Why China won't be able to match India

If George W. Bush wishes to be remembered in future ages -- and what high-spirited world leader doesn't? -- he will devote much of his second term to forging close and durable links with India.

Naturally, US President Bush must seek to get Continental Europe back into the Atlantic camp. With the sun of the anti-US Jacques Chirac setting and the star of the realistic and sensible Nicolas Sarkozy on the rise in France, and with the likelihood of the pro-US Angela Merkel's taking over Germany's chancellorship from the ridiculous failure that has been Gerhard Schröder's, the Continentals are already moving Bush's way.
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India rises, Silicon Valley drools

Promod Haque grew up in the old India, born into a lower-middle-class family, but he was lucky enough to attend a school in New Delhi for the children of wealthy dignitaries. His father was a bureaucrat; his mother took a job as a teacher elsewhere to cover his tuition. "I was very fortunate to go there," he says, "but I was an outsider."
After he graduated in engineering and started selling medical gear in India, he proudly bought his parents their first refrigerator. Two years later, in 1972, he arrived in the US for grad school at Northwestern -- and was stunned to see that every student apartment had its own fridge.
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Build Systems if not Leadership

   Govindraj Ethiraj of CNBC-TV18 writes about the need to build Systems if not leadership by relating Mumbai Blasts 2003 and Mumbai Heavy Rain.
   "A system is agnostic to people and personalities. And that's what this city needs, at least in the area of information management"
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Bored on phone? Beware Jerk-O-Meter

   Ever wonder if that spouse, friend or co-worker on the other end of the phone is really paying attention? The 'Jerk-O-Meter' may hold the answer.

   Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing software for cell phones that would analyze speech patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 per cent -- on how engaged they are in a conversation.

   Anmol Madan, who led the project while he pursued a master's degree at MIT, sees the Jerk-O-Meter as a tool for improving relationships, not ending them. Or it might assist telephone sales and marketing efforts.

   "Think of a situation where you could actually prevent an argument," he said. "Just having this device can make people more attentive because they know they're being monitored."
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Do you talk loudly on the cellphone?

   The complaints are familiar and frequent: People on cell phones talk too loud, they use them at inappropriate times, and they just don't seem to care if they are bothering anyone.

   The horror stories are famous too. Cell phones at funerals. Cell phones at weddings. Cell phones in class. And of course, cell phones in restaurants.

   President Bush has a well-known low cell phone tolerance. He gives a withering evil eye to those whose cell phones ring during his public appearances.
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KPO, the latest buzzword in Indian IT

   India's business process outsourcing industry will soon be edged out by the emerging knowledge processing or KPO sector as the biggest revenue grosser, according to an industry expert.

   Kiran Karnik, president, National Association of Software and service Companies, on Friday while predicted that the country's IT exports would grow by 32 per cent to touch $22.3 billion by the end of the current fiscal, said KPO was set to outgrow the BPO sector in the coming years
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Narayana Murthy's dream for the future

   India's software giant Infosys Technologies Limited has entered its 25th year of existence. In these 25 years, the company has scaled many a peak, making the nation proud of it.

   N R Narayana Murthy, Chairman, Infosys, however, has plans to turn the company into a bigger, stronger, and global player.

   At an analysts' meet, held to mark the silver jubilee celebrations of Infosys in Hyderabad, Murthy spoke about his future for the company.

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10 rules to manage your boss

Jacques Horovitz, Professor of Service Strategy, Service Marketing & Service Management at IMD, one of the world's leading business schools says :
   1. Decisions: If you do not want a 'no' or procrastination, give him/her a hand
   2. Manage her time: You may represent only 1% of her problems, don't make it as if it is 100%.
   3. An opinion: If you ask for her opinion, she will always have one
   4. Information: It is not data.
   5. Problems: Don't just come with problems, come also with solutions.
   6. Assumptions: Do not assume she knows as much as you do, but assume she can understand;
   7. Delegations: Constantly test the waters.
   8. Promises: Do not promise what you cannot deliver, and avoid surprises, trust is at stake
   9. Differences: Manage differences in culture
   10. Trust: Don't be sloppy in your documentation. It undermines trust
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Why 'work-ex' is must for MBAs

    Barkha Shah & Malavika Mariswami writes in Rediff :
   You don't understand risk till you actually take one, and if you don't understand risk, you're training to be a Bureaucrat of Business Administration, not a Master.

   Ouch! That hurts -- if you're doing an MBA without any work experience ('work-ex' in campus lingo), as most Indian B-school students are. Work experience is not a hard and fast part of the admission criteria for most institutes, and an MBA is the 'done thing' nowadays straight out of college.
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