FACILITATING EXCELLENCE

“… Tadpole management is very time consuming. The tadpoles are total carnivorous, and can be raised on live tubifex worms. They will also readily eat each other, and there are two ways of dealing with this. The first is to place each tadpole into its own small jar, and the other is to place all the tadpoles into a large tank of water that is filled with masses of floating plants (real or plastic). Food can then be placed on the floor of the tank and the tadpoles will swim down, feed, and then swim back up to hide in the plants. Both methods require labor. The first involves changing dozens of individual jars to keep the water clean, and the other involves morning and evening siphoning of the large tadpole tank…” ( Source: http://www.anapsid.org/ornatabreeding.html ) And what about humans with traits of Tadpoles – I don’t think we can deny their existence around us. We come across people who love to pull the person down intending to rise to the occasion. They are happy creatin...

The art of sorting out the chaos or better still not creating one evades me at this point of time. Quite recently I was managing a project  which ended up with in  nothing less than chaos. I am not sure if what I started with will be able to deliver results. and i have been  introspecting. what went wrong, what could have gone better. I have a list of problems but when someone today asked 5 main reasons for not being able to achieve the target, I was vague. I did not like my lack of preparation to deal with the question and hence I wanted to use the Chaos Theory.  Chaos Theory basically tells you that very simple things can cause immensely complex things.  And I believe that was what went wrong with the project, the art of detailing, the lack of one common link, the mismatch in expectation, one oversight eventually led to the gap in delivery of the  entire project.  Chaos theory helps to see things in perspective and explain why of a situation...