Web Visits

Found Magazine dot com !

2009-11-13T11:02:00.000-08:00

Been following ' post secret' on Twitter. There, I found a link to this site. Very similar to post secret. Very interesting.

http://www.foundmagazine.com/

Jean Piaget's development stages, on about.com

2009-10-14T00:51:00.000-07:00

Here is an about.com page on Jean Piaget's cognitive developmental stages in children. Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg developed further on Piaget's stages. Piaget had 2 stages, Kohlberg further expanded into 6 stages.

About.com link on Jean Piaget's stages of development is here :

You can read a lot of ' related articles.'.

HOW I FOUND IT : I was reading ' Cosmic Uplink' . A Mukul Sharma's article. He mentions, Kohlberg's stages of development and Heinz' Dilemma. Net Searched Yahoo. Came upon this site.

Read in leisure . Very helpful.

http://www.wisegeek.com

2009-10-06T04:00:00.000-07:00

This is a good web site. Synopsis of all general knowledge. A mini version of about.com or fact-index.com or articles.com etc.

http://www.wisegeek.com

and then, I saw ' Adult Learning and Training' it has plethora of unrelated articles. Then I searched for training. Here is the link to search results for ' Training'.

http://www.wisegeek.com/s/Training
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How I found out : I typed ' what is fourth estate' in Yahoo.com and it threw up some results. This one was on the top of the page. Danny Sullivan must be proud of it.

a site for celebrity insults

2009-05-21T23:58:00.001-07:00

I came across this site, while searching for Dorothy Parker quotes, with a key phrase,
'Dorothy Parker has said'....

http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/ins-fwm.html

training industry dot com

2009-05-14T04:45:00.000-07:00

Very good training related articles here !

http://www.trainingindustry.com/

urbandictionary.com / 4 slangns and modern word play s

2009-05-07T02:05:00.000-07:00

I came across this very interesting web site today, that contains slang words, phrases, dialects , colloquies other phrases and words coined by modern day world !

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

It has ' word of the day', a la dictionary.com and also a subscription service where ' word of the day ' is emailed to your mail box. I subscried ! ( sigh ! u the sucker for free stuff).

HOW I CAME ACROSS THIS SITE : That is an interesting story. Today morning, I saw ' The Hindu' and no interesting editorials ( on pakistan / obama / af-pak, that is ).

So, on the way, I bought this ' Deccan Chronicle'. And opened the local section. Came across the words such as ' sex-ting' and ' flirt-exting' and wrote them on the piece of paper for further net search !!

When I ' googled' for this strange looking made up / coined words, I came across this site, urban dictionary dot com,

Thanks to Deccan Chronicle , which is trendier and more suited to young readers...............

2 good new websites for ' presentations'

2009-05-05T00:02:00.000-07:00

These 2 good new web sites I came across for ' presentations'.

http://www.slideshare.net/

and

http://www.cleverpresentations.com/

HOW I CAME ACROSS THEM : ( :) @ serendipity ! ) :

I was reading this ' Fooled by Randomness' by Nassim Nicholas Taleb , presented to me by Gunen Saab.

He mentioned a subject called ' Ecological Rationality'. And I wrote it down this interesting subject phrase in the white paper and searched the net.

It first showed up, in the first page, this ' slide share.net'. and when I visited this slide share, then I came across this ' clever presentation dot com'.

Conclusion : It's good to net search some interesting phrases !

cosmicfingerprints.com & coffehousetheology.com

2009-03-19T02:08:00.000-07:00

There is this person called Perry Marshall, who seems to have definite ideas about the origin of Cosmos, evolution, big bang, intelligent design , and God. He nuances the difference between a 'Pattern' ( which can be created by random events) and Code ( which requires a designer ! ).

I don't know how far I agree with this, prima facie. But here is his website.

http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/

The same person posed some interesting questions about organized religion etc in this another web site.

http://www.coffeehousetheology.com/

Browse these web sites in leisure. Looks like he sends you some free articles of his, if you enter our name and email ID. Try that once.

How I found this on Net : I was reading ' Cosmic Uplink' article by Mr.Mukul Sharma. At the bottom of the article, apart from ' write your comments', there are 3 google advts ! Clicked on one of them. This is the result.

Jai Ho Google !

citehr.com , the HRD Training site

2009-03-17T02:08:00.000-07:00

http://www.citehr.com

and very intereting articles and discussions on ' Training profession. Read these threads in leisure. Who knows ? You may get some extremely valuable points.

How I came to know about it ? : I am at Kolkota. Aditya Ganguly called me and find out on the net about ' Training and Development magazine' which they were unable to get a copy of , at Kolkotta. I ' googled'.
Found this site.

The Cluetrain Manifesto :95 theses ; power of web in mrktg

2009-02-28T09:16:00.000-08:00

The Cluetrain Manifesto is a set of 95 theses organized and put forward as a manifesto, or call to action, for all businesses operating within what is suggested to be a newly-connected marketplace. The ideas put forward within the manifesto aim to examine the impact of the Internet on both markets (consumers) and organizations. In addition, as both consumers and organizations are able to utilize the Internet and Intranets to establish a previously unavailable level of communication both within and between these two groups, the manifesto suggests that the changes that will be required from organizations as they respond to the new marketplace environment.

The manifesto was written in 1999 by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger. A printed publication which elaborated on the manifesto was published in 2000 by Perseus Books (ISBN 0-7382-0431-5) under the same name.

The authors assert that the Internet is unlike the ordinary media used in mass marketing as it enables people to have "human to human" conversations, which have the potential to transform traditional business practices radically.

The book and website both challenge what the manifesto calls outmoded, 20th-century thinking about business in light of the emergence of the Web, clearly listing "95 theses", as a reference to Martin Luther's manifesto which heralded the start of the Protestant movement.

The term "cluetrain" stems from this quote:

"The clue train stopped there four times a day for ten years and they never took delivery." — Veteran of a firm now free-falling out of the Fortune 500 ~!"

The web site is here :

http://www.cluetrain.com

And read the 95 theses. Also post them in a seperate posting. There is a free
e-book available on the web site.

Link to the e-book is here :

http://cluetrain.com/book/index.html

Neuro-theology ;Andrew Newberg

2009-02-26T02:54:00.000-08:00

Was reading ' Cosmic Uplink'. A reference was made to one ' Andrew Newberg', which aligned meditation and awakening to brain's biological phenomena. Much like Christopher Calder said in his meditation page, where, scanned brain photo s of monks were published.

Googled. He wrote some books which received mixed response, were dismissed by spiritualists ( for inducing replicable method) and scientists ( for abstracting the phenomena).

However, today one learned about a new subjected called ' neurothology'. Wiki links for Newberg is

HERE !

Wiki page for Neuro Theology is HERE !

Read, in leisure. In piece.

2009-01-13T00:16:00.000-08:00

When I first read about this web site, which is meant for Hollywood film reviews in US, ' Rotten Tomato s', a guffaw slipped from me :-) very ' Wodehousean' really !

Rotten Tomato s is an apt title for a movie ( or for any art , for that matter) review website.

How I came across : ' Slumdog Millionaire' gotten 4 Golden Globes and was all over the tele channels last night. I was browsing the net about it and reading about it in Wikipedia and then came across this . Wiki page of Rotten tomatos is here .

Visit the actual Rotten Tomatos web site , here.

business ethics website

2009-01-02T09:44:00.000-08:00

Very good articles on business ethics and ethical dilemma s.

http://www.businessethics.ca

Jerry Seinfeld, the stand-up comedian.

2009-01-02T09:23:00.000-08:00

Lady Hawke sent a quotation by Jerry Seinfeld which I found quite funny. Net searched. There's a wikipedia page on him. He's an American stand-up comedian, born to Hungarian Jewish Father and Syrian Jewish mother born in New York.

erome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American comedian, actor and writer. He is often described as an observational comedian. He is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the situation comedy, Seinfeld, (1989-1998), which he co-created, helped write and, in the show's final two seasons, executive produced. He also starred as "Barry B. Benson" in the film Bee Movie, his first major foray back into the media since the finale of Seinfeld.

Link here ;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Seinfeld

What is ' Observational Comedy ?' Here's the answer, in the form of wiki link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observational_comedy

Site on Theories of Consciousness, Uncertainty Principle, Qntm Reasonance etc

2008-10-30T23:06:00.000-07:00

JK quote every day, is opening up some interesting websites, in ' related web sites' column on the right hand corner of gmail. This is one advantage 'gmail' has ; which rediffmail, indiatimes mail or yahoo mail do not have. A search engine service, as you are reading a forward or mail or related article on any subject. Thank Larry Page and Eric Schmidt !! God bless them.

So, today's quote was about ' Transformation without motivation'. On the right corner, the following web site link popped up. Interested, I clicked.

http://free-will.de

Then, there was a hyperlink on this site, on ' More ideas and theories on Consciousness'.

http://free-will.de/extlinks.htm

The above link discusses the contributions of Dr.David Bohm, Norman Friedman, Matt C.Keener, and Ken Wilber etc.

Read it in leisure.

The same site links you to Mr.Matt C.Keener's Essay on QUANTUM RESONANCE THEORY, HEISENBERG'S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE, CENTRAL TENDENCY AND THE GOLDEN MEAN.

http://www.xmission.com/~mkeener/essay01.html

read it !!

Bill McKibben - the Environmentalist

2008-08-14T02:55:00.000-07:00

I came across this author while reading an old Economic Times Citings in Edit page. Extract from his book ; ' Deep Economy'. Interested, I browsed further.

From Wikipedia :

Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the need for more localized economies. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he led the organization of the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history. McKibben is active in the Methodist Church, and his writing sometimes has a spiritual bent. Al Gore wrote in 2007 that "when I was serving in the Senate, Bill McKibben’s descriptions of the planetary impacts... made such an impression on me that it led, among other things, to my receiving the honorific title ‘Ozone Man’ from the first president Bush.”

Came upon interesting info. His page on wikipedia @ :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McKibben

This is the author's official web site, where all his book reviews, aritcles, submitted papers and research, interviews etc can be found.

http://www.billmckibben.com/

Reason.com ( tehelka was strongly recommending this site ) has an article about him, strongly criticizing his take on environmental issues.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/28900.html

Here is an elaborate book review of his , " Deep Economy"

http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/2286.html/

Here is a very good interview of his :

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200311/interview.asp

Read more about him. You will know more.

Economist Ronald Coase

2008-08-11T02:35:00.000-07:00

I came across this great Economist ( a Nobel Laureate too) Ronald Coase, while reading Tim Harford's irrepressibly tongue-firmly-in-cheek replies !! He referred to Ronald Coase while mentioning property rights and transaction costs.

Coase is considered as one of the most unusual of economists, who wrote the fewest. One , on
"why firms exist ? " and another , " problems of social cost ". Articles on the gist of his writings, are here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Coase.html

http://www.my50.com

2008-07-20T05:36:00.000-07:00

Was reading Indian express on Sunday. Today. Here is a web site recommendation.

http://www.my50.com

50 things you always wanted to do. Your target. 50 of your achievements. 50 ideas. 50 suggestions. Etc.

One can upload them. One can read others' list . For motivation and direction.

Very interesting site. I am reading.

Lily Tomlin - Comedian & Emmy Aw winner

2008-04-30T01:21:00.000-07:00

Lily Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, comedian, writer and producer. Tomlin's body of work, which has spanned over 40 years, has garnered her several Tony Awards and Emmy Awards, as well as a Grammy Award.

First I heard about her in Funny Quote. About shagging. Then googleed. It lead me to wiki pedia. Both Wikipedia and Wiki Quote have a page about Lily Tomlin and her ex-tempore funny quotes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Tomlin

and...

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lily_Tomlin

her interview from ' Advocate Magazine'

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2005_March_15/ai_n13629326/

Dan Ariely, the Behavioural Economist

2008-04-22T11:45:00.000-07:00

I read for the first time about Dan Ariely in Economic Times, in Spiritual Quotient / Cosmic Uplink. The behavioural scienist. Wikipedia has a page about him. Also , his research publication, nearly 6 of them, are linked there, available in PDF version.

Here's what wiki says about him.
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Dan Ariely is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management. He also holds an appointment at the MIT Media Lab where he is the head of the eRationality research group. Although he is a professor of marketing with no training in economics, he is considered to be one of the leading behavioral economists. Currently, Ariely is serving as a Visiting Professor at the Duke University, Fuqua School of Business where he is teaching a course based upon his findings in Predictably Irrational.

Dan Ariely grew up in Israel after birth in New York. He served in the Israeli army and when 18 suffered third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body from an accidental magnesium flare explosion during training.[1]

Ariely recovered and went on to graduate from Tel Aviv University and received a Ph.D. and M.A. in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in business from Duke University. His research focuses on discovering and measuring how people make decisions. He models the human decision making process and in particular the irrational decisions that we all make every day.

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Selected publications
Try it, you'll like it: The influence of expectation, consumption, and revelation on preferences for beer
Dishonesty in Everyday Life and Its Policy Implications
Placebo Effects of Marketing Actions: Consumers May Get What They Pay For
Tom Sawyer and the Construction of Value
Effort for Payment: A Tale of Two markets
Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Precommitment
Seeing sets: Representation by Statistical Properties
Controlling the Information Flow: Effects on Consumers' Decision Making and Preferences
Coherent Arbitariness: Stable demand curves without stable preferences
Combining experiences over time: the effects of duration, intensity changes and on-line measurements on retrospective pain evaluations
Please see all publications

His famous book, ' predictably irrational', has a seperate website.

http://www.predictablyirrational.com/

Amazon link for his book , " Predictably Irrational " , is here.

http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Hidden-Forces-Decisions/dp/006135323X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208890191&sr=1-1

" Irrational behavior is a part of human nature, but as MIT professor Ariely has discovered in 20 years of researching behavioral economics, people tend to behave irrationally in a predictable fashion. Drawing on psychology and economics, behavioral economics can show us why cautious people make poor decisions about sex when aroused, why patients get greater relief from a more expensive drug over its cheaper counterpart and why honest people may steal office supplies or communal food, but not money. According to Ariely, our understanding of economics, now based on the assumption of a rational subject, should, in fact, be based on our systematic, unsurprising irrationality. Ariely argues that greater understanding of previously ignored or misunderstood forces (emotions, relativity and social norms) that influence our economic behavior brings a variety of opportunities for reexamining individual motivation and consumer choice, as well as economic and educational policy. Ariely's intelligent, exuberant style and thought-provoking arguments make for a fascinating, eye-opening read. (Feb.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. "

Benjamin Libet, consciousness scientist

2008-04-22T01:53:00.000-07:00

Reading ' Karmic Consciousness ' in ET. There was this reference to Dr.Benjamin Libet, who did a path breaking research in decision making and consciousness. Most of our impulsive actions are decided by unconsciously decided, he avers, and take place 10 milli seconds before we are ' aware' of it. He did ground breaking research on ' volitional acts' and ' readiness potential.

Here is is page in Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet

Benjamin Libet (April 12, 1916 - July 23, 2007) was a researcher in the physiology department of the University of California, San Francisco, and a pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness. In 2003, he was the first recipient of the Virtual Nobel Prize in Psychology from the University of Klagenfurt, "for his pioneering achievements in the experimental investigation of consciousness, initiation of action, and free will".[1] In his acceptance speech, Libet summarized his life's research and highlighted his work on conscious volitional acts and the antedating of sensory awareness.

His page is very big on wikipedia. Needs to be read in leisure.
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Tributes
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Dr. Robert W. Doty, professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Rochester:[15]
“ Benjamin Libet's discoveries are of extraordinary interest. His is almost the only approach yet to yield any credible evidence of how conscious awareness is produced by the brain. Libet's work is unique, and speaks to questions asked by all humankind. ”

Dr. Susan J. Blackmore, visiting lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol:[16]
“ Many philosophers and scientists have argued that free will is an illusion. Unlike all of them, Benjamin Libet found a way to test it.

(a) Short notes on his experiments and theory, in this page :

http://www.consciousentities.com/libet.htm

(b) His acceptance of virtual nobel prize and speech, here in this link.

http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/psy/cognition/fr_nobel_E2003.html?http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/psy/cognition/nobelpreis_2003E.html

Christopher Dorris - The Peak Perfo Trainer

2008-04-10T23:25:00.000-07:00

Swaathi referred me this book. " How to create your own dream " by Christopher Dorris. Not available in India. She procured this book from U.S and it cost her more than Rs.1,000/-. For such a fiction buff as her, it was surprising that she's reading self-help / personality development books ! For someone so evolved ! Any way, here is the amazon link of the book, which received a 5 star rating.

http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Your-Dream-Confidently-Brilliance/dp/0595315763/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207893485&sr=1-3

Also his website,

http://www.christopherdorris.com

look into wiki quote for some quotes.

Rodney Dangerfield, the ' No Respect' comedian

2008-01-30T03:13:00.000-08:00

visited yahoo mail. There were these quotez de jour ! Some very funny. Saw whose quote that was. Some ' Rodney Dangerfield'.
Should I visit clusty.com or wikipdia ? I thought , let me go to wikipedia first, if such name is not found, then let me try search engine. There indeed was Rodney Dangerfield, Stand up comedian ( very related and helpful to Training profession) who was born in 1921 and died in 2004.

Wikiquote too has a page on him ; why not ? He is , after all, a stand up comedian. Here it is !

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rodney_Dangerfield

Here is an interview http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6054693/gone_to_pot found here.

His famous book, published just before his death, viz., ' It's not easy bein' me ; a life time of no respect but plenty of sex ' has 4.5 rating on amazon.com .

BOOK DESCRIPTION : LIFE TIME OF NO RESPECT BUT PLENTY OF SEX
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Editorial Reviews
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From Publishers WeeklyA Vegas headliner for 20-plus years, Dangerfield became a huge comedic success while maintaining his image as a hassled everyman. He is, says Carrey, "as funny as a carbon-based life form can be." After writing I Couldn't Stand My Wife's Cooking, So I Opened a Restaurant; I Don't Get No Respect; and No Respect, he now presents this anecdotal autobiography, effectively blending honesty and humor. He was born Jacob Cohen in 1921 to a vaudevillian father constantly on the road and a "coldhearted," "selfish" mother: "I guess that's why I went into show business—to get some love." As Jack Roy, he began performing in his teens, struggled in clubs across the country but quit in 1949 to spend 12 years as an aluminum-siding salesman. At 40, he changed his name and his act: "I was older and wiser, yeah, but I was funnier too." In a major comeback, he made 70 Tonight Show appearances and opened his own nightclub in 1969, followed by TV specials and commercials, albums and hit movies. Writing with hip, showbiz savvy and a backstage bawdiness, he regales with tales of Lenny Bruce, Andy Kaufman and many more, and devotes full chapters to sex and drugs. Sidebar jokes, relevant to the text, appear throughout, along with cartoons and b&w photos. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Book Description

I tell ya, nothin' goes right.Last wee
k I found a guy's wallet ... Inside was a picture of my two kids.
Anybody can repeat a Rodney Dangerfield joke, but nobody can tell one like the man himself. That's because his humor, built on the premise that he "don't get no respect," is drawn from a life so hard that the only way to survive was to laugh at it -- though all the drugs and hookers certainly didn't hurt.

In It's Not Easy Bein' Me, Dangerfield comes clean (even if he still works blue) about his brutal life and the unlikely triumph he made out of it. His father was in vaudeville, and his mother was from hell, which is why a young Jack Roy grabbed a mike and got up on a stage straight out of high school. He was looking for laughs, some approval ... and a few easy women. He struggled for years, getting by but never getting over, playing dives and opening for strippers, hypnotists, and snake charmers. Then at thirty, Dangerfield walked away from all that glamour. He quit show business, got a "real" job -- as an aluminum-siding salesman -- and started raising a family in Englewood, New Jersey. He was out of comedy for twelve unhappy years, but all the while he was writing jokes, scheming, and dreaming of his comeback.

Eventually, he changed his act, changed his name, and changed American comedy forever. He developed one of the most popular characters in all of show business -- the poor schnook who gets no respect. Not from his parents, his wife, his kids, not even from his physician, Dr. Vinnie Boombatz.

But his millions of fans not only respected him, they loved him, reciting dozens of his jokes from memory and quoting chapter and verse from Caddyshack, the movie that made Dangerfield into a comedic superstar. Today, Dangerfield stands as a true pillar of American comedy (though at eighty-two, he says, he's crumbling a little) and after the life he's led, it's amazing he's standing at all.

Wild, hip, and hilarious, It's Not Easy Being Me is like having a front-row seat to the ultimate Rodney Dangerfield performance, where the jokes come at a hundred miles an hour and the outrageous stories go on forever.

Link :http://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-Easy-Bein-Me/dp/0066211077/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201691908&sr=1-10 here.

While reading about this book, I also came about ' Jokes to go ; funniest jokes from the funniest comedians ' a colection of one liners.

http://www.amazon.com/Jokes-Go-Funniest-Bits-Comedians/dp/0740738992/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201691908&sr=1-11

here it is.
In wiki quote, you also browise the list of comedians.

Posting this after a long time. Basically, when ever you visit online, you must open this blogger dot com page on one window andpost relevant stuff here.

OD, brainstorming, Kurt Lewin etal

2007-09-06T20:46:00.000-07:00

visiting Wikipedia on " Organisational Development " in relevance to training.
Came across " Brainstorming." Here is the method. Use it more in ya training sessions. Here is the process.
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Approach
There are four basic rules in brainstorming.[5] These are intended to reduce the social inhibitions that occur in groups and therefore stimulate the generation of new ideas. The expected result is a dynamic synergy that will dramatically increase the creativity of the group.
Focus on quantity: This rule is a means of enhancing divergent production, aiming to facilitate problem solving through the maxim, quantity breeds quality. The assumption is that the greater the number of ideas generated, the greater the chance of producing a radical and effective solution.
No criticism: It is often emphasized that in group brainstorming, criticism should be put 'on hold'. Instead of immediately stating what might be wrong with an idea, the participants focus on extending or adding to it, reserving criticism for a later 'critical stage' of the process. By suspending judgment, one creates a supportive atmosphere where participants feel free to generate unusual ideas.
Unusual ideas are welcome: To get a good and long list of ideas, unusual ideas are welcomed. They may open new ways of thinking and provide better solutions than regular ideas. They can be generated by looking from another perspective or setting aside assumptions.
Combine and improve ideas: Good ideas can be combined to form a single very good idea, as suggested by the slogan "1+1=3". This approach is assumed to lead to better and more complete ideas than merely generating new ideas alone. It is believed to stimulate the building of ideas by a process of association.
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Link here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming

About Dr.Kurt Lewin, the founding father of Organisational Development .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Lewin

read in leisure.

Joel Achenbach, great journo from Washington post

2007-07-29T06:24:00.000-07:00

Who is this Joel Achenbach ? I wondered, as I was reading Sunday Express today,on 29 July 2007. What subtle humour and depth and tragic-humour and subtelity.

It takes a lot of quality to write like that.

" My mom and step dad, were virtuous, alternative , and crunchy, before crunchy was cool ".

" Bean sprouts were ' niche market' which is what you call something when people don't like it ! "

" For $25, the breadth of our entrepreneurial spirit was awsome, though perhaps not the height. "

Now, who is this person. I had to search internet. He is not some anonymous journo. A Washington Post journalist, a colleague of Mr.Art Buchwald, and merits a mention in Wikipedia, no less !!

Wiki link here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Achenbach

Yeah as I anticipated, he writes a blog too! On Washington post. Link here. Called ' Achenblog'.

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/achenblog/

" Business week " does some blogspotting. " where the worlds of business, media and blogs collide and colaborate'. Link here.

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2005/11/want_a_break_fr.html