Thiyagarajan Maruthavanan (Rajan)

Average package

An article in the economic times gave the following data that was some food for thought. Average starting salary for, IITian in India = Rs. 2.4 lacs pa IIMite in India = Rs. 6 lacs pa IITian in the US = $40k pa Engg. PhD = $60-70k pa Finance PhD = $140k pa Of course…More

Services Company and Product Company

Had this interesting discussion with my friend on the differences of career graph in a big IT ‘product company’ or an IT ‘services company’. The gist of it was that a career at ‘Services company’ is first ‘Generalization’ and later ‘Specialization’ and in a product company it is ‘Specialization’ and then later ‘Generalization’. In a…More

B School course content

I think b-school course content per se, is huge considering the time that is given to complete it. There can’t be an MBA course running for three, four relaxed years because that would eat into an individualâ€™s productive life. So there is no other way except to stuff courses into three-month periods. I am told…More

Growth as Objective

One should not take growth as an objective for himself, it is basically a by product of doing things right. Fundamental errors get made when people do optimization with growth as the objective function.More

Bloglet

I had been using the services of http://www.bloglines.com to keep up with various blogs that I used to check out. Now I found a new service at http://www.bloglet.com which allows me to get blog updates on to my mailbox. This is seem to work for me fine. I could not get Info Aggregator work for…More

Visit to Ahmedabad

I haven’t been blogging for the past three four days. I had been to Ahmedabad to meet a dear friend of mine who is studying at IIMA. I should say that the IIMA campus is just awesome. It looks really beautiful in dimly lit light in the night. There I heard about the some really…More

Seven New Grand challenges for Computer Science

From since when I was very young I was always very fascinated with electronics, gadgets.Radio was one device which was all the more fascinating to me. When I made the decision to do engineering my orient was to do a electronic engineering from a premier college in the country. Later I joined for Computer science…More

Highly effective entrepreneurs

This is what Stephen Covey says are the traits of highly effective entrepreneurs. One, They are continually learning and growing Two, they are service oriented. Three, they radiate positive energy. Four, they believe in other people Five, they lead balanced lives Six, they see life as an adventure. Seven , they are synergistic and finally…More

The Deferred Life Plan

Rajesh’s post on this topic of Entreprenuers ( TECH TALK: An Entrepreneur’s Early Days (Part 2) ) is something that I really love. He quotes from Randy Komisar’s book “The Monk and the Riddle” in today’s post. “The Deferred Life Plan” For the promise of full coverage under the plan, you must divide your life…More

ChapterNexT

Life is like a book and they are made of many chapters. Well these days I am trying to define the broad frames to chart/write out the ‘ChapterNext’ of my life. This chapter would be later indexed as ‘Chapter 8’ Chapter 1 {Class(1-4) [1981 – 1990]} Chapter 2 {Class(5-9) [1990 – 1995]} Chapter 3 {Class(10-12)…More

Right Attitude

Read this article on ET today titled ‘Mind over Matter’ .The article starts with something like ” ‘Attitude beats ability hands down when it comes to parameters that determines an individual’s success.’ Some survey reports that success depends on 85% attitude and only 15% ability. Self reading and and experience is the way to acquire…More

My answers to questions on ‘An Entrepreneur’s Early Days’

This post by Rajesh on ‘ An Entrepreneur’s Early Days’ is like pearls of wisdom about entrepreneurship from someone who is been an entrepreneur already and experienced failures and successes. He raises some interesting questions related to various aspects about wanting to be an entrepreneur.. Some of my personal answer to these are: Ofcourse I…More

Whatz Life @ MBA college like ??

At some point later in my life, I ‘might’ do an MBA. Not sure on it though but still I am getting curious what guys do @ a Management college. So I take a peek at those who are doing an MBA right now. Blogs that I check out regularly Ramki: A techie in ISB.…More

Blogging Regularly

I registered this blog quite some time back, but have not been posting any blogs regularly. Well here are a couple of reasons why now I am planning to blog regularly. I plan to use this blog for my Personal Information Management. – It has been horribly difficult for me to manage the information that…More

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