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From the page: "n all these stories, the common thread has been that while the failure was, theoretically, avoidable, since the cause always came from an unexpected direction it wasn't really preventable. One man, walking to a doctor's appointment while worrying ab" - Nandu Muralidharan

"Great post and its very informative. I fully agree with you that getting someone who can punch above his weight is critical. I generally look for A players who are flexible, have lots of energy and brimming with optimism. Based on my experience some of the A players have attitude issues, are not very flexible and are high maintenance. We need to watch for for these type of people. Last thing you want is to spend time managing them as opposed to managing your business." - Nandu Muralidharan

"Infact that problem is already here. While ATT's subscriber count has gone up drastically after Iphone, it is losing money on the network due to high bandwidth usage of Iphone users. No one had expected the mobile bandwidth usage to explode the way it did. I wouldn't be surprised if ATT/Carriers implement some kind of throttling mechanism to restrict usage. I wouldnt also be surprised it they come out with data download plans (Eg: 10Gb download/month etc..).. Anyways in another 5-7yrs i don't expect any voice plans, It will all be data plans and voice will be an app that runs on data network on phones. Both mobile data usage and video streaming is going to drive bandwidth requirement by several multiples. Within the next decade or so we will be looking at 1.5 or 3mb lines and exclaim how on the earth we survived with that, Similar to the way we look at dial-ups and 64k circuits of the 90's.." - Nandu Muralidharan

Brilliant idea! - Nandu Muralidharan

From the page: ""FAWN systems can't replace all of the servers in a datacenter, but they work really well for key-value storage systems, which need to access relatively small bits of information quickly," Andersen said. Key-value storage systems are growing in both size and importance, he added, as ever larger social networks and shopping Web sites keep track of customers' shopping carts, thumbnail photos of friends and a slew of message postings." - Nandu Muralidharan

From the page: "his idea last year but never told anyone till Neena ma'am once asked for crazy ideas in the class. It was just an idea which has become so big now. Sarojini recalled that she was just sitting once when she thought of watches that run on the human pulse. I wondered if mobiles could be charged using the pulse too." Neena Punj is Sarojini's teacher and guide." - Nandu Muralidharan

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From the page: "Prioritise Prioritise your tasks and focus on the most important. We tend to focus on the urgent rather than the important and so we put off working on the main things in favour of smaller things. We should try to eliminate the really small items, or delegate them or do them quickly all together so that we have time for the important issues. Declutter" - Nandu Muralidharan

From the page: " What does all of this mean to you? That finding, hiring and growing insanely talented people should be a strategic objective for your company. That corporate culture cannot be left to chance; it must be nurtured, shaped and supported strongly through the organization. And that a leadership style based on values, ethics and integrity will be the cornerstone for being a successful global leader of the future." - Nandu Muralidharan

From the page: "chnological limits in manufacturing and put to use. Avoiding crashes, and mitigating them by automatic steering and breaking will be combined with other features for this car of the future. If successful, it will be a major breakthrough in car safety, using information, rather than energy or materials, to keep passengers safe. " - Nandu Muralidharan

From the page: "d simplicity make such a substantial difference for Zurich? Besides making it easier to do business, simplicity also changed the underlying relationship between the company and its customers. When you ask redundant questions, one of the subtle messages to customers is that we don't trust your answers â€" we need to ask you the same thing several times in different ways so that we can make sure you're being truthful. Similarly, when you create complicated explanations of products, services, and contracts, customers often feel that you aren't being truthful about what's being offered â€" otherwise the material would be straightforward and easy to understand. In othe" - Nandu Muralidharan

From the page: "urces that you place within a VPC are metered and billed using the familiar pay-as-you-go approach at the standard pricing levels published for all cloud customers. The creation of VPCs, subnets and VPN gateways is free of charge. VPN usage and VPN traffic are also priced at the familiar usage based structure" - Nandu Muralidharan

"Thank you for the cross-posting vidya!" - Nandu Muralidharan

"Rao, Thank you for the cross posting! We should do this more often!" - Nandu Muralidharan

"Thank you for the comments Pavan. Nick Carr is absolutely right,Online world is a world of clutter, distractions and interruptions." - Nandu Muralidharan

":) Wish i could do that!!" - Nandu Muralidharan

"Thank you for the comments Hari. Yep I agree with your view on context. I guess its a combination of multiple things setting right priorities, time management, meditation, taking downtime to recuperate and biggest of all being able to realize your plate is full and scale back on peripheral stuff & focus on what matters. As you rightly said its easier said than done!" - Nandu Muralidharan

"Thanks for your comments Ganesh. Technology hasn't caught up in rural areas yet that's the reason life seems better there. Already Cell phones & TV's are very prevalent. Give it another decade and computers and internet will become commonplace and they will also have the issues as urban. Good to know that you are successful in managing time being an entrepreneur. Interestingly most of the entrepreneurs in my circle are consumed with work and are almost 24x7 running their businesses. In fact couple of them couldn't handle the pressure and moved back to full time jobs. Meditation & Yoga is something am trying to do with little success :( Anyways will keep trying to get that going!" - Nandu Muralidharan

"Wait till you have a kid. Managing time will be even more of a challenge :) I dont think staying away from tools or taking up different profession is a solution. I think we need to get better at managing information overload, Time management & setting clear priorities in life. Its easier said than done." - Nandu Muralidharan

"Thanks for your comments Javeed!" - Nandu Muralidharan

From the page: "Gartner's 2009 Hype Cycle Special Report Evaluates Maturity of 1,650 Technologies " - Nandu Muralidharan

From the page: "give very bland statements or quote from their company mission or advertising tag lines. " - Nandu Muralidharan

"If you notice most of the people that excel in one walk of life invariably fall back in other walks of life. Success is not just about being successful in one walk of life. Its about having a right balance in life so that no one aspect dominates your life and end of the day being happy and enjoying your life. If you notice most of the folks you have stated above they didn't do as well in their personal life as they did in their public/professional life. Buddha renounced his family and became a monk and attained enlightenment(not that its bad. but he didn't have a personal life), Einstein had a divorce in his personal life etc. For that matter most celebrities in life are generally not happy. Of course there definitely are some exceptions however they are a handful. These are the folks that have mastered the art of balancing their life at the same time excelling in at least 1 aspect of it. Again this is not the only model out there to balance your life. This is just one way of looking..." - Nandu Muralidharan

Yeah it seems like the numbers are good enough for both sides of the coin ! :) - Vidya Bhandary

From the page: "tening carefully to the customerâ€s changing needs will be the key to discovering the new road. And those who donâ€t will perhaps simply have to look back in retrospect to decipher the signals they missed." - Nandu Muralidharan

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From the page: "rburg Pincus. Under Warburg Pincus, WNS was able to expand its offering of finance and accounting, HR, and benefits-management services to numbers of new clients. Another example of such a sale involves the private-equity firms Cinven and BC Partners, which acquired Amadeus Global Travel Distribution, the ticketing arm of Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), Lufthansa, Iberia, and Air France, in 2005. Since then, Cinven has successfully worked with the companyâ€s management to enlarge the business and reduce operational costs. In 2007, Cinven recapitalized Amadeus, earning 1.6 times its original investment. And when the European service provider Capgemini acquired Unileverâ€s Indian support center, Indigo, it quickly became a platform for establishing the companyâ€s offshore business process outsourcing services." - Nandu Muralidharan

From the page: "The former is a good thing; the latter is a threat. The latter will disrupt the team in order to achieve his personal ambitions at your expense. Such a person will cause more grief than glory â€" so keep him on a short leash or ask him to find work elsewhere. In any organization, the designated leader must have the final say in strategic decisions, otherwise the organization loses focus and direction." - Nandu Muralidharan

From the page: "to think about them in a more abstract, and in some ways, more general way. " - Nandu Muralidharan

From the page: "le is just the tip of the iceberg. Desktop and gateway anti-virus products--the core products protecting users from malicious areas of the Internet--are resource-hungry. In a perfect world, there would be no need for anti-virus signatures, only behavior-based profiling of applications." - Nandu Muralidharan

From the page: "at your list and ask yourself if you spent your last hour productively. Then look at your calendar and deliberately recommit to how you are going to use the next hour. Manage your day hour by hour. Don't let the hours manage you." - Nandu Muralidharan