Azim Premji's lessons learnt

Here are the few lessons learnt by the richest Indian Mr. Azim Premji in his life. I was in Wipro for 6 months from July 2003 to Dec 2003 because of which I have some kind of attachment towards Wipro 'n its chairman.

The lessons :

o Believe and Begin with your strengths
o A rupee earned is of far more value than five found.
o Learn from your failure
o Realise the importance of humility
o Strive for excellence
o Never give up in the face of adversity
o Keep open to changes, but do not compromise on values
o Have faith in your ideas

These are the pearls of wisdom ... coming from such distinguished 'n accomplished gentleman.
As i look at my life .. i feel i have a long way to go before i realise the true value of these lessons....

Source : Premji's lessons

Should companies favour fresh grads or experience people

I came across an article in economic times addressing the issue of experience over a fresher. THe key spokesperson in the article is one Mr.Peter Lorange, president of IMD, one of the world's leading business schools.

Here he talks about pros with experience as "growth sponsors", they are the ones on which the company should bank on future growth instead of the fresh talent with an MBA degree. I don't subscribe to this view entirely and nonetheless i am not contradicting it too. Fresh talent will be "growth sponsors" too, with their new ideas, their passion for work, the drive to do things differently will do a lot good to the company for its future growth.

The experience people do have certain pluses to their credit : their understanding of the market a nd the thing between their ears will be more mature will help the company in a different way.

In conclusion, I feel that depending on the circumstances the company should go for freshers or retain the experience pros. Both have their own pluses 'n minuses, there should be an healthy mix of both of them for the company to see a more 'n more positive slope in its growth curve.

Source : Business guru favours experience over MBA

Silicon Silicon all the way!!!

As I work in a semiconductor industry a posting on Silicon...

Every1 has heard of ICs - those small 'things' in any electronic gadget. Those who are informed know that these ICs are made up of silicon - the semiconductor material.

The company i work for, works on cutting edge technology , striving hard to meet the unproven but globally accepted Moore'slaw - the no. of transistors integrated in a given area will double every eighteen months. Even I play a simple role in achieving the inevitable.

One fine day when i was contemplating about my future, my roadmap in the company , my career I stumbled across this thought :
Since we are actually shrinking the silicon every 18 yrs ( 65 nm as of now), what will happen once we hit the physical limit of silicon.

The IT revolution is not going to come to end just because we have hit the silicon limit, IT has grown beyond that.I checked this with my superviser too who hadnot thought about it. After questioning other ppl i finally found solace in Google. When I googled this is what i found.

There are lots of research happening to find the next bext thing once the limit is reached. The two most important ones are :

o Optical computing.
Using light to process the data, as of now we use light to carry data, using the interference property of light we can build logic circuits. Check the link at the bottom of the page.

o Quantum Computing.
Using atom as the storing element. If an Electron in an atom is in a energised state, it is logic 1 and the stable atom is logic zero. If this materialises it will be a quantum leap in the area of computing since photons are faster than electrons and the volume of storage will be gigantic.

The research is goin on in both the areas, but nothing concrete yet. But things look very bright in the future.

Source : Silicon