Who Moved My Cheese!

Thats a real nice book recommended by couple of friends, short and sweet , i read it in a single day.

The book deals with the subject of change! How to deal when things change in your personal life, health, work or any other area. The author expresses the different types of people:

those who are willing to change, and those who resist and think there should be no change and those that are the quickest to move on. I really learnt how sometimes we amongst ourselves resist any change that comes in our life.

After reading the book, now I can see how I am resisting a change implicitly and then since I realize i try to adopt the change. For an example, being a Microsoft .NET guy worked with Microsoft technologies for around 8 years. When everyone is going for IPad and IPhones which are from the Apple family. I think I do not need to learn how to develop for Apple, Microsoft will come up with something to beat Apple. But after reading the book, I feel No, I need to be prepared to built solutions on Apple products, if managers move to IPad from heavy laptops, and I cannot deliver the information that I am delivering to them on their handheld devices, maybe I will be left behind. So need to catch up, we need to move with the change instead of wondering who moved my cheese.

Guys have a Good read: Who Moved my Cheese.

Fish Market

I remember as a kid when I was in school and there used to be a lot of noise in the class, teachers would say "Is this a Fish Market?" Now why would I blog about it now?

Actually I remembered this when I visited the Al-Kout Fish Market few days back. It was noisy, every shop keeper trying to sell whatever he has to any customer that passes by his shop. The thought came to my mind, what the teachers used to say in School. I have seen the Indian Fish Markets they were noisy. But its the same in Q8 as well. Makes me wonder is it the same across the world or the so called Developed countries have Fish Markets which are not noisy.

Was trying to think the reasons:

1. Fish eaters love to eat fresh out of Water Fish. Frozen will not taste the same.

2. All the shops have more or less same variety of Fish and are selling at almost the same price.

3. So, if the customer passes by your shop he may not come back, so they have a Target to make a sale to any customer that reaches their display area.

4. Regular buyers visit the Fish Market early to get the best Fresh Fish. I remember in India we used to go to the Mazgaon Dock or Colaba Dock after Fajr (around sunrise)

5. So their peak selling period is limited as well.

Food for thought: What would you have done to make the most sales in this scenario? If you were selling Fish. Let us see the different ways of thinking... Engineers, Management Grads, let us all see if we had to sell Fish for a day what would be your strategy.