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A HARVARD TEAM OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT consultants did a sampling of nearly 14 years covering 2000 Chief Executives of global companies listed by S&P. The sampling and tests were fairly exhaustive and unique, and presented a vivid picture of the Executive boardrooms that saw many major global economic events including the Y2K IT burst, Oil-price surge and dive, and 2007-down-turn, among

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THE GLOBAL MELTDOWN MIGHT have made the mighty Atlas tickle, or so it must have seemed if one takes the metaphor literally. But Atlas, in spite of shrugs, is going strong on its part.Interestingly, Audacity of Hope by President Obama was overtaken by Atlas Shrugged on the sales charts for a while just before the presidency change. This is the second coming of Ayn Rand that started in 2007. Over

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WILL DURANT CHRONICLED IN HIS HISTORICAL COMPILATIONS THAT ancient trade provided the necessity for the invention of the alphabets. A theory contested by many, but not rejected in its entirety.In this guest post, my friend and Language Technology researcher Jason M. Adams discusses the mutual history of language and commerce by looking at some of the ways that each has been changed by the other

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FINALLY, THE IT TZAR TAKES THE BACK SEAT. And as Mr. Bill Gates completes his last full working day by the EOD today - June 27, 2008 - at his Richmond, WA office, an era of Biggest, Richest, and Fastest draws to a close. Call him Innovator, Software Evangelist, Chief Software Architect, or by any other name, above all, Mr. Gates is a successful businessman, Zero-to-billions kind. And that is how

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"The special commodity or medium that we call money has a long and interesting history. And since we are so dependent on our use of it and so much controlled and motivated by the wish to have more of it or not to lose what we have we may become irrational in thinking about it and fail to be able to reason about it as if about a technology, such as radio, to be used more or less efficiently..." --

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"Achieve What You Can Imagine." --imaginecup.co.ukinvention, innovation, inspiration, imagination...If any of the i's tantalise you, entertain yourself with this cute little 1.5 minute teaser video, which in fact is a runnup to the ImagineCup 2008 due this month. "Great innovators don't imagine things in the future;They imagine them in the present,and change the future..."Go here for a list

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Yahoo: Clinton suspends campaign, endorses Obama.And now, it is 'young' Barack Obama pitted against 'experienced' Mr. McCain.Let's suppose that Senator Obama continues the momentum, wins over the Clinton vote-split, manages to prove that young is the new 'old', defeats the myth by showing that change could also be other than what is loose in your trouser pocket, and finally makes it to the '

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TODAY, JUNE 5, IS THE WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY.It is an open secret that China is the biggest abuser of environment in the world. Most of the manufacturing in China uses coal-burning furnaces, and that one single industry equals more than the most the whole of Europe in terms of CO2 emission.At the same time, China is the single largest country to have invested the most - USD 8 bn - into planting

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A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO I was sitting over the fence of 80% and 20% of the opinion makers reacting to the possibility of success of the IPL business model. 80% were the sceptics and believed that as it happened with ICL (Indian Cricket League – Chaired by Kapil Dev and sponsored by Zee Entertainment), IPL would find very few takers – perhaps only the useless of the useless lot would devote time to

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KENNETH M. HARVEY AT HSBC HAS HAD A LASTING impression of an IT leader for me. And I believe in the capacity of a corporate executive, 'richness' (see: Money) has more to do with quality of role, thought leadership and budget at disposal. In all of these terms, one might wager, Ken Harvey indeed must be a very rich man, for him being the group CIO of the world’s largest organisation, and then

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AT TIMES IT SEEMS impossible to not to include statistics in my analysis while making a proposal for a client or to the higher management. This is also at the cost of pure brilliance of a point that need to statistical support but is rather a marvel of common sense.Statistics and sensibility are supposed to be the right mix. Statistics are to be handed to the right personal, at the proper time

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HAVING BEEN TRAINED FOR CULTIVATING 'GROWTH' AND evaluated for a few appraisal cycles by now for tasks that were marked under a title called 'Business Development' (or something that either sounds or seems similar), the debate on the subject by a certain groups of 'experienced' personnel almost immediately drew my attention.And it becomes interesting when, with all due respect, the so-called

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Cheers!ToThe Many Facesin Lifeof Lifeas LifeThat Makesa Life* * *When old words die out on the tongue,new melodies break forth from the heart;and where the old tracks are lost,new country is revealed with its wonders.--Rabindranath Tagore,Gitanjali (1912), pp37.Today, May 7, is also Tagore's Birth Day.

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WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE AMONG MILLIONAIRES? If you are a professional working in IT and based out of India, perhaps you already are!First, some bullet-points about the global and Indian IT industry that got me thinking:Indian Software Industry is approx 66% of Worldwide Software ServicesTop 6 Indian IT Companies makes of approx. 50% of total Indian IT IndustryIn terms of sales among these top six (

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ANYONE WITH A SOMEWHAT SERIOUS SLANT towards one's blogging lines would want to publish something in a physical paper format (read: book) at some point in time. At least that is what my general observation has been. On one hand, while the technology of bringing words online in the forms of Blogger, LiveJournal, MySpace and alike have made content creation a one-click job and in doing so might

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Crowded 'Facts':"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.Now

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April 23 - TODAY BEING ST. GEORGE'S DAY is also considered to be the Birth Day of William Shakespeare. (Nobody knows for sure of the bard's exact date of birth.)Just wondering if the alchemists of that era would have got a couple of 'immortality' pills of which one was taken by Shakespeare such that he would still be alive at this time, what kind of blogs would he be maintaining..?Perhaps a blog

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THEY CALL HIM "FRED THE SHRED...". If you count "few good men" who took the lead in the "rationalisation" of workforce in the conservative European banking and Financial services, Fred has to be in the front row.Sir Frederick Anderson Goodwin, remained in the news in Europe, mainly Britain, for his often visionary yet unorthodox methods of running Britain's second largest Banking group. After he

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WINDMILLS WERE A THING of fascination, especially in the farmland of picturesque Europe, more so perhaps because they spoke of a bygone era that I felt I just missed. To much delight, the winds continued to blow in their directions, as it were, and the windmills kept going around. With time, however, as the water-table got deeper and deeper, the Netherlanders found other ways and means to keep

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[A little background: It had been a few months that I was searching for twin-blade cartridges for the Gillette SensorExcel safety razor that I prefer. I had almost given up on it by now, and was looking towards this seemingly inevitable upgrade to Mach3 or something when I suddenly hit a jackpot - I found a supermarket selling the make and model that I was looking for. I could finally purchase a

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I FOUND IT VERY SYMBOLIC SEEING The Dalai Lama paying homage to Mahatma's memorial. And, rightly so. Mahatma, who always advocated for equanimity of all religions, was not a Buddhist, yet, without any exaggerations, he was a perfect example of one. Mahatma brought independence to his people through non-violence, and that is what the Lama teaches the world.[Left: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai

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Question: Is Analysis an Art or a Science?Answer:Part - IAnalysis is an art of keeping it strictly scientific,until it starts defying itself against the known 'rules',and that's when to push it towards the realms of 'Strategy'.Part - IIAnalysis is essentially an Art{lavish, spendthrift and something to marvel about}that needs to be enclosed within certain boundaries{make it budgeted and

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(Statutory warning: Contents of this post are Highly Addictive! :-) The versatile, genius, immensely talented and intelligent, life-time achievement award winner, and winner of stand-up comedian of the year 1998, Jeff Dunham who made me roll over the floor laughing...Simply brilliant.. Your overtaxed mind needs a 10 minute break.. Go for it! To meet with Peanut, the one above: go here.For a list

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SOMEONE RECENTLY POSTED A QUESTION to the BA community at large to the effect of identifying 'universal skill-set' for a Business Analyst.A variety of responses were received in the public forum, some of which (including mine) were chosen under the 'good answer' category.At the outset, the field of business analysis is far too wide, spread-out and pan-industry to have a single set-of-skills.

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A dear girl friend led the charge on me by saying something like this:"You all men are like that... Hello! this is not Victorian age any longer..! Wake up.. else we would just march over your dumb head and pot-belly..."Hands Off, today...Happy Women's Day!

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A really interesting article by the Editor in Chief at Wired magazine, Chris Anderson titled "Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business" was the subject of much debate recently.Accordingly to Chris, the economy of the brave new world is mainly driven by "scarcity" and "wastage" (as against to the old world concept of demand vs. supply). Out side of online business it may take a rather detailed

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What is the reason for someone to create and maintain a Weblog?Blog is a tool to put ideas, reactions and observations into public. A personal diary in public.In the process, one creates content, expresses likes and dislikes (and gives opportunities to Web2.0 apps to sell you a relevant product!), have the contentment of speaking it out (and, in some cases, being 'heard' also), and it creates a

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WHILE REVIEWING "Mind, the Gap", I felt the need of explaining the usage of term 'economics'. The classical definition of the terms goes somewhat like the following:economics (ĕk'ə-nŏm'ĭks, ē'kə-)n.1. (used with a sing. verb) The social science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and with the theory and management of economies or economic systems.In

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In an interesting parallel with the 'Mind Gap' concept, here is a quote from the strategy by a marketing guru to the modern successful IT enterprises, advising the CEO's of the interplay between psychology and economy in making of an effective marketing strategy and selling their systems:"... the strategy is to focus market development efforts on the end-user community [who you want to use your

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AN ANCIENT SANSKRIT SAYING has it:तुंडे तुंडे मतीः भिन्ना। (tunde tunde mateehi bhinna)Which literally means that every head has a differing mind. Less subtly, everyone has a different opinion.It may remain unsubstantiated at this hour, but I may argue that this difference and diversity is stemming from the ‘Genetic diversity’ as found prevalent as a principle under Biodiversity as a hole.

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Welcome to the new home to be for http://pagehtdnim.blogspot.comWhile the crawlers come in the the index takes place and the replication goes on while propagation happens with new themes are tested and names click... In other words, it would easily be a 60 days transition while the domain-name change is digested on the web.

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"Mind The Gap"THE TRADEMARK PHRASE ASSOCIATED with London Underground.Like many things British, a tourist would rather bear this in mind after a visit to London and its Underground.It's written on the edges of the platform.It's spoken over on the loudspeakers on the stations during rush hours.It's heard even inside the train during the announcements for next station.Other than that, there is a

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