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Much of technological donation is e-waste
Your pick for the week. Electronic waste is `a karmic nightmare,’ says Rosemary Roberts in What would the Buddha Recycle? (www.vivagroupindia.com).”Ewaste includes cell-phones, computers, televisions, VCRs, copiers, and fax machines - anything with a battery or a plug. While some of this equipment can be recycled or donated to a charity, much of it is […]
Finance & Accounting
Massive investments are needed for improving the infrastructure facilities at the level of urban local bodies (ULBs); and the ...
Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you, advises a helpful quote of Andy Warhol addressed to those ...
Information Technology
Much of technological donation is e-waste
Your pick for the week. Electronic waste is `a karmic nightmare,’ says Rosemary Roberts in What would the Buddha Recycle? (www.vivagroupindia.com).”Ewaste includes cell-phones, computers, televisions, VCRs, copiers, and fax machines - anything with a battery or a plug. While some of this equipment can be recycled or donated to a charity, much of it is […]
Space technologies in defence
Outer space is internationally accepted as the common heritage of mankind, but it is increasingly getting used for military purposes, cautions a recent report of the IDSA-Indian Pugwash Society Working Group titled Space Security: Need for a proactive approach (www.academicfoundation.com).”While surveillance by U-2-type spy planes was considered hostile in the 1960s, the far superior […]
Management & Strategy
`Thought x Knowledge x Action = Attitude’Your attitude matters much more than your skills, says Dipankar Biswas in 9 Secrets, the Ultimate Success Strategies (www.landmarkonthenet.com). It is attitude that shapes your style of connecting with others, your way of communicating, and your respect for others, Biswas adds. Also, “your attitude and your professional image help you to form the first […]
Bad employees tell on your bottomline
What do you call those who are especially difficult, troublesome, or hard to work with? The answer is Bad Apples, as instructs the title of a book from Brette McWhorter and Terrence J. Sember ( www.vivagroupindia.com).
There is, however, no one picture of what a ‘bad apple’ is, the authors explain; these types of […]