Decide to Choose

About two months ago, I told you that I would be moving to another site. Here it is:

tabanucoroot.wordpress.com

I wrote bvamkris.blogspot.com to have my own voice and I am glad I did. Thank you for following it till the end.

Readers Adieu!

Dear readers

I regret to inform you that for various reasons, I will stop writing here and start writing elsewhere. You will see one final post where I will point you to my new blog. Hopefully, you will find it much more useful and engaging.

Let go of the gas pedal, floor the clutch and put your hand around the gear knob because we are going to change gears!

Can the East make the West happy?

An Indian expatriate, who returned to India with her family after many years,  quotes an American cab driver who says, 'America? It's just drugs, rock and roll, and sex, no?' That perception of America makes me feel sad. I have felt a deep sense of respect for the way American values individuality.

Americans' divorce rates are among the highest in the world: somewhere around 50%. Millions of broken families and millions of children who grow up with single parents? That makes me feel sad too. But then, this separation from one's families may be what instills the individuality in Americans.

Many yogis agree that pain and suffering are caused by the pursuit of pleasure and desire. The Declaration of Independence signed by the founders of the United States of America grants the right to the pursuit of happiness to its citizens.


If what these yogis agree on is right and it's true in the case happiness and sadness, the American Constitution and the code of its establishment inevitably grants sadness to its citizens. All Americans have the right to be sad. Do Americans make themselves sad while they pursue happiness, their birthright? If so, where do they look outside their community to find true happiness?

Robert Pirsig, the author of 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance', and 'Lila', studied at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India. He was on a quest for a complete understanding of the virtue he calls 'Quality'. After reading his book, I think that he might have realized the true meaning of Quality. He returned to his country after staying for a while in India and continues to live there.

Steve Jobs used to go to the local Hare Krishna temple on Sunday nights for food. After listening to his speech to Stanford students in 2005, I think that he may have picked up some deep Hindu values. He roamed India looking for enlightenment. I sincerely hope his seven-month trip to the country I was born into was helpful to him.

The West seems to be glancing occasionally, out of the corner of its eye, at the East for true understanding of itself. If great Americans have looked for happiness, enlightenment and liberation in the Orient, can India and other Asian countries offer happiness to the large masses of the West?

Seeking to create a great business?

Are you wondering how to make your good business a great business? Here are eight ways to build a great organization:

1. The first step is to choose your business values. Once your values are chosen, your vision and mission have to be aligned with them.
2. Execute those projects by completing which your business will move closer to your values.
3. Get out of the way: enable continuous and frequent feedback to each individual directly from the client. The worst any business can do to ruin itself is by doing more of what it's not supposed to do entirely: management.
4. Before you attempt to drive out fear by encouraging leadership, set and communicate the ethical framework within which your company will operate.
5. Have each individual’s productivity openly and positively advertized every minute at the workplace.
6. Grant each employee the right to the alarm button. This should alert you about present or future events that could make the employee or your business unproductive.
7. Encourage critical opinion and kill cynical opinions in open forums.
8. Have unrestricted and unlimited access for employees to add to and tap from knowledge within the company.