Last night, the Democratic candidate for Presidency, Senator Barack Obama was declared to be the winner. He is the 44th President of United States of America and also he is the first African-American to be elected as the US President.

Following are some of the quotes from his maiden speech after his victory in Chicago Park :

“We may not get there in one year or in one term, ..But we will get there.”
“Let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other.”
“America, we have come so far, We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do.”
“.. our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared..”

Congratulations to the new Mr. President of America. Sir, we are expecting actions similar to your words.

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CompareEverywhere is one my favourite andriod apps. It’s really cute with respect to both it’s functionality and interface.

By scanning barcode through your phone, it instantly finds out the best deals available around. Integration of Google Maps is so good that you would love it.

More info at : http://www.android.com/market/#app=compareeverywhere

Alfredo Jorge @ LinkedIn had asked :

Leaders 2.0? How do you describe the leaders of the future?

My answer to Alfredo Jorge was,

Kindness, Duty consciousness and Patience are the qualities of a good Leader. Leading from the front, being the right example, setting high standards to the team are the key traits of a Leader. According to me, the qualities / traits of a Leader does not change over period. And this does remain the same for the past, present as well as the future Leaders.

Links: http://dsarathy.com/blog/general/what-makes-a-leader.html

From my childhood, I don’t have the habbit of celebrating birthdays. The simple reason being, there were other big challenges to be fought then.

However, I like the idea of celebrating birthdays. Have even enjoyed in the recent past a couple of which were memorable though. Instead of celebrating the increase in our age, it should have been the celebration of some good deeds or some acheivements. What have you got to say on this?

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Many times we face the question - “What happens if we reach our goal ?”. This is an intersting question to assimilate. First of, you are feeling that you have achieved or rather reached your goal, my congrats to you.

And now, before answering the question, there are two ways of looking at life. They are, those who see life 1) as a series of sprint races or b) as a single marathon race. If you feel it as a series of sprint races, your latest race result is known and get ready for the next one. And if you acknowledge life as a marathon, the game is not over, keep moving on.

So in any case, the journey continues, keep moving. It is the hope - ‘ miles to go before I sleep..’ (by Rober Frost) makes our life interesting. What have you got to say?

At Zoho, we have launced a new offering - Zoho Share. It’s a centralized repository of public content for online collaboration. It has come out well, infact much better than what we all expected. But still, this is just the begining and we have miles to go. More information from our video, ppt and blog.

The secret of the whole success is just one word - Collaboration. It’s the collaboration between

• Zoho Services Teams
• Zoho Services APIs
• my own ‘Zoho Share’ team members

I take this opportunity to thank all those who had directly and indirectly contributed or rather collaborated to bring this so far.
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Thinking about what one wants and what he/she can, results in inaction.

If one stops thinking about the latter, they become - “HERO(INE)“.

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According to dictionary.com, A Leader is a person who rules or guides or inspires others. So what makes a person to be a Leader?

Together, it takes all the qualities of a Philanthropist, Warrior and a Human being. It is kindness that makes a better philanthropist. Duty consciousness makes one a better warrior. And patience makes one a better human being.

So it takes, kindness, duty consciousness and patience to make a good Leader.

Feedback is an output of a process or system which serves as an input of another process or a system. Successful people are those who constantly process relevant feedbacks, to tweak them for good. While handling a feedback, we should take care of the following :

1. Focus on the context of the feedback rather than the content
2. Focus on the feedback rather than who has said it?
3. Focus on the perspective with which the feedback is given
4. and many more…

If we carefully analyse, could find that for a proper analysis of a feedback one has to spend some good quality time. When the number of feedbacks are more in number, it would suck out our productive time. So, can we decide not to analyse any of the feedback ? It looks like we are caught in between .. right? So how to handle this?

Generally, when the feedback is raised for the first time, I politely say a thanks. When we get to hear the same issue (second time) from a different user, should try to pay more attention. Probe more questions and watch out for the same set of past expressions or words / phrases. And for the third time, if the same feedback is being raised, now it’s the time to roll our sleeves and act on it.

And I call this as “3T Rule“.

In my experience, only less than 5% of issues fall in this category. It saved lot of time for me, and I know would save you too.