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I always dreamt of travelling across the villages of India on a bicycle or in a way that would put me in touch with the lives of the ordinary people.
Unni Karunakara, the Worldwide President of Medicins Sans Frontiers, who was just about to finish his 3 year term in September last year and make a 5600 km bicycle tour of India starting on Oct 12 from Kashmir in the north to Kanya Kumari in the south, asked me to join him for the last 850 km leg of his trip.
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- The ultimate and most effective definition of success is presented and proven beyond question or doubt in Adam Grant’s current best-selling book, Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success.
The area between Agra, with the Taj Mahal, Rajasthan with its Maharaja palaces and the city of Amritsar in the north, with the Golden Temple complex in the state of Punjab, is considered the imaginary golden triangle of historic monuments. This is only a short list of the tremendous cultural heritage present today in India.
Big data is no longer a new phenomenon in Europe, we are familiar with it and the challenges it continues to pose. Big data are information assets so complex that they require new forms of processing, but offer such new opportunities that they may enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization.
I fight my irresistible desire to purchase technological toys again and again. The last time it was an iPad mini. Tiny, beautiful and I don’t really need it, but who could resist a bite off the apple. I started downloading whatever anyone suggested into it or what I found various places. It also came with Google Earth, excellent map software, allowing you to see maps as well as detailed images of most buildings.
Flipping through my Amazon wish list I stumbled upon a book I wanted to read ever since I was a reporter. The Journalist and the Murderer is a 1990 study by Janet Malcolm on the ethics of journalism. It describes at length the tricky dynamics between a reporter and a source during their interaction.
One of the greatest pleasures in life is doing what other people say you cannot do. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean breaking or bending the rules.
There comes a time in the life of most people when the challenges seem overwhelming. You’ve suffered one setback after another and you seriously think about throwing in the towel.
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The phrase “sticky floor” is usually associated with the syndrome women go through of not been able to move forward at work and feeling “stuck”. They do not know what else to do. I add that management feels the same way most of the time, they are doing everything in their power yet the numbers of women especially at the executive level are still modest.
Surely few things can be worse for a company or an industry than to be associated with human trafficking or slave labour.
Sadly, this country is said to have one of the highest levels of slavery in Europe, which means that there are Czech businesses connected in some way with this shameful practice. According to the recently published Global Slavery Index, compiled by the non-governmental organizations, Walk Free Foundation, the Czech Republic ranks third in Europe with as many as 40,000 people believed to be effectively enslaved.
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The House of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic gave the coalition government of the Czech Social Democratic Party, the ANO 2011 Movement and the Christian Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People’s Party a vote of confidence on 18 February 2014, approving its policy statement. The new Government can be characterized as centre-left one containing both socially-liberal and conservative political bodies; also because the Communist Party, in spite of previous fears, remained outside the structure of the cabinet.
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“Current EU energy and climate policy is contributing to an increase in energy prices.”
“Our world is getting smaller and this is not just due to the amazing invention of IT .”
“The CR until recently was perceived through 6 superlatives, all of them positive.”
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There are two parallel planes of human evolution, Darwinian or Physical Evolution and Emotional or Consciousness evolution.The rate of change in materialism and technology over the last 75 years has been exponential and although Physical Evolution has managed to progress, the rate of Emotional Evolution is much slower, and therefore is significantly lagging, leading to a substantial imbalance between these two forms of human progression.
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A lifetime is not enough to get to know India. But if we have ten days, we can peek under its guise of exceptionality, diversity, uniqueness and strangeness and get a chance to see a sliver of its extensive cultural heritage.
There are two basic reasons for expecting to find links between quality of education and competitive advantage. A general reason is that living standards have risen so much over the past centuries due to education. The rise of the middle class across the Western world after, but even during, the Industrial Revolution has proven that education is needed for people to contribute to scientific advance as well as to benefit from it.
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Happy New Year & in this New Year I am going to share with you a part of my spiritual journey – if it can be called a journey at all – as it is not about destination & movement but about stillness & silence.
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Fireworks explode over Elizabeth Tower housing the Big Ben clock to celebrate the New Year in London, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
New Year resolutions and business plans are always full of optimism and desire to achieve goals and increase overall business performance. Everything feels possible.As you reenter work from the holidays, may I suggest you consider a new strategy at the way you have been analyzing and managing gender integration at work?
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The word “transformation” has been often used to describe the deep process that companies and individuals underwent since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2007. Without any doubt we can expect that the year that is about to start will continue to throw new challenges to those active in the fields of leadership, communication and professional reputation management.
As the New Year is getting into full swing, many people are still contemplating what is in store for all of us over the next 12 months. Typically, some of us start the year with big New Year’s resolutions. In six months (or earlier) more than half of us will have given up on our aspirations and fallen back on old habits. It’s clear that enthusiasm and willpower are limited resources, and hope doesn’t get us very far; in addition, we are simply not perfect and easily succumb to temptation, vice or the path of least resistance. That’s reality.
In the recent months, the return of the idea of a water corridor connecting the Danube, Odra and Elbe rivers through the area of the Czech Republic has awaken a broad interest in the Czech public. The project has been recently strongly fostered by President Miloš Zeman as well as by the incumbent government in resignation, and became also one of hot transport themes of the latest parliamentary election campaign. The idea of the water corridor has appeared with positive or negative connotations and governmental efforts during more than a century, but without any definite decisions and actions taken by governments and public institutions.
As a former director of Greenpeace International, I sometimes have a tendency to be cynical about the values and genuine intentions of big business.Happily, there is a growing number of companies in the Czech Republic that are practicing what is often known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or Sustainability.
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State investments into information technologies are usually considered overpriced and often accompanied by corruption scandals. But that’s only a part of the truth. There are more problems. Their requests usually lack quality specifications based on accurately described and more effective processes for data flow. The pilot phase is underestimated for testing the functionality of the project. In cases of extensive critical applications, working in real-time, tests may even reach a cost equivalent to developing new programs.
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