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Friendship

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."

- Aristotle

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Geoff Marsh

Geoffrey Robert Marsh (born 31 December 1958 in Northam, Western Australia) was an Australian cricketer, coach and selector.

He was a steady, determined right-handed opening batsman and capable fielder, making his first-class debut for Western Australia as a nineteen year old in the 1977-1978 Sheffield Shield season.

Marsh established himself as a solid competitor on the domestic front and was on the fringes of the national team for a number of years before winning selection in the Australian Test team. He made his debut in December 1985 against India.


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Competing on Analytics by Thomas H.Davenport and Jeanne G.Harris

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Solutions

"Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution."


- Andrew Grove


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Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in Bombay, India, and best known for his works The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Just So Stories (1902), and Puck of Pook's Hill (1906); his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and "If—" (1910); and his many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) and the collections Life's Handicap (1891), The Day's Work (1898), and Plain Tales from the Hills (1888). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story";[2] his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best work speaks to a versatile and luminous narrative gift.

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Being Indian : The Truth About Why the Twenty-First Century will be India's by Pavan K. Varma

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Life

"Drive with care. Life has no spare."



- E C McKenzie


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Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa

Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kannada: ಕುಪ್ಪಳ್ಳಿ ವೆಂಕಟಪ್ಪಗೌಡ ಪುಟ್ಟಪ್ಪ) (December 29, 1904 - November 11, 1994) [1] is a Kannada writer, poet, widely regarded as the greatest poet of 20th century Kannada literature. He is the first among seven recipients[2] of Jnanpith Award for Kannada. Puttappa wrote all his literary works using the pen name Kuvempu. He is the second among Kannada poets to be revered as Rashtrakavi (after M. Govinda Pai). His work Sri Ramayana Darshanam, the rewriting of the great ancient Indian epic Ramayana in modern Kannada, is regarded as revival of the era of Mahakayva (Epic poetry) in a contemporary form and charm. He is immortalised by some of his phrases, and in particular for his contribution to Universal Humanism or in his own words Vishwa maanavataa Vaada. He was conferred Padma Bhushan by Government of India.





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Attitude

"A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug."

- Patricia Neal


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Dhirubhai Ambani

Dhirajlal Hirachanda Ambani (28 December 1932, - 6 July 2002), (also known as Dhirubhai Gujarati: ધીરૂભાઈ અંબાણી) was an Indian rags to riches, business tycoon who founded Reliance Industries with his cousin in Mumbai.

Dhirubhai Ambani (Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani) was born on 28 December 1932, at Chorwad, Junagadh in the now state of Gujarat, India to Hirachand Gordhanbhai Ambani and Jamnaben[1] in a Modh family of very moderate means [2]. He was the second son of a school teacher. Dhirubhai Ambani is said to have started his entrepreneurial career by selling "pakora" to pilgrims in Mount Girnar over the weekends[3]. When he was 16 years old, he moved to Aden,Yemen. He worked as a dispatch clerk with A. Besse & Co. Two years later A. Besse & Co. became the distributors for Shell products and Dhirubhai was promoted to manage the company’s oil-filling station at the port of Aden.



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What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management (Hardcover)
by Jeffrey Pfeffer (Author)

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Winning

"Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory."



- Mahatma Gandhi


TOPIC OF THE DAY

International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that oversees the global financial system by observing exchange rates and balance of payments, as well as offering financial and technical assistance. Its headquarters are located in Washington, D.C., USA.



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The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus by John Micklethwait

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Character

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing".


- Abraham Lincoln


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26 December 2004 tsunami

On 26th December 2004 the Indian coastline experienced the most devastating tsunami in recorded history. The tsunami was triggered by an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale at 3.4° N, 95.7° E off the coast of Sumatra in the Indonesian Archepelago at 06:29 hrs IST (00:59 hrs GMT). See model simulation of 26 December tsunami.

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The Outside-In Corporation: How to Build a Customer-Centric Organization for Breakthrough Results by Bund, Barbara E.(Author)

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values

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value".

- Albert Einstein


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Mohammed Rafi

Mohammed Rafi (Hindi: मोहम्मद रफ़ी, Urdu: محمد رفیع, December 24, 1924 – July 31, 1980) was an Indian playback singer. He has sung in many Indian languages like Hindi, Urdu, Marathi and Telugu, but he is chiefly remembered for his songs from Hindi cinema (also known as Bollywood). His songs are widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. Along with Mukesh and Kishore Kumar, he was one of the three leading male Bollywood playback singers from the 1950s to the 1970s.


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You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones are Connecting the World's Poor to the Global Economy

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

values

"Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.".


- Anil Ambani


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ames Buchanan Duke

James Buchanan Duke (December 23, 1856 – October 10, 1925) was a U.S. tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for his involvement with Duke University.

Born near Durham, North Carolina, his father, Washington Duke (1820-1905), had owned a tobacco company which James B. Duke and his brother Benjamin Newton Duke (1855-1929) took over in the 1880s. Known by the nickname "Buck," in 1885, James Buchanan Duke acquired an advantageous license to use the first automated cigarette making machine (invented by James Albert Bonsack), and by 1890, Duke controlled 40% of the American cigarette market (then known as pre-rolled tobacco). In that year, Duke consolidated control of his four major competitors under one corporate entity, the American Tobacco Company. Duke then used his monopoly control over the American cigarette market to engage in predatory pricing in the remaining American tobacco markets: plug or chewing tobacco, and loose smoking tobacco.



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George Soros on Globalization by George Soros

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Time

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough".


- George Bernard Shaw


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Srinivasa Ramanujam

Srinivāsa Rāmānujan Iyengar FRS (Tamil: ஸ்ரீநிவாச ராமானுஜன்) (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician and one of the greatest mathematical geniuses of the 20th century.[1] With almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions in the areas of mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions.


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Leading for a lifetime by Warren G.Bennis and Robert J.Thomas

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Trust

"A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.


- Paulo Coelho


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Rebecca West

English journalist, novelist, and critic, perhaps best-known for her reports on the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). Rebecca West started her career as a columnist for the suffragist weekly the Freewoman in the 1910s. Kenneth Tynan described her in 1954 as "the best journalist alive". West's companion for ten years was H.G.Wells. Their son Anthony also established himself as a noted author and critic.

"Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his life on a comfortable salary, or the woman who has to keep her teeth bared lest she has her meatless bone of 17s. 4d. a week snatched away from her and who has to produce the next generation on her off-days?" (from 'The Sterner Sex', 1913)
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Leadership brand by Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood

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Decisions

"Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while."

- Jack Welch



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Jerry Perenchio

Jerry Perenchio (born December 20, 1930) was the former chairman and CEO of Univision, the largest Spanish-language company in the United States.Born Andrew Jerrold Perenchio in Fresno, California, he relocated to Los Angeles where he worked as a young Hollywood talent agent for MCA and represented such celebrity clients as Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor.


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The Future of Managementby Gary Hamel

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Decisions

"Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations."

- Azim Premji

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Ricky Ponting

Ricky Thomas Ponting (born December 19, 1974, in Launceston, Tasmania) is an Australian cricketer and current captain of the Australia national cricket team (for both One Day International and Test cricket). Ricky Ponting is also a member of the Tasmanian Tigers, although international duties make it difficult for him to appear for them. He is a specialist right-hand batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as being a very occasional, but aggressive, right-arm medium pacer.

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You, Inc.: The Art of Selling Yourself by Harry and Christine

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Self Help - Achievement

"One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential."

- John Howard

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British Petroleum

BP plc (LSE: BP), NYSE: BP, TYO: 5051), formerly known as British Petroleum, is a British energy company / multinational oil company ("oil major") with headquarters in London, England, UK. The company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" (vertically integrated private sector oil exploration, natural gas, and petroleum product marketing companies).More Details

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The Road to Organic Growth:
How Great Companies Consistently Grow Marketshare From Within
by Edward D. Hess

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ENCOURAGEMENT

I'm not a banner. I am an encourager and a persuader and an advocate.- John Howard

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SERVICE SECTOR IN INDIA

Service Sector in India today accounts for more than half of India's GDP.According to data for the financial year 2006-2007, the share of services,industry, and agriculture in India's GDP is 55.1 per cent, 26.4 per cent,and 18.5 per cent respectively. The fact that the service sector now accounts for more than half the GDP marks a watershed in the evolution of the Indian economy and takes it closer to the fundamentals of a developed economy.More Details

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Essentials of Management by Andrew J. DuBrin

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Customer

"Treat every customer as if they sign your pay cheque.... because they do"


- Unknown."



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‘Sardar Vallabhai Patel’

Vallabhbhai Patel was born on October 31, 1875 in Nadiad, a small village in Gujarat. His father Jhaverbhai was a farmer and mother Laad Bai was a simple lady. Sardar Vallabhai's early education took place in Karamsad. Then he joined a school in Petlad. After two years he joined a high school in a town called Nadiad. He passed his high school examination in 1896. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a brilliant student throughout his schooling.



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Talent Assessment: A New Strategy for Talent Management By Tony Davis, Maggie

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Achievement

"The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?."


- Larry Flynt



TOPIC OF THE DAY

‘Vijay Amritraj’

Amritraj was born in Chennai, India to Maggie Dhairyam and Robert Amritraj.[1] He and his brothers, Anand Amritraj and Ashok Amritraj, were among the first Indians to play in top-flight international tour tennis. In 1976, the brothers (Vijay and Anand) were semi-finalists in the Wimbledon men's doubles.

After playing his first grand prix event in 1970, Amritraj achieved his first significant success in singles in 1973 when he reached the quarter-final stage at two Grand Slam events. At Wimbledon he lost 5-7 in the fifth set to the eventual champion Jan Kodes and later that summer at the U.S. Open lost to tennis great Ken Rosewall after having beaten another legend, Rod Laver, two rounds earlie.


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Building better boards by David A. Nadler & others

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Truth

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."


- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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‘Papa, I am Citigroup’s youngest CEO’

When the telephone woke up Shankar Pandit at 1.30 am on Wednesday in Vashi on Mumbai’s fringe, he knew it could only be his son Vikram calling from New York. The youngest ever CEO
of the world’s largest financial services company Citigroup wanted to tell his father first. By 5 am, a wide awake Shankar, 86, had summoned his three brothers to his four-bedroom flat to share the good news.


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The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies by Robin Mansell (Editor), Chrisanthi Avgerou (Editor), Danny Quah (Editor), Roger Silverstone (Editor)

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Questions

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."


- Oscar Wilde



TOPIC OF THE DAY

Yuvraj Singh

Yuvraj Singh pronunciation (help·info) (born 12 December 1981 in Chandigarh, India) is a cricketer from India,and the son of former Indian fast bowler and Punjabi movie star Yograj Singh.[1] He has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000 (ODIs) and played his first Test match in 2003. He is the current vice captain of the ODI team. At the 2007 World Twenty20 he hit six sixes in an over against England's Stuart Broad - a feat only performed three times previously in any form of senior cricket, and never previously in an international match between two Test cricket nations.


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Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing by Robert S.Kaplan

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Time

"Time is our most precious asset, we should invest it wisely.


- Michael Levy.



TOPIC OF THE DAY

Robert F. Bruner

Robert F. Bruner holds the position of Dean of the Darden School, Charles C. Abbott Professor of Business Administration and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. He was appointed Dean on August 1, 2005.
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Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing by Robert S.Kaplan

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Negotiation

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

- John F.Kennedy.


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S. Nijalingappa

Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa (December 10, 1902 - August, 2000 was a senior Congress politician and the Chief Minister of Karnataka between 1956 and 1958 and once again between 1962 and 1968. He played important roles in both the Indian independence movement and the Karnataka Ekikarana movement.

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Discovering Statistics Using SPSS by Andy Field

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BUSY

"The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?" "Are you doing what fulfills you?" - Oprah Winfrey


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The Enron Scandal

On November 29, 2001, the Wall Street Journal ran an article, "Running on Empty-Enron Faces Collapse as Credit, Stock Dive and Dynergy Bolts" in which they reported, "Previously, even though Enron's practices had worried some regulators, the Bush administration had kept its distance. Over the last decade, the company and its chairman, Mr. Lay, may have been Mr. Bush's biggest financial backers, donating nearly $2 million to his campaigns. Before the company's recent problems came to light, Mr. Lay enjoyed unusually good access to top administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, who earlier this year drafted a new national energy plan that seemed to lean heavily on Mr. Lay's suggestions."

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Survey research methods (2nd ed.) by Earl Babbie

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Knowledge

"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own"

- Aesop


TOPIC OF THE DAY

Young Entrepreneur Award 2007

11-year-old awarded Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2007 - Jason
O’Neill, creator and founder of Pencil Bugs, is the youngest student to
receive the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2007.
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Make Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary by Danielle Babb and Jim Mirabella

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Knowledge

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder"

- E.C.McKenzie


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Attack on Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a pre-emptive military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan's Imperial Japanese Navy, on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941 that made the United States enter World War II. Two aerial attack waves, totalling 350 aircraft, were launched from six aircraft carriers with the intent to destroy the United States Pacific Fleet.


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Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer by Tracy Kidder

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Optimistic

"When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.."

- Deepak Chopra



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Kadri Gopalnath

Kadri Gopalnath (b. 1950) is an Indian saxophonist and one of the pioneers of Carnatic music on the saxophone.

Kadri Gopalnath was born in Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka. He acquired a taste for music from his father Thaniappa, a nadhaswaram vidwan. Young Gopalnath once saw the saxophone being played in the Mysore palace band set. Thrilled on hearing the vibrant tone of the saxophone, Gopalnath decided to master it. It took him nearly 20 years for him to conquer the complex western wind instrument and he was eventually crowned as the "Saxophone Chakravarthy".


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Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career by Herminia Ibarra

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Business

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."

- Warren Buffett


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Ram Charan

Ram Charan (born Ramcharan in 1939 in Uttar Pradesh, India) is a business consultant, speaker, and writer.

Charan worked in his family's shoe shop in northern India while growing up. He earned a degree in engineering from Banaras Hindu University and later studied at Harvard Business School, where he was awarded an MBA (1965) and a doctorate (1967).[1][2] Before becoming a full-time consultant in 1978, he taught at the Harvard Business School, the Kellogg School of Management, and Boston University

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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Ram Charan

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Convince

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."

- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)


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Change management

The change referred to in this context includes a broad array of topics. From an individual perspective, the change may be a new behavior. From a business perspective, the change may be a new business process and/or a new technology. From a societal perspective, the change may be a new public policy or the passing of new legislation. Successful change, however, requires more than a new process, technology or public policy. Successful change requires the engagement and participation of the people involved. Change management provides a framework for managing the people side of these changes. The most recent research points to a combination of organizational change management tools and individual change management models for effective change to take place.

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Listen

"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."

- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)

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Laika

Laika (from Russian: Лайка, a breed of dog, literally: "Barker") was a Russian space dog which became the first recorded living creature from Earth to enter orbit. At one time a stray wandering the streets of Moscow, she was selected from an animal shelter. Originally named Kudryavka (Russian: кудрявка), she was renamed Laika after her breed type. After undergoing training with two other dogs, she was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 and was launched into space on 3 November 1957.

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Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

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success

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way ."

- Dale Carnegie

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W.Chan Kim

WW. Chan Kim, a professor of strategy and international management at French business school INSEAD and the co-author of Blue Ocean Strategy, is a guest speaker at the Fortune Innovation Forum in New York on November 30 - December 1. At the conference, W. Chan Kim will be part of a panel discussion on "Innovation, Growth and Value: Making the Competition Irrelevant.” (Please click here for more information on this speaker, or to register for the conference.)

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Opportunities

"Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them."

- Charles Colton

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World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. AIDS has killed more than 25 million people, with an estimated 38.6 million people living with HIV, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. Despite recent, improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many regions of the world, the AIDS epidemic claimed an estimated 3.1 million (between 2.8 and 3.6 million) lives in 2005 of which, more than half a million (570,000) were children.

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