Rags to Riches. Inspiring Stories. Labourer to Lordly Status

Labourer to Lordly Status

The Ice Bucket Challenge. Lessons in Social Media Use.

While the jury is still out on what the I ce Bucket Challenge does for the research and cure for ALS, it offers a lot of lessons on using Social Media.Ice Bucket Challenge and lessons on Social Media Use.

Some more on the Ice Bucket Challenge.Some More on the Ice Bucket Challenge

The Balanced Score Card. Courtesy the Harvard Business Review.

The Balanced Score Card as a strategic management tool.

My Life Song

Emily Bronte put it beautifully and the poem has always echoed in my heart...

"Often rebuked, yet always back returning

    To those first feelings that were born with me,

And leaving busy chase of wealth and learning

    For idle dreams of things which cannot be:

To-day, I will seek not the shadowy region;

    Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear;

And visions rising, legion after legion,

    Bring the unreal world too strangely near.

I’ll walk, but not in old heroic traces,

    And not in paths of high morality,

And not among the half-distinguished faces,

    The clouded forms of long-past history.

I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading:

    It vexes me to choose another guide:

Where the gray flocks in ferny glens are feeding;

    Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side.

What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?

    More glory and more grief than I can tell:

The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling

    Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell."
Emily Bronte

Memorable Speeches. Indian Parliament

The Indian Parliament rarely witnesses speeches and communication that makes its voter's proud. Here are a collection of those rare moments.


Memorable Speeches. Indian Parliament.

Innovation in Action. Ravi Shankar and his intelligent wheel chair.

Read more about this young engineer from Coimbatore, India, who designed possibly one of the most useful devices for those who are physically challenged and have to use a wheel chair. He seems to have an appetite for innovation and projects he works on are all relevant and have huge social benefits. These include projects to reduce transportation losses incurred in marketing of fruits and vegetables, monitoring gas, water and electricity consumption at homes online and making payments vide the same medium,security applications at homes and industries...the list goes on
Where does this appetite come from ? He says, "The most important thing is to understand the pain of others and take it up as your own. Believe that every problem has a solution."
He sums up his approach thus, "Spend some time thinking of the possible ways to solve it. Analyze the merits and demerits. The scope of any innovation revolves around cost, performance and utility. The solution’s simplicity is its essence.”
Innovation in Action. Ravi Shankar and his intelligent wheelchair

Smart Marketing Campaigns of 2014

Smart Marketing Campaigns- 2014