Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Happiness Is Overrated - Tony Schwartz - Harvard Business Review
Over seven years, Stockdale was tortured repeatedly, held in solitary confinement and given no reason to believe he would ever make it out alive. His saving grace was the ability to embrace both optimism and realism concurrently — something Collins named "the Stockdale Paradox."
As Stockdale himself explained it, "You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
Happiness Is Overrated - Tony Schwartz - Harvard Business Review
Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Peace Prize and China's Future - Bao Pu - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
"Why is the government holding a Nobel Laureate in prison? What is Charter 08? What does Liu Xiaobo stand for? What is his life story? What really happened on Tiananmen Square in 1989?"
Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Peace Prize and China's Future - Bao Pu - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
4 desi billionaires in US rich list - Hindustan Times
software king Romesh Wadhwani.
While Desai ranks 252 with a net worth of $1.6 billion,
Khosla occupies the 308th spot in the list with fortunes worth $1.3 billion.
Shriram is at 288 with assets worth $1.45 billion and
Wadhwani 290 with a total valuation of $1.4 billion.
4 desi billionaires in US rich list - Hindustan Times
3 Indian-origin persons named in Vanity Fair's list - The Economic Times
The list features music and culture website 'Desi Hits' co-founder Anjula Acharia Bath and founder and CEO of 'Bloom Energy' K R Sridhar.
3 Indian-origin persons named in Vanity Fair's list - The Economic Times
Friday, October 01, 2010
BBC News - US sorry over deliberate sex infections in Guatemala
BBC News - US sorry over deliberate sex infections in Guatemala