Wheres Gordon Grekko
Feb 5th
Stock market took a tumble today after European debt woes. Dow Jones closed at 10,002.18 (-268.37). Over at lunch today, someone mentioned to me joking “wheres Gordon Grekko in this market”. If you don’t know who Gordon Grekko is, watch movie called Wall Street. Gordon Grekko, a manipulative investor managing several hedge funds who plays the most dirtiest tricks in the most dirtiest game. You would think Grekko’s are waiting for their turn to manipulate market as they are uncertain on daily moves lately. In past few months i have not seen any economic data being the factor in DJI or S&P moves up or down. Whether is consumer spending, weekly jobless claims, housing report or T-bills.
One of the top knotch Financial analyst who works for (undisclosed) most reputable Bank ( i know its kind of funny to say reputable Bank in financial disaster era) told me that believe it or not, stock market is still the best place to invest money today. Coming back to Gordon Grekko. There is not one but hundreds of Grekko today moving market up and down with their push button.
Earnings have been key role in past months market moves. But Dubai and Europe totally blasted market in past few weeks. You wonder those Hedge Fund managers aka Grekko’s are getting killed. Answer is no. It is the small investors who are getting crushed. Gordon Grekko’s are still making their money. They are still out there and they are not going anywhere.
Dealing with impossible clients needs
Feb 4th
In past, i dealt clients with unlimited and impossible needs with little to no twist on their part. This is one of the most common issues corporations faces today. How can one escape with satisfying clients without doing anything?
I heard a story once which became very effective in dealing with such situations for me. I will be very brief without going into a detailed story line. Once there was a king who gathered top artist from all across the country to make a painting replica that looks exactly like him. Each artist displayed their drawings with their best ability, But not one could satisfy the king. A wise young man approached the king with a mirror in his hands and placed right opposite to where he was sitting. King was very happy and amazed with this young mans ability to prove him that the only image that can ever exist is by a reflection in mirror.
I remembered serving one of the biggest VOIP communication client when i worked with IBM. Service manager’s request were ridiculous at times. However, in all these situations we first need learn to fulfill needs for clients and more importantly their satisfaction. As the young boy in the story knew that what king wanted was simply impossible. He still won over the competition by doing nothing. The idea here is to provide a practical proof of that what you are chasing after is a ghost. Arguing with client on their impossible request is not going to do any good to you or the company. They pay money for support and services, they want results. Communicating whats in your mind clearly and being more truthful rather than being diplomatic is the right way to tackle situations like these. Send a clear message out.
Choices
Jan 24th
In summer 09 i moved to macbook away from windows to make daily browsing and work experience a little less frustrating with wonderful vista flaws that it was born with. Mac OS 10 was great until windows 7 happened. Microsoft certainly spend some real good time on building windows 7. Setting the graphics and all the cool features aside, windows 7 has been very smooth OS so far, even though i have too much junk on it. Since last two months i have not touched my macbook. Yeah thats how good 7 is. Once again i am here trying to make a final choice to carry on with rest of the year. It’s tough quiet honestly. Ahh choices.
So, What was that about?
Oct 25th
Apparently somehow my entire domain file structure was deleted. After emailing dreamhost they dont know how or what happend. Since dreamhost has full backup restores available for 2 weeks, i requested to do a full restore on domain. Recieved email in few hours stating backups are not available and unfortunately they cannot restore any of my files.
Are You Kidding Me?!
You would be thinking why din’t i backup wordpress or entire folder. Why would i do that if i am paying a webhosting company who performs full backups and keeps restores available upto 2 weeks.
Anyways, enough of ranting.. It’s going to take me a week or two to get things together and get the blog rolling. I have been very busy with few transitions lately.