Mentoring all the way

A lot of talent pool resides in most organization with no catalyst to make the positive energy flow, does that sound like something happening to you?. A mentor is someone who helps you through a process or on a more subtle note helps you understand and blow your full potential in a fairly new or unfamiliar surrounding.

I doubt if we could make rapid progress without a strong mentor by our side. I have mentored quite some in the past and have been mentored myself, one thing remains sheer talent is powerless without this subtle nature which brings you closer to the goal.

 A mathematical view is that the mentoring exists on the chart where the standard deviation is more than normal thus the difference in the present and expected is more, a mentor will not be so much of a use where the present and expected is reached, in such a situation the mentor might take the role of a competitor or a boss. A good mentor generally becomes a good boss, but the reverse may not be true.

Mentoring is a skill which is failry neglected and is done only when one is forced to. 

Vendor Management tricks

Managing existing vendors and demand planning goes hand in hand. The push from the vendor to sell/oversell influences the forecasting calculations and forecast can be overestimated. On the other hand the demand might not vary at all or worse diminish within the course of the forecast.

Pursuing the vendor on creating value to enable increase in demand is imperative. It is kind of a catch 22 situation but as vendor manager the push and pull of forecast and demand and the decoupling point needs to be reached sooner.

If there has been no forecast the demand would come strongly , as it happens when a company starts and during the initial days there is no forecast and is run over demands alone. As the business matures the bench is being organized to give cost benefit and quick response to the customer and meet the demands quicker. The strategy to keep bench needs to be planned out carefully and it is job of demand planner to make the resource adaptable to varying customer needs. The jazzing up of the resource is something best done by senior technical individual who has serious mentoring skills.

Tomorrow I will write more on mentoring skills

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Runge Kutta to your help when you want to make a difference

Every time I have to make a change from my current situation, I wonder how I can do it. Change is a differential and is relative and proportional to your current situation. if you want to make a change it has to be factored on a timeline and will be a by product of what you already have.


One cannot take big strides if that is not in the thought process that has built up over years and is growing on every second. Bringing large thinking spaces in your mind and others that are around you creates the matter on which you can base a change.

Thinking Obama while writing this.

Dear Mathematics enthusiasts , my blog is for those who are completely lost in this world but wanted to reach ashore. If you love mathematics, you can understand life better with it. For example , learn a basic non-linear equation which values f(x) = 0 , this is point where the curve meets the x axis. x axis is the time parameter... if your life is a non-linear equation, the f(x) = 0 is the point where you will reach the equilibrium, a place where you will enjoy bliss. This point can be maintained till eternity if you make yourself constant and not vary with the x timeline. This is all for today, my understanding of f(x) = 0