Invisible Children

Build-A-Bear Innovation

USD700B Question ?

What You Could Get for $700 Billion?
An intriguing perspective on the US700 Billion Dollar bail-out. ...one that particularly interests me is "Part 3: Establish Universal Health Coverage".

Source: Spiegel Online

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"Mathemagic"

The House has let "the invisible hand" be invisible, for now

Wall St 9/11

Courtesy: Economist

The Golden Quadrilateral

This months's National Geographic has a captivating article titled "India's Highway"..if you have a few minutes to spare, have a read!

It hurts ..and I'll be guilty until I could do something

The BBC article is titled "Ten to Watch" and reads something like ..smaller nations hoping to make it big at this years Olympics...its when you read articles like this reality strikes hard. Wish we didn't have to take inspiration from movies like "Chak De".

The Survival Project: One Child at a Time

A roundtable interview with CSOs

Courtesy: The McKinsey Quarterly

The genocide continues in Darfur

Inflation under a microscope

Looking at inflation in a Hans Rosling way...

Courtesy : The New York Times

80:20 Rule from Management Gurus

"Together, the 20 gateway countries — 10 from the industrialized world and 10 from emerging markets — account for about 80 percent of the world’s economic activity, and 70 percent of its 6.6 billion inhabitants. An MNC could most effectively expand its operations around the world by making it a priority to set up hubs in these gateway nations. The hubs would have authority over most of the managerial elements of business: supply chain management, product development practices, product launches, marketing, branding, acquisitions, and recruitment of talent. The leaders of the hubs would then report directly to the office of the CEO, meeting regularly as part of the most senior executive team."

20 Hubs and No HQ

Courtesy : Strategy-Business

The Second World

"...the world is really becoming not anti-American but simply non-American."

Parag Khanna, Author of the book : The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

Truly Inspiring ...

Bharti Airtel "graduating to globalisation" eyeing MTN

Courtesy : Economist.com

Each generation has to do better than the last one ...

50x15: A compassionate initiative from AMD

Pangea Day, a TED wish come true

Kenya sings India

Take part in this historic event ...

Innovation: The 'Pixar' Bird Way

“The only thing we’re afraid of is complacency—feeling like we have it all figured out. We want you to come shake things up. We will give you a good argument if we think what you’re doing doesn’t make sense, but if you can convince us, we’ll do things a different way.” ... “Go ahead, mess with our heads, shake it up”




Courtesy: The McKinsey Quarterly

All Known Physics : From Big Bang to Africa

Dream : An African Einstein
Plan : Relevant, Innovative, Cost-effective, High-Quality (RICH) African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
Message : "The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future. Over time they will contribute to African development and to science in ways we can only imagine." - Neil Turok

The TATA Story (so far) ...

... via Nano lanes and Jaquar tracks !!!

Courtesy: BusinessWeek

10,000 Women... not 10,000 B.C

Launched by Goldman Sachs, 10,000 Women is a global initiative that will:

* Increase the number of underserved women receiving a business and management education

* Improve the quality and capacity of business and management education around the world

Abstract from FT article

The genesis for the effort, according to Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman chief executive, was research conducted by the bank’s employees indicating that boosting business education of women in developing countries could have a powerful multiplier effect on overall health levels and economic growth rates.

The research showed that closing the gender gap in employment in key emerging markets could lift per capita income 10-14 per cent above baseline forecasts by 2020.

It also indicated that higher levels of female education could have raised gross domestic product growth rates in emerging markets by 0.2 per cent over the past 10 years.

Read on ...

GS Website

Blue Ocean Strategy

“Strategy thus becomes a question of outpacing rivals to gain a greater share from a limited economic pie,” Mauborgne says. “But when we look at industry who do we admire most? Those who outpace rivals? Yes, we admire winners. But more so, we admire people who create new paradigms, businesses and market spaces. These are what expand the pie of intellectual and creative wealth. In other words, creating a non-zero sum game.” This shift from win-lose to a win-win is the essence of Kim and Mauborgne’s Blue Ocean strategy.

|BOS Primer | BOS Official Site|

The Singing Scientist on Compassion

Countdown to Innovation

Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of search products and user experience shares the rules that gives the search company its innovative edge.

9 YOU'RE BRILLIANT? WE'RE HIRING
8 CREATIVITY LOVES CONSTRAINTS
7 DATA IS APOLITICAL.
6 USERS, USERS, USERS
5 SHARE AS MUCH INFORMATION AS YOU CAN
4 MORPH PROJECTS DON'T KILL THEM
3 A LICENSE TO PURSUE YOUR DREAMS
2 IDEAS COME FROM EVERYWHERE
1 INNOVATION, NOT INSTANT PERFECTION.

Courtesy : FastCompany.com

My First Day at Embarq

Change is messy ...

"The shoe has to pinch before we get round to it."

Courtesy : BBC

Tales of Passion

Mittalic Magic : Boldness changes everything

Lakshmi Mittal

Courtesy: Economist

Pangea Day

If you had the world's attention for just a few minutes, what story would you tell? On May 10, the opportunity is yours.

CRY’s Girl Child Rights Charter.

Missing & Never Found: The Girl Child
Have you seen her anywhere?

Most probably not. And that’s not surprising. Because 6.65 million girls are “missing” in India. Being denied the right to life, millions die before they are even born. Of those that are born, 1 million don’t see their 1st birthday. Even those that survive are deprived of basic nourishment, education & protection.

It is time we stood up and demanded justice. We are doing a special campaign to enlist support for India's girl children. If you feel as we do, sign the CRY’s Girl Child Rights Charter. With 10,000 citizen signatures we’ll take this to the Ministry of Women and Child Development for accountability and change. Every signature counts, so sign the charter now.

Please Sign Here

CHINA AND INDIA WHISPER NO MORE ! 新年快樂

"Ignorance and arrogance will be your downfall. Globalization for the last several centuries has been a Western script set to a Western tune. This is no longer the case. Complacency will leave you trailing. So get in the know. Understand. Take action. Get on board. The train is leaving."

Courtesy : IMD

Compassion: Entertainment

MiYahoo looming

Courtesy: Economist

Compassion : Simply Noticing

The New Geopolitical Marketplace Dynamics

Waving Goodbye to Hegemony
Courtesy : The New York Times

The world does not shake China
Courtesy: The Economist

Evolving geopolitics of the US, EU and China
Courtesy : ISN

Deliver a Presentation like Steve Jobs

1. Set the theme.
2. Demonstrate enthusiasm.
3. Provide an outline.
4. Make numbers meaningful.
5. Try for an unforgettable moment.
6. Create visual slides.
7. Give 'em a show.
8. Don't sweat the small stuff.
9. Sell the benefit.
10. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.

Courtesy: BusinessWeek

Ex-President Dr. Kalam's Republic Day Message

Dear friends, let me share with you a seven-point resolve on the occasion of ensuing Republic Day 2008:

1. Wherever I am, a thought will always come to my mind -- *What can I give?*

2. Whatever the mission I will do, my motto will be *to work with integrity and succeed with integrity.*

3. I will always remember that *my winged days, be not spent in vain*.

4. I realise I have to set a great goal that will *lead me to think high*, work and realise the goal.

5. My greatest friends will be *great human beings, great teachers and great books*.

6. I will firmly believe that no problem can defeat me; *I will become the captain of the problem, defeat the problem and succeed.*

7. My National Flag flies in my heart and I will bring glory to my nation.

Courtesy: Rediff.com

Chief Strategy Officer

Rise of the CSO

Compassion: From I, Me & Mine to We, Us & Ours

Volunteer with the TAP Project

A single glass of water can make a difference for children around the world...

Thank you for your interest in the Tap Project, a campaign that celebrates the clean and accessible drinking water available as an every day privilege to millions, while helping UNICEF provide safe drinking water for children around the world. Last year, hundreds of restaurants and thousands of customers supported the Tap Project on March 22, 2007, the UN's official World Water Day.

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Making Globalization Work

A journey to the center of your mind

Life lessons from Narayana Murthy

"I believe that we have all at some time eaten the fruit from trees that we did not plant. In the fullness of time, when it is our turn to give, it behooves us in turn to plant gardens that we may never eat the fruit of, which will largely benefit generations to come."

Insights from the C.K. Prahalad's BOP

"According to the United Nations, the richest 20 percent in the world accounted for about 70 percent of total income in 1960. In 2000, that figure reached 85 percent. Over the same period, the fraction of income accruing to the poorest 20 percent in the world fell from 2.3 percent to 1.1 percent..."

"Fortunately, the Tier 4 market is wide open for technological innovation. Among the many possibilities for innovation, MNCs can be leaders in leapfrogging to products that don’t repeat the environmental mistakes of developed countries over the last 50 years. Today’s MNCs evolved in an era of abundant natural resources and thus tended to make products and services that were resource-intensive and excessively polluting. The United States’ 270 million people — only about 4 percent of the world’s population — consume more than 25 percent of the planet’s energy resources. To re-create those types of consumption patterns in developing countries would be disastrous."

Who is C.K. Prahalad?