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I am Back - So is the more analysis

Hello -

Feeling good to restart my blogging, as I missed lot many discussion topics that happened in last 6 months. I took a break. One strong reason was - I was working on my Harvard Manage Mentor course. Yes - and I did that successfully. These were 21 extensive management courses that one needs to complete before you earn that. And despite having all hectic activities, my customer visit travels - I did that. This gives me immense strength now in terms of my professional attitude, working behavior, how I look at peers, How I look at stress and everything around. Earlier I used to take all the work on my head without even thinking whether I am supposed to do it, or I am getting recognized for it - now I am more cautious. So change is there. Thanks to Harvard and Mahindra Group for providing me this opportunity to look inside.

Now about analysis - Yes there are lot of happenings in the Enterprise Perfromance Management world - and I have lot to write on that one. There are acquisitions and mergers, new ideas floating around, new products taking shape. So we will start taking look at some of that starting today. So stay tuned again.

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