What can fire tragedies teach project managers?
Today evening, we lost at least 9 innocent lives in the fire at Carlton Towers, Bangalore, and many more are still battling for life. All these were office-goers who worked an honest living and were part of the burgeoning IT industry. While details will be out in next few days, preliminary reports, live tweets from some of the people stuck in the building, and eye witnesse accounts all suggest that these most of these lives could have been saved. I write this blog post to offer my tribute to those lives that we lost, and want to share my anguish by means of lessons that we project management can (and must) learn and hopefully avoid such tragidies in everyday project, and in homes and workplaces where we work and our families live. Emergencies can strike anytime This was otherwise a perfectly...
Solution to Bangalore’s Traffic problems ?
We Bangaloreans love our city, its greenery and reasonably well-maintained gardens, its great weather, its wonderful people who are mostly peace-loving and gentle in nature, its attitude (“swalpa adjust maadi“), its food (simply too good !), its openness and warmth towards non-Kannadigas (thanks for making us a part of your culture), its intellectual capital and its generally understated elegance anchored by universal middle-class values like simplicity, respect, hard work and honesty. We also love its IT industry like a rare vintage wine, and its newfound romance with its vibrant enterpreunership eco-system that continues to attract best of the talent from all over India to its doors. Of course, we don’t love its roads…and we simply love to criticize its perennial and ever mounting traffic woes. After living in Bangalore for last 14 years, and paying all my taxes to...
I am proud of my fellow Bangalorean’s civic sense !
I live on a main road in east Bangalore, which is meant to be a one-way street. From morning until late in the night, I see familied people (kids in school uniform on scooters), autos, call centre cabs, people with 18-foot long sedans - just about everyone violating the one-way rule ! Every single day ! What surprises me is how these citizens and grown-ups face up to their kids and teach them to become law-abiding citizens when they themselves break the law at every single drop of hat. I guess this is happening in every single lane of every single city in our great country. Why are we so insensitive to the environment around us ? If we can’t add to the solution, can’t we at least NOT add to the problem ?