Hey everybody:
It’s been a while since I have been able to come back to post something here…we have had an addition to the family in the month of Jan this year by arrival of lovely Yuhaan. Our first child, my darling son 
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Life has been very pretty but also hectic past few months with Yuhaan. As I am personally settling down in my role as a father, will hopefully have little time in future to drop in now and then and add a post. Am posting a picture of Yuhaan in the meantime )
Cheers
1. Never walk down the hall without a document in your hands. People with documents in their hands look like hardworking employees heading for important meetings. People with nothing in their hands look like they’re heading for the cafeteria. People with the newspaper in their hands look like they’re heading for the bathroom. Above all, make sure you carry loads of stuff home with you at night, thus generating the false impression that you work longer hours than you do.
2. Use computers to look busy. Any time you use a computer, it looks like work to the casual observer. You can send and receive personal e-mail, calculate your finances and generally have a blast without doing anything remotely related to work. These aren’t exactly the societal benefits that everybody from the computer revolution expected but they’re not bad either. When you get caught by your boss –and you will get caught–your best defense is to claim you’re teaching yourself to use the new software, thus saving valuable training dollars. You’re not a loafer, you’re a self-starter. Offer to show your boss what you learned. That will make your boss scurry away like a frightened salamander.
3. Messy desk. Top management can get away with a clean desk. For the rest of us, it looks like you’re not working hard enough. Build huge piles of documents around your workspace. To the casual observer, last year’s work looks the same as today’s work; it’s volume that counts. Pile them high and wide. If you know somebody is coming to your cubicle, bury the document you’ll need halfway down in an existing stack and rummage for it when he/she arrives.
4. Voice mail. Never answer your phone if you have voice mail. People don’t call you just because they want to give you something for nothing – they call because they want you to DO work for THEM.
That’s no way to live. Screen all your calls through voice mail. If somebody leaves a voice mail message for you and it sounds like impending work, respond during the lunch hour. That way, you’re regarded as hardworking and conscientious even though you’re being a devious weasel. If you diligently employ the method of screening incoming calls and then returning calls when nobody is there, this will greatly increase the odds that they will give up or look for a solution that doesn’t involve you.
The sweetest voice mail message you can ever hear is “Ignore my last message. I took care of it.” If your voice mailbox has a limit on the number of messages it can hold, make sure you reach that limit frequently. One way to do that is to never erase any incoming messages. If that takes too long, send yourself a few messages. Your callers will hear a recorded message that says, “Sorry, this mailbox is full” a sure sign that you are a hardworking employee in high demand.
~~Rohit~~
Some of us who have been attached to consulting in various capacities for a long time now have started a community called Consulting Network. This was initiated by young and energetic Mohit few months back through Linked In and few of us joined in later.
This is an attempt to create a networking and information exchange for consulting community (existing and aspiring) in India. In last few months the idea seems to have clicked quite a few other folks and we have very quickly got almost 1000 members and members from various business schools joining the bandwagon.
Visit and register at the following link if the same is of interest to you…We are soon going to be out with our website which is under construction J
~~Rohit~~
There are just as many myths about consulting as there are innumerous intriguing facts. One gets interesting and divergent view points when you talk to people connected to consulting in various capacities: young aspirants, experienced consultants, consulting firms and clients.
Check out my article on life in consulting from eyes of these different stakeholders by clicking here J
~~Rohit~~
This snap is from our early days hence some names are missing….
Left to Right: Ashish, Rashid, Dr.Bose, Me, Sushant, Harmeet, Yogi, Manish, Rajiv, Suresh, Naveen, Amit
~~Rohit~
Rohit Jain