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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...2 months 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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