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A very fast read the World is Flat -it keeps the reader glued on until the last page ...Contemporary thoughts ,facing stark reality , and the ability to take a very dispassionate view about countries across the globe are some of the hallmarks of this book . Of course India might just have been a bit overrated ....and no room for complacency for us Indians ...an A+ Creation nevertheless Pretty useful thoughts from Friedman's The World is Flat : 1.Attend classes of favourite teachers What is not important is the facts that they have shared ,but the excitement in learning that they have created Doesn't really matter whether they are teaching Greek mythology , calculus , art history or American literature 2.Navigation The ability to weed out the right stuff out of the Internet and visiting the correct website as all look alike as the World is Flat ...ability to interprete the New York Times and the BBC 3.CQ + PQ > IQ Curisoity quotient and Passion quotient matter more than Inte

1. Plan your week on Sunday nightLook at your work calendar and plan your week on Sunday night or Monday morning. This would include important meetings, deliverables, a brief summary of things that are pending from last week and any tasks to be achieved during the week. Though this might look like a time management tip, at the end of the week, on Friday night when you re-visit what you have achieved over the last five days, the satisfaction is immense. 2. Undertake activities that you are passionate about even though it might not be in your job profileStart an initiative that you would love to do irrespective of whether it is required for you to do or not. Send a daily newsletter to your team on the topics that most of them will be interested. Do a presentation on the topic that you are passionate about. Organise a small sports event for your team. Call everyone in your team for a team coffee, breakfast or lunch break Appreciate colleagues in your team or in a cross-functional team who

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There is no correlation between the percentage of net revenue spent on R&D and the innovative capabilities of an organization—none. That’s not to say that R&D capacity isn’t important, but at the end of the day, innovation is generated by new ideas, not by messing around in the lab – Bart Becht – CEO ,Reckitt Benckiser Today, 15 “power brands”—Air Wick air freshener, Finish and Calgonit automatic dishwashing detergent, and Lysol disinfectant among them—account for more than half of the company’s net revenues. What’s more, 40 percent of total sales are from products launched within the past three years—products like Vanish Oxi Action stain-removing gel, Cillit Bang lime and grime cleaner, and Air Wick Freshmatic automatic air freshener. Affluent consumers in a hurry will pay a premium for product innovations like these, and Reckitt Benckiser churns them out at a rate of more than 100 a year, despite a significantly smaller R&D budget than its peers (about 1.5 percent of net