Some good work ethics shared by my Mentor

In negative instances !!
First of all accept the decision gracefully; it will save you a lot of emotional drain and also give you enough peace. Go through this experience as a learning phase. No wonder 'silent' and 'listen' have the same alphabets.

Having accepted, don't judge your new boss from a negative mindset; look at what you can learn from him/her.

Don't keep discussing with others in the organisation as to why this happened and seek their sympathy. This will show you in bad light.

Instead of asking yourself where else wrong, ask yourself where else you can improve.

Don't become cynical of any new system the boss likes to implement; instead politely bring out the pros and cons of new system and suggest alternatives. You will be respected.

Even when one of your juniors speaks ill of your boss to you, don't encourage him/her. Extend whole hearted support your boss in all his endeavours.

When working with your batchmates

You respect their experience; mutually aligh with both your expectation and style of functioning

Ensure the differences in the thought process, if any, are handled in a professional manner; else it will reflect poorly the maturity levels of both of you.

While you take key decisions, involve them. This would make him feel that they are important and their inputs are respected. They would try to reciprocate the same.

Give enough space to them to act independently.

Never judge anyone while he/she may be emotionally down, he/she will still be mentally strong to perform any job.

Every guy has both right side (positive) and the wrong side (negative). It our responsibility to identify the strengths and learn to work with the right side.

The 99 Club

Once upon a time, there lived a King who, despite his luxurious lifestyle, was neither happy nor content. One day, the King came upon a servant who was singing happily while he worked. This fascinated the King; why was he, the Supreme Ruler of the Land, unhappy and gloomy, while A lowly servant had so much joy. The King asked the servant, "Why are you so happy?" The man replied, "Your Majesty, I am nothing but a servant, but my family and I don't need too much - just a roof over our heads and warm food to fill our tummies." The king was not satisfied with that reply. Later in the day, he sought the advice of his most trusted advisor. After hearing the King's woes and the servant's story, the advisor said, "Your Majesty, I believe that the servant has not been made part of The 99 Club." "The 99 Club? And what exactly is that?" the King inquired. The advisor replied, "Your Majesty, to truly know what The 99 Club is, place 99 Gold coins in a bag and leave it at this servant's doorstep." When the servant saw the bag, he took it into his house. When he opened the bag, he let out a great shout of joy... So many gold coins! He began to count them. After several counts, he was at last convinced that there were 99 coins. He wondered, "What could've happened to that last gold coin? Surely, no one would leave 99 coins!" He looked everywhere he could, but that final coin was elusive. Finally, exhausted, he decided that he was going to have to work harder than ever to earn that gold coin and complete his collection. >From that day, the servant's life was changed. He was overworked, horribly grumpy, and castigated his family for not helping him make that 100th gold coin. He stopped singing while he worked. Witnessing this drastic transformation, the King was puzzled. When he sought his advisor's help, the advisor said, "Your Majesty, the servant has now officially joined The 99 Club." He continued, "The 99 Club is a name given to those people who have enough to be happy but are never contented, because they're always yearning and striving for that extra 1 telling to themselves: "Let me get that one final thing and then I will be happy for life." We can be happy, even with very little in our lives, but the minute we're given something bigger and better, we want even more! We lose our sleep, our happiness, we hurt the people around us; all these as a price for our growing needs and desires. That's what joining The 99 Club is all about."

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1 2 3 …….Right or wrong ?

What is 123. Well ….to be in short, it is an agreement signed between India & US for the sake of India’s necessity in importing resources / machinery related to nuclear technology from US to setup and materialize production of Nuclear based electricity. Well quite confusing …isn’t it? Read on……..

US had restrictions in providing such technology to India all these days. Now it is ready to remove those restrictions based on some conditions specified in 123 agreement.

Condition 1:

All the reactors producing electricity based on nuclear energy must be brought under the direct supervision of the International Nuclear Energy Committee. As per this condition 14 out of 22 nuclear reactors in India would be brought under the supervision.

Condition 2:

In order to recycle the nuclear fuel used in the nuclear reactors, advanced reactors must be setup. Such reactors must also be brought under the supervision of the respective Nuclear committees of America.

Condition 3:

If the machinery used to produce electricity from nuclear energy can be used to produce nuclear weapons, then such machinery should not be given to India.

Condition 4:

If India conducts a nuclear test, then America would break the agreement and take back all the technology / machinery provided to India. But the reactors which has been brought into the supervision of the respective nuclear committees will continue to be in their supervision !

India must agree to all these conditions in order to proceed further in completing this agreement.

The last condition which states that the agreement will terminate if India conducts a nuclear test is not specified in the 123 agreement, but in the Hyde’s Law which has been completed before 123 agreement in the American parliament.

In case if America does not provide the resources / technology as agreed upon, can India terminate the agreement? No. These is no such provision in the agreement as such.
One more condition in the 123 is India’s external affairs stand as far as Nuclear energy is concerned must be in sync with American stand. To be precise, India must support America in opposing Iran for producing Nuclear weapons.

Why should India sign such an agreement which appears to be biased towards America?
Well…in order to increase the Electricity production? Electricity produced from nuclear energy only can tackle India’s future demands for electricity? It it true…..

Right now the electricity produced by India is around 1,26,839 MW. Of this 66 % if from the Lignite mines. Electricity produced from the Hydro Electric projects is around 26 %. % from other resources like Solar based production. If in case you need to increase the production of Nuclear based electricity to 6 % in the next 20 years, then you need to invest 50000 crores. The amount spent towards Solar based and more such techniques tight now is just 600 crores. They are giving us back 5 % of the total electricity produced with such an investment. The amount spent towards Nuclear based electricity production is around 3897 crores. It is returning just 3% of the total electricity produced after all these investments.

By signing this agreement India forces itself to reveal the nuclear secrets. In the past India has used 35 % of its plutonium for producing nuclear weapons. After 123, it can use only 10% of Plutonium. Technology & nuclear fuel are the two reasons for which India signs this agreement. But we have both them and it is not necessary for us to depend on America. This is the truth.

There is a false rumor that we don’t have enough Uranium. In order to produce electricity for the next 40 years along with Nuclear weapons ( aroung 2228 Bombs ) we need around 25000 MTon. We have around 78000 Tons of Uranium. We have around 3 Lakh tons of thorium. We have even developed the technology to make use of this availability. Our Nuclear Energy dept have plans to make this into a reality in the next 40 years.

In order to use thorium, we need small amount of uranium. America is trying to bring the plan of recycling uranium into the 123 agreement. They may have plans to control the thorium activities May be that’s why the 123 agreement is also signed for a period of 40 years. Will come back with lot more details….