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1. Business is made up of ambiguous victories and nebulous defeats. Claim them all as victories.
2. Keep track of what you do; someone is sure to ask.
3. Be comfortable around senior managers, or learn to fake it.
4. Never bring your boss a problem without some solution. You are getting paid to think, not to whine.
5. Long hours don’t mean anything; results count, not effort.
6. Write down ideas; they get lost, like good pens.
7. Always arrive at work 30 minutes before your boss.
8. Help other people network for jobs. You never know when your turn will come.
9. Don’t take days off sick—unless you are.
10. Assume no one can/will keep a secret.
11. Know when you do your best—morning, night, under pressure, relaxed; schedule and prioritize your work accordingly.
12. Treat everyone who works in the organization with respect and dignity, whether it be the cleaner or the managing director. Don’t ever be patronizing.
13. Never appear stressed in front of a client, a customer or your boss. Take a deep breath and ask yourself: In the course of human events, how important is this?
14. Acknowledging someone else’s contribution will repay you doubly.
15. Career planning is an oxymoron. The most exciting opportunities tend to be unplanned.
16. Always choose to do what you’ll remember ten years from now.
17. The size of your office is not as important as the size of your pay cheque.
18. Understand what finished work looks like and deliver your work only when it is finished.
19. The person who spends all of his or her time is not hard-working; he or she is boring.
20. Know how to write business letters—including thank-you notes as well as proposals.
21. Never confuse a memo with reality. Most memos from the top are political fantasy.
22. Eliminate guilt. Don’t fiddle expenses, taxes or benefits, and don’t cheat colleagues.
23. Go to the company party.
24. Don’t get drunk at the company party.
25. Avoid working at weekends. Work longer during the week if you have to.
26. The most successful people in business are interesting.
27. Sometimes you’ll be on a winning streak and everything will click; take maximum advantage. When the opposite is true, hold steady and wait it out.
28. Never in your life say, “It’s not my job.”
29. Be loyal to your career, your interests and yourself.
30. Understand the skills and abilities that set you apart. Use them whenever you have an opportunity.
31. People remember the end of the project. As they say in boxing, “Always finish stronger than you start.”

Selva. One of my dear pals. Got a call from him today. He has got an offer from one of the technology consulting & outsourcing giants. He was on cloud nine. Before I go any further, let me give you a quick briefing on Selva. He is a 5 foot person with weighing not more than 60 kilos. Keep changing his hairstyle and dressing sense. Born and brought up in Dindugal (Down South in Tamil Nadu), he is a very easy going fellow. He was one of my college mates. We shared the same major. His academic skills were awesome. Though he was from a tamil medium school, he consistently scored above 80% in each semester, a skill which I still adore. Some of the things I liked about him are: He never sleeps much, When it comes to responsibilities – he is way ahead of all of us, when it comes to studies – he would concentrate so much that you won’t find single MM of nails left in his fingers, he is very much attached to his parents, keeps his mother in good humour by doing mock calls and so on.

Having said all these, he was the last fellow to earn a carrier. It was nearly a year and above after graduation that he got a job. Every time he called me up, every time we (Me, Mom & Dad) discussed above Selva, we would question ourselves “Why not Selva? SO much academic skills, so much adorable behaviour, so easy to mingle, yet not a good carrier. Why ?” This call from him has answered all the questions. Sometimes God gives you what you ask for. Sometime, He asks you to wait, take some time and gives you a better one. Sometimes, He makes you wait a bit longer, and gives you the BEST. That’s is how I treat this offer to you Selva. God has given you the best. Make the most of it. Tons of wishes to you my dear friend.  All the very best.

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What is 123. Well ….to be in short, it is an agreement signed between India & US for the sake of India’s necessity in importing resources / machinery related to nuclear technology from US to setup and materialize production of Nuclear based electricity. Well quite confusing …isn’t it? Read on……..

US had restrictions in providing such technology to India all these days. Now it is ready to remove those restrictions based on some conditions specified in 123 agreement.

Condition 1:

All the reactors producing electricity based on nuclear energy must be brought under the direct supervision of the International Nuclear Energy Committee. As per this condition 14 out of 22 nuclear reactors in India would be brought under the supervision.

Condition 2:

In order to recycle the nuclear fuel used in the nuclear reactors, advanced reactors must be setup. Such reactors must also be brought under the supervision of the respective Nuclear committees of America.

Condition 3:

If the machinery used to produce electricity from nuclear energy can be used to produce nuclear weapons, then such machinery should not be given to India.

Condition 4:

If India conducts a nuclear test, then America would break the agreement and take back all the technology / machinery provided to India. But the reactors which has been brought into the supervision of the respective nuclear committees will continue to be in their supervision !

India must agree to all these conditions in order to proceed further in completing this agreement.

The last condition which states that the agreement will terminate if India conducts a nuclear test is not specified in the 123 agreement, but in the Hyde’s Law which has been completed before 123 agreement in the American parliament.

In case if America does not provide the resources / technology as agreed upon, can India terminate the agreement? No. These is no such provision in the agreement as such.

One more condition in the 123 is India’s external affairs stand as far as Nuclear energy is concerned must be in sync with American stand. To be precise, India must support America in opposing Iran for producing Nuclear weapons.

Why should India sign such an agreement which appears to be biased towards America?

Well…in order to increase the Electricity production? Electricity produced from nuclear energy only can tackle India’s future demands for electricity? It it true…..

Right now the electricity produced by India is around 1,26,839 MW. Of this 66 % if from the Lignite mines. Electricity produced from the Hydro Electric projects is around 26 %. %  from other resources like Solar based production. If in case you need to increase the production of Nuclear based electricity to 6 % in the next 20 years, then you need to invest 50000 crores. The amount spent towards Solar based and more such techniques tight now is just 600 crores. They are giving us back 5 % of the total electricity produced with such an investment. The amount spent towards Nuclear based electricity production is around 3897 crores. It is returning just 3% of the total electricity produced after all these investments.

By signing this agreement India forces itself to reveal the nuclear secrets. In the past India has used 35 % of its plutonium for producing nuclear weapons. After 123, it can use only 10% of Plutonium. Technology & nuclear fuel are the two reasons for which India signs this agreement. But we have both them and it is not necessary for us to depend on America. This is the truth.

There is a false rumor that we don’t have enough Uranium. In order to produce electricity for the next 40 years along with Nuclear weapons ( aroung 2228 Bombs ) we need around 25000 MTon. We have around 78000 Tons of Uranium. We have around 3 Lakh tons of thorium. We have even developed the technology to make use of this availability. Our Nuclear Energy dept have plans to make this into a reality in the next 40 years.

In order to use thorium, we need small amount of uranium. America is trying to bring the plan of recycling uranium into the 123 agreement. They may have plans to control the thorium activities  May be that’s why the 123 agreement is also signed for a period of 40 years. Will come back with lot more details….