Archive for January, 2010
Life in 5 bottles
January 22nd, 2010
Your Mission
January 22nd, 2010I believe I know what your mission is.
Does that seem like a big claim to make?
Follow me on this…
Imagine you are in a huge dark room.
Everyone in the room is holding a candle and so are you.
You are at the front of the room looking out at the others.
They are doing their best to look at you, but the room is so dark that they cannot see much.
There is only one difference between you and them.
Your candle is lit.
When you light the candles of everyone else in the room, their lives are brightened.
When you see their happiness, your life is enlightened too. And, here is the best news:
your candle is diminished in no way by sharing your flame with hundreds or millions of others.
Share your light. Teach what you know.
You may be hesitant fearing that you have nothing to teach. My experience is that you indeed do have valuable information to teach others.
If you have been at your job for at least one year, you know immeasurably more than you knew when the job started.
If you have children, you have learned giant life lessons.
If you are single, married, divorced, or remarried – in all those matrimonial states, you have learned huge lessons.
If you’ve recovered from a severe illness or a big accident or a huge business failure or an investment calamity, then for sure you have learned lessons.
Your candle is lit.
There are so many others standing hopefully in front of you wishing that they knew those lessons you have learned. They want you to light their candle.
Light their candles.
Teach them what you know.
Brighten the world.
Personality Type (Jung on the Hudson Book Series) (Paperback)
January 16th, 2010
Review
Lenore Thomson has written a book that includes the best descriptions of what the functions mean of any book I have read. — Myers-Briggs Personality Type on the Web, April 12, 1999The theory is made clear by great stories that catch the reader’s interest and imagination, and give a chuckle at the same time. — The Enneagram and the MBTI, November 1998Thomson’s type descriptions are unusually full and can be mined for information and suggestion even by seasoned practitione (more…)
Google may pull out of China after Web attacks
January 16th, 2010Google Inc said it may pull out of China because it is no longer willing to accept censorship of search results and after hackers coordinated a sophisticated attack on email accounts of human rights activists using its Gmail service.
Google’s surprise announcement on Tuesday came shortly after an adviser to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she will announce a technology policy next week to help citizens in other countries to gain access to an uncensored Internet.
More than 20 other companies were also attacked by the China-based hackers, Google said.
Google said the hackers had tried to access the Gmail email accounts of Chinese human rights activists but only managed to access two unidentified accounts, and then only headlines and other data such as when the account was created.
It did not say what information the hackers tried to access from the other corporations, nor which they were. Google said it was now notifying the other affected corporations, adding that it was working with the U.S. authorities.
“These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered — combined with attempts over the past year to limit free speech on the Web — have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China,” Google said in a statement.
Google maintains a Chinese language website, Google.cn, which the company says complies with local laws. The company’s flagship, English-language site Google.com does not adhere to China’s rules.
“We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all.”
“We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.”
Human rights has been a frequent source of tension between the United States and China, which is the largest holder of U.S. Treasuries, with total holdings of $798.9 billion.
Last week Clinton dined with tech heavyweights such as Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Microsoft Corp research chief Craig Mundie, and Cisco Systems Inc Executive Vice President Sue Bostrom. It was not clear if that meeting was related to Google’s revelation.
Microsoft had no immediate comment.
The 16 Personality Types, Descriptions for Self-Discovery (Paperback)
January 12th, 2010
Review
… the authors cut right to the core concerns: ways to describe personality and discovering your best-fit type. — Book Reader, Fall/Winter 2000/01After 10 Years of working with personality type, I have finally read a description of myself I could have written! — Karen Welcome, Staff OD Specialist, Adanced Micro DevicesBy far the best type descriptions written. Finally, a resource that makes the differences between EXXX and IXXX easy to understand! — Laurie D (more…)
Next Bill Gates from India or China?
January 10th, 2010
“When asked where the ‘next Bill Gates will come from,’ 40 per cent of Americans predicted either India or China,” said a national survey released by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) on the sidelines of the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow at Las Vegas.
The vast majority of them, about 96 per cent, believe that innovation was critical to the future success of the US as a world economic leader but they were concerned that the rising federal deficit would jeopardize prosperity of future generations, the survey said.
The economic survey, conducted by Zogby International, found that 68 per cent of Americans think innovation was key to the future success of their place of employment, with 50 per cent maintaining that innovation was important for their job remaining in the US.
After the World Economic Forum reported that the US has lost its global competitiveness ranking while India, China and Brazil have gained, 74 per cent of Americans said it was unlikely the US would regain its status next year.
But 44 per cent pointed to innovation was the most important factor in seeking US competitiveness, it said.
According to the survey, nearly 60 per cent Americans agreed that the rising national deficit would have a “major impact” on the prosperity of future generations.
But when it comes to reducing the deficit, they were largely split on three issues: discontinuing corporate bailouts (23 per cent), reducing military spending (20 per cent), and relying on the free market to correct the imbalance (31 per cent).
Nearly 60 per cent of the respondents said that they were concerned that current path being taken by Congress would be detrimental to medical innovation.
Tensions seemed to run high: nearly half of them said they were “very concerned,” the survey said.
The Zogby survey was conducted between November 20 and 23, with a sample size of 3,779 US adults over the age of 18
Psychology And Achievement – How A Magnetic Personality Can Lead To Business Success! (Kindle Edition)
January 10th, 2010
Psychology and Achievement is a book on how a magnetic personality can lead to business success. Warren shows how a magnetic personality is achieved and how it can be sustained. He explains personality in terms of psychic, psychological and mental poise. In the various chapters, he brings to the fore the need for man to have an accurate impression of himself and how he wants the world to respond to this impression. Various mechanisms of achieving power through personality are e (more…)
Brick Recruitment!
January 9th, 2010HOW TO RECRUIT THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB?
Put about 100 bricks in some Particular order in a closed Room with an Open window
Then send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door.
Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours and then analyze the situation ....
If they are counting the Bricks, put them in the accounts Department
If they are recounting them..Put them in auditing ..
If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks…Put them in engineering
If they are arranging the Bricks in some strange order…. Put them in planning
If they are throwing the Bricks at each other…Put them in operations
If they are sleeping….Put them in security
If they have broken the bricks into pieces….Put them in information Technology
If they are sitting idle….Put them in human resources
If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has been moved. ..
Put them in sales..
If they have already left for the day…Put them in marketing…
If they are staring out of the window…Put them on Strategic Planning..
And then last but not least…
If they are talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved...
Congratulate them and put them in Top management
World’s tallest building
January 8th, 2010The Burj Khalifa was revealed to be 828m (2,716ft) high, far taller than the previous record holder, Taipei 101.
Known as the Burj Dubai during construction, the tower has been renamed after the leader of Dubai’s oil-rich neighbour, Abu Dhabi.
Last month, Abu Dhabi gave Dubai a $10bn (£6.13bn) bail-out to help it pay off its debts.
Construction of the Burj Dubai began in 2004, at the height of an economic boom.
Clad in 28,000 glass panels, the tower has 160 floors and more than 500,000 sq m of space for offices and flats.
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 This great project deserves to carry the name of a great man  Sheikh Mohammed
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The tower also lays claim to the highest occupied floor, the tallest service lift, and the world’s highest observation deck – on the 124th floor.
The world’s highest mosque and swimming pool will meanwhile be located on the 158th and 76th floors.
Technical challenges
The opening ceremony, held 1,325 days after excavation work started, was attended by some 6,000 guests.
Though not complete on the inside, it was officially opened by Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
The Burj Dubai dwarfs its neighbouring buildings
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In a surprise move he renamed it Burj Khalifa – after the president of the United Arab Emirates and emir of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan.
Sheikh Mohammed described the tower as “the tallest building ever created by the hand of man”.
“This great project deserves to carry the name of a great man. Today I inaugurate Burj Khalifa,” he said.
Sheikh Mohammed also unveiled a plaque inside the tower bearing the new name.
A dramatic fireworks and lights show took place around the tower while a screen displayed its exact height, which had previously been kept secret.
At 828m, Burj Khalifa dwarfs the 508m Taipei 101 and the 629m KVLY-TV mast in the US, the tallest man-made structure. Its spire can been seen 95km (60 miles) away.
“We weren’t sure how high we could go,” said Bill Baker of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the building’s structural engineer. “It was kind of an exploration… a learning experience.”
Mohamed Ali Alabbar, chairman of Emaar Properties, the developer behind Burj Khalifa, told the BBC that the building’s design had posed unprecedented technical and logistical challenges, not just because of its height, but also because Dubai was susceptible to high winds and was close to a geological fault line.
“We have been hit with lightning twice, there was a big earthquake last year that came across from Iran, and we have had all types of wind which has hit us when we were building. The results have been good and I salute the designers and professionals who helped build it,” he said.
The design incorporates ideas from traditional Islamic architecture, while the open petals of a desert flower were the inspiration for the tower’s base.
Burj Khalifa will be home to 1,044 luxury apartments, 49 floors of offices and eventually a 160-room Armani-branded hotel. Around 12,000 people are expected to live and work in the tower, which is part of a 500-acre development.
However, investors are facing losses even before the tower is completed because property prices in Dubai have slumped amid the global economic crisis.
Some apartments were selling for $2,700 per sq ft, but are now going for less than half that. Analysts say it will be particularly hard to lease office space because few companies can justify paying premiums for luxury.
The BBC’s Malcolm Borthwick in Dubai says developers are holding back on new flagship projects, so Burj Khalifa could mark the end of an era for skyscrapers in the Gulf – at least in the short term.
Courtesy : BBC
