Saturday, May 26, 2007

Personality Tests

If you search on personality tests in any search engine you will find thousands of tests available. But if you question the creditability of these tests you will end up with about 10 tests.

I tried a well-known test of DISC called Tomas test. The test consist of 25 questions, in each question you will be asked to determine what most like you and what least like you will not do.

Upon the result you will have a scores for four different perspectives of your personality. The four perspectives are; DOMINANCE, INFLUENCE, SITABILITY, COMPLIANCE.

For me the result is:

  • Enjoy competition and challenge.

  • Goal orientated and want to be recognized for their efforts.

  • Aim high, want authority and are generally resourceful and adaptable.

  • Self-sufficient and individualistic.

  • May lose interest in projects once the challenge has gone and they tend to be impatient and dissatisfied with minor detail.

  • Strongly interested in meeting and being with people. Optimistic, outgoing, and socially skilled.

  • Quick at establishing relationships.

  • Sometimes your concern for people and people’s feelings may make you reluctant to disturb a favorable situation or relationship.

  • Tend to enjoy change and variety in their work and non-work life. Expansive by nature and tend not to like routine and repetitive work/activities.

  • Enjoy stretching yourselves intellectually and physically.

  • Independent and uninhibited. Resent rules and restrictions. Prefer to be measured by results and are always willing to try the untried.

  • Free in thought, word and deed, you long for freedom and go to great lengths to achieve it.

  • You feel that repetitive detail and routine work is best 'delegated'.

  • You are usually direct and positive with people, enjoying being the centre of attraction and may take it for granted that people will think highly of you.

  • You may have a tendency to be rather critical of others. Consequently, other people may tend to see them as being rather domineering and overpowering

So be carful when you deal with me!!

Please share me your type of person by doing the free version of this test here http://www.netjobs.co.uk/job-disc.htm

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

ThE BoSs !

A butcher watching over his shop is really surprised when he sees a dog coming inside the shop. He shoos him away. But later, the dog is back again. So, he goes over to the dog and notices it has a note in its mouth. He takes the note and it reads "Can I have 12 sausages and a leg of lamb, please". The dog has money in its mouth, as well. The butcher looks inside and, lo and behold, there is a ten dollar note there. So he takes the money and puts the sausages and lamb in a bag, placing it in the dog's mouth. The butcher is so impressed, and since it's about closing time, he decides to shut the shop and follow the dog. So off he goes. The dog is walking down the street, when it comes to a level crossing; the dog puts down the bag, jumps up and presses the button. Then it waits patiently, bag in mouth, for the lights to turn. They do, and it walks across the road, with the butcher following him all the way. The dog then comes to a bus stop, and starts looking at the timetable. The butcher is in awe as the dog stops a bus by pulling its left leg up and gets in it. The butcher follows the dog into the bus. Then the dog shows a ticket which is tied to its belt to the bus conductor. The butcher is nearly fainting at this sight, so are the other passengers in the bus.The dog then sits near the driver's seat looking outside waiting for the bus stop to come. As soon as the stop is in sight, the dog stands and wags its tail to inform the conductor. Then, without waiting for the bus to stop completely, it jumps out of the bus and runs to a house very close to the stop. It opens the big iron gate and rushes inside towards the door. As it approaches the wooden door, the dog suddenly changes its mind and heads towards the garden. It goes to the window, and beats its head against it several times, walks back, jumps off, and waits at the door. The butcher watches as a big guy opens the door, and starts abusing the dog, kicking him and punching him, and swearing at him. The butcher surprised with this, runs up,and stops the guy. "What in heaven name are you doing? The dog is a genius. He could be on TV, for the life of me!", to which the guy responds: "You call this clever? This is the second time this week that this stupid dog's forgotten his key."Moral of the story:You may continue to exceed onlooker's expectations but shall always fall short of the boss' expectations. It's dog's life after all.........

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Quotes


Everything you do is a choice based on your dominant
values at the moment. Even taking no action is a choice.
You are where you are and what you are because of your
choices and decisions in life to this moment. Brain Tracy



"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
J. K. Rowling


"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being."Jane Wyman

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." Wayne Gretzky


"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle." Phillips Brooks

"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!" Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"A runner's creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best." Ken Doherty

Monday, May 21, 2007

How to have an infinite loop

If you ask any dummy programmer this question he will reply: How fool are you? Actually, there are two main points made me discuses the infinite loop:
1. The algorithm of any infinite loop is so easy but the implementation is extremely difficult.
2. The concept of infinite loop is not desired in IT world but in our real life it is a key success factor.


Some stupid IT guys they do not try to do an infinite loop in there lives although they did it several times while they develop some sort of applications. None IT should be educated to get familiar with infinite loops.

In our life we need this kind of loop:

{

Dim X as array of my objectives in life

Dim I as number of days in my life

For I = now to the end

Keep working to achieve my objectives

Monitor your progress

Check your effectiveness and efficiency and do corrective actions accordingly

If what you are going now is a deviation from your objective, stop it and back to your objectives

Next I

}


As I mentioned earlier the algorithm of infinite loop is so easy but unfortunately we are always when we start an improvement project for our life we loose our patience before the 10th day.

Who has the determination to have this kind of infinite loop implemented in his day to day life , defiantly he will be one of the bests.

Please exercise useful infinite loop in your life such as self auditing and forgiving others.