While on vacation, we were heading in a speed boat from a crowded beach towards the open sea, to watch the antics of dolphins. A beautiful black butterfly caught my attention since it was fluttering frantically to stay ahead of the boat—defying the mechanical speed.  Looking at the pretty, fragile creature, I was certain that it would get left behind soon. But on the contrary, it didn’t just reach the dolphin before us, but also circled over them playfully; though we had to be content from far.

That day, I learned one of the most useful facts of life, which has been explicitly expressed by Emerson: “DO the thing and you will have the power!” Perhaps that is oversimplification of a very profound fact of life.

Such incidents and statements always reinstate my faith in the power of thinking, and internal motivation for practically achieving the most difficult of deadlines/dreams/assignments/plans…. Some psychologists say that a person never uses more than half of his actual capability; others say that we are operating only at one-tenth of our capacity. But in any case, the very least we can accomplish is twice as much and it may amount to ten times as much. In other words, we are normally operating at only a fraction of our potential, and we can achieve much more just by trying…just by doing.

I have often challenged the performance limits of my team in HR—new properties’ staffing, simultaneous trainings, timely payroll preparation, PHE Examinations, pressing grievances, CSR projects, surveys, Star Rating, Newsletter, court cases, challans—all at one time!  Maybe the ego calls on the super ego, which in turn draws the necessary power from an omnipotent ultra ego. In simpler terms, the fact is that there is an unlimited supply of power and as we do the thing, we get the power to accomplish it. Although, we have not evolved sufficiently to know all the answers.

So, do not hesitate to strive and reach for the skies with the sure knowledge that whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.

Feather in the Cap

Capacity Building training for employee's with greater potential from House keeping department

Bird's View
Traffic jam

Does 'Traffic Congestion' happen in your daily life?

What causes the traffic congestion in places near you?

Have you ever got stuck in a traffic for more than an hour?

Which related issues do you think are caused by the traffic congestion?

What in your opinion should be the solution for this problem (traffic congestion) ?

Have you found an alternative way to avoid the traffic?

Survey monitored by :Nidhi Dixit.

Interface

Mr.N.K Chaudhary, (CMD), Jaipur Rugs Company pvt ltd shared his wise views with Ms.Geetanjali Singh from Clarks Amer.

Q-1.What is your vision for the rugs manufacturing organizations in India?
A-1. According to me two things are important in my industry :weavers and customers .As they have never faced each other, it is very necessary that they should understand each other so as to bring in a boom in this industry.

Q-2.How according to you is India placed , vis a vis foreign players?
A-2. It all started with Iran and Turkey, then in China. But it is closed now in Iran because the economy out there is not good, as well it is lesser in Pakistan.India is only place where we get a good market for our product.

Q-3.What are the opportunities and challenges ahead? How is 'Jaipur Rugs' gearing for it?
A-3. To be innovative according to the needs of customers ,to make supply chain efficient as well as also to undertake modern steps in the methods of preparing a product is what I feel is required. Also I would like to bring forward the Weavers Society as they have been neglected by our community since long.

Q-4. What is your company's strategy to sustain growth?
A-4. We have been fortunate enough to have 30% growth since last three years and to sustain this growth we follow steps such as human development, finding good people for our industry, try to change the rigid mindset of people from time to time, making lower level people efficient enough to solve the problems at their level so as to increase decision making power.

Q-5.Could you throw some light on the 'Cluster Approach' that you have adopted and how it is contributing to having an edge over competitors?
A-5. In Cluster Approach all the facilities come in for the weavers, such as, training for them and providing them resources from time to time as per the requirement.

Q-6.Can you highlight some of the initiatives you have undertaken which sets you apart from the rest?
A-6. We have started with two new concepts i.e Rural and Tourism Responsibility ---where we believe in the philosophy of 'athiti devo bhava' whereby the tourist can directly watch the making of the product as well as interact with them .Another one is Rural Natural Leader---this concept is basically concerned with the search of those villagers who are illiterate but are interested in working our industry so as to provide employment to the needy.

Q-7.What are your future plans in the pipeline?
A-7. The future plans are basically to reach out to the customers needs as always and also make them meet the weavers ,to provide more and more profit to the weavers ,development in infrastructure, to bring out innovations in the product ,to enable more and more jobs for the society.

Q-8.What is your philosophy in life?
A-8. My philosophy in life is ‘Finding yourself through loosing yourself, the more I loose myself, the more I grow.'

Q-9.Which is the most inspiring book that you would recommend to younger generation and budding professionals?
A-9. According to me ‘Good to Great’ and ‘Eighth Habit of Effective People' are the best books to be considered by younger generation.

Q-10. Any comments from your side for future prospect ?
A-10. Human beings should be down to earth, and life should be lead through out with simplicity.

Cheers

We congratulate members of Clarks family whose birthdays we celebrated in December'09 :Mr.Mandeep,Mr Kaushal Bhatia, Mr Rajeev Kholi, Mr.Harjeet Singh, Mr.Madhusudhan, Mrs Manju Majumder, Mr Bhagiratt Singh, Mr.Mahaveer paliwal, Mr Shiv Sharma , Mr Ram Kumar, Mr.Surendra Singh, Mr.Islam Md, Mr.Harish Minash.

We Congratulate: Mr.Vaibhav Tandon (Executive House Keeper) for his promotion.

We congratulate: Dr. Veena K Arora on her marriage anniversary.

Inspiration

Rich or Poor?

One day the father of the very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.

On their return from their trip,the father asked his son
“How was the trip?”

“It was great, Dad”.

“Did you see how poor people live?” the father asked

“Yeah,” said the son.

“So, tell me, what you learn from the trip?” asked the father.

The son answered: "I saw that we have one dog and they had four". We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end...We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond...We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food,but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us; they have friends to protect them.”

The boy's father was speechless. Then his son added, “Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are.”

Let us appreciate every single thing we have including our job,family,possessions,friends and this life too. Let us value all that we have and be content, which will lead to eternal happiness...

Role Play during a soft skills training in F&B Production department

Front Office team attending training on Transactional Analysis

The new Travel Counter has been started at Clarks Amer.

Feel the Future

PHE students expressed the following views during a discussion on—How to achieve my goals in life?

Every person must have a mission and vision in life out of which flow their goals for which they nurture themselves. Goals are generally short terms and they help in achieving long term objectives. Goals are necessary because they help in building self image and confidence.It should be small and should be achievable to begin with for eg..I had the goal of doing a course in hotel management from an institute of repute and with the preparation,I have succeeded so far. But the goal should not be so lofty that they become unachieveable, in reality.Then they distroy our will power and have a negative effect.

All of us don't have goals,which is sad but some of us do make certain goals in life and for achieving the goal there are a lot of proverbs which I find very useful –'hard work is the key to success'. But on the other hand we can't change our thoughts with the proverbs.We should be passionate enough to get to our goals instead of providing excuses such as lack of support from family or seniors .I think to achieve the goals of life we can make way from the stones which are thrown at us by people.

To achieve the goal of life firstly we have to decide our steps to achieve it and that should be according to our interest,our budget, environment of our society. Further after deciding the goal for life we should take actions to achieve it,we should work towards own goal with dedication and be focused rather than diverting minds from our goals.