Continuing with the tradition and great success (:$) of last week’s post, I present to you a song that played a part in making Sonu Nigam famous and hopefully which will do the same for me also?
Kuch Tum Socho…Kuch Hum Sochein…Phir Khushi ka Mausam…Aaaye…
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Enjoy…
This is not a 10-ways-to-ensure-that-your-boss-is-always-right post. I have not reached that enviable level of blogging as yet. There are actually bloggers around who constantly produce top-5-ways, best-7-methods, etc etc.
My post has just a 1-point agenda which will always work to ensure that your boss is always right.
OK before going into it, why should you be interested? I ll give you a simple answer. Because…the Boss “IS” always right. The only thing that you need to do is to get in line and make him know that you are absolutely behind him and whatever he needs will get done.
So when I use the word “ensure”, it doesn’t mean that you played any role in making the Boss right. Please don’t think you had anything to do with that. He has been and will always be right. “Ensure” is more about how you can let him know that you did as required and the objective was achieved. This may or may not be the project’s or the task’s objective but it certainly was the required objective as far as the boss is concerned. Isn’t that what really matters in the end?
So now that we have realized the importance of ensuring that your Boss “IS” always right and also learnt indirectly how to climb the corporate ladder, lets get down to the lesson.
I ll explain this with some illustrations. For any project you can really have just two methodologies. Yes this is a post on the theme of 1) What not to do… and then a drum-roll…and voila…2) The RIGHT way to do it. NO gimmickry…
Ok here is the first illustration…
As you can see, this the traditional way of doing things, not always successful. In fact mostly unsuccessful. In this approach, you would set up your project plan, time-lines, get approvals at different milestones, keep working hard which is synonymous to painting the target. Your boss will shoot the arrow at project closure which may or may not hit the bull’s eye. It mostly doesn’t. If it gets within the 20% range of the bull’s eye, it would be a successful project cos there is no such thing as a perfect project.
There is a variant of the above strategy where you would be holding the board and trying to catch that arrow after the boss has already thrown it . Agility plays a big role here. You have to follow the arrow and try to catch it at the center. Tough job.
If your project has multiple drivers or bosses, I wish you luck. You will need all of it. Such projects if applied with the above strategy could easily end up as the following….
So is there any better way? Something that is applicable to all projects? My friends, I am happy to tell you that there is and it might as well be the best management lesson you may ever learn. Thanks to a senior colleague of mine, I have a great solution. This will work perfectly in the worst of situations and will yield a 100% result. Yes 100% !!! I am not holding anything back. Do you want to know? Here it is….
Yes people. This is a proven and tested method. Build your project around what your Boss wants. Leave everything on one side. Your project management skills, plans etc. These are all irrelevant to the eventual goal. Follow the standard practices and show your sweat but ensure that you are drawing the bull’s eye around the arrow rather than hoping that your boss’s arrow hits the created and placed target board.
There you go. One of the best management lessons you could learn. You want to thank me? I am sure you know by now how you can do that? What are all self-employed part-time bloggers really looking for? I hope you get the message 
I can’t give any more hints or I wont get paid.
Thanks MAYG for the wonderful work with the illustrations and of course many thanks to one of my senior colleagues for yet another brilliant management lesson.
See you all at the top of the corporate ladder soon…I ll be waiting… 
Let’s bring back some great memories from one of the pioneers in Pakistani Pop Music, Vital Signs. I am humming away to their super-hit, “Aitebaar”.
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Enjoy…
Ok I might be a computer scientist, if that is what you call a MS in Computer Science, and I may have studied the higher level of mathematics and physics and what not but one thing baffles me even today? Okay let me lay it out in my language (layman’s 
get it…lay? )…
Why doesnt a fly stuck inside a car going at 120km/h not get splashed on the windscreen? or back screen depending no whether the car is going forward or in reverse :P?
Can somebody tell me? The fly is definitely not flying at 120 km/h. Neither is it staying still in the air at while flying at 120km/h…
It baffles me. What phenomenon of physics is this? Is this inertia? Wasn’t inertia about the front push we feel when standing in a bus and it comes to a halt?
Too many questions…no answers.
Dear readers, can any of you solve this mystery for me? Really appreciate it. Professor UTP is confused…
Leading from the post about UAE Traffic Jams, I thought I’d bring in something which could be a regular post every week. I have come up with the title Traffic Jammed Tuesdays for which I will use the MAYG-recommended short form, TJ-ed Tuesdays. No its not a podcast, which is something that I learnt very recently. Why am I always the last one to know about “in” things?.
Anyway, the idea is that since I have such a beautiful voice (NOT!) and I have a phone that can record sound and just to reiterate my traffic jammed life while going and coming from work, I have decided to record my singing (self-proclaimed) talent and make a blog post out of it every Tuesday. Thrilled? Of course you are not. At least all of you readers get a blog-post out of me every week? And one never really knows if there are people who like my kind of music and my voice you know…baysura (out-of-tune).
The songs would be sung in the most casual-est of ways of Radio/Stereo Humming with the song playing in the background and UTP trying to catch up and sing correct lyrics. There will be elements of SUR here and there in the middle somewhere. There would be beats off my thighs, there may be the infrequent motorbike passing by and the police siren as well but I assure you I will try to make my “performances” as entertaining as possible. Ignore the occasional yawn, burp, fart…apologies. I wouldn’t be able to pause recording due to those natural elements of life.
Anyway, this is a done deal and I am not hearing any negative criticism for this. Its my blog, I am allowed to do what I want right? Bear me on tuesdays and hopefully you will continue to come back to read the other stuff that I write from time-to-time. I mean if I keep at this, I should start to improve right?
Just to get started, here is the distorted version of “Kaash Aisa Koi Manzar Hota…” (Sorry Hariharan…:$)
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Enjoy…
Calling all Sports Fans out there. Being a wannabe die-hard sports fan myself and never passing on a sports discussion without having my say, I have finally decided to get a forum going. I already had UTP’s Sports Blog which I plan to get going again more regularly, I now present to you UTP’s Sports Talk Forums.
A few of my friends have been asking to work on some sort of a forum to have some serious discussions on various different sports. That always sounded like a great idea considering so much of heated discussions take place on sports while at work or while meeting up in the evenings with friends. I have always been exploring various options to get something of the sort going. The result is UTP’s Sports Talk Forums.
It is still in a BETA version as I didn’t want to delay the launch too much. It will be under constant improvement as it grows. I know how so many people love talking about various different sports. I can assure that you should be able to find your particular section of the sporting world and get started with a discussion. As the idea is in it’s nascent stage, feel free to get in touch with feedback or suggestions at sportstalk@umarpirzada.com
My main objective is to get together some serious sports fans who really want to speak their hearts out. This is by no means a commercial stint and I do plan to manage the people involved in discussions. Guests can come and read but the contributors will really be some die-hard fans. That should automatically mean some very timely discussions all around the year.
Spread the word and let it reach the people you know who would love to be part of such discussions. Lets help make a serious sports fans community. Looking forward to some action at UTP’s Sports Talk Forums.
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