Category: JustLikeThat

Christmas Down Under

A friday evening snap from a Brisbane ferry – hotel balconies filled with party goers.

A cruise liner dwarfs the Harbor Bridge from this perspective – from Circular Quay in Sydney.

Nice & bright over Sydney.

Martin Place in Sydney – all decked up with the Christmas tree.

Myer store window in Melbourne with its famous festive decor.

A scene from Federation Square in Melbourne.

10 New Management Gurus & Ideas

FORTUNE lists the 10 new management gurus one should watch out for & their big ideas. If you don’t want to miss out on a possible next big thing, you better have a look at this. 

Following is a listing from this article, listed in the order of my take on the ideas.  

    1. Patrick Lencioni / Most executives don’t realize that the internal health of a company is key to its success (former Oracle HR exec)
    2. BJ Fogg / Mobile technology will be the most powerful way to influence consumers in the next 15 years
    3. Rakesh Khurana / Charismatic CEOs don’t work; management needs to become a profession, like law
    4. Joel Podolny / Business schools must teach real-life problem solving (has just joined Apple to build Apple University)
    5. Janine Benyus / Innovate by imitating, or “mimicking” nature
    6. Niko Canner / Companies tend to avoid change, or change at the expense of their core strengths
    7. Valerie Casey / A Kyoto Protocol for designers
    8. Dan Ariely / People are predictably irrational
    9. Nouriel Roubini / Create a new global regulatory framework
    10. Don Sull / Welcome uncertainty in turbulent times

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    Shub

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    China & America – last seven years

    A Biblical Seven Years (link)
    By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
    Came across this piece by in The York Times. Some interesting notes :

    • “Holy mackerel, the energy coming out of this country is unrivaled.” And, two: “We are so cooked. Start teaching your kids Mandarin.”
    • The rich parts of China, the modern parts of Beijing or Shanghai or Dalian, are now more state of the art than rich America. The buildings are architecturally more interesting, the wireless networks more sophisticated, the roads and trains more efficient and nicer. And, I repeat, they did not get all this by discovering oil. They got it by digging inside themselves.
    • How China and America have spent the last seven years: China has been preparing for the Olympics; we’ve been preparing for Al Qaeda. They’ve been building better stadiums, subways, airports, roads and parks. And we’ve been building better metal detectors, armored Humvees and pilotless drones