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 12:20 | 26/Oct/2007 |
| A Beautiful Mind | |
| A Beautiful Mind How to have a Beautiful Mind By Edward De Bono Edward de Bono is the leading authority in the field of creative thinking and direct teaching of thinking as a skill. While thousands are writing software for computers, he is pioneer in writing software for human brain. He tells lucidly like never before, how the human brain works as a self organizing information system. Edward de Bono is credited with deriving formal creative tool of lateral thinking. He is also the originator of path breaking ‘Parallel Thinking’ and the ‘Six Thinking Hats’. From the inventor of lateral thinking -- an exciting new way to develop your thinking skills, make yourself interesting, and so change your life. People spend a fortune on their appearance -- cosmetics, plastic surgery, diets -- everyone is trying to be more attractive. But there's an easier way to become a beautiful person. No matter how you look, if you have a mind that's fascinating, creative, exciting -- if you're a good thinker -- you can be beautiful. And it doesn't necessarily come from being highly educated, or even from having a great personality; it's about using your imagination and expanding your creativity. In clear, practical language, de Bono shows how, by applying lateral and parallel thinking skills to conversation, we can improve our mind. By learning how to listen, make a point, and maneuver a discussion, we can become creative and more appealing -- more beautiful. Many leading corporations such as IBM, Microsoft, Prudential, BT (UK), NTT, Nokia and Siemens have sought his instructions have been benefited. The Australian cricket team also sought his advice and become the most successful cricket team in history. Edward de Bono is seen as one of the 250 people who had influenced the humanity in whole course of history. He is also been chosen as one of the twenty visionaries alive today. The leading consultancy company, Accenture, chose him as one of the fifty most influential business thinkers today. Edward de Bono was born in Malta in 1933. He attended St Edward's College , Malta , during World War II and then the University of Malta where he qualified in medicine. He preceded, as a Rhodes Scholar, to Christ Church , Oxford , where he gained an honors degree in psychology and physiology and then a D.Phil in medicine. He also holds a PhD from Cambridge and an MD from the University of Malta . He has held appointments at the universities of Oxford , London , Cambridge and Harvard. Dr Edward de Bono is one of the very few people in history who can be said to have had a major impact on the way we think. In many ways he could be said to be the best known thinker internationally. He has written numerous books with translations into 34 languages (all the major languages plus Hebrew, Arabic, Bahasa, Urdu, Slovene, Turkish etc). He has been invited to lecture in 52 countries around the world. In the University of Buenos Aires five faculties use his books as required reading. In Venezuela , by law, all school children must spend an hour a week on his programmes. In Singapore 102 secondary schools use his work. In Malaysia the senior science schools have been using his work for ten years. In the U.S.A. , Canada , Australia , New Zealand , the Republic of Ireland and the UK there are thousands of schools using Dr de Bono's programmes for the teaching of thinking. At the International Thinking Meeting in Boston (1992) He was given an award as a key pioneer in the direct teaching of thinking in sch ools. How to have a Beautiful Mind By Edward De Bono Published 2004 Vermillion 240 Pages ISBN 0091894603
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| 12:14 | 26/Oct/2007 |
| Sleeping with Enemy | |
| Sleeping with Enemy Characters:Place: Eisenach, a city in Germany Mr. Khemka: An Indian businessman aged about sixty on a business visit to buy used machineryMr. Jagtar Singh Randhawa aged about fifty, a resident of Frankfurt, our friend and guide in Germany Hilda: A bar tender, aged about thirty five, a former communist party spy Heidi: Deceased e...
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| 12:14 | 26/Oct/2007 |
| Mission Accomplished | |
| Mission AccomplishedImplementing an Order-Indian Style The Back Ground:It happened few years down the line. There was a call from elders in my locality who commanded I must accompany them to meet the chief minister. They perhaps needed to have few younger faces in the entourage to meet the big man. It so happened that a big gang of tough looking gu...
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| 08:34 | 7/Oct/2007 |
| Crushed | |
| It was only a few months ago and took little space in newspapers; hidden in some corner surrounded by cheap commercial ads. A life lost, a human being crushed on roads with rampaging traffic, children orphaned is of little value; or it seems that inconsequential? When death toll cross half a dozen, a respectable space on front page is given, becaus...
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| 21:32 | 25/Sep/2007 |
| Mera Bharat Mahan | |
| Mera Bharat Mahaan…. We Indians trying to run…. A marathon… Chained with huge weights... Biases and prejudices… Millions of differences… Hold all of us down… Critics are right… We all like confusions To prevail and nurture… Seeking small benefits… Here and there… We may shine alone… And fail as a team… We are brought up… That way to love… Only self…. Scripture teach at lot… Still we don’t Practice what is preached… The selfish are destined… For tons of miseries… And that what we get.. For our own faults… We don’t think we have… Seek answers elsewhere Those reside in us… In our own deeds… And misdeeds.. Individually and Collectively
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| 21:32 | 25/Sep/2007 |
| Fragile Sensibilities | |
| I do not understand these utterly fragile sensibilities of some of us or rather most of us, which seem to rattle so often.Isn’t immature to expect fawning praise should only to be bestowed on so many of our great personalities?Should there be any attempt allowed to write about their supposed short comings and bad judgments or not?We seem to add new...
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| 21:29 | 25/Sep/2007 |
| Mobile Aggressions | |
| Mobile AggressionsWe got used to mobiles long back and these gadgets do provide increasing array of services.Recent television advertisement of MOTOROLA MOBILE, called RAZR has aggressive display of violence.It is nauseating and distasteful use of an instrument of immense utility as a lethal razor blade.A nattily dressed girl in black is shown walk...
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| 18:48 | 25/Sep/2007 |
| CREATIVITY & INNOVATION | |
| CREATIVITY & INNOVATION The word innovation has been defined from varied perspectives and in today’s competitive work environment is being given due recognition and emphasis, though not enough. The people are to be motivated and an enabling environment has to be properly conceptualized and established.Motivating people to innovate needs more than j...
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| 18:22 | 25/Sep/2007 |
| 14 QUOTES ON LEADERSHIP | |
| 14 Quotes on LEADERSHIP We are confronted by the word “Leaders” and “Leadership” so often that some of us begin to attach some element of mystery and aura to it.I have come across few quotes on leadership which makes its meaning clear and simple. "Never give an order that can't be obeyed."General Douglas MacArthur "He who has great power should u...
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| 18:09 | 25/Sep/2007 |
| Bye Bye Bluebird | |
| Characters: Padmini: A house wife, with a son and daughter in boarding school, age about 44, health conscious, interest in literature. Anand: A voluntarily retired executive, age about 55, living alone as his wife is with daughter on family way in US. Vikram: Doting but too busy husband of Padmini, a harassed businessman trying to beat competition ...
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| sanjeev snehi | 01:07 | 31/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (1020)
| City: Delhi
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| ‘Eating the Earth’! |
| Eating meat, dairy and eggs threatens our planet.You use much less land and water if you eat crops directly. Animals use most of the protein they eat to live, not 'grow' meat. So eating meat adds to water shortages, forest clearing, soil damage, use of oil-based pesticides - and climate change. "By 2050 the world's livestock will be consuming as m...
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| anoo k | 18:36 | 13/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (253)
| City: Hyderabad
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| I better leave ..or I have this strong urge to wipe out my existence from this virtual world...right now..click and out....
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| DENSON JOSEPH | 12:00 | 7/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (619)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: Fitness
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| NRI's & NANDIGRAM |
| 74 NRIs, belonging to a diverse group of academics, professionals, lawyers, activists and students, many of them volunteers and supporters of the organization - Association for India's Development – have filed a collective Right to Information application at the Indian Embassy in Washington DC. The Questions raised are the following:ü Have d...
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| Keya | 12:15 | 24/Sep/2007 |
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| Make a difference |
| Hi friends,After long break I am here again with some of my thoughts. We all have read/hear this thought and somewhat way we appreciated it also…“Measuring our life by, what others do for us, may disappoint us. But if measured by, what we do for others, will add meaning to it. Make difference in others life.”Have we ever think more than our expecta...
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| Shyama Menon | 10:28 | 1/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (423)
| City: Cochin
| Interests: Finding the real ...
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| Sporting me! |
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| You know how it is, one fine day, you end up playing some sport and realize how fit you really are. It may be a company sports event or maybe a club sports day that lets you know your fitness level. For me it's our building association’s fancy sounding “Winter Olympics”! So there I was participating in all sorts of things these last two weeks and d...
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| Reshma Thakkar | 12:23 | 14/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (1867)
| City: Mumbai
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| LIFE |
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| Life can be compared to sleep.You close your eyes and prefer to be in darkness,Thinking it to be a restful phase.The dreams are nothing but your life events,Which you seem so attached to.Sunrise can be compared to death.The light streams in.Your eyes open,The dream ends,And reality sets in.The dreams now appear unreal to you.When I say "death",I me...
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