We know that several shipping companies made billions of dollars of profits in recent times.
Each crisis, be it the pandemic or the war in Gaza or the closure of the Suez Canal has generated huge profits for shipping companies.
With so much money made, these shipping companies have ordered more and more new ships.
However, there is something called too much of a good thing. Now it looks like the yards are full of orders for a few years to come. The ship owners who made a lot of money are now...
I would like to recount some experiences as a Small Business owner struggling to survive and hold on to the business and build it up as much as possible under the prevailing circumstances. One may wonder why should I do it? I could easily get a job, get a high salary and not worry about any of these things.
I have felt that I owed myself to run a business because that opportunity was given to me, provide employment to as many people as I can and I kept running, I should say forever so that I...
The word “Culture” is increasingly in use while discussing big organizations. It is said to contribute to exponential growth of organizations.
What actually is Culture?MIT Sloan offers a Course on Organizational Culture. This Course trains participants on what it takes to build game changing companies, make their teams world-class in service and customer interaction. The importance of organizational culture is to ingrain in each employee the core values of the Company such that the perception...
Thanksgiving is easily the most beautiful festival observed in North America. What a noble thought to thank each other, practice acts of kindness and to thank people who support us. Social psychologists and even spiritualists say that kindness and gratitude bestow greater flow of good things. Enough has been written on this topic. I will only narrate a personal story.
Twenty five years ago, I visited Limassol to attend the biannual Cyprus Shipping conference. As I was walking up to the...
https://mfame.guru/dr-vis-blog-7-thanksgiving-and-gratitude/
In each country and in each civilization, there are times set aside for festivals and celebrations. In the Christian world it is about Christmas and New Year. In the US it also includes Thanksgiving Day. In India, it is Diwali and Dusshera/Navarathri in addition to Christmas. Chinese celebrate Golden Week and so on.
I used to feel restless that so much time and money was being wasted towards these celebrations. It means buying new things, throwing out old things, cleaning out the places, having...
https://mfame.guru/dr-vis-blog-6-festival-time-is-also-friendship-renewal-time/
I had written about grace while ageing on an earlier Blog.
What about grace when losing?After all, in all contests, there can only be one winner, the other person has to be the loser.
When I saw the French Open finals, At the end of the game, I saw the winner and the loser coming together at the net and shaking hands. Whatever the jubilation of the winner (he may throw up the racquet or remove his shirt and throw it at the audience), he has an obligation to go upto the loser, eyeball him and...
Truly, it is a blessing from God that we can forget.
If we kept remembering the bad things that happened to us, we may never see any joy in life. Chances are, these memories will make us bitter and unhappy souls, leading to illness and early demise. They say that you retain the feelings experienced when something bad happened to you. It is not the incident but a memory of the feelings experienced that bothers us. If God did not give us the gift of ability to forget, just think how any survivors...
I am flattered by the attention and readership for Blog 2 on “Growing old gracefully”.
There have been some interesting and insightful comments to which I will respond in this Blog 3.
One important comment was that my Blog did not cover the topic of physical well being as one of the contributors to graceful ageing. Indeed this is a big slip on my part.
Obviously there is no mental well being without physical well being. In fact the two are closely connected. There are many steps to follow with...
https://mfame.guru/dr-vis-blog-3-other-aspects-of-growing-old-gracefully/
I am often asked why I keep working even at this ripe old age?!
I do not get offended though this may be considered a very personal question such as “how much do you earn or how old are you?”
I try to explain that I continue to have the passion for this industry (not so much the money part) but for the technical challenges where I love to expend my energy, effort and exertion.
I tell the questioner about my meeting Mr. Rawal who served as Technical Manager of a shipping company in Hong Kong. Mr....
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I can answer for my case. I do have many better things to do. I have still chosen to start writing blogs because: