PMP/IIT/IIM/Stanford may produce bad manager or engineer

PMP/IIT/IIM/Stanford may produce bad manager or engineer

If you are not driven by values or not courageous to do something great or not innovative or not helpful to the people or society; having degree is just like having one more paper in your hand.

How holding a certificate looks?

Let me tell you one small story which I realized and created after I started writing this blog…

There is big forest with different types of wild animals and few tigers are the leaders of the forest.

One day suddenly there was one announcement from the Parrot, announcement is like this: “This is tiger certification program announcement; people who haven't certified as tiger from the institute F-Tiger, may please apply for the certification and practice using the syllabus of the institution. Important note is; whoever gets certified will be treated as leaders of the forest”.

Hearing this news, real tigers started wondering – why do we need certification when we are born tigers?! Scared of losing the forest leadership; they decided not to ignore this certification.

So, they informed other tigers as well, all of them went to the certification center. There was so much crowd over there - many tigers, leopard, foxes, wolfs, cows and so on. All were standing in a queue to pay fee and collect the course materials.

Funniest thing was that, the certification center was headed by management who are all foxes!!!

So, these real tigers started working day and night for the exam. On the day of examination; the real tigers along with other animals appeared for the exam.

They had theory and practical exams, and went home. While returning, the real tiger group was not happy as they felt they didn't do well in the exam.

Finally result day came…!

Tiger Certification management (Group of Foxes) came out and announced, F-tiger certified candidates are: 3 Foxes, 1 Wolf and 1 Tiger.

So, guidelines were passed as- “from now on; only certified people will be the leaders of the forest”. The real tigers who failed in the exam felt bad and surrendered. Still they were wondering about the results.

The exam was more on Foxes and its activities, how come the Wolf and another Tiger cleared this exam? Reason was; that tiger and wolf went missing in the forest in childhood, and they grew up with the group of Foxes. So, they were habituated with all fox activities and life styles.

See this is how our current certification system instills fear, fakes and makes Foxes as Tigers and vice versa.

Our college education is sufficient to provide all aspects of the professional requirements. Those who are done with that, it's more than enough. Of course, there is a self-learning to enhance further.

Whereas this certification is like Fox groups creating fear and stealing money from masses. Pathetic thing is real tigers can't pass these stupid exams.

Sorry folks of PMP or ISTQB or CSTE or IIM or IIT or any, this is the truth and you too know about it.

Many of you are aware of this certification fever is going on in corporate sectors. As PMP gives good manager, ISTQB gives good quality engineer, IIT or Stanford give good Engineer, IIM/MBA gives good management administrator and so on.

If you think or believe that certification gives quality people? What about the below story

One of my friend scored 100% in ISTQB, it doesn't mean, he is a greatest QE on the earth. He was fortunate enough to get questions from the sample question paper he referred. Similarly, PMP or Stanford or IIT or IIM or ISTQB or Any…

Since I'm software quality engineer (QE), let me take my own field of certification: For one person to become a good quality engineer, he or she must be very creative, should have test to break attitude, should have logical thinking and investigative nature, should have burning desire in finding bugs and give quality, also capable to see one thing in different dimensions that results in many test scenarios. And he/she should never feel that testing is completed, that means; they should always think and act in different ways to break the application.

Similarly, PMP/IIM will never provide a great manager. If they really do that? then, my classmate who is a topper in college, he will score 100% in PMP/IIM. Whereas he is very weak in people management, communication and so on. If you consider only PMP/IIM gives? Give him a manager post! If you see only certificates, you are hiring one BOOK.

Let me give one real time example of the real manager or leader I witnessed.

I was constructing a farm building, and decided to hire the same person who constructed our home.

His name is Obanna, not Obama, it's OBANNA, he stays next to my village involved in building construction. He is a Mestri (Mestri in Kannada means lead in English) has around 4 to 5 teams working for him, each team varied in size: 10, 15, 20 so on. Construction happens in different geographical locations (villages or towns nearby). He manages all the teams through phone call (virtual management) and he will be physically present at one location. Workers under him are not stable, not professional, uncontrollable, uneducated, and have NO Loan/EMI’s 😊 but Obanna has a great skill in dealing with them, all the things happen as expected and as planned. How?

Reasons I have seen in him are:

1. He is aware of kinds of works and his estimations are clear on the teams.

2. He is aware of who is doing what or who can do what and how to get connected with them.

3. He knows - when to speak and when to act and when to be silent.

4. He is humorous and challenging too.

5. He had worked in many projects before he took leadership (not by certificates)

6. He maintains the balance between house owners/constructor’s and his team members.

7. Without big education (studied till 4^th standard in Kannada medium), he knew about; what is estimation, planning, team building, team outing, talent recognition, work and life balance, planning and so on.

I told him you are the real great manager I have ever seen, as you don’t even know what are workshops, management course, self-help guide and so on.  Obanna just laughed at me for my words.

What I observed in OBANNA is shown in the below image; i.e. he is a leader not a boss.

Have you ever noticed that trees and flowers growing in bushes and wild are more beautiful and stronger than the garden grown? Same is here, some of the certified people just look like cropped garden plants, they look like robots. You know how robots function; they can’t think, they can’t be creative, they can’t be dynamic, they are just work based on algorithms and its instructions.

Life is dynamic, it's like a running river, every second it changes, that is its nature. No certification will help you in corporate to grow company to the higher level. Start identifying people who are creative, skilled and talented from the masses.

Real leaders or experts come from masses, their creativity is not certified by institutions. Of course, institutions try copying them and produce content (copies/slave) in later stages. Example: IIM Ahmedabad doing case study on Bollywood blockbuster 'Baahubali' movie which was directed by S. S. Rajamouli, what is S.S Rajamouli’s education and which certifications he has…

Take few examples:

A. R. Rahman in music, Raja Ravi Varma in Arts/Painting, Lata Mangeshkar in playback singing, Sachin Tendulkar in Cricket, Diego Maradona in Football, Rabindranath Tagore in Literature, what is their academic score in related subjects/skills, did they pursue any certification before they become popular in that field?

Let's see these people’s qualification:

Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Indira Gandhi, Narendra Modi, what is the score of these people in political science subject. Do you think that certification helped them to achieve success? Never. If someone thinks so, I don't know what to say to them.

Many corporate employees, out of fear, are running behind PMP, ISTQB, CSTE and many more certifications. These certification companies encash this fear. If certification is the measurement then CEO or business owners should have 100’s of certificates. But most of the successful leaders are college dropouts!!!

List of entrepreneurs who dropped out of college:

· Michael Dell, Dell founder, dropped out at 19

· Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dropped out at 19

· Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, dropped out at 19

· Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, dropped out at 20

· Evan Williams, Twitter co-founder, dropped out at 20

· Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, dropped out at 20

· Larry Ellison, Oracle founder, dropped out at 20

· Jan Koum, WhatsApp founder, dropped out at 21

· Travis Kalanick, Uber founder, dropped out at 21

· John Mackey, Whole Foods founder, dropped out at 22

Source: https://blog.adioma.com/entrepreneurs-who-dropped-out-infographic/

To hire real tiger or real creative or real leader. As per many CEO’s and great leader suggestion; “don’t look for institutions or certifications, look only for skills”.

If someone is looking into Caste/State/Language/Education/Certificates while hiring, soon or later that organization will vanish.

Employers – here is your choice:

1. Which chef food is good, to run your restaurant successfully? hire the real cook instead of certified chef.

2. Improve the manger hiring process, like for employees you ask manager reference, get team members reference for the manager from previously managed companies, conduct some checks on how he or she was managing. Later take a call on hiring them. If you hire based on certification then better hire one book or robot, it may be equivalent to it.

3. Don’t make everyone as Tech head or Manager, just because they have worked for many years in the organization. In that case you need to give preference to the walls and doors of the office, they too stay longer with office.

4. Remember, while hiring – watch CEO’s type of behaviors in hiring employees, ownership attitude, and commitment. They are the only possibility to take company to the next level, Learn from Google, Facebook and Microsoft.

a.For Identifying leaders watch: Leadership (must watch !!!) - TD Jakes - Complete

b.For unbiased hiring of Google watch: Google’s 4 rules and How We Hire

c. The Most Successful People Explain Why a College Degree is USELESS

5. Is manager real or not? You should identify them by the employee survey (who got highest rating). Not by the PMP/IIM MBA.

6. Is engineer real or not? You should identify them by their innovation which will generate revenue (not a non-sense innovations). Not by degrees of Sanford or IIT or any. That is the reason I say Sanford, PMP, IIM, and IIT may produce bad manager or engineer.

7. Please don’t give leadership positions in corporate; just because they returned from America or they have American citizenship. If donkey stays 10 years in America it may also get citizenship. What is the use? Its having all its core nature. That’s why Benjamin Franklin said as: “Some People Die At 25 And Aren't Buried Until 75”

From which school or which certification these people have - Albert Einstein, Aryabhata, Archimedes, Thomas Alva Edison, Isaac Newton. School or college can produce disciplinary or machine type of people, creativity is born outside of the school. Height of stupidity is to find creativity in school or college or certifications.

Tell me what you will do, with the below people:
1. PMP/IIM certified manager receives least rating in employee survey.
2. Java/Python certified person not able to fix a bug or understand the code or logic.
3. ISTQB/CSTE certified person not able to find the bugs in application or a product.
4. Sales/Marketing certified person not able to sell or market the products.

5. Certified musician or art person not able give good art or music to the world.

6. Certified chef not able to cook a real delicious food.

Creativity comes not by certification, many institutions have tried and failed. Reason is the certifications will teach mainly on earlier successful scenarios. Life is dynamic, it changes its routes, ways and dimensions in every single minute. Only creative people get along with it and get success. Not certified people.

If you guide someone to take one route, and if s/he gets blocked in that route, s/he will ask for help, whereas creative person find the alternative routes and reach the destination.

Author: GCV (Vishnuvardhana GC)

• Kannada Blogger

Kereya neeranu Kerege chelli

Author Disclaimer:

I’m not a robot to be constant, consistent and complete, I’m a normal human and my blog will be contradictory like director give multiple movies have different opinions on the same subject or different subjects. I flow like a river, I really don’t look for sand, rock, trees, house, and so on. Intention is helping as many as possible before reaching the ocean. I strongly recommend to consult expert’s advice to follow and adopt any methods. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. 

Brain Pollution

Brain Pollution

Stay away from your polluted colleagues/friends/Public, just one meeting or tea time or lunch break is enough for them to pollute your brain!

To know more about this brain pollution continue reading…

You all know, what are the different types of pollution we have today; Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Soil Pollution, Thermal Pollution, Radioactive Pollution, Noise Pollution, Light Pollution, so on. These pollution harmful to the mankind and organisms. 

I think today more harmful pollution is “Brain Pollution”, this harm greater than any other pollution.

What Pollution means? The presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects OR it is act of contamination with unwanted substances or factors,and so on.

Now a days there are few tools that are helping to spreading Brain pollution very efficiently and effectively.

Let me name out those tools: WhatsApp, Facebook, NewsApps, TV, NewsPapers So on.

You may be wondered by seeing above name as Brain pollution tools, yes they too can seriously affect your brain and pollute in such a way, you feel almost irreparable.

Other sources of pollution may come from direct contact of your colleagues, friends, neighbors, and public.

Before going to see the transformation of pollution, let me give one example:

You all know current or electricity how it works and its applications; if you use it for bulbs it give light, use it for agriculture it gives food, use it for entertainment it gives joy, use it for health equipment’s it gives health and life.

Similarly; if you use it in negative way; it fires the building, it destroys food, it disturbs people, and it kills people.

Assume your brain is a beautifully blossoming flower what it needs? It needs good condition, good thoughts, good feeling, and good care, to make it happy. And in return it makes you happy.

How social media causes brain pollution:

We all know WhatsApp, Facebook, News all are helping us, those are helps us earlier, in recent days they are disturbing us, They spread.. Minimum one rape, one murder, one accident, one sad or corruption story. You have no business with these things, still by seeing them, you’re mental and physical health gets disturbed and your brain get polluted.

That is why I call this as a brain pollution, since it has harmful or poisonous effects like other pollution.

Its Monday morning you are so fresh, so happy and so energetic and going to the office. Let’s see how and what different types of pollution impact you get thru whatsapp/facebook/any media:

• Msg1: Huge Traffic Jam: immediately you get stressed, started screaming, started worrying.
• Msg2: Accident: immediately you get worried, started scolding on things and get disturbed.
• Msg3: Company XYZ firing employees: suddenly you stated thinking about future, feared, depressed.
• Msg4: Murder/Terror attack: you get angry, anxious, burning, scolding criminals and society.
• Msg5: Rape: you are feeling sympathy, crying, feeling bad, and showing hatred on the rapist.

Watch carefully all these events happened may be far far away from you, the reaction of physical mental and emotional things are happened inside you just by the news or images you received.

In early days all are living very peacefully by thinking world is peaceful, now because of electronic media; if murder happens in Syria media make you to feel the blood on your face.

If it continues, in future we need more neurologists, psychiatrists than the physical health doctors.

Now a days many TV channels are become direct pipelines to pass Brain pollution, more pathetic thing is people paying money to get polluted.

Try one week by leaving WhatsApp, Facebook, TV, News paper, negative talking people, I'm sure you'll feel more relaxed, more healthy and more energetic that week.

Or

Try completely ignoring negativity and not talking single word about it, from any negative source, you feel so relaxed, cool and calm.

In office assume someone get disturbed by someone; immediately he or she started spreading negative news about them, other person who is cool with all get polluted by listening these words started looking them in prejudices way.

Some idiotic people their job is just to give some negative news about somebody, they will be waiting for every opportunity; like casual meet, tea time, lunch time, so on, and they enjoy the moments of gossiping. The person who get all nonsense news from them, he get disturbed and suffer with brain pollution.

Some are BPE’s (Brain Polluting experts) they always say like this: this office is bad, this person is bad, that team is bad, this city is bad, this work is bad, and this life is bad. If you stay with them, it’s like you will be living in Brain polluted Slum.

You may get question what if I don’t get that important news and lose something?

Don’t worry you lose nothing, reasons; you got nothing!? You are living in assumptions like you earned many things, in your earned so called many things, nothing will come with you when you about to depart.

Akka Mahadevi female Mystic 12th century, she said: If something coming tomorrow let it come today. If something coming today let it come now.

See the daring statement of her, how she welcomes the danger, how brave she is!!!

Every single thought has its own effect on our body and surroundings too, let me bring one quote of Sathya Sai Baba: Be Good, Do Good and See Good.

What to see what not to see? What to get what not to get? Choice is yours…

Negativity: Death and disturbance 

Positivity: Life and laugh

See what today’s science saying now? I recently get to know that water has a memory, it remembers everything you put in it, and it’s like a liquid software.

Do you know water changes the structure based on our thoughts, Yes its 100% true.

Dr. Masaru Emoto, Japan, conducted experiment on it, he freeze drops of water, and took photographs of individual water crystals that formed.

See how water structure formed based on our thoughts.

Our bodies are 70% of water, with the above experiments we get to know that water is responsible for every thought and emotion, by having great and good thoughts and emotions, we can convert every atom inside and outside as good as possible.

What is today’s life style, what people do- when having food; You watch horrible news, you talk some social problem, you see crime stories, and you think all other negative things.

For the good health, another tip is, have good thoughts or pray before consuming food or drinks, which will go into our stomach with good shape, to keep us good.

Stay away from Brain pollution and BPE's, this is more dangerous pollution when compared with any other pollutions.

Why you need to get polluted and started spreading that pollution to others you know. Beware of negative people, negative messages and BPE's.

Stop spreading Brain pollution, Start spreading good things.

Early days this brain pollution is not so easy job, now the electronic media and digital transformation makes this pollution spread more faster.

If death is coming, let it come, stop living with the fear of death. Dying once is much better than dying daily.

Enjoy every moment you spend, enjoying every food you eat, enjoy every breath you take, enjoy every place you visit, ignore negative news and messages, disconnect from negative news spreading groups, unfriend negative message spreading people, stay away from negativity and BPE's.

Note: Negativity you can delete from your mobile, its not possible to delete from brain. Be conscious avoid non-sense.

Author: GCV (Vishnuvardhana GC)

• Kannada Blogger

Kereya neeranu Kerege chelli

Author Disclaimer:

I’m not a robot to be constant, consistent and complete, I’m a normal human and my blog will be contradictory like director give multiple movies have different opinions on the same subject or different subjects. I flow like a river, I really don’t look for sand, rock, trees, house, and so on. Intention is helping as many as possible before reaching the ocean. I strongly recommend to consult expert’s advice to follow and adopt any methods. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. 

Stop Jumping Start Digging

Stop Jumping Start Digging

No policies of the company in this world are bad. May be implementation is bad. Or implementing heads may bad.

All companies are good and have good policies, I’m not talking on benefits. Benefits are varied based on the value we create with our work or product.

You want more benefits, create more values!

You might have noticed; those who desperately trying to save money, they will be always running zero balance or shortage of money. Similarly you might have noticed people who are spending more for charities or helping others are getting or earning more money.

I think the super natural power or god’s formula works like this:

• If you want kindness, give more kindness.
• If you want appreciation, appreciate others.
• If you want help, help others.
• If you want money, give money to the needy.
• If you want love, give more love.
• If you want disturbance, disturb others.

As Swami Vivekananda said: If you project hatred and jealousy, they will rebound on you with compound interest. No power can avert them; when once you have put them in motion, you will have to bear them. Remembering this will prevent you from doing wicked things.

      Let’s take an example: You are a construction worker and you are creating value with your work, may be for each construction your consolidated contribution will be one room. In the same field construction designer is also working and creating value, he is designing the whole building or campus, when compared with value creation of the ordinary worker, designer’s value creation is more. Obviously the pay will be more.

    

    Similarly you might have wondered: fortune companies or product companies are paying more, it indirectly says that they or their products create more value, than others.

     

      For more clarity take an example of Google; how many millions of people, every second hits and gets the solutions from it, apparently its earnings also more. The blog you are reading now is also served by Google.

    

     You want more to come, create more values, doing same things every day, in future you will be getting same what you are getting right now and you will continue to get the same. Do something that creates value and forget about getting something back, God have very good auditing system, he make sure that you will be receiving it here or somewhere or from someone for sure, and don’t try for immediate results.

      

      Like you are sowing seed today and expecting tomorrow that should grow as a big tree and give some fruits or flowers. Which will never happen, if you look for that, you will be getting more stress, more angry and anxiety. Always you will be living with unhappiness.

     

  What is Stop Jumping Start Digging?

    Digging 30 feet, and going to other place digging 30 feet, going to other place digging so on, wouldn't help you much. Digging at the same place 60 or 90 feet may help you to get some water. (Again don't take it literally, place to place water availability is varied, similarly company to company positions or benefits given will be varied, again it is also based on the values it create)

    

      If you are digging at desert, even by digging 1000 feet also may not help you, in those cases, better look for other place where you can find water. In these cases realizing early will help you.

   

   Some people are doing bungee jumping from product to product, company to company, so on. Many will get the ground hit, some will be reaching the water, and so on.

    

    Life is not about the money and money is not the only requirement to be happy. If money gives happiness? People living in palace or mansions should always be happy. If you compare happiness of these people with the people living in huts. You will be wondering by seen the results.

     

    For the happiness your mind is the creator, materials may not help much; if beach gives happiness, in the same beach you can see the people crying. If graveyard gives sadness, in the same graveyard you can see some people feel happy. Happiness is not material dependent, if you realize the truth behind it, you will get more clarity on it.

    Everything is inside you! You can create what you want, if you stick with materials for the happiness. Make sure the same material will make you sad, once you lost or lose it.

    

     Coming back to the point; instead of doing bungee jumping from companies to companies, report the flaws in policies implementations of the company, help to improve the organization, again it’s a value creation from your side.

      It’s a warzone you are here do something, don’t run away! Face it and get it.

    Note: I mean warzone means you don’t need to fight with weapons, use love and kindness as your weapons.

     I’m not saying you need to be killed or destroyed by blind love and kindness; let me remind you, one more sayings of Swamy Vivekananda: Everything is conscious which rebels against nature; there consciousness is manifested. Just try to kill a little ant, even it will once resist or fight back to save its life. Where there is struggle, where there is rebellion, there is the sign of life, there consciousness manifested.

            

How and where to create value to get happiness or money:

1. Do something in your current project or product, which will help your team or customer.
2. Do something or suggest something to the organization, which will help your organization or its employees.
3. Help your peers which create value to the organization and your team or other team members.
4. Help strangers by suggesting routes, or by providing info which they need.
5. Try to create Apps or algorithms which solve or eliminate many manual works or repeated works.
6. Identify yourself with some social networks and do service to the mankind.
7. Show Love, Show kindness, Show empathy, which makes others happy.
8. Love and serve the Animals, Birds and Nature, without them you are nowhere.
9. Last but not least; Expect Nothing and Do Something.

Author: GCV (Vishnuvardhana GC)

• Kannada Blogger

Kereya neeranu Kerege chelli

Author Disclaimer:

I’m not a robot to be constant, consistent and complete, I’m a normal human and my blog will be contradictory like director give multiple movies have different opinions on the same subject or different subjects. I flow like a river, I really don’t look for sand, rock, trees, house, and so on. Intention is helping as many as possible before reaching the ocean. I strongly recommend to consult expert’s advice to follow and adopt any methods. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being.