CHANGE .... an Inside-Out Job

On a Sunday morning , as I drove into the my office parking lot, I knew I am going to have the luxury of parking where ever I wanted to and so I chose the spot close to the lift and got out. Just two slots beside stood a brand new Hyundai Creta with a dent on the pillion riders door..I knew it was my colleague's 3 month old SUV.

I enter the office and walked to him .. and with all curiosity asked him what had happened to his car.. and in minutes I realized I had pressed a wrong button..

I spent the next 15-20 listening to  how a rough two wheeler jumping a traffic light bumped into his car and how he will have to bear the cost.

Sitting at my desk .I wondered... Just last week I saw the same colleague jump not one but two traffic lights to drop is 11 year daughter and son twins to school on his pulsar. Why was he complaining today.. I felt like reminding him of what he does ..may be so often.. People in Pune are not going to change their habits.. he kept lamenting..

I felt like .. He has to change first before he can expect others to change... practice what you are preaching today ..

If you stop jumping the traffic light you will see many more following you... and many many many more still opting to jump .. so you cannot change the world .. but you  can change .. for sure!!!!

Be it's throwing trash on the road .. jumping a traffic light.. inculcating a good habit at home or at work ..

CHANGE BEGINS WITH THE PERSON WHO WANTS A CHANGE...!!!! 

 IT'S AN INSIDE-OUT JOB

Converting nVision reports

CONVERTING nVision reports developed in older version of excel to the the latest Ms Excel 2016

Tools used 8.57.06

You have to follow the following steps for all the nVision layouts and drill downs.

1. Open the layout in the current Excel version i.e 2016 .
2. Click on Save As->Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook
3. Enter the name of the layout in double quotes: ".xnv".  ("account_summary.xnv")
4. Click on Save to complete the conversion.
5. Close the layout.

Once we did the above steps, you will be able to run the nVision via PIA successfully.

For all the Layouts including DrillDowns , steps 1 through 5  above for each layout that needs to be converted.    

Where you STUMBLE there your Treasure IS!!!

We have the read and heard and digested this story ..hope to give you a different perspective to digest..!!!


       On the middle of a road there lay quite a big stone and everyone passed by it , some stumbled .. got up... blamed the Municipality and went on their paths.. But one fellow who probably got up on the right side of the bed that morning.... stumbled .. got up.. moved the stone to the side .. and lo!!.. he discovered a bag of gold coins that turned his life around !!!

      What was going on in his mind differently than the others who had stumbled.. Was it the  ABCC formula that got the better of him..in a good way .. ofcourse

      A  --- was he AWARE of his present situation rather than blaming someone else for his fall
      B  --- Breathe .. he took a couple of deep breaths ..gathered himself and removed the stone to discover the hidden treasure.
      C --- Curiosity -- what was the curiosity. why is the stone in the middle of the road .. why did the municipality  leave it there.. NO NO Not All.. he probably got curious as to .. what can I do so that others do not get hurt ..should I call the the authorities and let them do it or should I..
      C --- Choose -- the most important part of his discovery ..  the choice he made of the two paths that probably occurred to him

Every problem that you face in your daily chores .. personal or professional .. can you apply this ABCC formula ..
First thing that came to me .. can I apply this to loose my weight... why not .. I put it action.. and lost 1/2 kg in over a week..

Apply this to the technical problems functional issues..personal dilemmas..  and your bound to see your treasure box getting bigger..!!!


Every time you stumble .. you are almost definite to discover some treasure.. even experience nothing less of a treasure

Some Good Management Articles

Becoming the Boss - Harvard Business Review
https://hbr.org/2007/01/becoming-the-boss

The most important leadership competencies - Harvard Business Review
https://hbr.org/2016/03/the-most-important-leadership-competencies-according-to-leaders-around-the-world?gig_events=socialize.login

Five Soft Skills you Need to be a Better Leader - Fast Company
https://www.fastcompany.com/90379242/five-soft-skills-you-need-to-be-a-better-leader-in-2020

Helping Your Team Feel the Purpose in Their Work - Harvard Business Review
https://hbr.org/2019/10/helping-your-team-feel-the-purpose-in-their-work

Elastic Search - Some checks to be done

When building search indexes for the first time  you might get weird errors

1. Continuing from previous failed.. when  you are running it for the first time.. 

2. Node url not defined

Do the below checks to resolve issues.

1. Go to PeopleTools -> Search Framework -> Search Instance and check the value of URL in Call Back Properties. The general format is: http://:/PSIGW/PeopleSoftServiceListeningConnector/

* Note the

2. Go to PeopleTools -> Integration Broker -> Configuration -> Service Configuration and then to Setup Target Locations. Make sure that there is the same node name specified here. Also if you need to updated it – make sure you update the UDI servers too.

3. Go to PeopleTools -> Integration Broker -> Integration Setup and go to the default local node definition. Go to the Portal tab and you may find the Content URI Text and POrtal URI Text empty. You can notice reference to the error received?

Change ESAdmin Password - Elastic Search

Steps To Change Elasticsearch Password

1. Change directory to ES_HOME/bin

2. Run the following to change the password for esadmin user, enter ‘Y’ when prompted for password change. For the default user, “esadmin”, default password is “esadmin”:
elasticsearchuser.bat adduser esadmin
User Exists. Do you wish to change the password?(Y/N)Y
Enter your old password:
Enter new password:
Confirm new password:
Password for esadmin changed.

3. Run the following to change the password for people user, enter ‘Y’ when prompted for password change. For the default user, “people”, default password is “peop1e”:
elasticsearchuser.bat adduser people
User Exists. Do you wish to change the password?(Y/N)Y
Enter your old password:
Enter new password:
Confirm new password:
Password for people changed.

4. To add new users, follow Step 1, with new username and password. To add roles to these users, run the following:
elasticsearchuser.bat addrole user1
Enter password:
Enter comma seperated list of roles : admin,read,security
Roles added for user user1C