Travelling Soldier

NYTimes has reported that Senator Clinton has hired a famous political blogger,Peter Daou, to lead her into the world of blogs.As the influence of blogging has been influencing on many prominent issues in the American Issues,this move should surely help her to woo the young and also the liberals who were angry with her.

Mr.Daou had directed the Kerry’s Campaign in 2004 and was instrumental in reaching millions.For 2008,Clinton is in race and would surely be in front run for the post.

With the emergence of China and India

Jack Welch, retired chairman and CEO of GE defines ‘Winning’ out of his experience and wisdom.This question was published in Telegraph

Q All this talk about winning makes me wonder: Is there any place for losers in this world? Only a small percentage of people succeed. What should all the non-winners do, just kill themselves? S. Gopal, Bangalore, India

A What a question - it has to mean you see winning in purely economic terms. That’s just not how it has to be. We think about winning another way - as setting personal goals and achieving them, and (just as important) enjoying the experience on the way.

Winning has nothing - or everything - to do with your job. Yes, you can win as a corporate executive, but you can win just as meaningfully as a carpenter, maths teacher or singer in a wedding band.

You can win raising a family, caring for your parents or being a good friend - as long as those are the dreams you picked for yourself.

Indeed, the biggest winners in the world are those who answer "Yes" to the question, "Am I living the life I choose?"

One of the biggest winners we know is a person whom, by your economic definition, would probably not qualify at all.

James O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School. But instead of pursuing a prestigious and lucrative career he has spent the past 22 years driving a van around Boston practically every night, delivering medical care to the homeless.

He lives simply; money doesn’t matter to him. And yet O’Connell’s life is full of joy, and he is beloved by everyone lucky enough to know him, from street people to senators.

Look, winning and losing can’t be quantified. They are states of mind, and losing only happens when you give up. Seen that way, then, the world can be filled with winners, and there is room for them all.

Stephen Colbert,Guy who discovered the word ‘Truthiness” for Americans is dancing and singing.. Its a very rare video..

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Comedy Central’s The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart is the one of the most watched programmes in the contemporary TV,especially the guys near East Coast.He is clearly a supporter of anti-bush campaign and all the things associated with the campaign. Here,they have got a copy of President Bush trying to enact a pre-meditated script with the Soldiers in Iraq.

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Caution:Colbert and Stewart are most influential guys.They have mastered Sarcasm and Comedy.

I read this speech by Alex Stepenov,Principal Scientist,Adobe Sys. almost 18 months back and was inspired a lot by this.I was always thinking to write about this especially about getting back to our roots but could never do it.Finally..

In this speech he specifically mentions about reading our(India) literature Bhagavad Gita.Probably one might think that he tried to impress the eastern audience with this but the fact is Bhagavad Gita was available from eons ago and it is perennial source of knowledge at any point of era.

It is just the view of the reader or audience which has been changing everytime.There are different perceptions about the book from the book and probably it has the most no:of commentaries by the authors in the world.If the audience is actually identified then it might be ‘Best Seller’ NYtimes list for ever.But for the reasons we all know this cant happen,,

• Holy Scripture
• Management Guide
• Oath(Indian Courts)
• Reference Guide in Talks
• Scripts for Movies and Serials
• Pillow for comfort
• Link for ancient culture

Some readers even think that this books was written by some recent author or by Shri Krishna himself.But this book is like the graduation speech deliverd by the eminent speaker at the colleges.

Lord Krishna did not state that he is going to TEACH bhagavad gita to Arjuna.But he tried to instill the confidence,support and so many intangilble things in Arjuna not in a palace or Forest but in the Battle Field without a podium

And this book is now in the FT Recommended Readings List.

Who Should not read this book?

One who is prejudiced and one who lives the life of Frog in the well can comfortably avoid this book

Mr.Murthy,Chief Mentor of the one of the best innovative companies,Infosys,shares his visionary and thoughts with the magazine.Arguably,he is considered as a mentor to the Z+ generation in india and an inspiration for the budding entrepreneurs.His Company was started with Capital of $250 in 1981 and today the Value of it is about $22 billion.I think this article is a must read…

"Entrepreneurship is all about courage, it’s all about thinking about a powerful idea and then converting it into wealth."

Staying in the course

"First, we have to move up the value chain, which means you have to enhance per capita productivity. I always say that just as the per capita GDP is a good index of the development of a nation, per capita productivity is a good index of the growth of a corporation. So we had to enhance per capita productivity. To do that we had to become more and more relevant to our customers’ businesses and we had to have greater and greater impact on that – which means we have to learn to provide more and more end-to-end business solutions, innovative technology. In other words, we have to do more consulting, we have to do more business assistance integration, etc. Second, we have to handle scalability, scalability in terms of the number of customers, scalability in terms of the number of employees, scalability in terms of physical infrastructure, technological infrastructure, etc, etc."

Full Article Here

And also Mr & Mrs.Murthy delivered a speech at Stanford GSB(Video)

Manchester Business School will be screening the participants of the hit BBC business programme,Dragon’s Den.In this programme,entrepeneurs pitch to potential investors to secure captial to their businesses.

At school,The Incubator,which offers Launch pad & professional services for the new business ideas for the students will be carrying the BBC project.

About Dragon’s Den : http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!

Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d …

-Alexander Pope

"O God!

Whatever share of this world Thou hast allotted to me,

bestow it on Thine enemies.

and whatever share of the next world Thou hast allotted to me,

bestow it on Thy friends.

Thou art enough for me."

"O God! If I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell;

and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise,

exclude me from Paradise;

but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake withhold not Thine Everlasting Beauty!"

-Rabia,Sufi Mystic

Karan Thapar is perhaps India’s best known TV commentator and interviewer. He is the President of Infotainment Television, Thapar is noted for his aggressive interviews with leading politicians and celebrities - his interviews with cricketer Kapil Dev (where Dev broke down into tears), Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, General Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and The Dalai Lama are particularly well remembered by Indians.

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Recently,Mr.Thapar has interviewed Mr.Arjun Minister,HRD Minister(Govt. of India) on the burning issue of Reservations. Mr.Singh was almost literally teased with statistics and data and also the most notable thing in the interview is that Mr.Minister did not had any definitive answer to the questions raised by Thapar regarding the efficacy and the need of the reservations in the modern india.

Media has termed that Mr.Singh was eaten alive in this interview.

Spoof of V for Vendetta movie trailer compiled by Kenan-Flager MBA students..

Funny…………………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice Video of Stock Exchange simulation in Mendoza College of Business

Source: Hindu Business Line

My friend’s daughter loves yoghurt. The other day, when she refused to have dinner and demanded only yoghurt, my friend and his wife decided to give her enough and more of her favourite food.

The little one was delighted and, perhaps, surprised that her parents were allowing her to have just yoghurt. But she was unable to have more than three heaped spoons. That was, perhaps, her parents’ idea — to stuff her so much with yoghurt that she would finally give up having her favourite food.

Without their realising it, my friend and his wife were employing an important principle in economics — marginal utility.

Suppose you like ice-cream. You decide to binge on a Saturday night. After four ice-creams, you feel you cannot have any more. Why? Apart from feeling full, the satisfaction that you derive from having ice-creams may have also come down.

You would have derived immense satisfaction from your first ice-cream. The second would have been good too. The third less while you struggle to complete the fourth. This is because your satisfaction from consuming each additional ice-cream comes down.

The satisfaction derived from each additional unit is called marginal utility in economics. The principle that captures the decreasing satisfaction from each additional unit consumed is called the law of diminishing marginal utility. The concept was first formulated in the 1850s by H. H. Gossen and was later independently developed by William Jevons, Carl Menger and Leon Walras.

It was, however, Friedrich Von Wieser of the Austrian School of Economics who coined the term “marginal utility.”