Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance
– Will Durant.
‘Manager Tools’ website has very nice collection of podcasts and articles on Management, Effective communication and many other topics.
Here is their list of Podcast Archives and their Article Archives.
(I just nominated them for the 4th Annual Podcast Awards.)
Archive for the ‘Learning’ Category
Manager Tools
Posted in Learning on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tennis
Posted in General, Learning on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Started playing Tennis. Learning to play rather.
After one week into this, my feeling is that the whole thing is overrated really. Arguably from the fact that I suck at this. My movement in court is as if I am wearing heavy magnetic boots.
This cool picture is from flickr images of Andrew Caird
Antidote to market analysts..
Posted in General, Inspiration, Investments, Learning, money on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am reading ‘Taming the lion’ by Richard Farleigh. Been only through a couple of chapters, yet, I am hooked. His views are very clear and the reasoning is impeccable. Nice read and very informative.
On a regular basis, we hear analysts who predict multiple future events like “Sensex is about to re-trace to 12380 in [...]
Leadership and Management
Posted in General, Inspiration, Learning on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The 2008 railway budget of India was presented by Union Minister Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav recently. The points which stood out to me:
The railways had a cash surplus of Rs 25000 crore in FY08 with an operating ratio of 76%.
Fare cuts across the board. upto 7% compared to previous years’.
Introduction of more Software based controls, [...]
Badminton
Posted in Excercise, General, Inspiration, Learning on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Had a nice game of badminton yesterday.
Sam booked a court in Kodak Sports Centre in Harrow, drove all the way from Ealing and showed up with a spare set of gears. When he pre-empted my last resort of defence by showing another pair of badminton shoes in his car, I knew I ran out of excuses.
So in [...]
Roots
Posted in General, Inspiration, Learning on February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.
-Aristotle
Took some time this weekend to read about the roots of Syrian Christians in Kerala. A largely inconsequential exercise, yet I found myself deeply engrossed in history. In case you are intrigued too, please [...]
Dec ‘07 Report- India Inc growth story
Posted in General, Investments, Learning, money, tagged India's growth story, Investments on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Moneycontrol gives a very good quarterly analysis of India’s industrial growth story .
The full story can be downloaded from here. Dec ‘07 Earnings Analysis by Haresh Soneji, Shravan Srinivasula and Anichya Shah.
Profit after Tax (PAT) figures still look very pretty at around 30%, albeit lower than last years dizzying heights of near 45%.
This report proves that it is still well worth wading through the [...]
Value hunting…
Posted in General, Investments, Learning, money, tagged Investments on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Weekends allow me to catch up on the endless market jabber that went on in CNBC and moneycontrol throughout the week. Good to see this correction coming along before it was too late. It must have made a lot of newbie investors a little poorer but some lessons are learned the hard way.
I am quite convinced in the [...]
Three things
Posted in Guitar, Learning, Music, Resolutions, money, tagged Guitar, Gym, money on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recently saw this ad for one of the super market chains.. it was about new year time, and they were asking you to change just one thing about you (with the help of some of their products obviously), rather than many things planned and none achieved.
It didn’t stop me from planning three major changes.
One is [...]
