Soft Skills and Personality Development

TTR ID CARD - Real life incident in a train travel.   1] Around 1998, I was travelling as a support person to attend an arbitration case at Chennai.  [TAMIL TRANSLATION, AT THE bottom] 2] This was relating to a civil construction company in Salem. 3] We were forced to travel in a train ticket WITH DIFFERENT NAMES. 4] Somehow the TTR located us and woke us up in the middle of the night. 5]Then he asked my name. 6] Pretending to be innocent, I took my ticket from my bag and read out my name. 7] Undaunted, I asked the ID-CARD of the TTR ! 8] Then the TTR levied SPOT FINE on us. 9] He would have been a very nice human being. 10] He told my senior colleague -- "BETTER ASK THAT GUY (ME) TO BE QUIET. 11] I COULD HAVE DERAILED YOU BOTH IN THE NEXT STATION. 12] TAKING HIS PHYSICAL NATURE INTO CONSIDERATION, I DON'T WANT TO DO THAT!" 13] There are really many good human beings in the world! Ezhilarasan Venkatachalam Salem [=நிஜ வாழ்க்கை சம்பவம். ASKING TTR I...

 MANAGEMENT TIPS that I learnt from KSM SIR (version 2) I learned many life skills and management tips from my mentor, KSM. I owe him a lot.  I worked at M/s.Premier mills, HOSUR for 8 years. But my last 365 days or so, under KSM Sir was unforgettable.  He meticulously molded me from a clay to a beautiful statue (to use an analogy). MY GATE PASS ERROR Once our dot matrix printer was under repair. We had some urgent printing to be done. Since the HCL Engineer didn't complete it in time, I had to take the printer urgently in our company car to HOSUR (HCL Engineer's room) from our factory 12 kms away. In the urgency, I forgot to fill out a mandatory form called, GATE PASS. It declares many things about the machinery taken out -- like manufacturing serial no.   model, taken out reason replacement or repair, person taking it out,  department (computer department) etc, etc. It may be returned in a day or even after a month. At that time, an "INWARDS ENTRY" will b...