This week, I spent 70% of my time in different meetings - in-house, business, social and professional. My friends ask me how can I manage my time to attend all meetings. Actually I don’t attend all meetings. I know, I can not. I always choose the meetings to attend. I have some criteria attending meetings. If I get invitations for meetings without agenda and I am not even briefed about the meeting, I am not much interested.

In meetings you may have two roles - host or participant. Either you are host or the participant, in meetings you have to be innovative and capable to promptly analyze the issues. Otherwise, meetings will slowly kill your valuable time. I can’t sit and just kill my time in long and pointless meetings. I think people should be concise and precise because people always have many other better things they could be doing with their time otherwise. I hate the meetings even with the agenda, when the agenda is long and people speak in length just trying to make their presence noticed. Meetings, like all other serious matters, require a certain sense of urgency and always move forward drawing the decisions and understandings.

I hate the meetings when people just sit around tired, drinking coffee after coffee and trying to keep going on one issue and always spending quite a lot time around that. Either you are host or the participant, you should try to be precise and try to put your decisive opinion forward. Don’t try to confuse the participants. Just don’t drag the meeting longer. Give the
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I came across a very interesting post by Vinay.
Indian Software companies already facing a lot of problems retaining Software professionals. India as the World’s largest outsourcing service provider paying reasonably high salary to its professionals and no more a cheap white collar labor market. Head hunting and stealing the best of brains from another company is already a well set software industry practice. Vinay writes “Recruiting and retaining skilled software professionals in India is not an easy task for a software company. It is getting costlier and harder for software firms to retain talent. Salaries for top performers have reached dizzying heights. Workers who are sacked from a company usually end up getting better offers. Average salary increases in India are now at around 14 per cent a year, compared with around 8 per cent in China. India’s top software firms plan to add 100,000 new jobs this fiscal year.”

He also posted a MUST WATCH video in light of the above. You will see the extent of efforts Indian software companies make to impress their employees, especially the new staff. The video is from the reception program of new staffs in one of well known software company in India.

Definitely it’s a smart move to retain the employees. But this is only the first move, software firms must take many consistent moves in sequence to retain good professionals. As Vinay, personally I would be uncomfortable with such a reception and would wonder if I came to the right place on my first day at work!

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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made the Historic Joint Appearance at the Fifth Annual “D: All Things Digital” Conference. In their rare joint appearance at All Things Digital 5, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discussed their contributions to the technology industry, the qualities they most respect in one another, and former Apple CEO Gil Amelio’s seamanship. The two men also discussed the history and future of the digital revolution in an unrehearsed, unscripted, onstage conversation with D co-producers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Watch out the inspiring and historic show of this decade in 7 parts.
Part 1 of 7:

To watch rest of the videos in this series, follow the links below:

• Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 2
• Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 3
• Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 4
• Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 5
• Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 6
• Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 7

We never thought we would see the day where Apple and Microsoft so easily and so comfortably share the same stage with that much of respect to each other, but that happened today.

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