Many engineers don’t really care so much about finances and investments though it is far simpler than a Fourier transform or partial differential equations. Most of the engineers i have spoken to have shown little or no knowledge on how the share market works and many of them see the stock market as a gambling [...]
February 26, 2010
One of the free 3D graphics tools available is Blender. It is a free software released under GNU public license and is available for both Linux and Windows. It is a very powerful tool and experts consider to be in the same class as 3D studio max. I have personally used it and although i [...]
February 2, 2010
We all go to business lunches with customers and potential clients. While lunching, we face situations where we want to get the conversation going but no relevant topic springs to mind. Even after trying harder to think about a topic, we end up with nothing. Suddenly a colleague or the client breaks the silence that [...]
January 23, 2010
For a long time, ever since i enrolled myself as a donor, I wanted to write about blood donation and why it is very important for both the donor and for the community. There hasn’t been a lot of research activity on how donating blood helps the donor but it is a well understood fact [...]
December 4, 2009
I have been to Delhi, the capital city of India, many years back and i still remember the hassle i had to go through at the airport to travel to my home town in South India. I have always had a bitter experience when i arrived in Delhi or Bangalore after having a very smooth [...]
November 30, 2009
A few months back in a leadership training course all the participants were asked a question – “What makes a good leader?” The 12 of us had various views and there were many suggestions. Some of those suggestions were obvious and basic factors required to qualify as a leader like education, intelligence, communication skills and [...]
November 14, 2009
Nokia’s next generation devices claim to do a lot more than just being devices, that let people talk. But will the users be ready to handover all sorts of personal infomation to Nokia in order to make this successful? Even if we all did, the concept looks far fetched into the future. It would be [...]
November 8, 2009
Human beings are very different from other creatures. According to evolution, we started living on our own a few million years ago. Humans of that time were no different from other animals. There was a need to fight and hunt food. Obviously, humans being more intelligent than the rest of the animal kingdom, went against [...]
October 23, 2009
Being assertive in both at work and socially is very much important to have a successful daily life. Many times, just because we are not assertive enough in what we want and what we say, we tend to lose a lot. But, assertiveness doesn’t mean being arrogant. It is about expressing your views politely [...]
October 13, 2009
Marketing is an extremely important tool in today’s world. Not being able to market directly translates to failure. There are various types of marketing available nowadays and every type of product – be it physical, intellectual, creative, service or consulting has many proven types of marketing strategies. Most of the big brands in this world carry [...]
March 4, 2010
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