Fame Gurukul is FameX Now

With changing times and not so successful stint with Indian Idol earlier this year, Sony has renamed its last year’s Fame Gurukul show to a brand new show - FameX to target the generation X to be telecasted on Sab TV this time. The show promises to be modern and spunky.

Fame X will find talent which will be omnipotent and a firepower with respect to music and performance. 14 young and raring-to-go individuals will try and survive 13 weeks of raw competition in the university of music. These X-Factor contestants will be groomed under the vigilance and tutelage of 3 music icons and other professionals from different fraternities.
The channel will be conducting auditions across select Indian cities from October 10 and will span over a period of three weeks. The judges, principal and hosts have yet to be finalised for the show. The show is expected to go on air in the second week of November.
Fame X is expected to be a battle, a hunt to find those contestants who have that X-factor in them who will survive the test of time and breed only the spirit of winning.
If you are looking to participate, see venue details here

Tenacity - The Graphing Calculator Story

The tenacity of committed individuals - Such people are an academics delight and a manager's nightmare!

Here’s one of those fascinating tales that resurfaces from time to time online, and which amazes you every time you read it. The one I'm looking at is The Graphing Calculator Story, and I urge you to bear with me despite the boring title.

It's the tale of a software engineer at Apple Computer - Ron Avitzur - who had been charged with creating some graphing calculator software, to ship with every Apple computer. After a year on the project he lost his job in 1993 because - he says - of internal politics at what was, at the time, a struggling company. The key thing is what Ron did next.
He kept showing up for work.
His swipe card worked, there were lots of empty offices, so he just kept going, unpaid, for months, creating a fully-fleged and entirely unauthorised skunkworks at the heart of the company.
Along the way, he roped in support from various specialist departments and, after huge amounts of work from across the company - and all without top management knowledge - he got the software shipped on every new Mac computer. The software is still going out today, although the relationship between Ron and Apple has, at last, been formalised.
It's a remarkable story, and one that's perhaps a useful lesson - and a rather cautionary tale - for business managers out there. Ron reports his life was, in many ways, made easier by his sacking from Apple - he was able to cross departmental boundaries, rely on informal lines of communication and bypass the bosses all in the name of, simply, getting things done, to a very high standard indeed.
If it had been planned by an MBA, it would surely be hailed as a great example of the new wave of organic, fluid organisational engineering. As it is, the story goes to prove the oft-ignored management maxim that, sometimes, the best thing a manager can do is simply get out the way of talented, enthusiastic staff.

Read the complete story @ The Graphing Calculator Story , straight from the horses mouth.
It combines the concepts of the Psychological Contract with:
** The Organizational Politics of decoupling activity from structure; and
** The Ultimate Paradox of building well meshed teams or clans.

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