10 workplace blunders to avoid

1: Say or write anything you don't want someone to know

You have zero expectation of privacy at work and should therefore assume that anything and everything is being recorded for all eternity and will come back to haunt you at the worst possible time. That includes emails, phone calls, even hallway or parking lot conversations.

2: Over-apologize

We all make mistakes and it’s always good to fess up, but in business, you can go too far and actually make matters worse. If it’s a minor issue, just a quick “sorry about that” is fine. If it’s a big screw-up, apologize in private, face-to-face. Look the guy in the eye, say your piece, and be done with it. If you want confirmation, then ask, “Are we good now?” Don’t grovel, make promises you can’t keep, or anything else. Just man-up and leave it alone.

3: Take your smartphone to the bathroom

Hopeless addiction to smartphones, needing to stay connected 24×7, and being constantly pressed for time do not belong in a place where flushes can be heard on the other end of the line or, God forbid, the thing can drop into something wet, white, and porcelain. Leave it in your pocket and if it rings, have the good sense not to answer.

4: Cross swords with your boss, your boss’s boss, or any other boss

Too many of you just don’t get how civilization, organization, or the lack of either — which we affectionately call the jungle — works. You simply don’t square off with your boss or anyone in the chain of command. If you lose, you lose; if you win, you still lose. It’ll end badly and reflect badly on you no matter how it goes down. If you want to know how to deal with a bad boss, click the link.

5: Go looking for trouble

If you’re in a bad mood or pissed off at somebody, walk it off or treat yourself to a nice greasy donut or something. If you go looking for trouble, however, I can almost guarantee you will find it and it won’t end well for you. Don’t pick fights, push buttons, or otherwise give anyone a hard time. It’s called acting out, it’s childish, and it’ll stunt your career, big-time.

6: Make commitments you can’t keep or exaggerate your ability or influence

And don’t lie, either. The more straightforward and genuine you are, the smoother your career — and your life, for that matter — will go. Do what you say you’re going to do and leave the BS for the other guy. Your credibility will grow, people will count on you for more and more, and off you go.

7: Get angry, abusive, combative, or loud in an open or cubicle area

Admittedly, I was often guilty of this back in the day. It wasn’t acceptable then and it’s not acceptable now, but at least then, it was a relatively common occurrence. These days, you stand out like a big bully. And nobody likes a bully.

8: Say or do stuff people really don’t want to hear or see

“Too much information” might be a bit subjective, but there’s a common sense line you shouldn’t cross.

9: Act like a whiny, PITA negatron

If you’re a big crybaby, nobody will want to have anything to do with you. It’s ironic, but those who do all the complaining are the ones who make the workplace a living hell, not the people or stuff they’re always whining about. Think about it.

10: Talk trash about a coworker to anyone, anywhere on company property

You can be sure it’ll get around and come back to bite you in the end. Save it for friends, your spouse, or better still, the dog.

‘Anna’rchy or Democracy?

I was amazed to see a person in his late 60’s talking about Anna in a local train at Tambaram amidst shouts of Tea, Coffee and Samosa and guess – what? He don’t know about Jan Lokpall bill.

Thumbs up to Anna and his team for bringing the 2 India’s together, which is rare to see in our nation except on the occasion of cricket matches. The moment had gathered support not just from the upper middle class, it goes – well beyond the dabbawallas of Mumbai. But is this what the ‘Nav Nirman India’ wants?

It is a clear undermining of democracy, you cannot dictate legislation. This moment is setting a wrong precedent for the largest democracy of the world. 64 years of democracy in peril. Anna saying this as a second freedom struggle is turning our first freedom struggle a farce.

I wish to use the few lines from the shobhaa De’s blog. It goes like this “Anna is the messenger. Not the message. The cause is far bigger than the individual. Take away those TV cameras, and front page coverage, and see what happens. Everybody is jumping onto the Anna bandwagon, even those who don't quite know what this is all about. Let's not confuse issues and personalities.”

I see people having placards stating “I am Anna”, “I support Anna”. Is this what the issue is? Team Anna fighting for a good cause, by mistake are polarizing the community – those who support Anna and those who don’t. I feel pathetic for those kind of people who spew venom on social networking sites for speaking against Anna and his team.

It’s a mere desperation of people of India to fill someone as their leader and he came at a right time to fill the vacuum, Anna - Self proclaimed Gandhian. Ufff…Please leave Gandhi here at least. A Gandhian never shows disrespect by burning copies of Lok Pall bill passed by the parliament. Anna quick to react, I believe in parliament, but not in parliamentarians. What does it means or to infer? Are people of India, so stupid to elect people – who are not trust-worthy? So, Anna doesn’t believe us either? But he wants our support. People today are in streets not for Jan Lok Pall bill, they are in streets due to frustration from corruption, price rise and for a change. Gandhi can make Dandi, a place unknown to a historical place. Why not Anna accept the condition as JP Park as a fast venue instead of RamLila Maidan? Well, Cameras - light up bright in Ram Lila maidan!

A Gandhian strategy – Some people in team Anna are Kiran Bedi - former IPS officer, Arvind Kejriwal - social activist, Prashant Bushan – noted lawyer, Shanti Bushan – former law minister in the Morarji desai cabinet, Manish Sisodia – former Zee news producer and Shazia Ilmi – former lead anchor with Star News. A good set of recipe for the perfect climax. Strategy followed, no breaking news or important press conferences on Saturdays and Sundays. This is when no debate takes place, because lead anchors take a day-off and channels run pre-recorded shows. Also during the 2.30pm and 7.30pm slots, when the vernacular channels runs saas – bahu news and sports news respectively.

At the end, does Jan Lok Pall Bill ends Corruption? A big ‘NO’ – Leave the Lok Pall bill, even the Jan Lok Pall bill, touches the creamy layer of executives. PM, judiciary – well another parallel government in running. The bill doesn’t cover what an ordinary citizen of India is looking for. It doesn’t stop a traffic constable taking bribe on the roadside accountable or freedom from touts in the railway station or a person taking bribe for changing the caste certificate from FC to BC, why not MBC? The bill doesn’t cover either the corporate big houses. Why the creamy layer of executives? This is the place where the decibel levels are high.

I was really surprised to hear Prashant Bushan – one of the minds behind the Jan Lok pall bill, talking about the referendum in a news channel. He went a step forward to pitch on the Indo – US nuclear deal. Country like India, where the sizeable chunk are illiterate, do they know the complexities involved on these issues. Tomorrow, lets have a referendum on Kashmir, Telengana and also, why not on the budget of our nation?

The GOI is to be blamed for such a mess in the society and also a leaderless opposition.

We can really hope better sense prevails and the issues are highlighted in a way they are to be raised and not on personalities. Jai Ho India!

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What will Infy Do After they are Gone?The rock stars of Infosys are getting ready to leave the stage to a new band of boys.

Chandra Shekar Kakal may not be known widely to the outside world, but at Infosys Technologies, he is the leader of 12,000 people bringing in business worth over $1 billion. But there is a more important reason why this vice president of enterprise solutions must be watched. He is among the handful of future leaders who will shape the new Infosys in the next decade or so. He is one of the faces the world must get used to once the company’s iconic founders bow out in deference to age and change. But Kakal should do just fine. His mentor? Narayana Murthy himself!


 
Subhash Dhar, Ashok Vemuri, V. Balakrishnan and B.G. Srinivas, all Kakal’s peers, are now coming under the same limelight. These five are among a band of leaders being groomed to take over from the founding team of Murthy, Nandan Nilekani and S. “Kris” Gopalakrishnan.


Imagine being asked to lead the Roman Empire after Augustus. Infosys is no ordinary company; its reputation is globally enviable. Its leaders enjoy an iconic status. Inside the company, they virtually have a demi-god status. “They are brands and personalities of their own. It will be extremely difficult for anyone to replace them,” says Sudin Apte, country head of research firm Forrester.
As if that wasn’t tough enough, the new leaders would be required to develop their own script for running Infosys. If that means overturning the precepts under which Infosys has been run until now, so be it. This new band of boys is already tweaking the so-called Murthy Doctrine — a financial model that has invariably helped the software giant beat market forecasts over and over again. 
It will be one of the most keenly watched corporate transitions in recent times — and one that is fraught with huge risk. Not without reason. No other promoter group perhaps has caught the public imagination in Indian corporate history in quite the same way as Infy has. The story of how seven middle class engineers created Infosys in Pune in 1981 with a modest seed capital of Rs. 10,000 is now part of business folklore. Yet, in five to seven years, practically all the promoters will no longer be involved in the day-to-day running of the company. That’s something Murthy had scripted back in 1998. He ordained that all founders would step down from operational roles when they turn 60 and leave the board at the age of 65.


Starting August 20, 2011, when Murthy will retire, the old guard will start putting more and more of Infosys in the hands of the new leadership. Within the next decade the remaining founders, who are now in their mid-50s, will start retiring too. The bench of leaders is already deep. Infosys Leadership Institute (ILI) has helped the company’s board to identify 50 senior executives. The founders as well as Infosys veterans Mohandas Pai and Srinath Batni each will groom a few of them. Kakal is one of the eight people being mentored by Murthy. “The key that we look at is consistent performance, because that gives a good indication of his ability to run a long-term marathon. The second, is he building something which is of long-term value?” says Girish Vaidya, who heads ILI.

Start YOUTUBE Videos From A Specific Time

Simply grab the embed code and then modify it just a little to make the video start at the point you want. Here's how to do it:

Copy the YouTube code you want to embed from the video information column on the YouTube video page. Paste the code into your text editor to make the changes.

Add &start=180 to the end of the YouTube video URL in both places inside the embed code (replacing 180 with the number of seconds you want to start inside the video). This will cause the video to start playing from that many seconds when a person clicks play on the embedded video.

If you want to automatically start the video, you also need to add &autoplay=1 to the end of each URL as well, which will cause the video to start playing from the point inside the video as soon as the page loads.

Using Task Scheduler to schedule the computer to shut down and restart at a specific time

Click Start, Run and type control schedtasks
Double-click Add Scheduled Task. The Scheduled Task Wizard starts. 
Click Next. 
 
Under Click the program you want Windows to run, click Browse. 
 
In the Select Program to Schedule dialog box, locate the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder, locate and click the Shutdown.exe file, and then click Open.
Under Perform this task, specify a name for the task and how frequently you want this task to run, and then click Next.
Under Select the time and day you want this task to start, specify a start time and date for the task, and then click Next.
Type the user name and password to run this task under, and then click Next.
Click to select the Open advanced properties for this task when I click Finish check box, and then click Finish.
Click the Task tab. In the Run box, specify any additional parameters that you want to use with Shutdown.exe. Click OK.

Important: In the 10th step, you need to add the parameters for the Shutdown.exe command. To immediately shutdown the system (0 second timeout), the command-line would be:

shutdown.exe -s -t 00

To reboot the system immediately, this command:

shutdown.exe -r -t 00