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Top Management & Leadership Blogs

1 The Blog of Tim Ferriss Tim Ferris tferriss 2 Leading With Purpose Michael Hyatt michaelhyatt 3 Anthony Robbins Training Blog Anthony Robbins tonyrobbins 4 How to Change the World Guy Kawasaki guykawasaki 5 Daniel Pink Daniel H. Pink DanielPink 6 Management IQ – Business Week (various) 7 GTD Times (various) gtdguy 8 Life Beyond Code Blog Rajesh Setty RajSetty 9 Dispatches from the New World of Work Tom Peters tom_peters 10 Three Star Leadership Blog Wally Bock wallybock 11 The Business Blog at Intuitive.com Dave Taylor DaveTaylor 12 800 CEO Read Daily Blog (various) 13 Leading Blog Michael McKinney leadershipnow 14 Great Leadership Dan McCarthy greatleadership 15 Grant McCracken Grant McCracken grant27 16 NOOP.NL Jurgen Appelo jurgenappelo 17 Ramblings from a Glass Half Full Terry Starbucker starbucker 18 Ask a Manager Alison Green askamanager 19 John Maxwell on Leadership John Maxwell johncmaxwell 20 Donald Trump Blog (vari...

How the Nano was built

No other car launch in the history of Indian auto industry has received as much global press as the "people's car", the Tata Nano. For good reason. A report from Business Today No other car promised to revolutionise motoring as the Nano has. Clever marketing apart, some frugal and out-of-the-box engineering has gone into the making of Nano. BT's Krishna Gopalan and Kushan Mitra met the Nano's design team at the Engineering Research Centre in Pune to put together this report. It's not yet a week since Ratan Tata unveiled his dream car at the Auto Expo in Delhi to unprecedented global media, well, hysteria, but at Tata Motors' sprawling plant in Pimpri near Pune, it's business as usual. There are no 'we've-done-it' banners festooned inside or outside the plant, no puffed-up chests striding around the facility, or even smug grin on anyone's face. At the south-western corner of the 160-acre facility, home to the Engineering R...

History of Earth Day

How the First Earth Day Came About By Senator Gaylord Nelson , Founder of Earth Day What was the purpose of Earth Day? How did it start? These are the questions I am most frequently asked. Actually, the idea for Earth Day evolved over a period of seven years starting in 1962. For several years, it had been troubling me that the state of our environment was simply a non-issue in the politics of the country. Finally, in November 1962, an idea occurred to me that was, I thought, a virtual cinch to put the environment into the political "limelight" once and for all. The idea was to persuade President Kennedy to give visibility to this issue by going on a national conservation tour. I flew to Washington to discuss the proposal with Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who liked the idea. So did the President. The President began his five-day, eleven-state conservation tour in September 1963. For many reasons the tour did not succeed in putting the issue onto the na...