February 2008

Marshall Goldsmith at HBR wonders about the contrasts in India. To quote-
“In the cities, I saw a longing for extreme opulence — countless ads with rich people living lavish lives — next to the reality of extreme poverty — countless shanties with poor people living harsh lives.”
To be honest, as an Indian, I have become [...]

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Star Wars plot explained by a 3 year old…:-)

del.icio.us Tags: star wars, children, adorable

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(Disclaimer: This post is the result of personal observations over more than a dozen years. I would like to think, like Shakespeare, that there is no single company that manifests all these scintillating qualities. All companies must be approximations of this ideal!)

photo credit: Rob Meredith
I have come to a conclusion that Offshored operations and [...]

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“Allow users to define your app” goes the refrain from Josh Catone on ReadWriteWeb in this post.
Definitely an interesting notion. I too have been following Twitter and its Bartimaeus-que ability to shift shapes. Right from being able to add an expense thru to Xpensr, or being able to add a reminder to Sandy..Twitter seems a [...]

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Nitin K asks “Where are the meaning-enabled authoring tools?” on ReadWriteWeb. Though the article asks the right questions, the conclusions it derives, that authoring applications have not yet learnt to capture ’semantic knowledge’ and that their XML creation capabilities are severely limited.
Now I don’t know how much research Nitin has done on this, or if [...]

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Found these tips for a takeover or merger from Valleywag comments.
The tips are in the specific context of Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo! But the advice is so universal it can be applied to any situation. Here is a little sample to whet your appetite - “Buy a competing company, like AOL while you’re at it…Then [...]

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The origin of perspective, whether from within the confines of the individual-self or sourced from the collective selves, should ideally be irrelevant. The perspective should be all that matters. But the means and techniques of identifying, collating and harnessing these perspectives vary based on their origin.
In thinking about these terms the individual perspective could [...]

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Prajapati, the creator of all that exists, watched Mrtyu(or Yama), Death that consumes all. Each sought to annul the other. The duel between them lasted an eternity almost. Death, the shadow of all that is born, pervaded all of creation.
Prajapati penetrated the frames of existence pursuing Death. The masks were insidious, hiding the villain [...]

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I am as far from America, or being an American, as I could possibly be. But something stirs within when I watch this video. The theme of the speech rises beyond mere provincial concerns into something uplifting regardless of ones origin, country, race. This is a leader I would follow.
I have watched this video [...]

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