Archive for December, 2005
Learned helplessness
Monday, December 26, 2005 17:11 No CommentsThere was a posting ‘Perpetual’ by Rakesh discussing about two articles published by New York Times and the Wall Street Journal that described how adolescence is increasingly being stretched into adulthood.
Link to posting ‘Perpetual’ by Rakesh Khurana
Few points to note from his posting talking about the articles mentioned:
1. A new generation of American [...]
4 Indians among world’s top 50 business gurus
Sunday, December 25, 2005 17:59 No CommentsFour Indians figure amongst the world’s top 50 management gurus, according to The Thinkers 50 2005 .
1. C K Prahalad (rank: 3)
2. Ram Charan (rank:24) ( Read Man of Mystery by Fast Company]
3. Vijay Govindarajan (rank:30)
4. Rakesh Khurana (rank:33)
Link to The Suntop Media Thinkers 50
India vs China
Sunday, December 18, 2005 21:17 No CommentsForbes announced ‘India’s Richest 40′, the second annual list of 40 richest Indians. The list is nicely represented by IT, the industry that created all the buzz about India than any other industry. The next sector that created more buzz is telecom and is aswell represented nicely in the list, though IT and Telecom are [...]
Humane Interfaces vs Minimal Interfaces
Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:34 No CommentsThere is an interesting debate going on between proponents of Humane Interfaces and Minimal Interfaces. It looks like, Ruby camp is representing the Humane Interfaces while Java camp is representing the later. The debate started with a posting by Martin Fowler “HumaneInterface”. And here is a summary of the debate., referred to as [...]
Kaizen is… Very Dangerous Stuff?
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:53 No CommentsTom Peters in his ‘This I Believe’ puts an intriguing and fascinating end to Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) belief in order to create some thing new… the next big thing.
Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) is…Very Dangerous Stuff.
Caught with our pants down by vigorous Japanese competitors, we Americans quickly copied their essential competitive ideas, such as Total [...]
