India 2007
Black-Swan: The current one that is keeping me up is Black Swan: The Impact of Highly Improbable. The recent blasts at Lumbini park,Hyderabad were a black swan, it changed the perspective of the city so much ! With in moments the news was every where, some of the IT project managers onsite, I knew of, called their team to check the welfare. It is not only the country economy but the global economy that is at stake due to these terror attacks. The ripple effect of blasts could be expensive and irreversible.

Then there was another crazy incident at Agra, where a mob set the trucks on fire as accidentally a truck ran into a procession killing 4. The chaos resulted in curfew and lot of property destruction.

If Eye for Eye will only leave the world blind- recalling the words of Mahatma, shame and uneventful to see such barbaric and heinous crime. Something needs to be done to get a fundamental change in the way things operate, whats it? another Gandhi?

Recalling the mother Theresa on her 97th birthday,If only each of us cleans our doorfront, the entire country will be cleaner and hygienic, Jai Hind !

Some Collected links for GMAT


http://www.syvum.com/gmat/
http://atheism.about.com/od/logicalfallacies/a/overview.htm
http://daveformba.blogspot.com/
http://richardbowles.tripod.com/gmat/gmatmenu.htm
http://www.test-preps.com/gmat/math_test_sol.php
http://novapress.net/gmat/strategies.html
http://www.novapress.net/gmat/math.html
http://education.kulichki.net/GMAT/math1.html
http://www.gmatbuster.org/
http://novapress.net/gmat/math.html
http://s2s.wharton.upenn.edu/wh-wharton/messages?msg=5423.1
http://geethu.blogspot.com/2004/06/studying-for-gmat.html
http://www.crack-gmat.com/gmat-test.htm
http://www.testmagic.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11279
http://www.testmagic.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=67
http://www.microedu.com/gmattest/freetest.htm
http://mbaleague.blogspot.com/
http://mbawire.blogspot.com/2003_06_29_mbawire_archive.html
http://www.krysstal.com/binomial.html
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.divisibility.html
http://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=8202
http://gmat.prepedge.com/MBA/GMAT-CAT/questionbank/
http://s2s.wharton.upenn.edu/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=wh-wharton&msg=7849.1
http://education.kulichki.net/GMAT/math.html
http://www.800score.com/gmat-home.html
http://www.800score.com/guidetc.html
http://www.ascenteducation.com/india-mba/iim/cat/questionbank/Archives/April2002/arith1704.shtml
http://www.gmattutor.com/tricks2.html
http://www.800score.com/guidec8bview1a.html
http://www.economist.com/research/StyleGuide/
http://www.sentencecorrection.com/forums/index.php?act=idx
http://novapress.net/gmat/data-sufficiency.html
http://www.deltacourse.com/

There are two Indias in this Country, One India is training at the leash eager to spring forth and live upto all the adjectives the world has been recently shoving upon us,the other India is the leash

One India Says Give me a chance and I will prove my self,the other India says prove yourself first, may be then you will have a chance.
One India lives in the Optimism of our Hearts,the other India lacks in the skepticism of our Minds,

One India wants the other India Hopes,

One India Leads and the other India follows

these Conversions are on the rise, with each passing day, more and more people from the other India are coming over to this side and quietly, while the world is not looking a pulsating dynamic new India is emerging.. an India whose faith in Success is far greater than its fear of failure

an India that no longer boycotts foriegn made Goods but buys out the companies that make them instead.

History they say is a Bad motorist, it rarely ever signals its intentions when it is taking a turn. this is that rarely ever moment. History is turning a page. For over half a century our nation has sprung,stumbled,run,fallen,rolled over, caught up and dusted her self, but now, In our 60th year as a free nation the ride has brought us some breathtaking moments.

One India,A tiny little voice at the back of the head is looking down at the bottom of the Ravine and hesitating, the Other India is looking up at the sky is saying it is time to Fly together..

My Dear Fellow Indians, Wishing you a purposeful Independence Day!

*************************JAI HIND***********************************

Some of the Hyderabad's Must sees,I also tagged them to Google Maps, so you can check them on the Google map too! Jai Hind!

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Outsourcing:: The Trade Winds

Most of the global folks have a limited understanding of outsourcing.
Wisdom,maturity and understanding of global economics[limited knowledge, you don't need a Ph.D] are inversely proportional to the understanding of the word "OUTSOURCING".

I randomly asked a mixed audience and following are their understandings of Outsourcing

• Sending work to "cheap" country
• making work happen 24 hours
• You do the thinking job, and some one else will do the acting job

Well the above statements might be good, but not good enough!
"Out" "sourcing" means you are sourcing out the work to a different party- it could be a new department[In sourcing],new company [any where not necessarily in the low cost countries of the world].

• Why should a company outsource?
• Bottomline is to be more profitable
• So why take away my job?
• Well some one else will do the job for almost 60% less of what you are doing[Don't you buy stuff in ThanksGiving and Christmas Sale?]
• It is hurting the US economy
• Bulls*&@#, it is actually helping it big time, the process,workflow based tactical jobs are being outsourced, this makes the population more competitive and people will start focusing, investing time and effort back in education.
  
• For the developing nations, outsourcing will create jobs[even though they are tactical,the young workforce will learn the crux of the process and will graduate to a new job or move up the value chain in the same outsourcing industry]. Economy will boom and more opportunities for retail/consumer markets which is again open to the Global players.
• When economy in the developing nation booms, the life style will go up and the new life style demands will create revenue opportunities in the developed nations like the Boeing case.
  
• Read Boeing Global Strategy Takes Off
• With the economy booming in India, Aviation is seeing bombastic growth. The air carriers of India placed orders with Boeing [Air India placed a whopping $7 B order Whoa!]and this demand is creating Boeing hire workforce in US, this is what I call the "Water Cycle Model"[No No, Not the Software Development Model but the natural water cycle]

A near future trend
The world will very shortly see low paying jobs being created in Developed countries to compete with developing nations. The Business Processes will be out sourced to a company across the street, where folks are ready to do the job for lesser pay[Let us say minimum wage per hour,most of the times these folks are uneducated and/or folks who want to get into "decent" jobs, Ex: Some Janitors,or Part-time employees might be willing to do the job, if you look around there would be a lot of them]. Some of the so called "strategic" parts would be outsourced to the other geographies of the world. I know of a Huge Bank that started operations in SriLanka, but given the poor spoken language[English] skills, the bank outsourced all its data entry work to SriLanka. So innovation lies in mapping the right requirement to the right geography.

Bought a new Fly Mobile[I am going limitedly mobile after 5 months], one heck of a stunning piece!
http://www.fly-phone.com/phones/2040i

Its amazingly sleek and some of it's vital stats:

9.2 mm width

1.3 megapixel camera, MP3 player, video recording
Built-in memory 60 MB + microSD support[Got a 256 MB card FREE!]
MMS, Java, Bluetooth, IRDA, GPRS, WAP, dictophone

My Personal Feedback:

• Battery Back-up: 1.5 hours talk time/72 -96 hours stand-by
• Sound Quality: Very clear
• Number pad: very stylish and painfully small engraved number pad
• Dial-pad needs a little effort
• Camera quality is Okay
• Price - INR 5000/-(US $125)
• Overall a GREAT BUY
  

Overall, You Should NOT go for this, if you plan to spend more than 1 hour on phone.
I personally do not talk more than 15 minutes on mobile.

Folks carrying multiple gizmos like iPOD,PDA + a mobile will truly appreciate the size of the device.

Teaser: Malaika Arora Khan is the Brand Ambassador[Read More] for Fly and truly a reflective one, both Fly and Malaika are very well known for having the right sleeky curves!

Some of the Questions from the Global-Sourcing:Busting the Flat World

1. What is equilibrium, how to get to equal-brium?
2. Survival as the action flows to edge?
3. How is an ecosystem created? How can a clone be done easily?
4. If the world is so flat, how come spikes are becoming more prominent? What will make the spikes rise to the same level?
5. Is adaptation all there is?
6. How to tap into the most relevant information flows and avoid non-candidates?
7. How to measure success in a changing ground?
8. When is self-organizing not enough?
9. What should be the Governance Architecture?
10. How to avoid think global/act local paradigm?