Loud Thinking February 16, 2015 at 09:38PM
February 16th, 2015 | 
Author: The Second Coming
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Loud Thinking February 16, 2015 at 06:58PM
“All things are bound together. All things connect. Whatever happens to the Earth happens to the children of the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
—Chief Seattle (1780-1866)
Leader Of The Suquamish And Duwamish Native American Tribes
Loud Thinking February 16, 2015 at 02:59PM
Yuvraj sparks IPL bidding war, goes to Daredevils for record Rs 16 crore..!
No bidder for Hashim Amla..!
Reason being everyone knows he will never be a part of spot and match fixing and that Amla is NOT a saleable material…!
(Earlier, Amla, with a base price of Rs.200 lakh, was the first player to go under the hammer but remained unsold.
Amla, who is currently on national duty with South Africa in the World Cup, averages an incredible 55.93 in 108 One-Day Internationals (ODI) played).
Link:- http://m.timesofindia.com/ipl/news/Yuvraj-sparks-IPL-bidding-war-goes-to-Daredevils-for-record-Rs-16-crore/articleshow/46259163.cms
Loud Thinking February 16, 2015 at 02:20PM
THE MANAGEMENT TIP OF THE DAY: Harvard Business Review
February 16, 2015
Build the Right Virtual Team
Virtual teams are hard to get right. If you want to effectively lead and manage one, start by assembling the right team. You won’t get anywhere without hiring and developing people suited to virtual teamwork, putting them into the right-sized groups, and dividing the labor appropriately. When building a team, conduct behavioral interviews and personality tests to screen for qualities like good communication skills, high emotional intelligence, an ability to work independently, strong resilience to recover from snafus, and sensitivity to other cultures. If you inherit a team, use the same tools to assess people’s strengths and weaknesses, and then train them in the skills they’re lacking. The most effective virtual teams typically have fewer than 10 people, so keep it small. If a project is too complex and requires more people, divide everyone into subteams that can focus on a narrower goal.
Adapted from “Getting Virtual Teams Right” by Keith Ferrazzi.
