costly mistake and
of course the thrill when your player kicks a goal.
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