Lost in a rush

I am building up work stress a lot. I used to shout alone until I got this free-gyan at 35k ft some weeks back.

• Life is like a new movie. You never know whats going to happen. If you know the movie already you will not be interested.
• Deadlines,promotions,power struggles in office-space will not matter in 3years from now. So why give a big-deal
• Your relationship with your friends exists longer than your relationship with manager.
• When you are promoted to father-ship, that’s the longest role in your life. So why give priorities to the roles existing for 8am-5pm. (Family comes first)
• Have you invested in yourself before you invest in the market. You are more valuable to people around you than market is to you. (Health is more important than wealth)
• When you fall in true love, make sure you never get out of it.
• People tell you to think out of box. Have you ever though of people out of your box ?. Have you donated  your kindness and not claimed tax-rebate?

I jotted it down so that I can make plaques and sell it on ebay. 

Actually I didn’t get touch with my friends-circle often. Opportunity presented in god-gifted form with my ex-roomies visiting and ex-colleagues moving nearby. Let good times roll by! 

My mood is even more up-beat after I listened to Seal  in Toronto. I never knew soul form of songs or I could distinguish between indie-pop and hindi-pop until now. I used to be reserved for english music form, now I am all ga-ga for indie-pop & soul.

4 devils in project management which we cant avoid.

1. Business requirement :- They will never freeze and they change more times than womens’ mind.
2. Matrix Organisation :- Project manager is happy, line manager is happy..reportee feels crappy
3. Offshoring :- Its for operations mgmt. Which dumbo told them to apply to project mgmt. Anyone working as/worked as onsite co-ordinator can tell stories about it. Its not about indian offshoring quality but the very concept is not workable solution for projects atleast for tight-bound ones.
4. Status reports:- Its better renamed as story reports.  Status reports mislead managers. They are like the sweet-pill to the bitter audit-review reports. Status reports hide the facts that we are behind schedules.  

We know the pitfalls but we still use it . Why? As someone gave me a tongue-in-cheek philosophy “Its better to sleep with known hooker than unknown wife”.