Wednesday, June 23, 2004

'The Art of Negotiation'
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Israel Prime Minister meets PLO Chief Arafat to find peace on the Middle East conflict. Before the negotiation starts, Prime Minister requests that
he be allowed to begin with a story. With full agreement from Arafat, he begins.

"Years before the Israelites came and settled in the Promised Land, Moses led them for 40 years through the desert. One day, the Israelites began complaining that they were thirsty and, lo and behold, a miracle occurred and a stream appeared before them. They, including Moses, drank their fill and then decided to take advantage of the stream to do some bathing. When Moses came out of the water, he found that all his clothing was missing.

'Who took my clothes?'Moses asked those around him. 'It was the Palestinians,' replied the Israelites". "Wait a minute," objected Arafat immediately, "there were no Palestinians during the time of Moses!"

Prime Minister calmly says, "All right, now we've got that settled, we shall begin our talk"

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"The journey of a caterpillar being transformed into a butterfly is a romantic one,but the experience is not a pleasant for the caterpillar.In the process of that transformation,it goes blind,its arms and legs fall off,and its body is torn apart as the beautiful wings emerge"

Sumantra Ghoshal ,Management Guru on Leadership and Change

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Do What You Love
In 1960, a researcher interviewed 1500 business-school students and classified them in two categories: those who were in it for the money – 1245 of them – and those who were going to use the degree to do something they cared deeply about – the other 255 people. Twenty years later, the researcher checked on the graduates and found that 101 of them were millionaires – and all but one of those millionaires came from the 255 people who had pursued what they loved to do!
Now, you may think that your passion for Icelandic poetry of the baroque period, or butterfly collecting, or golf – or social justice – might consign you to a permanent separation between what you love and what you do for a living, but it isn't necessarily so. Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest novelists of this centurey, was far more passionate about butterfly collecting than writing. His first college teaching job, in fact, was in lepidoptery. REsearch on more than 400,000 Americans over the past 40 years indicates that pursuing your passions – even in small doses, here and there each day – helps you make the most of your current capabilities and encourages you to develop new ones.
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Really Cool One Liners

Dreams - Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.Don't ever let anyone steal your dreams.
Faith - Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
Ideas - A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
Achievement - God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Faith - Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Character - Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Achievement - The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
Effort - What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover.