Kaushik, Prabha, Padma and Kingo had completed 5 years in their respective workplace and were recollecting their first day at work and how the nicely structured induction programs helped them settle down quickly in the organization. Over the last 5 years all of them had moved from freshers to middle management positions. Kaushik asked a […]
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Since all four of them were working on Information Technology projects, Project Management was one of their pet subjects. All except Kingo had passed the PMP certification exam and it was an oft-discussed subject. Kaushik, as always led the discussion to Bridge. If we treat each contract as a project with a certain amount resource,
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Padma was undergoing training on Managing people in her company and was thrilled and spoke with excitement. “My company truly believes that each one of us must get training on job related skills or soft skills for two weeks every year. This course I am undergoing is exciting, great faculty and full of experiential games.”
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For a change, it was Kaushik who started the discussion. He had come pre-decided about the topic and started off by giving some data saying, “Business partnership break-ups in the first 4 years of operations is in excess of 50 percent, Marriage break-ups in developed world is in excess of 40 percent and we have
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It was the cricket season and India was having a great time defeating all teams on home turf. It was Kingo who initiated conversation this time saying, “Our team is really a great team. Not showing any nerves at all and winning match after match.” It was Kaushik who interrupted Kingo and said, “Why should
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Prabha and Padma were over the moon as their organization was awarded software development maturity level 4 (Managed) and they had made significant contributions towards that effort. Kingo never paid attention to quality aspects as he was a marketing guy and asked, “What does it mean”. Padma loved to explain this aspect. There are 5
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It was early June and light rain was in the air. It was the start of another academic year and students were all in “back-to-school” mood. Kaushik, Padma, Prabha and Kingo were all seated enjoying the sea breeze. As schools were about to start, the discussion centred around school life, curriculum and one of the
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Kaushik, Kingo, Prabha and Padma were all relaxed as it was year-end and workload at office was less. They decide to use this time to practice and improve their game. The discussion soon got into what is the best method for practice. Kaushik started off by saying that the best way to start practicing is
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With Diwali in the air, everyone was trying to be nice to each other exchanging sweets in their new dresses. Our foursome also assembled at the club, and it was Prabha who spoke first, “I wish every day of the year is Diwali. Everyone is no nice to each other.” Kaushik jumped in, “Bridge can
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All four of them attended a business conference titled “From Good to Great”. They were all very impressed with the speaker and imbibed a lot of good thoughts and ideas and decided to work on it so that they can move forward in the right direction.” Kaushik said that whatever was discussed in the conference
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