Leadership and Innovation

"Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, you need to help them grind a new set of glasses, so they can see the world in a new way. That involves challenging the implicit assumptions that have shaped the way people have historically looked at things."

John Seeley Brown - Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

Reference : http://www.managementpro.com/doc/leader.htm

A disturbing book i read ...

Have been reading a book by Amitav Kumar called "Husband of a Fanatic" .
The book raise some basic questions about faith and Hinduism , but towards the end i felt that the author's views had become very partisan and very........anti-Hindu.
Nevertheless the author succeeds in bringing out the way politicians in India have been exploiting people's faith in furthering their own agenda's....

Mark Twain on Thoughts

Life does not consist mainly--or even largely--of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

- Mark Twain's Autobiography