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what if, a million job creation was the election mantra of a new common sense party in Nepal

July 14, 2010change, marketing of politics, philosophy, social entrepreneurschange, ideas, jobs, nepal change, nepal leadership, new leader nepal, philosophy, politicsUjwal

A couple of What ifs:

a) What if some dynamic young leaders of different political parties decided to come together and start fresh and make a new party (the way kadima was formed in Israel).
b) What if they then, brought all the young social entrepreneurs and economic advisors into their core political team and make “a million man job creation” their primary election agenda
c) What if they turned to the Non resident Nepalis for funding their organization through their website and transparently post their party spendings.
d) What if this youth party decided on “green” and “economic development” as vehicles for change!
e) What if the new “youth” party pitched in to form a dream team of national planning commission to put a successful entrepreneur, a young social entrepreneur, a globalization expert and an environmental social entrepreneur.
f) What if this party restricts its leadership’s age limit to 50 years and below.
g) What if it advocated chinese, english, hindi, entrepreneurship, mathematics and “effective communication skills” as a pre-requisite subjects for all schoolers upto high school.
What if….. (add yours)

5 Whys

November 25, 2009philosophy, thought provokingphilosophy, positive business, strategyUjwal

My car will not start. (the problem)

Why? – The battery is dead. (first why)

Why? – The alternator is not functioning. (second why)

Why? – The alternator belt has broken. (third why)

Why? – The alternator belt was well beyond its useful service life and has never been replaced. (fourth why)

Why? – I have not been maintaining my car according to the recommended service schedule. (fifth why, a root cause)

Solution is I will start maintaining my car according to the recommended service schedule. (solution)

Another innovative way to figure out the roots of problems. The 5 Whys is a question-asking method used to explore the cause/effect relationships underlying a particular problem. Ultimately, the goal of applying the 5 Whys method is to determine a root cause of a defect or problem. Toyota Company used this during the evolution of their manufacturing methodologies. Link to the full Wikipedia article here.
Maybe use this in analyzing and finding the root of problems, even in our daily lives, much like how paraphrasing works to keep everyone understand each other.
What do you think? Where can you use this? Throw in your comments at

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Why take risk?

October 12, 2007entrepreneurship, philosophyphilosophyUjwal

Question: Why take a risk ? Why risk it all?
Answer:

to learn,

To be eager to know more,

To find out whats behind the door !

To stand out

To disappear into your dreams

To feel different

To become different

To satisfy your itch inside your belly

To kill boredom

To love the world

To move on

To gain

To feel lighter

To be a kinetic energy (as opposed to Potential )

To bring light onto others

To show a path

To shine

Risk = Knowledge gained 🙂 This is an Entrepreneur’s spirit !

(I am starting to read Karna Sakya’s “Soch” (translates to “thoughts”)