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The industrial growth and changing global business situations has increased the responsibility of the entrepreneurs and executives – they have to deal with wider and diverse market, source scares financial and human resources and choose from multiple technology options to acquire competitive advantages to make the venture/ investment financially viable one.

Large businesses and few gifted SMEs possess the internal resources for all these. However, majority small and medium enterprises business owners / executives are not ideally placed in deciding on these diverse matters and need counseling for better strategic solutions.

Risk analysis, operating and financial simulations, constraint, sensitivity and differential analysis is hardly done. In absence of such knowledge enabled approach the personalized opinions lend the decision support. Many decision makers accept the critical path as part of the game but very few learn from mistakes made by others and succeed.

It is not that these people do not have the knowledge / information input, but a process of visualization about the currents and cross currents of the forces and ultimately transforming these into financial terms needs objectivity.

Clarity in any investment decisions supported through above mentioned process not only helps investment to be productive but it becomes easy to source the funds and one can expect a better pricing and terms. Good ideas and opportunities become more rewarding this way.

Organizations need to deploy efficient means to separate creative analysis from routine number crunching. The best decisions depend on the behavior of the market and decision makers’ knowledge of it. Strategic thinking is similar, only there you must anticipate market behavior that does not always follow natural law.

The way I read the things - my professions

These are some of the observations drawn from my last two decades of consulancy years

Size of any business doesn't matter –but profitability and financial stability does. These are something one should be monitoring on a regular basis. Some businessmen say their business is too small to carry out analylitical financial studies that are just a way of not holding oneself responsible for managing the business wisely.

It'll always be someone else's fault when a business fails...that's what one will say. One can choose to succeed or fail. It's always a choice, nothing else - so a choice to be a financially informed business executive is essential. Any business will thank the executive through its increased profitability and longevity!

It's necessary for the long-term success of any business that one understands the financial fundamentals of being a business owner. One does not have to be an accountant or a financial analyst. It's important that one has some key skills in the business toolbox to measure and deal properly with the financial aspects of the business.

Barring few exceptions business executives / owners rarely like to handle the routine financial aspects of running a company. They may provide manpower, facilities but its real function is rarely handled with the seriousness that the function deserves.

It's easy to understand why: Financial management has long ceased to be a money management function. In today’s competitive world it has become a composite function and includes book keeping, financial accounting, resources accounting, performance measurement, MIS, Costing, budgetary control etc. It now concerns with each and every activity in the organization that absorbs a resource and generates a value.

When somebody is deeply involved and have taken financial risks – you are most concerned about the products or services you provide and want to focus your time and energy there. Your financial responsibilities usually fall to the bottom of your ‘desirable duties’ list.

These are some of our observations – surely they do not apply to all and everybody. There are varying degrees of successes and omissions.

Man with a gun

In a hilly holiday resort
i saw a tall old slim man
with a receding sliver grey head bent forward
attired in a blazer with hunter shoes.

Slowly walking
with trailing family towards a dining hall..

He had a holster with old black revolver peeping from it.
frequently caressing it with his right hand fingers
his tired eyes ready to fire and explode

Why the hell this old fellow needs a revolver to deal with any of his problems
and still more why while going for a dinner ?

Does it mean that all these years he never sought or found
ways to deal with life without a revolver ?

Certainly a social animal !

By design ?

Some friends of mine sent this recently

Is this by an accident .. ?

Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere
in the spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters 'a', 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the
spellings of 1 to 999
(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the
spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion)

And

Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in the spellings
of entire English Counting

Is there any design or conscious efforts of an intelligent person ?

Do people bloom ?

Some years back

I planted a rose plant

one morning I found a small bud on the plant

peeping out of the stem

I wondered from where it came there

following mornings I found it grown a bit

the pettles were forcing themselves out of the bud skin

I wonderd what makes them do it

it went on for few days

one fine morning I found it bloomed

what makes it happen

who gives it the pleasing aroma

which fills our lungs with every breath

who gives it the colour competing with the evening sky

I asked a question to myself

I was also a kid like this bud

whether I am blooming like it

do I give similar pleasure to others

I looked in to eyes around me to seek the answer

I found similar question in their eyes

Are we really independent ?

Crayon by Varad Vernekar, friend of my son Salil

Can we say these numerous grass blades are independent?

Time has its own motion.but it seems have a dimensions for each person living in this universe and it moves through his mind and creates reflections.

Every human soul surrounded by his circumstances - acts and reacts creating a flow of events which in turn modifies circumstances relating to him and others known and unknown to him. In turn his environment also encompasses so many things created by others through their actions or inactions. So many things and so many variables – one wonders from where they all come.

We do not know how many nano filaments of the human mind keep on working parallel. Nobody knows what memories, impressions, images; convictions keep on influencing this process. Same is a case when we surrender ourselves to sleep and the subconscious takes over.

It is difficult to identify what is pulling or pushing, what is stretching or compressing.
How many of us really know what really causes them to act or react in a particular manner. Are we really aware about the results to follow from our actions or inactions?

Are we really independent and of our own?
No point in looking for answer – it is no and never.

Can any one really isolate himself from such phenomenon day in and day out accompanying him with every breath? It seems that it is as difficult as counting the sheep when you really mean to do it.

All this is not at all important and can easily be called as hoax.
But don’t you feel when you are angry frustrated and wonder, when according to you every thing is right, why two plus two is not four?

From deep within the mind

Following blogs are the thoughts which accompanied me when I was just out of hospital from a serious heart related problem. My son and kins encouraged me to write something about my experiences in the hospital. I named the exercise as 'Not an half hearted effort ..',but thiughts about the time less values occupied my mind and i recalled all that I have read and found new interpretations for them in a changed circumstances.
Apperantly one can find them unrelated or stray texts in the blog form. I made a power point presentation, which with animation and music was more effective. I am working on a movie and hope to upload soon. Hope all will enjoy it more.
Today the yoga is known more than what it was before 10-15 years - when I was in my forties.In my family my elder son Salil and Kavita , his wife, are ardent followers of Yogic way - Art of Living. Their achievements also reflect on my way of looking at the life and drudgery of daily life. I am more focused and energatic in my early sixtees with some irepairable health problems.
Today I work more hard and for longer time and with beter strike rate than before. I have to acknowledge the contribution that has been made by these thoughts.
There must be more people experiencing such successes and happiness. I appeal them to come forward and share those with others.
It's a best way to allow radiation and percolation of values around.
prakash tanksale

Sky is the limit

drishti~cone
Some views about timeless values

Explore it - Absorb it.
Sky is the limit for us to grow.

Life is beautiful - let us make the world beautiful.

We focus on positive side of the humanity to recall collective capabilities and intellect of highest order.

Our culture has given us proven approaches to relate us to the creator to enrich ourselves. Starting with the individual and reaching to all - let us look at acquiring the timeless values and approaches for human capabilities of the highest order.

The entire world and life will be more beatuful.

We existed before our birth

We are part of the infinite




We existed before our birth,
We will continue to exist even after our death.

Our ancestors

Evolution took millions of years.
Our ancestors lived in natural shelters, grown with the nature. Our present is blessed by their struggles.

We have innocent childhood.We learn to be happy and grow. In children we seek the elements of our creator - innocent and with full of dreams and hopes.

The society around us is no different than these children.

We need to relate ourselves to the hopes and dreams of the people around us - to the best possible extent.

Can it b done ? Yes, the timeless values have shown it.

Some of the human capabilities

We think






















We dare the unknown, explore and discover

Vasco d Gama
he caused irreversible chnage in the fate of Indian subcontinent











We create
At every stroke You strike fire with your chisel.

View of Shri Mahalaxmi Mandir, Kolhapur
Maharashtra, India











We are philosophers

Shri Ravindranath Tagore,
who gave national anthem to the two nations in this world
India
Bangala Desh
and
writer of Geetanjali

Simple things we do

We miniaturise the towering trees.

Human achievements

deserve the big monuments

We immortalize the love

We study why roses bloom

Such simple things demonstrate what a human being is capable of -in the natural course

Human instincts

We live and let others live

We are against cruelty to the animals



We track evolution of the nature

We are sensitive as lens

Best of human legacies

Leading by examples

Mother Teresa

Mahatma Gandhi

Buddha

Arresting mighty rivers

We

build

big dams

to arrest mighty rivers

- the Hoover Dam

Reaching homes and people

We built bridges to reach homes and people ..

Habitats - then and now

Starting from caves for the shelter

We have dreamt and built comfortable habitats …

Never be an extinct specie ….

We studied enough about dinosaurs - we will never be an extinct specie ….

Learn from history

We learn about history and learn from history…

Human endurance

Mountains have always tested man’s courage and endurance

Dared the oceans

We have dared the oceans
Oceans were breeders of first of species and have been provider of life to us.
We learn and enjoy living with the oceans – despite the Tsunamis.

So far away but so near

We designed telescopes to photograph cosmic objects -million miles away from the earth.

Secrets of the creator

Human sight goes so deep to find the secrets of the creator

We built cameras to reach the minutest cells in human body

Mastering building blocks of life

Human abilities , intelligence and persistency have no known equals.
Knowledge percolating from thousands of years and determination to go beyond the known, has brought us here so far. What makes it possible?

Humanity is adding to the wealth of knowledge inherited from hundreds of generations.
Human creativity has surprised itself in making possible the unimaginable.
Is sky the limit ?

Mastering building blocks of life

going near to the creator.

We owe our being here

We study sun’s impact on us.

We owe our being here to the Sun.
There is a belief in Egypt that a continuous dialogue exists between the sun and River Nile.

It is supported by a record for 4000 years.

Co exist with atomic weapons ?

We have mastered atomic power and are capable to create explosions, just like Solar explosions. We realize ,the human race cannot coexist with atomic weapons, so we are determined to use it for human prosperity.

The inherent equilibrium

We are blessed by our mother earth with the teachings of Work and Worship.
Evolutionary unfolding of realities and knowledge by mother earth, makes her greatest teacher, in our life.Tolerant mother Earth, only expects us to maintain the inherent equilibrium she possesses.

Our nearest and dearest one

Beyond the horizon , Moon , the nearest and dearest one, has inspired mankind for millenniums. We still have curiosity and affinity about this kin.
We have studied and mapped it since years unknown.

We dreamt, worked and reached the moon. The first human step on the moon was as big as the dream of the mankind.

Our family up in the sky

The Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, and the rest of the planets, and our Earth, are all organic parts of the Sun.

Life on Earth came into being - plants to man and all are organic parts of the Earth; the Earth is an organic part of the sun …There is a continuous communication between the Man, the Earth and the Sun and so on….

Inspirations from inequalities.

Man has always found

strong inspirations from inequalities.

We have always been curious about the neighborhood up in the sky.

We may not reach that far but our inquisitions do.

We spend lots of intellect

to learn about new entities – speculating that someday, we will meet somebody.

Our outward journeys

Our outward journeys beyond the unknown are rewarding –
they testify what the human being can achieve…
The question often comes to the mind –
Do we really know ourselves ? How far and frequently we take up the inner travails to understand who we really are ?

That which man dos not comprehend

That which man dos not comprehend with the mind and by which mind is encompassed is Brahman.
Cosmic communication is very mysterious; it is inner and subtle. There are infinite number of energy objects around the cosmic entities, which go on influencing each other continuously.Man is not an island; he is part of this whole and he learns from it.

We are concerned

We are concerned with the cosmic expanse. The cosmic energy can be converted from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed