WORKING SMARTER

                                                 BOOK READ ON 18-11-1985 TO 29-05-1986

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When I read any book, I scribble my comments / notes in the margins

These reflect my views / opinions about what the author is saying – including my disagreement

Often, my comments are in the nature of telling myself :

Hey ! We should try out this idea in our own business ( Head-hunting / Online Recruitment )

Following are my comments re :

WORKING SMARTER Jan 4, 1987

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Pg. No. 19

·         RBB              -        VN

·         PMM             -        PRC

·         KPB              -        SSA

·         KRS              -        AYD

-                 VSK

 

Pg. No. 27

·         Equally true of L & T!

 

Pg. No. 31

·         AYD RBB

 

Pg. No. 37

·         KC Let us plot last 10 yrs. Trend first

 

Pg. No. 44

·         Also true of Indian Business in Nov. 85?

 

Pg. No. 68

·         16 Dec  CMC

 

Pg. No. 119

·         Will also happen in L & T

·         No need for any “inspiring” unions must be told there cannot be any improvement in Quality-of-work life without these !! or rather both efforts must progress in tandem.

 

 

Pg. No. 120

We have a 0.8% point reduction in Absenteeism in Powai during 1985.

 

Pg. No. 125

·         Also typical of L & T in 1986 including beliefs of mgrs. and snps

·         This is why project Information share must begin soon (28-05-86)

·         Let us first learn to shave this with our managers!

 

Pg. No. 126

·         L & T can itself go the way of textile Industries in Bombay!

 

Pg. No. 128

·         How long external fears can induce participation last?

 

Pg. No. 135

·         Also true of Powai end-users of new bldgs. !

 

Pg. No. 136

·         The Key

 

Pg. No. 144

·         It is high time

·         We recognise this at L & T.

 

Pg. No. 145

·         The root of corruption

·         Yes minister

 

Pg. No. 148

·         In India up to one tenth less employees!

 

Pg. No. 150

·         The Key motivator

 

Pg. No. 152

·         Distribute amongst Quality control staff at Powai. (28-05-86)

 

Pg. No. 159

·         See film available with PGM’s office “People & productivity we learn from the Japanese”

 

Pg. No. 164

·         KC – PJP

Many productivity indicators for service areas. Distribute amongst PGM dept. Heads

 

Pg. No. 168

·         We can try in our canteen for many of the service areas under PGM.

 

Pg. No. 171

·         What can we expect when we introduce EPABX at Powai early 1887 ?

·         AMD PLA must put entire personal folder of each employee on micro for instant re call at random

 

Pg. No. 173

·         Part II of film we learn from the Japanese

 

 

Pg. No. 174

·         Attitude

 

Pg. No. 184

·         To obtain

 

 

Pg. No. 185

·         PJP

·         LPC? Local Productivity councils & productivity boards

 

Pg. No. 187

·         PJP can we compile similar of data for various L & T units locations / groups ?

 

Pg. No. 192

·         We in India are following the British Foot Steps.

·         Provided it is coupled with the removals of protection for the INPUTS viz money materials manpower machinery i.e. freedom to hire & fire any of these inputs and obtain these at the most competitive international price.

Pg. No. 193

·         Also equally true of a company

 

SANDBOX WISDOM / TOM ASACKER

 

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When I read any book, I scribble my comments / notes in the margins

These reflect my views / opinions about what the author is saying – including my disagreement

Often, my comments are in the nature of telling myself :

Hey ! We should try out this idea in our own business ( Head-hunting / Online Recruitment )

Following are my comments re :

SANDBOXWISDOM / TOM ASACKER Jan 2000

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Pg. No. 37

·         Will job – seekers “like” JAM because they world deal with it every day? Will they stop using it when they get a job? or, will they continue using-simly because everybody wants a “better” job?

 

Pg. No. 86

·         Hope

 

Pg. No. 89

·         Crucial

·         Ho-hum

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT / ERIC COLE

BOOK READ ON 02-04-1999 TO 08-05-1999

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When I read any book, I scribble my comments / notes in the margins

These reflect my views / opinions about what the author is saying – including my disagreement

Often, my comments are in the nature of telling myself :

Hey ! We should try out this idea in our own business ( Head-hunting / Online Recruitment )

Following are my comments re :

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT / ERIC COLE 25 April 2003

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Pg. No. 67

·         We can place our digital watermark in each “Function Profile Graph” along with a spyware (- a Trojan Horse?) that would send us the “email ID” of the corporate to whom the jobseeker sends his Image Builder. So over a period of time, we will come to know

a)    Email Id’s of thousands of corporates.

b)    Complete HISTORY of a jobseekers attempts at job seeking. To whom did he send his Image Builder & when as long as he keeps using Image Builder as an “attachment” to a covering letter or an attachment to Interactive Response page.

 

 

·         We should tell him upfront that such a HISTORY is being compiled which he ALONE can see / view, on his PERSONAL PAGE to keep track of his attempts & for him to follow – up with concerned corporates.

 

·         We must find out what Indian cyber law says about digital watermarking of images.

 

 

·         The (History) becomes his own “JOB TRACKING SYSTEM” !

 

Pg. No. 103

·         If this is the situation in U.S.A., it would be far worse in India (28-08-03)

 

Pg. No. 110

·         By Nov., we should have downloaded 5 lakh job-advts which could be analysed for statistical pa Herns

 

Pg. No. 112

·         Is our Image – Builder viewed in WORD ?

 

Pg. No. 113

·         “Image Builders” will fly freely in dozens between

a)    Recruit guru

b)    Corporates Jobseekers

No Suspicion will ever get aroused!

 

·         I am sure this graph can be made into a fractal.

 

Pg. No. 117

·         Profile graphs differ from Image Builder to Image Builder but our logo remains same on each & every Image Builder But once we provide facility to remove our logo & substitute with a placement Agency’s logo this is useless! Even a jobseeker world like to “remove” our logo before sending Image Builder to a corporate! So, we must hide our message in “Function Profile Graphs”

 

Pg. No. 123

·         Great

EXPERT SYSTEMS

                                                            BOOK READ ON 29-01-2004 TO 23-02-2004

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When I read any book, I scribble my comments / notes in the margins

These reflect my views / opinions about what the author is saying – including my disagreement

Often, my comments are in the nature of telling myself :

Hey ! We should try out this idea in our own business ( Head-hunting / Online Recruitment )

Following are my comments re :

EXPERT SYSTEMS / Jean– Louis Ermine 01/1995

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Page No. 11   
                                                     

·         In any expert system that we might decide to use we must have this “Explanation function so that our consultants {who are our “Human Experts”} can use this fool for building robust systems.

·         May be we need to buy a commercially available “shell” to start building-up of such a “Knowledge Base”

Page No. 12

·         This is precisely what we expect our Expert System to do viz: predict candidates “suitability” for a given position.

·         I have already written down a few such “probabilities” in relation to “appointment / selection” of Executives in different “vacancies / positions” in the form of IF/ THEN but hundreds mare can be Written!         

Sun Tzu Strategies for Selling

BOOK READ ON 12-09-2005 TO 20-09-2005

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When I read any book, I scribble my comments / notes in the margins

These reflect my views / opinions about what the author is saying – including my disagreement

Often, my comments are in the nature of telling myself :

Hey ! We should try out this idea in our own business ( Head-hunting / Online Recruitment )

Following are my comments re :

Sun TzuStrategies for Selling / TataMcGRAW-HILL / 16/11/2003

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Page no.6

·         I  Suppose this applies to job advertises as well. I doubt if any employer /placement agency,  posts job –advts, on more than 2/3 jobsites. We must find-out who is advertising on which. Such data may tell us “why?” Why do these companies.

·         Choose to advertise on these sites? Is this due to “low price”? Large resume data base? Any other service?

·         Hopefully partner website owners, will develop enduring relationships with local employers  from their home towns.(near less) that is why I plan to supply to each GR partner, data re: their local job advertiser.

Page no. 7

·         GR’S admin Tool will have several graphs

Page no. 11

·         May be I am

·         I suppose this is what I do most of the time while reading books find openings and theories that conform with my own views beliefs.