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The Free to Use Model Internet is inundated with free services. You can use them for free and you will not be charged a penny. But have you gone a little further and explored what happens once your usage leaves you and reaches the service provider. And from the service provider how it lands up into the valley of other service provider and so on and so forth. Did you know that the Google Maps traffic update is due to your owning the Android phone and your moving around with it in your pocket? The ad in gmail is due to the content inside your email. Similarly, for other ad networks. Lets talk about few more models. You use a flight itinerary app. It gives you notifications on flight delays, nearby hotels at destination etc., And its free? Why? Because your itinerary is now with app. The backend knows from you are, where you will go and when you will go? How much time will it take from the app to the duty free shop, nearby hotels, airport taxi providers know that? And who wil...

When you look for individuals to fill a position in your company, what do you look for? Is it attitude  skill presence  ? Attitude includes things like "I am so great and I know so much" or "I am just learning and can pick up well" or "I have done it in the past but now I forgot" or "I know I can do it but I cannot jus tell you how?" or "I am jack of all but master of none or opposite". Skill is obtained by hard work or its a nature's gift. You have certain gaps and you want to fill those. There are better skilled people out there who can do it for you. Presence is how you feel in presence of the individual in front of you. Do you feel comfortable or do you feel agitated? What do you expect the person to tell you when you ask "Why would you like to work for this company?" Is it something like  You are the best talents out there and I would like to learn from you. Your company has the best...

The supervisor belongs to small town in Kerala. The workers are from Raichur and Davangere, small towns few hundreds of kilometers from Bangalore. They had not gone through any formal management training or personality development programs on assertiveness or communications or team building skills. They come on time. Sharp at 9:30 AM. On the first day of work they cleaned up the room, moved all heavy furniture, little items into other rooms. At the end of day, they asked "Do you need to move the items back into the room?". They bring their own lunch. They take their lunch break in the room itself. The room that is getting painted. They clean up room before work. They clean up room after work. They close work on time. Sharp at 6 PM. Yesterday, one of them came out to take the mobile phone call. The only thing they ask you is Water, the supervisor asked for tea yesterday. The supervisor does not negotiate on price, its fixed. He keeps suggesting other works th...