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September 30th, 2007 |
I felt like doing another set of Designs that Move posts. So here are a few designs by Mexican architect Luis Barragan.
“Beauty - the invincible difficulty that the philosophers have in defining the meaning of this word is unequivocal proof of its ineffable mystery.”
Luis Barragán, Tlalpan Chapel, Mexico City
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September 30th, 2007 |
By Utkarsh Rai, Guest Author, Author of “Offshoring Secrets”.
“Fear of the unknown” is the biggest deterrent when it comes to choosing the next job. In India, most of the time, the prospective candidate is not the sole decision maker in accepting an offer. Parents, spouse, siblings, in-laws and friends play a major role in influencing […]
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September 29th, 2007 |
SM: What are some of your key learnings from this journey so far?
SS: The journey has been very interesting. More technology start-ups didn’t survive the dot-com bust. We were able to weather the downturn and adapt to the environment. We adjusted the management team, adjusted the focus on applications and with a bit of luck, […]
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September 29th, 2007 |
By Danny Cohen, Guest Author
How time flies… It seemed to me that I just finished complied the August deals in Israel, and September just flew by. As expected, the investment activity in Israel during September did not slow down. Benchmark announced their investment in Broadlight, and Partech lead a round in PowerID, a spinoff from […]
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September 28th, 2007 |
I just got off the phone with Eric Benhamou, with whom, as you know, I have been discussing 3Com and Palm recently.
I said earlier, that 3Com is trying to take on Cisco with its Chinese JV H3C in my Online Video Beneficiaries series, and that Cisco is a fat company that deserves to be gone […]
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September 28th, 2007 |
We started discussing the leadership development problem in my previous post referring to Prof. Khurana’s new book about Business Schools losing sight of their mission of grooming leaders capable of building and running sustainable enterprises by following the money trail.
So, what’s happening in the Venture Capital / Private Equity world?
The compensation disbalance here is also […]
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September 28th, 2007 |
I read an interesting piece in the WSJ this week called Business Schools Forgetting Missions.
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Business-school professors are masters at critiquing everyone else’s work. They pick apart Microsoft Corp.’s strategy; they rebuke Enron-era companies for ethics breakdowns. They are so busy gazing outward that it’s unthinkable for them to rip into their own institutions.
Now Rakesh Khurana, […]
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September 28th, 2007 |
SM: Describe some of your team building experiences. Is your management team complete now?
SS: Our management team is more or less complete. With that said, I’m always looking to add 1-2 more people. From a people perspective, I am constantly looking at roles to fill in to support the growth of the company. At the […]