Me Myself and I

After two engagement ceremonies and 800+ km of travel rocked and rolled my last weekend, it was time for blues. The Monday morning blues. A cacophony of alarm, wakeup calls, motivating speeches and dreadful thoughts of impending deadline finally made me see the light of the day. The ever ticking clock showed 10 when I finally relented to the call of duty. When I hit the road all roads seemed to lead me back home. By the time fear showed me the path to my office, my colleagues had almost finished half of their day. Whatever was left of pre-lunch session was effectively killed by reading e-mails and e-newspapers. After a heavy brunch, I started taking stock of things. The work to be finished seemed like a mountain and being true to my homo sapien instincts, I started looking for an escape route. I tried few things to forget work for a while like smoking, gossiping, frequenting toilet, reading news papers etc. but my conscious mind faithfully kept on beaming the picture of impending doom....

Today I attended a very interesting training session conducted by folks from our training department. Much to my surprise our country head took 30 minutes of his precious time to enlighten us on our organization's mission, vision and values as part of this training. The entire session was extremely well conducted and was highly interactive. Other than the intended objectives of his talk, we also got few tips on effective communication by just watching him. During his discourse, he conducted a small quiz. He read out mission statements of few organizations and asked us to identify the names of those organizations. I found this very amusing. Following are few interesting samples. "To give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same thing as rich people" -Wal-Mart "To solve unsolved problems innovatively" -3M (The inventors of widely used post-it notes and Sellotape) "To make people happy" -Disney "To preserve and improve human life...