Monday, October 11, 2010

Happiness Is Overrated - Tony Schwartz - Harvard Business Review

In Good to Great, Jim Collins finds a perfect example in James Stockdale, the highest-ranking naval officer held as a prisoner of war during Vietnam.

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

Bao Pu, a Hong Kong-based Chinese activist, co-edited Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang.

"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

Four Indian-Americans are among Forbes 400 Richest People in America, a list topped by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The Indians who made the cut include Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, outsourcing firm Syntel’s founder Bharat Desai, venture capitalist Kavitark Ram Shriram
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

Three Indian-origin persons, including Foursquare's Naveen Selvadurai, have been named in Vanity Fair's 'Next Establishment 2010' list that features young "empire builders" poised to become the next top moguls.

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

The US government has apologized for experiments in which government researchers used prostitutes to deliberately infect prison inmates in Guatemala with syphilis.

BBC News - US sorry over deliberate sex infections in Guatemala