Why Rocky Balboa the movie- I, II, a must see.

"All I wanna do is go the distance. 

Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, 

and if I can go that distance, you see, 

and that bell rings and I'm still standin',

 I'm gonna know for the first time in my life,

 see, that I weren't just another bum

 from the neighborhood."  Rocky Balboa.

Rocky Balboa is an interesting story. He is a left handed boxer, (not considered good) who doesn't  get opportunities at his early professional career. Then one day he suddenly gets one chance to prove what he is and he uses it the best way he can.

The Back story to this movie plot is that  Sylvester Stallone was struggling as an actor himself and he wrote this script to resurrect what was till now a mediocre career. And 30 years since the first movie every Rocky movie was in its own way a comeback initiative for Sylvester Stallone.

So why is Rocky (I and II) something that we should watch.

It is movie which is about the persons self worth. His self respect.  

His family - a girlfriend/wife or a close friend/brother in law would have been with him no matter what and are very close to him. This support system is very important and one must always value it. 

It is also about simple mind, positive attitude, determination and Hard work.

And even though it may seem or look like a boxing movie it is actually a movie about passion.

It is a story of a passion to prove to the world and more to himself that he is a man. And the reason this is important, is because he wants to earn the respect. Its not about winning, its about wanting to win and standing your ground to win against all odds.

His odds are what many professionals must be going through at their jobs.

• People thinking you are past your prime. - new hungry breed is ready
• You do your job well, but you are talented. You could have been a star.
• You earn money and yet are never quite able to save it. It always seems like a paycheck to paycheck situation.
• People look at your past but can never think that you have the skills now to make something good happen for the future.
• You have yourself accepted the fact that things can not be better than they are.

What Rocky does to you is pull you out of this rut and tell you/ force you to stop being such a bum.

He is only a man I tell ya. He will break.

So when in self doubt, a good dose of Rocky (back to back) can be helpful.  There is only one more thing I would like to say about Rocky. And it is not about the training montage, (with fantastic music) or the final fights. And that thing is Adaptability. If you can just take this from this movie, its still good.

(All images are for representation (source google) . I dont own any images)

By Ninad Tatke.

The BIG BANG Bazinga.

16th February was the date. I voted. End of story.

Yes.

Wow! the shortest blog post (by me) ever.

Wait. No there is more.

Why, why - please end this.

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Ok. Time now for a Bazinga moment.

What if we (Indians) decide to change the face of our democracy.

We right now elect our representatives with one vote each. Each vote technically has the same power over the other. So put it simply a poor slum dweller has a equal say as a middle class flat owner or a rich man with 100+ properties. But are all three able to qualitatively access their representatives. Do they have the time, will and faith over their representatives. Is a feedback and an interactive system in place.

I personally (a post graduate) is sure that I with all my education and exposure is unfit to select the leaders of our country. How do I know how is not/less corrupt. How do I know that this person will not use next 5 years for personal gains. And how do I know that the promise this person is showing right now is a short term carrot to win this election.  These are the usual carrots.(better roads/ water/ transport / Rs.500/ Saree)

But with my education I have imagination.

Hence I put forth a solution to our democracy.

How to find a representative.

1. People vote and elect only a certain set of professional (occupation) related people in their area. For example people will get to elect 3 lawyers, 3 doctors, 3 journalists, 3 businessmen, 3 architects... etc.

An uneducated person can also be selected through this but he needs to be a professional - (businessman, artist, ...)

2. These elected representative will then choose the representative among themselves and those people will do the term as the people representative.

3. Those who do not wish to lead the area will be allowed to drop out but those who are willing and capable will be given due support with all administrative support. (IAS).

4. The remaining candidates who were not selected but elected by the people will be questionable to the people they represent and hence they will be asked to track, monitor and question the working of their selected peer.

5. Targets will be set for the terms of the elected candidates.

6. For reelection, these targets would need to be met.

7. No body will be allowed to be a professional Politician. They need to have an profession. The initial list of professionals will be made available to every voter.


  

Strategem Samosa - Cracking the code on innovation. Chiwda Lives.

Why do humans participate in human interaction in business. Because they have a give an take. They give their time and they take back value.

So how to create value.

• Understand the requirement and identify different ways of creating value.
• Understand the other person and find new ways of appealing to his/her senses. 
• Find Gaps between what the person already gets and deliver the missing.
• Giving back again the same old, same old but at a lower price.

As we saw in the last post  the process of Market Research can be time consuming and requires a lot of discipline.

So the basic simplified version of any research is to set a certain amount of rules and follow it through to get a solution to the problem.

If you refer to one of my earlier posts innovation station. What I missed out in that post was the fact that innovation station needs to be built, just like the Chiwda needs to be positioned as a product in a multiplex.

So to help understand this lets use Chiwda for some more time. (Chiwda is a metaphor, use your core product!)

So we have the objective. - To sell Chiwda.

To sell Chiwda in a Multiplex is an innovation as it has never been done before.  But its not a innovation when others do it as well.

So innovation has to be continuous and consistent. 

So the group selling Chiwda in the multiplex has to have a feedback group (external) which would be reporting them about the delivery, quantity and quality of Chiwda and the audience reaction to it. 

(this works out like VRP's - Value Rating points- for the product).

Also they need to be on a look out for other growth opportunities without diluting the main core. - A good quality Chiwda.

Also dont be myopic and say I am in Chiwda Sales - say I am in Lifestyle food sales.

So to create innovation station there are 2 methods.

1. Internal - Setting time for employees to ideate and take their suggestions. Acknowledge workable suggestions timely and reward them .

Groom the people who can ideate or have the raw material to ideate. Yes 100 ideas will be bad but 2 good ideas mean more profit.

Resources to start something new will always be scarce but I will let you know on a little secret, its not the resources or experince which make ideas work but its the execution and dedication. If you have a team which can do that for you, let them. They may fail. But mostly they wont. If a group of people with a fairly good idea tries honestly, they will do well.

2. External- Setting social media , traditional platforms where people can reach out to you with feedback or suggestions. If you can set up a system where the consumer can give you new ideas or help you promote your product, you can achieve a lot. (see Bazooka Bubblegum).

So set up an innovation Station.

Make mistakes. Have success. Test your waters.

Do comment on this post.

By Ninad Tatke.