Enter..... Exit

Is this a entry or an exit?? .... the confusion will always be there. An interesting pic which really made me think.

Where is this leading to? I could'nt help thinking... what do you think?

Ciao till next time...Harsha

Of personality tests and communication lessons....

Had a day long classroom session at my workplace (Cypress Semiconductors) today. Was fashionably named as 'Working across organizational borders'- wonder who kept that name... sounded so MBAish.. I always wonder if at some point I could take such classes myself- give them fancy names and tell people how to speak on stage, how to make quick presentations, etc etc..

I personally feel that instead of classes, giving someone a book from say Dale Carnegie would do wonders! But, reading a book is not the most fashionable thing to do- one rarely hears anyone say that he spent his weekend reading something. It should always sound exotic, like- 'Yeah, went to this cool new pub that came up', 'Dinner at that chic restaurant with the hot female in our office', 'Oh... weekends went so fast- I had a lot of catching up to do with friends'.. ad infinitum.

Well, never mind- I did learn something new from the class- One of the things was classifying people into different personality types (well, I vaguely remember our MBTI, Johari window personality types.... but who listened at all that crap during MBA!). The classification given here was somewhat more crisp-

1. Director (D)- Person who attacks problems, expects simple solutions, looks at big picture more, does not like stories, etc....
2. Administrator (A)- Hard worker, the workhorse, drives things down to last minute detail, process oriented, etc..
3. Harmonizer (H)- The complete people's person, one who values relations more than anything else, this individual overcommits when it comes to satisfying his friends...
4. Catalyst (C)- One who comes up with ideas, looks at creative stuff, difficult for people to understand sometimes....
   

We had some simple questions to answer to discover our major and minor traits. Donno how effective these things are (I personally feel that this psychology study is more voodoo stuff than science!)... but was finally told I am sorta D/C (major trait D and minor trait C). Actually, I feel that one has traits from all four groups- it is very rare you find a person fitting exactly into one.

Well, anyways... this session took the whole day, had to stay back and work for sometime in office. Being in this personality classification mood- I started classifying everyone I met in office as - hey! this guy is A/H, she is H/A the other chap seems like a D/D, etc etc.... now, believe me this is unnerving. You are speaking to someone and suddenly you start asking those questions you answered in the class to come up with this personality classification thingy (people start wondering why Harsha has gone nuts- how do they know I am classifying them!).

Apart from all this, I had to run around the IT group to get my outlook fixed- my mistake actually. In midst of double tasking (classifying and working), I tried setting a 'Out of office' message on Outlook- as I am going back to NITIE for my presentations. But, somehow I ended up replying to a mail that had my name twice on 'cc' and 'to' fields- so, this triggered a vicious loop of 'Out of office' messages coming back to me... Yes, believe me 'strange things happen when you lest expect them'. Here I was in office at 8 PM on a Friday night trying to set my Outlook right... tut.

Coming back to Personality tests- here is one I just searched. Simple test which gives you complex answers. I tried one for kicks, why don't you try and tell me how you felt?! Do let me know from your comments!

Your Personality is Somewhat Rare (ESTJ)

Your personality type is serious, fair, independent, and competent. Only about 9% of all people have your personality, including 7% of all women and 11% of all men You are Extroverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging.

How Rare Is Your Personality?

Ciao till next time...Harsha

Spiderman- Make way for the desi Makkadman

Watched Spiderman 3 today. After spending nearly 720 bucks on the movie (180*4) at PVR Cinemas; expected a lot more from it! Except for the initial half and some parts in second half where Peter Parker interacts with his Aunt.. the whole movie seemed like a dubbing straight from our Karan Johar flicks..

I was left wondering if it was Shah Rukh Khan wearing a mask and playing Spiderman?! Especially in scenes where he romances 2 women, it became increasingly clear that the movie had strong undercurrents from our desi flicks...

After the movie, I had to console myself by watching this yet again amazing mimic from Webchutney (I am becoming increasingly enamoured by this amazingly creative group). Here comes the amazing spoof- MAKKADMAN!! Enjoi maadi...




Ciao till next time...Harsha

Random thoughts..

Some good quotes... I was aimlessly browsing, thought lemme share quotes from 2 enigmatic personalities- Oscar Wilde and Vince Lombardi..

Oscar Wilde-

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Vince Lombardi-

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Winning is not a sometime thing, it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.


Ciao till next time...Harsha