With a diameter of 1.5 meters, and weighing 55 tons, this is a giant! Interestingly magistrate of Bijapur tried to auction this off in 1854 for Rs 150, but the auction was called off. This cannon was built by a turkish officer in the Ahmednagar kingdom. Apparently, there is an inscription which says it was […]
People get hired and promoted because senior people like them. The factors that make people likable don’t change over time. If a person is well liked, all sorts of performance deficits will be overlooked http://www.abhijitbhaduri.com/index.php/2011/04/it-is-all-about-personality/
you have read thousands of books but you have never tried to read your own self PaRh paRh ilm hazaar kitaabaN qaddi apnay aap nou paRhiya naee jaaN jaaN waRhday mandir maseedi qaddi mann apnay wich waRhiya naee you rush in into your Mandirs, into your Mosques but you have never tried to enter your […]
Entrepreneur. She wrote finally. Thats what he always filled in forms. She hated it. Hated the spelling. Hated him being an entrepreneur. Now she hated filling the stupid form. The police inspector looked at the form. “Hm. Everyone wants to be Narayanamurthy” he thought. With a little bit of regret. BE Mechanical Engineer from BHU. […]
When we were in Bombay, we spoke to Varada Bhai (Varadaraja Mudaliar on whose life the film is based), and Mani had the audacity to ask him, “How do you foresee your death?” He said he would either die peacefully in a hospital (which is what happened) but left to the police, who couldn’t prove […]
Trinity: I know why you’re here, Neo. I know what you’ve been doing… why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You’re looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I […]
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/10/the-acute-heptagram-of-impact.html None of this matters if you and your team don't persist, and your persistence will largely be driven by the desire you have to succeed, which of course is relentlessly undermined by the fear we all wrestle with every day.
The best managers also keep secrets from their employees — certain things they’ve strategically and wisely chosen NOT to share. It’s what makes them great bosses. In honor of National Boss Day, I’m going to leak that classified data. It’s time to get it out in the open. via poynter.org
For example, when strongly disagreeing with another, most of us have a tendency to see things solely through our own world view. In those situations, some will immediately assume that the other person is ignorant and/or has nefarious intentions. Your mind immediately turns to the thought, “How could they possibly not agree with me?” In […]