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- Leadership Lessons From A Cab Driver Effective leadership examples are floating around you, in your day to day interactions, and all you need is: Keep your eyes and ears open to pick them up. Today being my elders daughter's birthday, we decided to celebrate it with a small party in a restaurant we've been visiting frequently. With my driver on leave for personal reasons and I being allergic to driving, had no other option but to hire an auto-ricksaw for reaching destination. Being a regular visitor to that property for more than a decade, while returning they took utmost care to arrange for a Cab and...~1 year on
Life - NASA: An Impending Disaster in 2013? "The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms. The intersection of these two issues is what we're getting together to discuss." via science.nasa.gov
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Life - Research Findings: Relationship Between Height and Heart Disease | Short people are at greater risk of developing heart disease than tall people, according to the first systematic review and meta-analysis of all the available evidence, which is published online June 9 in the European Heart Journal. | Reports 'Science Daily'
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Life - Lack of Sleep Seriously Affects Your Relationshp Satisfaction The findings of a recent survey, that Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent of The Telegraph, UK has highlighted: Lack of sleeps strains relationship between the parents of first-bon-babies, is a matter of big concern not only for that select group but for everyone -- irrespective of their parental status. Although in connection with first time parents; however, the findings of the survey: That objectively measured sleep pattern actually govern our relationship satisfaction rather than as subjectively perceived by us, is an early warning to the night-birds like me and I'm dead serious about making necessary amendments as soon as possible. What...
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Life - Are Original Content Publishers Scared of Open Competitions? BRAD STONE's posting in NYTimes on a recent controversy surrounding appropriate uses of RSS Readers, that most us use these days for accessing multiple news sources from a single location, clearly indicates an increasing concern among original content publishers regarding commercial uses of what they believe is only their rights. However, technically speaking, I really don't understand how could publishing the links to original article be considered illegal when readers interested to go through the full articles have no options but to follow those links to the original websites. The objection is, perhaps due to a touch of competitions from...
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Life - Is the Act of Silence, A Deadly Leadership Sin? After traveling a distance of more than 50 km on my way to meeting a senior leader from a highly reputed MNC, all my calls and messages for getting a formal confirmation - not mandatory though - remained unanswered. Helpless, I sent him a desperate message and to my surprise an immediate reply flashed on the screen of my cellphone -- but, indicating his unavailability for the proposed meeting! Well, before I analyze this issue further, pl go through the messages exchanged between us: Me: "Hi, as discussed can I come in the 2nd half - - may be between...
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Life - Why Our Leadership Don't Understand the Importance of Talent Acquisition? 7 years ago we're retained by a small Indian corporate, willing to pay the recruitment fee which was 50 pct more than the common trend at that time. To start with, Managing Director of the company established a direct communication channel with me, following up vigorously, to ensure successful completion of each and every critical assignments. Since then we've been working hard for his company, identifying right candidates from target organizations and successfully pulling them out of the comfort zone. During that process, we must have recruited a few hundred professionals so far, including 4 of the 6 current business...
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Life - Are You Inviting the Avoidables? Better Not! Time for a serious introspection followed by result oriented actions, before it's too late! | In a study of more than 800 men, those who reported fewer sexual thoughts and desires were more likely to develop ED by nine years later than those who had more sexual fantasies and feelings. "The findings suggest that indications of reduced sexual function appear years before ED, and that there may be a time window for intervention before a more complete loss of erectile function," says researcher Susan A. Hall, PhD, of the New England Research Institutes. | Via: 'eMedicineHealth' at http://www.emedicinehealth.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=116881
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Life - BP Reportedly Making Some Progress in 'Gulf Oil Spill' Containment Efforts Through a recent update, BBC highlights some encouraging developments regarding containment of 'Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill,' that's been threatening planet's eco-balance in a big way. The disclosure says, | A containment cap on a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is now funnelling off 10,000 barrels of oil a day, BP's chief executive Tony Hayward says. The amount has risen since Saturday, and implies more than half the estimated 12,000 to 19,000 barrels leaking each day is now being captured. | Via: BBC at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and_canada/10248409.stm
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Life - Wireless Web's Dark Side A regulatory control is a must, on these financial apps at least. | As smartphones and the applications that run on them take off, businesses and consumers are beginning to confront a budding dark side of the wireless Web. | By Spencer E. Ante on WSJ at http://bit.ly/cFsfwX
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Life - Are You Desinged to Be A Leader? Designed to kill, are some but not all, is what we observe in animal kingdom -- and I'm sure, we too are animals in one way or the other. So can we apply the same principle to one of the most controversial issues that has been haunting us for a long time: Are leaders born or made? If you've worked with large corporates for few years mingling with a wide range of profiles or you're into a profession that demands meeting tens of senior level employees from corporate, I'm sure, it won't take more than a few minutes of genuine...
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Life - Sense of Humor May Help You Live Healthier And Longer Countering genetics and biological aging processes, effectively, until the age of 75, sense of humor is likely to have positive impacts on our mental health and overall quality of life, claims a recent scientific investigation. Elaborating further, project leader of the study team, Professor Sven Svebak at NTNU's Department of Neuroscience says, "There is reason to believe that sense of humor continues to have a positive effect on mental health and social life, even after people have become retirees, although the positive effect on life expectancy could not be shown after the age of 75. At that point, genetics and...
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Life - Shoot A Killer Video to Earn $ 25,000 For earning $ 25,000, it's worth taking off for a day from your regular activities and search for a killer video theme. | If you’re serious about shooting and editing original video, you probably already know about Vimeo, the video-sharing site for ambitious videographers and their fans. But you may not know that Vimeo is having a contest that will a deliver a $25,000 award for the “best original video.” | Via: 'Gadgetwise' Blog on 'NY Times' at http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/25000-for-your-best-video/
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Life - Indian Consumers: The Greenest in the World Indian consumers are the greenest in the world, said a global survey of 17 countries, released on a day when the Municipal Corporation of Delhi became the nation's first civic body to cash in on cutting down carbon emissions. Via: HT at http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/newdelhi/Who-s-the-greenest-of-them-all-India/Article1-553248.aspx
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Life - Spend More Time in Nature to Remian Healthy and Lively Now I've understood, why I rush out to a near by park whenever life appears meaningless and seconds turn into long hours: Survival instincts! | Being outside in nature makes people feel more alive, finds a series of studies published in the June 2010 issue of the Journal of Environmental Psychology. And that sense of increased vitality exists above and beyond the energizing effects of physical activity and social interaction that are often associated with our forays into the natural world, the studies show. "Nature is fuel for the soul, " says Richard Ryan, lead author and a professor of...
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Life - Hold Your Breath, Aliens are Coming! Share Please, don't take it as a sensational heading as there's no reason to doubt the assumption: If life could evolve on earth, why it shouldn't on other planets as well. In line with the same thought, | A GERMAN UFO expert has claimed that a NASA spacecraft may have been hijacked by aliens - who are now attempting to contact Earth. Hartwig Hausdorf claims that Voyager 2 - an unmanned interplanetary probe blasted into space 33 years ago - has started transmitting strange, unintelligible signals, Bild newspaper revealed today | Via: The Herald Sun
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Life - How to Retain Google PacMan Forever Share Jeff Bajayo, giving an useful tip on how to retain PacMan even after it disappears from Google's home page, says, | This fun time waster captivated people and challenges for who could obtain the highest score were heard all over.This handy mediashare download is a simple way to keep the good times rolling. Download the file, unzip it and off you go. If you do seem to have a hang up with the sound not working, just click on the readme file and it has quick instructions to get you up to speed. | Via: TheNextWeb
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Life - Ford’s Virtual Reality Design Center: This is How Automobiles are Designed Share Modern car designers are really lucky to have immense technological advantages over their predecessors. With the help of virtual design tools, including various simulators, they can experience most of the aspects of a vehicle in a virtual world, replicating almost 100 percent of the realities. But this feel of virtual reality, I think, is not really contributing substantially to safety aspects of modern cars. Yes, I'm referring to recent car recalls - more than a few millions, if I remember well - by most of the major car manufacturers across the world. So what's needed to be done? Any...
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Life - Very Soon, Humans Would Crawl Like this Oil-coated Crab Share The leaked oil from Gulf of Mexico has hit Louisiana Coast and according to a report on PhysOrg website, | Anger was mounting as heavy oil blackened Louisiana's marshes and beaches and efforts to cap the oil which has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for more than a month met with more delays. | If you've gone through this article, by now you must have noticed the image of an oil-covered crab crawling on the beach on Grand Isle, Louisiana. Well, if our global leaders do not take appropriate actions to minimize such irreversible environmental damages in...
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Life - Leadership vs Myelin: Are All of Us Born with Myelin sheath of Same Thickness? Share Sangeeth Varghese's analysis of the 'Physiology of Leadership,' in the light of Daniel Coyle's book, "The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How," is amazing. However, Coyle's message, that sangeeth sums up as, "it is a good read for anyone who wants to understand the science behind great talent and skill. More important, it shows exactly how you can be expert at something though you weren't born with it at all," is, somehow, not getting aligned with my thought process of understanding and interpretation of the fundamental aspects of leadership development. First of all, I don't think,...
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Life - Google vs Apple:The War Between Titans Not Sparing the Media Even Share Preston Gralla, on PCWorld, recently made a categorical statement, that, | With plenty of capabilities that put it well beyond the iPhone, here are seven reasons that make the Android 2.2 superior. | For details, pl refer 7 Ways Android 2.2 Froyo Tops Apple's iPhone and look at the comments also. And, while replying to Preston's comments, Chris Rawson, on TUAW, launched an interesting assault from Apple's point of view, saying, | PC World's piece, "7 Ways Android 2.2 Froyo Tops Apple's iPhone," is a perfect example of this phenomenon, and it reads like it was written by someone...
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