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#20 November 1, 2013<br />
In this issue…<br />
12 ideas to become a pro<br />
in CELEBRATIONS at<br />
workplace<br />
Nothing Serious:<br />
Celebrate NEGATIVITY<br />
2-4<br />
5-7<br />
Inner Celebrations 8<br />
AIMA – IMCI Delhi news 9<br />
Quotes: Celebrations 10<br />
Advt. Pages 11-12<br />
Dear Readers<br />
During these times of festivities and<br />
celebrations, lets open our head and<br />
heart to others for simple uncluttered<br />
enjoyment.<br />
Start MAG – My Actions Game to<br />
become a better being.<br />
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C<br />
E<br />
L<br />
Celebrate festivals<br />
Create your work place the best place for<br />
cultural and regional harmony. Celebrate festival<br />
of each team member in the manner in which<br />
he celebrates it at home. Enjoy the depth and<br />
diversity of India.<br />
Enthuse people with your smile<br />
You will use lesser facial muscles and create a highly<br />
relaxed and enthused environment. What you give<br />
to people will be passed on to others too.<br />
Learn together<br />
Drop your pretensions. You are not semi-God.<br />
You have your limitations. Be willing to work on<br />
them. Be active and ready to learn new things<br />
from people around you. This will make them<br />
grow in confidence and capability.<br />
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E<br />
Extend yourself<br />
Walk the extra mile when you do something<br />
for people. Your intentions and actions will<br />
always be watched. Whatever you sow, so<br />
shall you reap.<br />
*CELEBRATIONS acronym is the intellectual property of Rajiv Khurana
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B<br />
Babies day out<br />
Children are babies to their parents irrespective<br />
of their age. Welcome the babies at work place.<br />
Greet them and treat them. Send them their<br />
pictures taken in the office. Don’t forget a frame<br />
too.<br />
R Reward with Bollywood and Hollywood breaks<br />
Gift them movie tickets for self and family for good<br />
performance or special personal occasions. Join<br />
them, if possible. Add the pop-corn allowance too.<br />
A Annual team pictures<br />
Watch with fun the receding hairlines, the<br />
glowing greys, the maturing skins etc. as the<br />
time passes by. This annual feature can have a<br />
great archive value too.<br />
T<br />
Thank you meets for families<br />
Bring them together to say “Thank you”, share<br />
flowers or some token gift for all the family time<br />
they give surrender whenever the team member is<br />
required to spend more than the needed time at<br />
work place during any particular period. They will<br />
respect you more for the care. They will also<br />
understand the constraints.<br />
3<br />
*CELEBRATIONS acronym is the intellectual property of Rajiv Khurana
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4<br />
I<br />
Invite the team home<br />
Your relationship will grow stronger at your own<br />
place. Keep aside your designation. Be like them.<br />
Serve them yourself. Involve your family. Keep<br />
the fare simple. Visit them too, with your<br />
family…<br />
O Organize your own ‘laughter club’<br />
All big cities now have some. Organize your own<br />
club. Meet every day in the morning, afternoon or<br />
evening. Ease out your tension with a loud burst of<br />
laughter discharge. Laughter is a great infection to<br />
spread for rejuvenation.<br />
N Neutralize negativity<br />
S<br />
People have baggage-from-the-past, they get<br />
upset for things intended or untended…The<br />
gloom needs to be removed. Be on the look out.<br />
Trash it sooner with your empathy and<br />
influence.<br />
Set up a budget for gifting happiness and<br />
extending CELEBRATIONS<br />
Give a nominal budget to your people to spend on<br />
complimenting each other. Let them buy token gifts<br />
or cards to convey their appreciation to others for<br />
the good work done. Lead the way. Enjoy the<br />
happiness coming your way. Find reasons to<br />
celebrate.<br />
The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other<br />
years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating.<br />
― Jarod Kintz<br />
*CELEBRATIONS acronym is the intellectual property of Rajiv Khurana
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Nothing<br />
Serious…<br />
#20 November 1, 2013<br />
Dale Carnegie may turn in his grave today. The<br />
trainers and motivators are going to shout. The<br />
training managers may slam their doors on me. Let<br />
them. You, the readers, won’t be able to deny that<br />
creating, sustaining and nurturing negativity is a<br />
matter of great scholarly initiative/intervention. Ask<br />
anyone alone. Their wisdom may surpass my<br />
amateurish paper scribbling.<br />
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by description, he is a<br />
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author and digital<br />
expressionist.<br />
The real anchor of negativity could be the brilliant<br />
Boss. He is the champion of thriving on chaos. His<br />
pursuit of self wow and his ever evolving circle of<br />
innovation may push Tom Peters to hide behind his<br />
covers. Forget about teaching the elephants to<br />
dance. People in the organisation can do their tango<br />
or break dance with even a single spark of<br />
negativity. Organisational fireworks shine brighter<br />
day in and day out. I some times wonder why<br />
Diwali is celebrated only once in a year.<br />
How often have you come across a newspaper with<br />
only good, neat and clean news, views and stories?<br />
Never. People like reading and complaining about<br />
law and order problems, dirty politics etc. How<br />
many movies have you seen without violence and<br />
other socially forbidden ingredients? Hardly any.<br />
Those who venture get bombed before the release.<br />
OK, how many TV serials have you seen with clean<br />
simple messages – direct as well as indirect. The<br />
sponsors don’t pay money for them.
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CELEBRATE NEGATIVITY<br />
#20 November 1, 2013<br />
News about negative events sell. Films about negative ingredients<br />
celebrate jubilees and win awards. The public at large glue every day<br />
to their TV with their mouth open while their hand waits with the<br />
morsel. The negative scenes are so engrossing. Negativity is the top<br />
form of entertainment. A great time pass for the masses. A profession<br />
for the classes. Ask politicians in the corporate and national jungle.<br />
Feeling inspired! Keep doing what you normally do. Some where<br />
some time you may reflect it too. If you wish to upgrade your skills,<br />
cross check whether you are doing what others do. Match up.<br />
6<br />
• Try to control/influence the decisions of the people under and<br />
around you. Never seek inputs from them. You know better than<br />
them. You are the big brother. Its your prerogative to watch them,<br />
catch them and snatch the initiative out of them. It won’t look<br />
brutal. Tuskers in India lose their ivory and life together. No one<br />
bothers. You are only taking the shine of pride away from people.<br />
They will live to sing the poems of your negativity.<br />
• Work hours, pay benefits, assignment of overtime hours,<br />
compensation and incentives, dress codes, office facilities, job<br />
requirements, working conditions etc. offer numerous<br />
opportunities for you to throw the spanner in the wheels. Every<br />
day will provide you great opportunities to make the presence of<br />
your power felt. This will benefit your people too. They will start<br />
talking to each other more. Their interactivity will improve. Their<br />
network will get better. Negativity grows in geometric progression<br />
when the large groups start championing it.<br />
• Transparency and consistency are dangerous for your<br />
idiosyncrasies. How can everyone be the same? God never made<br />
them. Why should you treat them all the same? You have the<br />
right to reward the merit as per your yardsticks of evaluation. If<br />
you treat people as adults, they will become more and more<br />
assertive. Bad for you. Use aggression to push them into<br />
submission. Let them understand that they need to please you to<br />
get their rewards. This much of transparency should be OK.
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CELEBRATE NEGATIVITY<br />
#20 November 1, 2013<br />
• Communication has its major problems in the<br />
organisation. Don’t do it enough. Give people the<br />
mushroom treatment. Keep them in the dark and feed<br />
them sh#@. Managing by creating crisis is your<br />
prerogative. Coping with and working inspite of<br />
confusion is their duty. Don’t come in the way of their<br />
duty.<br />
• People want growth. They expect training. Give them.<br />
Train the trainable. This will conserve resources. You<br />
also owe good training holidays to your closest team<br />
mates. Who will look after them if you do not? Groom<br />
them thoroughly on following the leadership<br />
programmes. Don’t worry about the have-nots. India is<br />
full of them. They have no entity.<br />
• Make a lot of noise about mission, vision, values and<br />
goals. It’s a fashion these days. Be trendy. Make big<br />
posters and display them in the work areas. I am not<br />
asking you to believe in them. People like slogans,<br />
phrases, charismatic jargons etc. to make a better<br />
cocktail with negativity. Let them feel happy and<br />
content. We all know the reality. Our lips do sing,<br />
“Saare jahan se achcha hindustan hamara…”.<br />
7<br />
Negative people by default bring in a lot of positive<br />
influence. They make a majority pass their time well. They<br />
go back and talk to their families. They meet in the parties<br />
and talk what happens in their offices. They bring smiles<br />
on the faces of consultants, trainers and authors. Dr. Eric<br />
Berne would not have written “Games people play” out of<br />
thin air. You should know why Thomas Harris kept shouting<br />
“I am OK, You are OK”. Excuse me Mr. Carnegie. The<br />
inspirational words written in grave yards “Do one good<br />
act a day” are passe’. “Trigger new negativity every hour”<br />
is the new mantra of 24/7 any time any where no matter<br />
work culture. Lets be positively negative.
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#20 November 1, 2013<br />
MONKEY SALVATION FOR A FISH<br />
“What on earth are you doing?”<br />
said I to the monkey when I saw<br />
him Hit a fish from the water and<br />
place it on a tree.<br />
“I am saving it from drowning’,” was<br />
the reply.<br />
The sun that gives sight to the eagle<br />
blinds the owl.<br />
THE LITTLE FISH<br />
“Excuse me,” said an ocean fish, “You are older than I<br />
so can you tell me where to find this thing they call the<br />
Ocean?”<br />
“The Ocean,” said the older fish, “is the thing you are<br />
in now,”<br />
“Oh, this? But this is water. What I’m seeking is the<br />
Ocean,” said the disappointed fish as he swam away to<br />
search elsewhere.<br />
He came to the Master in sanyasi robes. And he spoke<br />
sanyasi language: “For years I have been seeking God. I<br />
have sought Him everywhere that He is said to be - on<br />
mountain peaks, the vastness of the desert, and the<br />
silence of the cloister and the dwellings of the poor.”<br />
“Have you found him?” the Master asked. “No. I have<br />
not. Have you?”<br />
What could the Master say? The evening sun was<br />
sending shafts of golden light into the room. Hundreds<br />
of sparrows were twittering on a banyan tree. In the<br />
distance one could hear the sound of highway traffic. A<br />
mosquito droned a warning that it was going to<br />
strike... And yet this man could sit there and say he had<br />
not found Him.<br />
After a while he left, disappointed, to search<br />
elsewhere.<br />
Stop searching, little fish. There isn’t anything to look<br />
for. All you have to do is look.<br />
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D E L H I<br />
JOINTLY<br />
ORGANIZED<br />
EVENT<br />
The Institute of<br />
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9<br />
Session Chairman<br />
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: Sumit Chaudhuri, CMC FIMC<br />
: Rajiv Khurana, CMC FIMC
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“People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of<br />
celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an<br />
active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be<br />
entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by<br />
an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation,<br />
giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.<br />
Source: The Wisdom of Heschel”<br />
“I prefer just being with people I like.<br />
That's my way of celebrating.”<br />
― Michael Jackson, Moonwalk<br />
“I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the<br />
sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.”<br />
― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross<br />
“If you can’t celebrate your success, appreciate your failure. Since<br />
life is all about celebration and appreciation.”<br />
― M.F. Moonzajer<br />
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