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MDs who have visited newtfmpage

Topic started by .. (@ 160.231.1.110) on Wed Sep 5 13:40:56 EDT 2001.
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We have seen that Ehsaan has visited newtfmpage and getting some feedback about their music. Similarly any such incidents like other MDs visiting newtfmpage was observed??

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• From: UVII (@ 63.225.17.34) on: Wed Sep 5 13:49:18 EDT 2001
  
  ARR, KR, YSR used to visit this page, but they do not post...So guys post ur views...it will ofcourse reach them.
  
  
• From: .. (@ 160.231.1.110) on: Wed Sep 5 14:18:14 EDT 2001
  
  UVII:
  
  Need a concrete proof:-))
  
  
  ..
  
  
• From: Get Paid More (@ 140.80.199.91) on: Wed Sep 5 14:34:17 EDT 2001
  
  Get Paid More and Promoted Faster"
  By Brian Tracy
  Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 110 pages,
  September 7
  
  By Porter Anderson
  CNN Career
  
  (CNN) -- What's not to like?
  
  "Get Paid More and Promoted Faster."
  The title alone tells you that this book's
  author is one right-thinking dude.
  
  But the good news is that Brian Tracy
  hasn't turned out Book No. 6,523 of the
  get-rich-quick variety. Instead of telling
  readers what they might want to hear
  ("Just five minutes of your free time per
  day ..."), Tracy tells us what we need to
  hear: Success comes from mapping out
  where you want to go and committing
  to doing what's required to get there.
  
  If you want to rise to the top while never budging from a barstool in your break
  room; if you're looking for the secret to success in long lunches; if you're one
  of those folks who loves to say you're not going to devote an extra minute to
  your career beyond what you're paid to do -- then you won't like this one. This
  isn't armchair careerism.
  
  In the second sentence of his introduction, Tracy makes it clear to whom he's
  talking in this book: "There have never been more opportunities and possibilities
  for ambitious people to achieve their career and life goals than exist today."
  
  Got it? This book is for ambitious people. No
  apologies. No instruction to burn yourself out,
  either. But in Chapter 6, for example, Tracy is
  going to suggest that you "Start earlier, work
  harder and stay later."
  
  "Two extra hours of productive work each day
  is all you really need to invest to become one of
  the most valuable and effective people in your
  company," he writes. "You can create this extra
  two hours by coming in an hour earlier and
  staying one hour later. This will expand your day
  slightly, but it will increase your career
  tremendously."
  
  Of course, popular thinking -- more accurately,
  popular whining -- loves to perpetuate the myth
  of no-pain, big gain: You shouldn't have to give
  up any of your own time to further your career,
  you're owed all good things simply for punching
  in and out right on time and never give your
  company an even break.
  
  Tracy has the guts to point out that that's
  rubbish.
  
  "The top 10 percent of money-earners in
  America," he writes, " work 50 hours or more
  per week. The highest-paid 1 percent of
  Americans work an average of 56 hours per
  week. And more importantly, they work all the
  time they work. They do not waste time. They
  arrive at work early and they immediately start
  on their most important tasks. They work steadily throughout the day. They are
  friendly, but they do not spend the day making small talk or engaging in idle
  chitchat with their co-workers."
  
  It would have been decent for Tracy to attribute those figures about top earners
  and the lengths of their workweeks to one survey or another, but they tend to
  echo the sort of numbers we're seeing in other literature these days. The bottom
  line when it comes to getting what you pay for is that you should plan to pay
  for it. And if you can't understand the rationale of giving some extra to your
  career to make it better, then you're likely not someone for whom career is that
  important a part of life. Nothing wrong with that -- but as Tracy keeps urging
  his reader, make a choice.
  
  Some of his other 20 points are more predicable. For example, there's Chapter
  4: "Develop a positive attitude." Thanks, Dale Carnegie. And there's Chapter 10:
  "Think about the future." It's pretty hard to run around in current society
  without having heard the wisdom of thinking forward, keeping your eye on the
  prize or the brass ring or the big chalupa that someday might just be dropped in
  front of you -- what are the odds?
  
  But then Tracy throws in some gratifyingly rare suggestions, and each is
  handled in a tidy, concise chapter that's short enough to be read as a daily
  meditation. This is not to say that the rarer entries are out-of-nowhere surprises
  but that they can give an ambitious careerist that "aha" moment, as some
  psychologists call a quick and useful little epiphany.
  
  • Here's one: "Focus on the bottom line."
  Have you ever gotten into a water-cooler
  discussion with co-workers about various
  changes going on in your offices and
  discovered that someone there had never
  realized the profit motive behind some of
  those developments? It's pretty shocking, isn't
  it? Lots of laborers in our corporate fields
  never quite get hold of the fact that what
  they're harvesting is money.
  
  At whatever level you function in your
  organization, look around and see where you
  fit in financially. Tracy tells you in Chapter 19
  that the only two ways to increase profitability
  are to increase revenues by producing more,
  or to decrease the costs of producing the
  products or services at hand.
  
  "The lifeblood of a business is sales and cash
  flow," Tracy writes in Chapter 19's "Take
  Action Now!" conclusion. "Study your
  business closely and determine how you could
  increase sales or cash flow in some way. One good idea could change your
  career."
  
  It's too bad about those "Take Action Now!" boxes, by the way. But they're the
  book's only concession to the current "For Dummies" style of cluttering up
  how-to books with sayings in the margins, nuggets of wisdom in 14 typefaces
  and even pictures of prancing cartoon characters usually used to distract you
  from the fact that you're reading banal material. In Chapter 11, "Focus on your
  goals," Tracy does encourage you to write down what you want in your career
  and how you plan to get there. But this book is mercifully free of the workbook
  pages, the self-tests you fill out and send in like something off a cereal box, the
  true-or-false quizzes and the coloring contests. You can read it without a
  writing implement in your hand.
  
  Tracy needs no such farce to put across his points, which include:
  
  • "Ask for what you want." And he's talking money as well as other things.
  
  • "Choose the right boss." That one
  may surprise people who tend to think
  that bosses are determined by fate at
  best and by the parent company at
  worst. But Tracy tells you that, at least
  at the point of a job search, you should
  audition your potential bosses. "When
  you see your boss coming," he writes,
  "you should feel confident and happy
  rather than nervous or insecure.
  Perhaps the best measure of all is that
  when you are working with the right
  boss, at the right job, you feel happy
  and relaxed. You laugh a lot at work.
  You enjoy yourself and you feel
  valuable and important as an employee
  and as a person."
  
  • "Create a successful image." Sound
  like the oldest dress-for-success stuff
  in the world? Well, pretty much it is.
  But if you doubt the viability of this
  concept, try doing a little of your
  weekend shopping in sharp work
  clothes. You know, those Saturday
  errands you usually run in a T-shirt and
  jeans? -- run them in a necktie or a
  business skirt. You may be surprised
  how much better service and attention you get from clerks, other shoppers,
  service people. Much to the disappointment of many, particularly in the
  comfy-clad IT sector, image counts. And so does this old advice.
  
  • "Push to the front." Now we're talking real nerve. Tracy isn't afraid to write,
  "You are in competition with everyone else who wants to be paid more and
  promoted faster, whether you like it or not. A race is on and you are in it. Your
  job is to move yourself into the lead and then figure out how to move ahead
  faster than the other people around you." Doesn't it feel great to find somebody
  openly discussing gang-way, coming-through, cordial but determined ambition?
  
  • One more with a bit of detail: "Develop positive personal power." It's a
  moment about charisma here, basically. "To have power means that you have
  the ability to determine what people do and how money is spent. With power,
  you can make decisions or alter decisions that have been made by other people.
  ... The more you acquire and use your power in a positive and constructive
  way, the more power you will attract to you. ... You will definitely be paid more
  and promoted faster."
  
  And that's what this book is here for. A fast read, a clean presentation, "Get
  Paid More" is as straight-ahead on its pages as it is in its title. There aren't too
  many jokes. This is a serious set of suggestions for people who are serious
  about moving their careers forward. None of the advice is earth-shaking. But it
  works like a fine no-frills roadmap, to remind you of the lay of the land and the
  route you're taking. Good journey.
  
  
• From: .. (@ 160.231.1.110) on: Wed Sep 5 14:40:12 EDT 2001
  
  It's a wonderful article...Thanks.
  
  
• From: UVII (@ 63.225.17.34) on: Wed Sep 5 15:21:50 EDT 2001
  
  ..
  Wait and See
  
  
• From: yvs mani (@ 164.100.35.93) on: Thu Sep 6 08:33:12 EDT 2001
  
  If I am correct, V.S.Narasimman visited this page a year back
  
  
• From: Kupps (@ 156.153.255.134) on: Thu Sep 6 09:24:29 EDT 2001
  
  really!!! could u tell which thread did he visit??
  
  
• From: yvs mani (@ 164.100.11.114) on: Fri Sep 7 01:02:33 EDT 2001
  
  There was a thread named V.S.Narasimman itself where films MDed by him were discussed. try it in archieves. He wrote abt his album in that thread
  
  

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