Saturday, December 4, 2010
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Monday, October 4, 2010
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
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Friday, June 4, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
Time to Move on…
The last time, when I changed my job, my then boss prayed for stability at work. I wrote in my post two years back that change is better and must be appreciated.
During my tenure here, several times, I felt that my previous job was better and I should not have changed. Well, this is natural I guess. Every time we move out of comfort zone, we face difficulties and sometimes it makes us feel dejected for the time being and I ended up doubting the decision taken earlier.
But I realized or consoled myself that life is not be overwhelmed by these small setbacks. It is about changing ourselves and evolving to explore ones potential.
To evolve we need to challenge and take risks with the existing situations in life.
I look forward to these challenges as I am on the path to exploring real self.
I am also fortunate and blessed to have experienced change in all sphere of life and thus succeeded in changing and moving towards new self and exploring the opportunities which were never in my horizon when I started.
This change is another milestone and the lessons that I learnt during this period were plenty.
*I retained my health and family life.
*I learnt to handle austerity at work place and at home.
*I read books which I wanted to during college days.
*I met people from diverse background and improved on the listening, reading, writing, sharing and reflecting skills.
*I learnt new subjects like psychology, auditing, literature, and e-learning.
* I applied myself to work closely with my colleagues and teams to achieve office goals and objectives.
I thank you all for the support and cooperation extended to me and helping me to be what I am today.
Good luck…
During my tenure here, several times, I felt that my previous job was better and I should not have changed. Well, this is natural I guess. Every time we move out of comfort zone, we face difficulties and sometimes it makes us feel dejected for the time being and I ended up doubting the decision taken earlier.
But I realized or consoled myself that life is not be overwhelmed by these small setbacks. It is about changing ourselves and evolving to explore ones potential.
To evolve we need to challenge and take risks with the existing situations in life.
I look forward to these challenges as I am on the path to exploring real self.
I am also fortunate and blessed to have experienced change in all sphere of life and thus succeeded in changing and moving towards new self and exploring the opportunities which were never in my horizon when I started.
This change is another milestone and the lessons that I learnt during this period were plenty.
*I retained my health and family life.
*I learnt to handle austerity at work place and at home.
*I read books which I wanted to during college days.
*I met people from diverse background and improved on the listening, reading, writing, sharing and reflecting skills.
*I learnt new subjects like psychology, auditing, literature, and e-learning.
* I applied myself to work closely with my colleagues and teams to achieve office goals and objectives.
I thank you all for the support and cooperation extended to me and helping me to be what I am today.
Good luck…
Thursday, May 20, 2010
The power of power
The real power of power is to achieve goals without executing or abusing the power. But more often than not, the powerful people in all spheres of life and work use to dominate and create environment of distrust and chaos.
Recently during my one to one meeting with one such person occupying a powerful position in office wanted to know whether people perceive him to be tough, and took pride in creating an environment of uncertainty at workplace.
Reflecting back, I wonder that people in general feel uncertain and subdued with their managers or bosses. So what was so special that he achieved by being “tough”. It comes naturally with power as an unwanted side effect. The real power to him I understand is to create the environment of certainty, trust, cohesiveness, teamwork, openness and give away the power that creates uncertain environment and chaos.
The real powerful are those who could influence the minds of young and old by evoking the real power among others. Hopefully they practiced by following the principles of:
· The power to give away.
· The power to eliminate fear, violence, jealousy, anger, greed etc.
· The power to share knowledge and learning’s.
The real power to powerful people in the organization occupying top most position is to create environment of trust, certainty, camaraderie, hope and joy at workplace.
Let the power bring in joy and pleasure at work. I am sure it will foster productivity and innovations at work.
Monday, May 10, 2010
W3C Conference
W3C India chapter was inaugurated on 6th May 2010 as a unit under Department of IT. An international conference was organised from 6-7th May 2010 to mark this occasion. Several distinguished speakers and CEO W3C participated in the event. Different topics on W3C standards ranging from web to Website design standards were discussed by the International and National expert speakers. The issues discussed were as follows:
- The concept of Web for All based on Accessibility feature, Internalisation, Machine translation, Security and Privacy and Multilanguage support was discussed at length by several speakers.
- The scaling up of present Web to Ubiquitous web, which must supports all Data device everywhere was emphasised , the web design must be scalable, and based on open standards.
- The point in discussion was Mobile web (presently seen as future of web computing due to growth of mobile usage and internet through mobile devices). The mobile web best practices must not use tables for design of page to be accessible on mobile, and must not rely on JavaScript. The mobile page must support augmented reality on web. The current mobile web practices do not support Unicode and hence must follow single Unicode standard, support multiplicity of language and must be W3C standard compliant.
Web Design guidelines
a. The WCAG 1.0 guideline was released in 1999 and version 2.0 was released in 2008. The guidelines can be downloaded from web.guidelines.gov.in.
b. Some of the products that support WCAG guidelines are Mobile Speak, Talks, Talkback, and Mobile speak.
c. The website lifecycle can be divided into six cyclic phases. They are: Planning , Content, Design , Development, Management and Maintenance.
d. The website is hosted generally with the objective that it reaches to all, the content is updated, complete and correct and its management is right.
e. The planning phase consists of designing Key policies. Some of them are Copyright policy, Privacy policy, Hyperlink policy, Content policy, Content Review policy, Content Archival policy, Website Security policy, and Website Maintenance policy.
f. The content can be divided into three form primary, secondary and tertiary form. The quality of the content must adhere to authenticity, currency and accuracy parameters.
g. The design phase must consider universal accessibility of the website along with the colour, layout and visual identity features.
h. The development of the website must be based on Interoperability features, and open standard.
i. The contingency plan must be in place to cope up with interruption or failure of the website in the events of natural disaster, terrorist attacks, corruption, and other threats.
j. The website can be certified through website quality certification by STQC, DIT.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Reflection: Empowering Your Employees to Empower Themselves by Marshall Goldsmith
Following are a few things leaders can do to build an environment that empowers people.
- Treat your employees as partners.
- Allow the employee take up ownership and commitmment for decisions.
- The leader needs to make sure people are safe doing their jobs.
- Give power to those who have demonstrated the capacity to handle the responsibility.
- Create a favorable environment in which people are encouraged to grow their skills.
- Don't second-guess others' decisions and ideas unless it's absolutely necessary. This only undermines their confidence and keeps them from sharing future ideas with you.
- Give people discretion and autonomy over their tasks and resources.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Collaborative learning
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Collaborative learning
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
High achievers vs low achievers
The analysis of high achievers and low achievers is based on Attribution theory. Attribution theory is concerned with how the individuals interpret events and how this relates to their thinking and behaviour. Attribution theory explains the difference in motivation between high achievers and low achievers. More on Attribution theory can be known by visiting http://tip.psychology.org/weiner.html
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
A guide to learning styles
I went through this site referred by my facilitator Dr. Sanjay Mishra to assess my learning style. An interesting service provided by VARK to assess ones learning style.: 
The future of e-learning is social learning
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The future of e-learning is social learning
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Sunday, April 4, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Collaborative Story Telling
Image Source: educ.csmv.qc.ca/.../story/storyteller2.htmStory telling is one of the oldest forms of teaching and learning practices. Story telling is popular as it provides the learner to think, extrapolate, derive meaning and context and relate to ones experience.
This year my son got into Grade-I. He has started reading short sentences with 3-4 letter words and shows eagerness to read the new stories. I was also eager to read his English textbook. The present text books have undergone undergone positive change.
The first story in the book was titled “The Thirsty Crow”. I read the story and found that the only change in the story line was that the crow after drinking water passes on the message to other birds.
I read the story from the book and replied to his queries based on the illustrations. I told the story in the usual approach:
· narrated the characters.
· Explained the Context, Set the scene. (Location, time and background)
· Explained the sequence of events and how the situation resolved itself.
· Conclusions or lessons learnt.
But I was wondering later, whether there can be some different approach to telling stories. Some days later, I tried telling the same story differently.
I brought white sheets with few colour pencils. I started by drawing a sketch of bright Sun, Tree, Cloud and a character 'Crow'. I scribbled words around these elements by reading aloud. My son coloured the Sun, Tree and others elements quickly. The story moved forward, since the crow was wandering in hot afternoon, he became thirsty and started looking for water. We drew the sequence of the events; I drew a pot with little water lying under the tree. During this story telling exercise another participant joined us. The story went on as usual and ended with crow drinking water.
How was this story telling session different from the previous sessions?
During the course of this exercise, my son drew a black worm which the crow ate before drinking water. He added few more words in his vocabulary. He got engaged and involved in the process and became crow himself. The crow in the story also felt that he could fly in the clouds and sip water from the clouds. The other participant added and sketched; the crow waiting for clouds to rain and the crow directly sipping water by opening his beak.
During the course of this exercise, my son drew a black worm which the crow ate before drinking water. He added few more words in his vocabulary. He got engaged and involved in the process and became crow himself. The crow in the story also felt that he could fly in the clouds and sip water from the clouds. The other participant added and sketched; the crow waiting for clouds to rain and the crow directly sipping water by opening his beak.
This approach of storytelling I feel, offered flexibility and the freedom to interpret it the way the learners thought. In fact, the character started thinking and took decisions.
I have started thinking that more than the story; the approach to storytelling can offer experience and make you think.
Taking the clue, I felt the need to google to see what are the new approaches of storytelling in collaborative way. The first Google result connected me to http://www.storybird.com/. Story birds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share- the site reads. The users can use characters, cartoons, colours to make stories in the form of slide. The site is fantastic. But I am looking for a service where more than one participants can write, sketch, colour, add sound in collaboration and online.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Popularity of communities and group on Internet
Communities (virtual) are popular because:
1. The communities and groups offer conversational style of learning, which is inherently a social and dialogical process (Duffy, 1996). We tend to learn better or naturally by seeking out opinions and ideas from others.
Examples - (a) I find travelling by train more comfortable (short distance of course) than by Air, because, Trains in India provide an opportunity to open up freely and interact rather than the Air. - people tend to enjoy social interaction (b) During my travel overseas a few years back, I landed at Bangkok airport in the midnight and I had to take a connecting flight to Manila. I had difficult time then at the airport, since all information was available on the screen boards rather than people-to-people interaction we have in India. I realize we enjoy the dialogical process. Hence the communities will flourish.
2. Communities are also form of Informal learning and the learning results are from the activities related to work or leisure. It is unstructured most of the time and hence appeals to majority of the members.
The communities thus offer informal learning through dialogical process. I guess!!
1. The communities and groups offer conversational style of learning, which is inherently a social and dialogical process (Duffy, 1996). We tend to learn better or naturally by seeking out opinions and ideas from others.
Examples - (a) I find travelling by train more comfortable (short distance of course) than by Air, because, Trains in India provide an opportunity to open up freely and interact rather than the Air. - people tend to enjoy social interaction (b) During my travel overseas a few years back, I landed at Bangkok airport in the midnight and I had to take a connecting flight to Manila. I had difficult time then at the airport, since all information was available on the screen boards rather than people-to-people interaction we have in India. I realize we enjoy the dialogical process. Hence the communities will flourish.
2. Communities are also form of Informal learning and the learning results are from the activities related to work or leisure. It is unstructured most of the time and hence appeals to majority of the members.
The communities thus offer informal learning through dialogical process. I guess!!
E-learning Blueprint
I came across some material on creating E-learning blueprints visit http://www.cathy-moore.com/blueprint/blueprint_tour.html for details.
Cathy Moore emphasizes on action mapping based learning and demonstrates that Instruction Designing (ID)for E-learning is all about helping the participants solve problems in real world rather than simply designing a e-learning module to help the particiapants learn. The blueprint suggests that e-learning module must be hands on experience rather than loads of Information.
The blueprint traces path from action mapping, activities, contents, organize, create and resources.
Cathy Moore emphasizes on action mapping based learning and demonstrates that Instruction Designing (ID)for E-learning is all about helping the participants solve problems in real world rather than simply designing a e-learning module to help the particiapants learn. The blueprint suggests that e-learning module must be hands on experience rather than loads of Information.
The blueprint traces path from action mapping, activities, contents, organize, create and resources.
Friday, March 5, 2010
How do we learn?
Prensky postulates that in general, we all learn through
- behaviours through imitation, feedback, and practice
- creativity through playing
- facts through association, drill, memory, and questions
- judgment through reviewing cases, asking questions, making choices, receiving feedback, and coaching
- language through imitation, practice, and immersion
- observation through viewing examples and feedback
- procedures through imitation and practice
- processes through system analysis, deconstruction, and practice
- systems through discovering principles and graduated tasks
- reasoning through puzzles, problems, and examples
- skills (physical or mental) through imitation, feedback, continuous practice, and increasing challenge
Source: Prensky, M. (2001). Digital game-based learning. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Choices in Life
Kalighat is a famous Kali temple in Kolkata. On my visit to Kolkata, I paid my visit to this temple along with few colleagues. On reaching there we choose on Prasad wala to keep our belonging before we enter the temple for darshan. A shop keeper near to the temple door kept our belonging and gave prasads and flowers. I chose to sit outside the shop on a small stool, while the other went in. The temple was not crowded but I knew that it would take around 20 minutes to finish the pooja.
I took a chance to break into conversation with the shop keeper. He was a resident of Kolkata for more than 40 years and was running the shop for more than 30 years. He owned two shops in the same locality and the second shop was run by his son who was married with one girl child. He was financially well off and his shop was doing brisk business. I wanted to pass time and thereby enquired him about local politics and the city. He was vocal about the local politics, Kolkata as a city and rising inflation. Generally during interactions like this I choose to hear from people. He went about telling the changing lifestyles of younger generations and his family members. He believed that the older generation was happier despite financial difficulties and lack of opportunities.
He went on to express his displeasure with his son who has only one daughter and choose not to have more than one child. I nodded my head in agreement that what his son thought was right. He got furious with my answer and to calm him, I remained silent and agreed to listen to his story. For a moment, I thought no God or temple or people visiting him can make any effect on a person unless he himself desires to learn from them.
He went on to narrate a story: He asked me “where would I go after the visit to the temple”. I replied him that I will return to Hotel Floatel at Chandu ghat. He went on to say that imagine a situation that I take a public bus to hotel and I have only the minimum fare to reach the hotel. After boarding the bus, the bus breaks down midway. What will be the option left with me? By now I had understood what he wanted to say. But I kept quiet. He said that “I will be left with no choice but to walk back to hotel”. Similarly, if his son has only one child and something happens to the child, who will take care of them.
He thought, I will agree with what he said. I shot back “You have children with the only objective that the child will take care of their parents” He was not expecting this reply. He complained that we were not living in foreign land. I wanted to say many things to him. But by this time, I saw my colleagues coming out. The panditji accompanying them applied tilak on my forehead and gave some prasad to eat. I got up, requested my friend to take a snap and said goodbye and left.
On the way back to Kali ghat metro station on foot, several thought ran through my mind. I kept thinking.
· Why do we live in fear, fear of losing a child, fear of growing old and fear of death amongst many others fears?. I believe that we fear failure and to make peace with the situation we visit temples or religious places.
· We live life based on the choices made by our parents when it comes to schooling, character building, life style etc. I fail to understand why the younger generation is not allowed to make choices in life.
By the time, I had reached the Metro station, I was clear that I should have at least conveyed him that the parents have responsibilities toward their child not the other way round.
He went on to express his displeasure with his son who has only one daughter and choose not to have more than one child. I nodded my head in agreement that what his son thought was right. He got furious with my answer and to calm him, I remained silent and agreed to listen to his story. For a moment, I thought no God or temple or people visiting him can make any effect on a person unless he himself desires to learn from them.
He went on to narrate a story: He asked me “where would I go after the visit to the temple”. I replied him that I will return to Hotel Floatel at Chandu ghat. He went on to say that imagine a situation that I take a public bus to hotel and I have only the minimum fare to reach the hotel. After boarding the bus, the bus breaks down midway. What will be the option left with me? By now I had understood what he wanted to say. But I kept quiet. He said that “I will be left with no choice but to walk back to hotel”. Similarly, if his son has only one child and something happens to the child, who will take care of them.
He thought, I will agree with what he said. I shot back “You have children with the only objective that the child will take care of their parents” He was not expecting this reply. He complained that we were not living in foreign land. I wanted to say many things to him. But by this time, I saw my colleagues coming out. The panditji accompanying them applied tilak on my forehead and gave some prasad to eat. I got up, requested my friend to take a snap and said goodbye and left.
On the way back to Kali ghat metro station on foot, several thought ran through my mind. I kept thinking.
· Why do we live in fear, fear of losing a child, fear of growing old and fear of death amongst many others fears?. I believe that we fear failure and to make peace with the situation we visit temples or religious places.
· We live life based on the choices made by our parents when it comes to schooling, character building, life style etc. I fail to understand why the younger generation is not allowed to make choices in life.
By the time, I had reached the Metro station, I was clear that I should have at least conveyed him that the parents have responsibilities toward their child not the other way round.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Biggest Failure in Life
Image Source: google images
I have just been surfing to find the biggest failures. The search results reflect interesting pattern - failure to get a job, failing in exams, failing to complete the project or task and break-ups among many others. The biggest failure for me undoubtedly (I am experiencing it right now) would be breakup with your loved ones, that may include spouse, friends, family, children or any social acquaintance.
I wish I could anticipate and perceive failure, so that I can attempt changing the interrelated relationship patterns to terminate failure.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Thinking beyond the existing limits of the role model
During a recent interaction with group of faculty members at Kolkata, a member felt that the students may be inspired to follow a faculty as role model. Many things came to my mind. Whether a present time faculty members qualify to become role models for students, when most of the teachers are average academician and many of them take up teaching job as temporary assignment.
I believe that the teacher has to guide the students to become fearless, open minded, truthful, honest and passionate They have to help them explore the limitless potential of human mind and to excel in whatever endeavour the students undertake.
If the idea of the faculty as a role model has to be thought about then the teachers role is to help the students dream or realize that they can beat the success or milestone set by the role model.
Let us not limit our vision to the limit set by the role model. The idea is to think beyond the existing limits of the role model.
I believe that the teacher has to guide the students to become fearless, open minded, truthful, honest and passionate They have to help them explore the limitless potential of human mind and to excel in whatever endeavour the students undertake.
If the idea of the faculty as a role model has to be thought about then the teachers role is to help the students dream or realize that they can beat the success or milestone set by the role model.
Let us not limit our vision to the limit set by the role model. The idea is to think beyond the existing limits of the role model.
Friday, February 5, 2010
poka-yoke audit
Poka-yoke (ポカヨケ?) (IPA: [poka joke]) is a Japanese term that means "fail-safing" or "mistake-proofing". A poka-yoke is any mechanism in a Lean manufacturing process that helps an equipment operator avoid (yokeru) mistakes (poka). Its purpose is to eliminate product defects by preventing, correcting, or drawing attention to human errors as they occur.[1] The concept was formalised, and the term adopted, by Shigeo Shingo as part of the Toyota Production System.[2][3] It was originally described as baka-yoke, but as this means "fool-proofing" (or "idiot-proofing") the name was changed to the milder poka-yoke.
Every manager and executive should perform a "poka-yoke audit": What are the persistently simple — and simply persistent — dumb mistakes we make that our technologies can help us catch and destroy? (If you have trouble coming up with five or six, I'm sure your bosses, colleagues, subordinates, and even a customer or two might constructively suggest a few...)
Source: 1. Wikipedia.org
2. related article: http://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2010/02/my-favorite- anecdote-about-des.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+%28HBR.org%29
Every manager and executive should perform a "poka-yoke audit": What are the persistently simple — and simply persistent — dumb mistakes we make that our technologies can help us catch and destroy? (If you have trouble coming up with five or six, I'm sure your bosses, colleagues, subordinates, and even a customer or two might constructively suggest a few...)
Source: 1. Wikipedia.org
2. related article: http://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2010/02/my-favorite- anecdote-about-des.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+%28HBR.org%29
Intend
I intend to:
• Create / find a fulfilling job that utilizes my talents
• Hang out with uplifting & inspiring friends
• Be open with my emotions
• Nourish my body with the most radiant food available
• Support, love, and inspire those around me
• Take responsibility for myself
• Love & honor myself
• Create deep and meaningful friendships and relationships
• Look for good news in the world
• Follow my intuition
• Boldly do my own “thing”
I intend not to:
• Work at an unfulfilling job
• Hang out with energy-sucking “friends”
• Suppress my emotions
• Overload my body with low vibratory food
• Blame, judge, or criticize others
• Victimize myself
• Criticize myself
• Attempt to prove myself
• Maintain shallow friendships and relationships
• Abuse alcohol
• Absorb fear-based media
• Gossip
• Ignore my intuition
• Follow the crowd
For more on this: http://ktotheb.com/blog/2010/02/04/make-a-not-to-do-list/
• Create / find a fulfilling job that utilizes my talents
• Hang out with uplifting & inspiring friends
• Be open with my emotions
• Nourish my body with the most radiant food available
• Support, love, and inspire those around me
• Take responsibility for myself
• Love & honor myself
• Create deep and meaningful friendships and relationships
• Look for good news in the world
• Follow my intuition
• Boldly do my own “thing”
I intend not to:
• Work at an unfulfilling job
• Hang out with energy-sucking “friends”
• Suppress my emotions
• Overload my body with low vibratory food
• Blame, judge, or criticize others
• Victimize myself
• Criticize myself
• Attempt to prove myself
• Maintain shallow friendships and relationships
• Abuse alcohol
• Absorb fear-based media
• Gossip
• Ignore my intuition
• Follow the crowd
For more on this: http://ktotheb.com/blog/2010/02/04/make-a-not-to-do-list/
Thursday, February 4, 2010
lessons for life - 1
Horror gripped the heart of a World War-I soldier, as he saw his lifelong friend fall in battle. The soldier asked his Lieutenant if he could go out to bring his fallen comrade back.
"You can go," said the Lieutenant," but don't think it will be worth it.
Your friend is probably dead and you may throw your life away."
"The Lieutenant's words didn't matter, and the soldier went anyway.
Miraculously, he managed to reach his friend, hoisted him onto his shoulder and brought him back to their company's trench. The officer checked the wounded soldier, then looked kindly at his friend.
"I told you it wouldn't be worth it," he said. "Your friend is dead and you are mortally wounded."
"It was worth it, Sir," said the soldier.
"What do you mean by worth it?" responded the Lieutenant. "Your friend is dead."
"Yes Sir," the soldier answered,
"but it was worth it because when I got to him, he was still alive and I had the satisfaction of hearing him say....
"Jim...I knew you'd come."
*******
Many times in life, whether a thing is worth doing or not, really depends on how u look at it.
Take up all your courage and do something your heart tells you to do so that you may not regret not doing it later in your life........
"You can go," said the Lieutenant," but don't think it will be worth it.
Your friend is probably dead and you may throw your life away."
"The Lieutenant's words didn't matter, and the soldier went anyway.
Miraculously, he managed to reach his friend, hoisted him onto his shoulder and brought him back to their company's trench. The officer checked the wounded soldier, then looked kindly at his friend.
"I told you it wouldn't be worth it," he said. "Your friend is dead and you are mortally wounded."
"It was worth it, Sir," said the soldier.
"What do you mean by worth it?" responded the Lieutenant. "Your friend is dead."
"Yes Sir," the soldier answered,
"but it was worth it because when I got to him, he was still alive and I had the satisfaction of hearing him say....
"Jim...I knew you'd come."
*******
Many times in life, whether a thing is worth doing or not, really depends on how u look at it.
Take up all your courage and do something your heart tells you to do so that you may not regret not doing it later in your life........
Friday, January 15, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
What is an audit?
Once upon a time there was a shepherd looking after his sheep on the side of a deserted road.
Suddenly a brand new Porsche screeches to a halt. The driver, a man dressed in an Armani suit, Cerutti shoes, Ray-Ban sunglasses, TAG-Heuer wrist-watch, and a Pierre Cardin tie gets out and asks the shepherd,
'If I can tell you how many sheep you have, will you give me one of them?'
The shepherd looks at the young man, then looks at the large flock of
grazing sheep and replies, 'Okay.'
The young man parks the car, connects his laptop to the mobile-fax, enters a NASA Website, scans the ground using his GPS, opens a database and 60 Excel tables filled with algorithms and pivot tables.
He then prints out a 150-page report on his high-tech mini-printer, turns to the shepherd and says,
'You have exactly 1,586 sheep.'
The shepherd cheers, 'That's correct, you can have your sheep.'
The young man takes one of the animals from the flock and puts it in the back of his Porsche.
The shepherd looks at him and asks, 'If I guess your profession, will you Return my animal to me ?'
The young man answers, 'Yes, why not?'
The shepherd says, 'You are an auditor.'
'How did you know?' asks the young man.
'Very simple,' answers the shepherd. '
Firstly, you came here without being wanted.
Secondly, you charged me a fee to tell me something I already knew.
Thirdly, you don't understand anything about my business.... '
'.....Now can I have my *dog* back?
Suddenly a brand new Porsche screeches to a halt. The driver, a man dressed in an Armani suit, Cerutti shoes, Ray-Ban sunglasses, TAG-Heuer wrist-watch, and a Pierre Cardin tie gets out and asks the shepherd,
'If I can tell you how many sheep you have, will you give me one of them?'
The shepherd looks at the young man, then looks at the large flock of
grazing sheep and replies, 'Okay.'
The young man parks the car, connects his laptop to the mobile-fax, enters a NASA Website, scans the ground using his GPS, opens a database and 60 Excel tables filled with algorithms and pivot tables.
He then prints out a 150-page report on his high-tech mini-printer, turns to the shepherd and says,
'You have exactly 1,586 sheep.'
The shepherd cheers, 'That's correct, you can have your sheep.'
The young man takes one of the animals from the flock and puts it in the back of his Porsche.
The shepherd looks at him and asks, 'If I guess your profession, will you Return my animal to me ?'
The young man answers, 'Yes, why not?'
The shepherd says, 'You are an auditor.'
'How did you know?' asks the young man.
'Very simple,' answers the shepherd. '
Firstly, you came here without being wanted.
Secondly, you charged me a fee to tell me something I already knew.
Thirdly, you don't understand anything about my business.... '
'.....Now can I have my *dog* back?
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