Rs. And Its New Symbol


The Indian Rupee has finally got its official symbol, thus giving Rupee a distinct identity and international recognition. The RBI and the Finance Ministry of India had finalized the design submitted by Mr. D Uday Kumar, a post-graduate from IIT Bombay. Who created a blend of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R' and was finally selected as the winning symbol.

The contest for the symbol of Indian Rupee was started by the government of India in which it set the guidelines for the design and invited the citizen of India to come up with a design for the Indian Currency, the Indian Rupee.

The set guidelines for the contest for the Indian designs stated that the design should be Indian and the Design of the Indian rupee should contain the word रा pronounced as "RA" in the design.

World Map showing International Currency Symbols

As per what we all know the USD symbol is $, GBP is £, Euro is €, and Yen is ¥. The Indian Finance Ministry also wanted to have a symbol for INR. My belief is that the design Indian Currency contest was in the view that Indian Economy is on a boom. Many foreign companies have been showing great interest in the Indian Markets. So why not have a symbol for our own currency might have been the thought of the Indian Finance Ministry.



The symbol represent the Indian Culture. Some kind of creative design that showed the Indian Culture. The current symbol is a combination of Devnagri and Roman English, I find it only in Devanagri, maybe that my creative eye is not functioning well today to make out the design distinctions, or maybe i am lacking the vision that got the design finalized. If its declared then I also accept that I do feel proud that my country is having a currency symbol.

We now have a distinguished Currency Symbol and an Identity of our own. It was indeed needed as Indian Rupee had been getting rapid recognition amongst the International Finance fraternity for the development and growth India had shown in the recent times. The new Symbol would help distinguish the currency from the rupee or rupiah of other countries like Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/indian-rupee-finally-gets-its-symbol-37536?cp

I m waiting to see the New Indian Currency notes that will be bearing this Symbol and how creatively the RBI designers craft it on our Currency Bills.

But for the moment its our right to feel proud for getting something new thanks to MR. D Uday Kumar.

OTHER SIDE OF...SWAMBER



So finally the drama is over!!!

With lots of twist and turns....Rahul Mahajan who is accustomed to living his life in full glare of the public, has decided to take the plunge and his search for on television through Imagine’s Swayamvar – Season 2! ends with DIMPY from Kolkatta....

There can be one independent case study created on the topic whether Rahuls decision was right or there would have been other better possibility........

What I want to share is life after the Swamber....What will happen t0 the two girls Harpreet and Nikunj after the Show....those who followed the shows can see their intimacy level at the show....there closeness with Rahul .....and on the final day the emotion clattered with the girls...What I think is that what will be there life now....how will there marriage take place??? How will be the society react to them???

There are lots of question which remains unanswered to me!!!

But hope AAl Will be Weelll!!! to the girls post the drama....


Waiting for your valuable comments!!!

OXYMORON

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more but have less; we buy more but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences but less time; we have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgment; more experts but more problems; more medicine but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We have learned how to make a living, but not a life; we have added years to life, not life to years.

We have been all the way to the moon and back but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor. We have conquered outer space but not inner space. We have done larger things but not better things. We have cleaned up the air but polluted the soul. We have split the atom but not our own prejudices.

We write more but learn less, We plan more but accomplish less. We have learned to rush but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever but have less communication. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men and short character; steep profits and shallow relationships.

These are the times of world peace but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food but less nutrition. These are days of two incomes but more divorce; of fancier houses but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom.......

But who has the time to think all about this!!!!

Death of Salesperson!!!

Who is a salesperson?

The typical definition points squarely at that one entity that runs out there in the field. That one entity that does the sales prospecting first. That very entity that makes the cold call. That entity that does the sales pitch. And most certainly that one entity that closes the sale and brings in the ‘moolah’ into the kitty of the company he represents or the individual purpose he touts.


The year is 2010. This rather antediluvian definition of a salesperson is changing at a rapid pace. The narrow spotlight that fell on the front-ended salesperson as the sales entity of the organization, focused in his revenue tapping activity, is gradually spreading wider and wider in organization.


The salesperson prospects. And so do a host of back-end operators today. Whole departments that sit behind computer data-bases and whole departments that still pore through directories of people who fit the profile of the company in question are becoming critical sales-lead points for the man in the field to follow. Is this a sales-person as well? But of course!


The salesperson tele-calls. And so do a host of call-center operatives set up to generate the hot leads from a whole fuzzy and amorphous list of prospects. Companies in the market for the aggressive sale boast of deep-seated call centers that work 24X7 to pass the lead on to the man or woman on the front. Is this a sales-person as well? Most certainly yes.


The sales-person plants the seed of an awareness in the minds of consumers. Your range of superior toilet-cleaner needs to be planted as a thought in the minds of prospective consumers. While the sales-person on the field does this physically one on one, advertising of both the mass media and specific kind does it all the while. Is the advertising creative person in his pony-tail, the media-person in his breeches and the peppy client servicing 'types' sales entities as well? Most vehemently yes.


The sales-person is therefore not one. The salesperson is many! Many entities that make for the end purpose of creating the awareness, stoking it on into an interest in the potty-cleaner, causing for a flaming desire for the same and of course clinching it into an action of a sale.


And is that the end of the road? Not at all. The post-sale process is equally important. Is the post sale service person an important entity in the chain of causing the sale and keeping it as such? Yes again. The service person is a sales person as well. Every service person is a salesperson at large, with the very big potential of making that sale happen for a second time and most certainly a very positive entity working to create a positive appeal for the company that has done the selling –in for a repeat purchase at some time in the near or distant future.


The focus of the narrow beam therefore widens. And there’s more.


I enter the realm of your sales office. There sits a guard at the door. Is he a salesperson? Yes, he is. Your office receptionist who is painting her nails as she responds to a call is a salesperson as well. Everyone is.


Why is it then that everyone in the enterprise of a sale does not really think he or she is a salesperson? And why is it that everyone listed out here does not really participate in the enterprise of selling with the vigor and zest that the front-ended salesperson of the organization displays?


These are indeed key issues that worry many a man, woman and child in the realm of selling. Trouble touch-points, if when corrected can actually result in cascaded quantum value for the selling organization.


Look keenly at the organization of sales in your company then. Peek keenly at the nomenclature in vogue. Call everyone in your organization a sales entity then. Bring in the S word with pride into the designation and job profiles of everyone in your organization. Call them all together and celebrate your sales successes. Remember, each of them, starting with the office peon to the guy who mans the kitchen has been equally responsible in creating the cascade of sale.


And don’t stop at that. Incentivise everyone in the organization based on the sale volume or value your organization commands every quarter. The sales-person in the front will of course garner the most of this incentive, but as the distance to the selling process increases, the incentive will decrease. Nevertheless, everyone earns a part of what the enterprise makes on its sale. Money talks and money helps weave purpose here.


The CEO sitting right atop the pyramid of organization needs to be a salesperson as well. She is indeed the ultimate salesperson of organization. Sales must be a part of the designation description of your CEO. It helps vest the S word with the dignity it demands and deserves.


At the end of it all, sales is the one activity that is the purpose of organization. Sales brings in the cash flow. Never mind whether you are a temple-trust, a modern multi-specialty hospital, a school at large or a company that sells dentures or dog biscuits. The purpose of the organization is the sale.


Get your corporate organization centric to the purpose of the sale. Get the S word going with gusto and reap the rewards that will follow.

Priyesh