wireless yogi
12 FEB 2012
मुख्य समाचार :
सभी नेताओं और पार्टियों का ध्यान अब तीसरे चरण वाली ५६ सीटों पर केन्द्रित हो गया है, जिनपर कई वर्तमान विधायकों और मंत्रियों की प्रतिष्ठा दाव पर है। इन चरण में आने वाली सीटें परम्परागत रूप से वामपंथी, कांग्रेस, भारतीय जनता पार्टी और समाजवादी पार्टी के पक्ष में रही है, जबकि २००७ के चुनाव में सत्तारूढ़ बहुजन समाजवादी पार्टी को इनमें से कुछ बढ़त हासिल थी। सभी बड़ी पार्टियां अपनी पिछली बार का प्रदर्शन सुधारने की कोशिश में है, लेकिन छोटी और नई उभरी पार्टियों के प्रत्याशी उनके परम्परागत वोटों में सेंध लगा सकते है। मतदाताओं को लुभाने की हरसंभव कोशिशें की जा रही है। लेकिन इस बार उनके मन और मत को भाप पाना टेढ़ी खीर लग रहा है। सलमान हैदर, आकाशवाणी समाचार, गोरखपुर।
अमेठी की प्रतिष्ठता परख सीट पर कांग्रेस से अमृता सिंह, समाजवादी पार्टी से गायत्री प्रजापति, बहुजन समाजवादी पार्टी से आशीष शुक्ला और बीजेपी से लक्ष्मी सिंह चुनाव लड़ रहे है। जगदीशपुर की सीट से राधेश्याम धोबी इस बार कांग्रेस से चुनाव लड़ रहे है। इनका मुकाबला समाजवादी पार्टी के विजय पासी से है। यहां बीजेपी के टिकट पर राम लखन पासी और बीएसपी के टिकट पर श्रीराम क्रांतिकारी चुनाव मैदान में है। गौरीगंज की सीट पर करीब-करीब सीधा-सीधा मुकाबला दिखाई पड़ रहा है। बीएसपी से निवर्तमान विधायक चन्द्रप्रकाश मटयारी और कांग्रेस से मोहम्मद नईम आमने-सामने है, हालांकि सपा से राकेश सिंह और भाजपा से तेजबान सिंह ताल ठोंक रहे है। तीसरे चरण में मतदान वाली इन सीटों पर कुल ४९ उम्मीदवारों के राजनीतिक भाग्य का फैसला साढ़े आठ लाख से भी ज्यादा मतदाताओं को करना है। सलोन और तिलोई की सीटों से कुल २७ उम्मीदवार चुनाव मैदान में है, जिनके भाग्य का फैसला चौथे चरण में छह लाख १४ हजार से भी ज्यादा मतदाताओं को करना है। दर्शन साहू के साथ मैं श्रीकांत श्रीवास्तव, आकाशवाणी समाचार, अमेठी।
पहले चार घंटों के दौरान लगभग २१ प्रतिशत मतदाताओं ने अपने मताधिकार का प्रयोग किया। पुलिस तथा अन्य सुरक्षा अधिकरणों द्वारा मतदान केन्द्रों पर अप्रत्याशी रूप से कड़ी सुरक्षा व्यवस्था की गई है। इस क्षेत्र की जिला परिषद की १६ सीटों के लिए एक सौ दो उम्मीदवारों के साथ पंचायत समितियों की ३२ सीटों के एक सौ ७२ उम्मीदवार चुनाव मैदान में भाग ले रहे है। प्रमुख राजनीतिक पार्टियों के स्वतंत्र रूप से चुनाव लड़ने तथा विभिन्न पार्टियों के असंतुष्टों के साथ निदर्लीय उम्मीदवारों की उपस्थिति के कारण इस बार ज्यादातर बहुकोणीय मुकाबले हो रहे है। आकाशवाणी समाचार के लिए गढ़चिरौली में सुरेश सरोदे के साथ नागपुर से मैं सुनील डबीर।
कल शाम राज्य सरकार और जूनियर डॉक्टरों की बातचीत विफल रही। जूनियर डॉक्टरों की मांग है कि उनके स्टाइपेंड की राशि बढ़ाई जाए और ग्रामीण इलाकों में काम करने के तौर तरीकों को जल्द स्पष्ट किया जाए।
मुख्यमंत्री किरण कुमार रेड्डी ने वैकल्पिक व्यवस्था के बारे में मंत्रियों के समूह के साथ बैठक की।
ओड़िशा के कालाहांडी, मयूरभंज, रायगड़ा, भवानीपाटन, कोरापुट और मलकानगिरि जिलों में कथित अनियमितताओं का पता चला था।
उच्चतम न्यायालय ने १६ दिसम्बर, २०१० को एक जनहित याचिका पर सुनवाई करते हुए ग्रामीण रोजगार गांरटी योजना को ठीक ढंग से लागू करने में विफल रहने पर केन्द्र और राज्य सरकारों की आलोचना की थी।
इस बीच, पूर्व राष्ट्रपति मोहम्मद नशीद ने अपनी सत्ता के केन्द्र अद्दू की अपनी निर्धारित यात्रा स्थगित कर दी है। उन्होंने इसका कोई कारण नहीं बताया है। अद्दू शहर, श्री नशीद की मालदीव डेमोक्रेटिक पार्टी का गढ़ माना जाता है। श्री नशीद के सत्ता से बाहर होने के बाद वहां भी हिंसा हुईं थीं।
विगत कुछ दशंदी से ओडीशा के समुद्री तटों में विश्वभर के लुप्त हो रहे विरल सामुद्रिक जीव कछुओं के लिए अभ्यरण्य पलट गया है। इस तटवर्ती इलाके में दूर-दूर से प्रशांत महासागर से भी कछुआ पहुंचते है, अंडा देने के मसाद में। अंडादान प्रक्रिया खत्म होते ही ये मेहमान जी अपनी आये हुए जगह को प्रत्यावर्तन करते है। राज्य वन विभाग द्वारा इन जीवों की सुरक्षा के लिए समुंद्र किनारे, जहां इन्होंने अंडे दिये है, वहां से २० किलोमीटर तक मछली पकड़ने के ऊपर सम्पूर्ण रूप से रोक लगा दी गई है। कटक से आकाशवाणी समाचार के लिए रामेश्वर नाइक।
इससे पहले, ऑस्ट्रेलिया ने ५० ओवर में आठ विकेट पर २६९ रन बनाए। डेविस हसी ने सबसे अधिक ७२ और पीटर फोर्रेस्ट ने ६६ रन बनाए।
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उत्तर प्रदेश विधानसभा चुनाव के तीसरे, चौथे और पांचवे चरण के मतदान के लिए प्रचार चरम पर है। बहुजन समाज पार्टी की प्रमुख मायावती ने मिर्जापुर और सोनभद्र जिले में कई जनसभाएं की। भारतीय जनता पार्टी के नेता राजनाथ सिंह, समाजवादी के अध्यक्ष अखिलेश यादव और कांग्रेस के बड़े नेता चुनाव प्रचार में जुटे हैं। प्रियंका वाड्रा और राहुल गांधी ने आज रायबरेली में रोड-शो किया। यहां इस महीने की १९ तारीख को चौथे चरण में वोट डाले जाएंगे। तीसरे चरण के मतदान के लिए चुनावी तैयारियां अंतिम दौर में हैें। हमारे संवाददाता ने बताया है कि इस चरण में राज्य के मध्य और विंध्यांचल क्षेत्रों के दस जिलों के ५६ निर्वाचन क्षेत्रों में बुधवार को वोट डाले जाएंगे। जहां एक करोड़ ७५ लाख मतदाता, एक हजार २१ उम्मीदवारों के चुनावी भाग्य का फैसला करेंगे।सभी नेताओं और पार्टियों का ध्यान अब तीसरे चरण वाली ५६ सीटों पर केन्द्रित हो गया है, जिनपर कई वर्तमान विधायकों और मंत्रियों की प्रतिष्ठा दाव पर है। इन चरण में आने वाली सीटें परम्परागत रूप से वामपंथी, कांग्रेस, भारतीय जनता पार्टी और समाजवादी पार्टी के पक्ष में रही है, जबकि २००७ के चुनाव में सत्तारूढ़ बहुजन समाजवादी पार्टी को इनमें से कुछ बढ़त हासिल थी। सभी बड़ी पार्टियां अपनी पिछली बार का प्रदर्शन सुधारने की कोशिश में है, लेकिन छोटी और नई उभरी पार्टियों के प्रत्याशी उनके परम्परागत वोटों में सेंध लगा सकते है। मतदाताओं को लुभाने की हरसंभव कोशिशें की जा रही है। लेकिन इस बार उनके मन और मत को भाप पाना टेढ़ी खीर लग रहा है। सलमान हैदर, आकाशवाणी समाचार, गोरखपुर।
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छत्रपति साहूजी महाराज नगर जिले की पांच विधानसभा सीटों में से तीन- अमेठी, गौरीगंज और जगदीशपुर के लिए तीसरे तथा तिलोई और सलोन के लिए चौथे चरण में मतदान होना है। हमारे संवाददाता ने बताया है कि यहां मुख्य मुद्दा विकास का है।अमेठी की प्रतिष्ठता परख सीट पर कांग्रेस से अमृता सिंह, समाजवादी पार्टी से गायत्री प्रजापति, बहुजन समाजवादी पार्टी से आशीष शुक्ला और बीजेपी से लक्ष्मी सिंह चुनाव लड़ रहे है। जगदीशपुर की सीट से राधेश्याम धोबी इस बार कांग्रेस से चुनाव लड़ रहे है। इनका मुकाबला समाजवादी पार्टी के विजय पासी से है। यहां बीजेपी के टिकट पर राम लखन पासी और बीएसपी के टिकट पर श्रीराम क्रांतिकारी चुनाव मैदान में है। गौरीगंज की सीट पर करीब-करीब सीधा-सीधा मुकाबला दिखाई पड़ रहा है। बीएसपी से निवर्तमान विधायक चन्द्रप्रकाश मटयारी और कांग्रेस से मोहम्मद नईम आमने-सामने है, हालांकि सपा से राकेश सिंह और भाजपा से तेजबान सिंह ताल ठोंक रहे है। तीसरे चरण में मतदान वाली इन सीटों पर कुल ४९ उम्मीदवारों के राजनीतिक भाग्य का फैसला साढ़े आठ लाख से भी ज्यादा मतदाताओं को करना है। सलोन और तिलोई की सीटों से कुल २७ उम्मीदवार चुनाव मैदान में है, जिनके भाग्य का फैसला चौथे चरण में छह लाख १४ हजार से भी ज्यादा मतदाताओं को करना है। दर्शन साहू के साथ मैं श्रीकांत श्रीवास्तव, आकाशवाणी समाचार, अमेठी।
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महाराष्ट्र में जिला परिषद और पंचायत समिति के आज सुबह दूसरे चरण में मतदान की गति धीमी रही, लेकिन बाद में इसमें तेजी आ गई। हमारे संवाददाता ने बताया है कि विदर्भ क्षेत्र के चार तालुकों- अहेरी, एटापल्ली, भमरागड और नक्सल प्रभावित गढ़चिरौली की जिला परिषद और पंचायत समिति की १६ सीटों के लिए मतदान हो रहा है।पहले चार घंटों के दौरान लगभग २१ प्रतिशत मतदाताओं ने अपने मताधिकार का प्रयोग किया। पुलिस तथा अन्य सुरक्षा अधिकरणों द्वारा मतदान केन्द्रों पर अप्रत्याशी रूप से कड़ी सुरक्षा व्यवस्था की गई है। इस क्षेत्र की जिला परिषद की १६ सीटों के लिए एक सौ दो उम्मीदवारों के साथ पंचायत समितियों की ३२ सीटों के एक सौ ७२ उम्मीदवार चुनाव मैदान में भाग ले रहे है। प्रमुख राजनीतिक पार्टियों के स्वतंत्र रूप से चुनाव लड़ने तथा विभिन्न पार्टियों के असंतुष्टों के साथ निदर्लीय उम्मीदवारों की उपस्थिति के कारण इस बार ज्यादातर बहुकोणीय मुकाबले हो रहे है। आकाशवाणी समाचार के लिए गढ़चिरौली में सुरेश सरोदे के साथ नागपुर से मैं सुनील डबीर।
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वाणिज्य मंत्री आनन्द शर्मा ने आशा व्यक्त की है कि पाकिस्तान के वाणिज्य मंत्री के साथ कल इस्लामाबाद में होने वाली उनकी बातचीत से दोनों के बीच व्यापार बढ़ाने के लिए सकारात्मक माहौल बनाने में मदद मिलेगी। श्री शर्मा ने इस यात्रा पर जाने से पहले नई दिल्ली में संवाददाताओं से बातचीत में कहा कि पाकिस्तान के साथ संबंध पूरी तरह सामान्य बनाने से दोनों देशों के बीच विश्वास बहाली में काफी मदद मिलेगी। उन्होंने कहा कि इससे सार्क क्षेत्र में भी आर्थिक गतिविधियों को बढ़ावा मिलेगा। श्री शर्मा ने कहा कि भारत को वरीयता वाले देश का दर्जा देने के पाकिस्तान के फैसले से पता चलता है कि वह उसके साथ आर्थिक संबंध बढ़ाना चाहता है। श्री शर्मा ने कहा कि पाकिस्तान की उनकी यह यात्रा उस प्रक्रिया का हिस्सा है जो दोनों देशों के वाणिज्य सचिवों की बातचीत से शुरू हुई थी। इसमें दोनों देशों के बीच व्यापार बढ़ाने के लिए विश्वास बहाली के दिशा निर्देश तय किए गए थे। श्री शर्मा, पाकिस्तान के वाणिज्य मंत्री से विचार-विमर्श के अलावा बड़े उद्योगपतियों से भी बातचीत करेंगे। उनके साथ जा रहे उच्च स्तरीय प्रतिनिधिमंडल में एक सौ बीस उद्योगपति शामिल होंगे।------
आंध्रप्रदेश में जूनियर डॉक्टरों की हड़ताल से सरकारी मेडिकल कॉलेज अस्पतालों में आपात सेवाएं ठप्प हैं। राज्य सरकार ने विकल्प के रूप में लगभग छह सौ चिकित्सा अधिकारियों और गैर-विशेषज्ञ कर्मचारियों को तैनात किया है। जिला अधिकारियों को निर्देश दिये गए हैं कि इन अस्पतालों में चिकित्सा सेवाएं सुनिश्चित करें।कल शाम राज्य सरकार और जूनियर डॉक्टरों की बातचीत विफल रही। जूनियर डॉक्टरों की मांग है कि उनके स्टाइपेंड की राशि बढ़ाई जाए और ग्रामीण इलाकों में काम करने के तौर तरीकों को जल्द स्पष्ट किया जाए।
मुख्यमंत्री किरण कुमार रेड्डी ने वैकल्पिक व्यवस्था के बारे में मंत्रियों के समूह के साथ बैठक की।
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केन्द्रीय जांच ब्यूरो-सी बी आई ने ओड़िशा के छह जिलों में मनरेगा के लिए आवंटित राशि के इस्तेमाल में कथित भ्रष्टाचार की जांच-रिपोर्ट उच्चतम न्यायालय को सौंप दी है। यह रिपोर्ट शुक्रवार को मुख्य न्यायाधीश एस.एच.कापड़िया की अध्यक्षता वाली पीठ के सामने बंद लिफाफे में पेश की गई। न्यायालय ने १२ मई, २०११ को सी बी आई को आदेश दिया था कि याचिकाकर्ता, नियंत्रक और महालेखापरीक्षक तथा राष्ट्रीय ग्रामीण विकास संस्थान की रिपोर्टों के आधार पर पूरे मामले की जांच करे।ओड़िशा के कालाहांडी, मयूरभंज, रायगड़ा, भवानीपाटन, कोरापुट और मलकानगिरि जिलों में कथित अनियमितताओं का पता चला था।
उच्चतम न्यायालय ने १६ दिसम्बर, २०१० को एक जनहित याचिका पर सुनवाई करते हुए ग्रामीण रोजगार गांरटी योजना को ठीक ढंग से लागू करने में विफल रहने पर केन्द्र और राज्य सरकारों की आलोचना की थी।
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एसोचैम के एक अध्ययन के अनुसार देश के चालीस अरब डॉलर के पेट्रो-रसायन उद्योग में अगले पांच वर्ष में १२ से १५ प्रतिशत तक सालाना वृद्धि होने और रोजगार के लाखों अवसर पैदा होने की संभावना है। इस समय इस क्षेत्र में दस लाख से अधिक लोगों को रोजगार मिला हुआ है। दुनिया में पेट्रो-रसायन उद्योगों के पूर्वी देशों की ओर बढ़ने के साथ भारत में भारी विदेशी निवेश होने की उम्मीद है, हालांकि चीन, सिंगापुर और पश्चिम एशिया उसे कड़ी टक्कर दे सकते हैं। ज्यादा निवेश हासिल करने के लिए भारत को प्रतिस्पर्धा और कम लागत का स्तर बनाये रखना होगा।------
आर्थिक मंदी के बावजूद घरेलू पर्यटन में बढ़ोतरी से भारत के पर्यटन और होटल उद्योग में भारी वृद्धि की संभावना है। भारतीय उद्योग परिसंघ-सी आई आई और परामर्शदाता कंपनी प्राइस वॉटरहाउस कूपर्स के संयुक्त अध्ययन के अनुसार घरेलू उपभोक्ताओं में बेहतर सुविधाओं की मांग बढ़ रही है और साथ ही वे अपने पैसे का पूरा मूल्य प्राप्त करना चाहते हैं। इसे देखते हुए बजट और मध्यम वर्ग में वृद्धि की संभावना है। अध्ययन में कहा गया है कि उद्योग के सामने कई चुनौतियां हैं, जिनमें प्रतिभा प्रबंधन और शुल्क तथा नियमन के मुद्दे प्रमुख हैं। अध्ययन में यह भी कहा गया है कि कर प्रणाली को तर्कसंगत बनाने और सिंगल-टैक्स प्रणाली लागू करने से उद्योग को भारी फायदा होगा।------
नागर विमानन महानिदेशालय-डीजीसीए ने सभी विमान कम्पनियों से कहा है कि वे विमान चालकों और केबिन क्रू के लिए कार्य समय निर्धारित करें। डीजीसीए के ताजा सर्कुलर के अनुसार सभी कम्पनियों से कहा गया है कि वे इस बारे में उचित नीति अपनाएं और पायलट तथा केबिन क्रू को पर्याप्त विश्राम दें। इसमें अधिकतम आठ घंटे की ड्यूटी निर्धारित की गई है, जिसमें बीच में विराम देना शामिल है। इसमें स्पष्ट किया गया है कि कोई भी शिफ्ट १२ घंटे से ज्यादा न हो।------
मालदीव के नये राष्ट्रपति मोहम्मद वाहिद हसन ने आज अपने मंत्रिमंडल का विस्तार कर उसमें सात और मंत्री शामिल किए हैं। सरकारी सूत्रों ने बताया कि देश में राष्ट्रीय सहयोग की सरकार बनाने के प्रयासों के तहत ऐसा किया गया है। श्री हसन ने राष्ट्रपति का पद संभालने के तुरंत बाद सेवारत कर्नल मोहम्मद नाजि+म को रक्षामंत्री और वकील मोहम्मद जमील अहमद को गृहमंत्री बनाया था।इस बीच, पूर्व राष्ट्रपति मोहम्मद नशीद ने अपनी सत्ता के केन्द्र अद्दू की अपनी निर्धारित यात्रा स्थगित कर दी है। उन्होंने इसका कोई कारण नहीं बताया है। अद्दू शहर, श्री नशीद की मालदीव डेमोक्रेटिक पार्टी का गढ़ माना जाता है। श्री नशीद के सत्ता से बाहर होने के बाद वहां भी हिंसा हुईं थीं।
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अरब लीग में शामिल देशों के विदेश मंत्रियों की आज काहिरा में बैठक हो रही है, जिसमें सीरिया के बारे में आगे की रणनीति पर चर्चा की जाएगी। सीरिया में संयुक्त राष्ट्र और अरब देशों का संयुक्त मिशन स्थापित करने पर खासतौर पर चर्चा होगी। अरब लीग प्रमुख नबील अल अरबी ने संयुक्त राष्ट्र के विशेष दूत की अध्यक्षता में ऐसे संयुक्त मिशन की पेशकश की है। बैठक में विपक्षी सीरियन नेशनल काउंसिल को मान्यता देने पर भी विचार होने की संभावना है। काउंसिल के नेताओं ने दोहा में अपनी बैठक के बाद कहा था कि उन्हें विश्वास है कि कई अरब राष्ट्र उन्हें जल्द ही मान्यता प्रदान करेंगे।------
ईरान के राष्ट्रपति महमूद अहमदीनिजाद ने कहा है कि उनका देश जल्द ही अपनी नई परमाणु उपलब्धियों का खुलासा करेगा। श्री अहमदीनिजाद देश में इस्लामी क्रांति की ३३वीं जयंती के अवसर पर तेहरान के आजादी चौक में एक रैली को सम्बोधित कर रहे थे। उन्होंने ईरान के परमाणु कार्यक्रम का और कोई ब्यौरा नहीं दिया, लेकिन कहा कि वे पश्चिमी देशों के साथ बातचीत के लिए तैयार हैं। उन्होंने यह भी कहा कि प्रतिबंधों से ईरान का परमाणु कार्यक्रम बंद नहीं होगा। अमरीका और यूरोपीय संघ ने ईरान पर वार्ता में शामिल होने का दबाव बढ़ाने के लिए आर्थिक प्रतिबंध लगाए हैं।------
तुर्कमेनिस्तान में राष्ट्रपति चुनाव के लिए मतदान शुरू हो गया है। इस बीच, राष्ट्रपति कुरबंगुली बर्डिमुखमदोफ ;ज्ञनतइंदहनसल ठमतकलउनाींउमकवअद्ध ने इस बार भी जीतने की आशा व्यक्त की है। उनके मुकाबले खड़े सात उम्मीदवार उन्हें खास टक्कर नहीं दे पा रहे हैं। श्री बर्डिमुखमदोफ ;ठमतकलउनाींउमकवअद्ध पिछले पांच साल से सत्ता में हैं।------
भारतीय सूचना सेवा के सेवानिवृत्त अधिकारी श्री अक्षय कुमार का कल शाम गुड़गांव के एक निजी अस्पताल में निधन हो गया। वे ६५ वर्ष के थे। श्री अक्षय कुमार पत्र सूचना कार्यालय में सहायक प्रधान सूचना अधिकारी के पद से सेवानिवृत्त हुए थे। वे राष्ट्रपति, उपराष्ट्रपति और प्रधानमंत्री की मीडिया टीम में भी शामिल रहे। उन्होंने क्षेत्रीय प्रचार निदेशालय और दूरदर्शन समाचार में भी कार्य किया।------
ओड़िशा में कछुए की विलुप्त होती प्रजातियों ने राज्य में समुद्री तट के चार सौ अस्सी किलोमीटर इलाके में अंडे देना शुरू कर दिया है। हमारे संवाददाता ने बताया है कि हर साल नवम्बर-दिसम्बर में दुनिया भर से कछुए ओड़िशा तट पर आते हैं।विगत कुछ दशंदी से ओडीशा के समुद्री तटों में विश्वभर के लुप्त हो रहे विरल सामुद्रिक जीव कछुओं के लिए अभ्यरण्य पलट गया है। इस तटवर्ती इलाके में दूर-दूर से प्रशांत महासागर से भी कछुआ पहुंचते है, अंडा देने के मसाद में। अंडादान प्रक्रिया खत्म होते ही ये मेहमान जी अपनी आये हुए जगह को प्रत्यावर्तन करते है। राज्य वन विभाग द्वारा इन जीवों की सुरक्षा के लिए समुंद्र किनारे, जहां इन्होंने अंडे दिये है, वहां से २० किलोमीटर तक मछली पकड़ने के ऊपर सम्पूर्ण रूप से रोक लगा दी गई है। कटक से आकाशवाणी समाचार के लिए रामेश्वर नाइक।
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एडिलेड में तीन देशों की एकदिवसीय क्रिकेट श्रृंखला में ऑस्ट्रेलिया के २७० रन के लक्ष्य के जवाब में भारत ने ताजा समाचार मिलने तक २३वें ओवर में दो..विकेट पर..१११.रन बना लिये हैं। सहवाग २० और विराट कोहली १८ रन बनाकर आउट हो गए है।इससे पहले, ऑस्ट्रेलिया ने ५० ओवर में आठ विकेट पर २६९ रन बनाए। डेविस हसी ने सबसे अधिक ७२ और पीटर फोर्रेस्ट ने ६६ रन बनाए।
भारत की ओर से उमेश यादव और विनय कुमार ने दो-दो विकेट लिये।
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थाईलैंड में पट्टाया ओपन टेनिस टूर्नामेंट में सानिया मिजर्+ा और अनास्तासिया रोडियोनोवा की जोड़ी का मुकाबला आज डबल्स फाइनल में चीनी ताइपेई की युंग-जान चान और हाओ-चिंग चान से होगा।शीर्ष वरीयता प्राप्त भारत- आस्ॅट्रेलियाई जोड़ी ने सेमीफाइनल में अक्गुल अमन-मराडोवा और किमिको दाते क्रम को ६-४, ६-४ से हरा कर फाइनल में प्रवेश किया है।
एक आईडिया आपकी ज़िन्दगी बदल सकता है
कहते है एक आईडिया आपकी ज़िन्दगी बदल सकता है
सच भी है आपको अपना आईडिया किसी को भी बताना नहीं चाहिए ...............
शायद मुझे भी कुछ ऐसा ही करने की जरुरत है
बेवकूफ हूँ पर ज्यादा नहीं
अब ज्यादा एहतियात बरतने की जरुरत है
देखते है क्या होता है .............
पर मैंने अपना नंबर #1 आईडिया खो दिया है .................
शायद अब फिर से कुछ सोचना पड़ेगा
सच भी है आपको अपना आईडिया किसी को भी बताना नहीं चाहिए ...............
शायद मुझे भी कुछ ऐसा ही करने की जरुरत है
बेवकूफ हूँ पर ज्यादा नहीं
अब ज्यादा एहतियात बरतने की जरुरत है
देखते है क्या होता है .............
पर मैंने अपना नंबर #1 आईडिया खो दिया है .................
शायद अब फिर से कुछ सोचना पड़ेगा
मोबाइल पर सॉफ्टवेर इन्स्टाल कर आप अपने फोन को स्मार्ट फोन बना सकते है .
जी हाँ यह संभव है .......
आपको इन्स्टाल करने होंगे कुछ मोबाइल एप्स और आपक साधारण सा मोबाइल फोन होगा किसी भी महंगे मोबाइल की श्रेणी में
तो शरुआत करते है मोबाइल ब्राउज़र से जिस से आप मोबाइल पर वो सब कर सके जो आप किसी डेस्कटॉप या लैपटॉप पर इन्टरनेट के इस्तेमाल से कर सकते है .
ओपेरा का मोबाइल ब्राउज़र सबसे ज्यादा लोकप्रिय है
दुसरे नंबर पर आता है चीन का यू सी वेब ब्राउज़र
तीसरा नंबर आता है बोल्ट ब्राउज़र का
हालांकि कई मोबाइल वेब ब्राउज़र है लेकिन ये तीनो ही सबसे ज्यादा लोकप्रिय है
12 may 2011
Chennai girl tops Civil Services exam
Law graduate S.Divyadharshini of Chennai emerged the national topper in the Civil Services Examination 2010.
The Union Public Service Commission announced the results on Wednesday and released the merit list of 920 candidates who made it to the civil services.
Ms.Divyadharshini (24) said she wanted to join the civil services in order to contribute significantly to the development of the country. Cracking the examination in her second attempt, she said, “This success is a reward for hard work and perseverance. My parents, my mentor Prabhakaran and friends played a significant role in my success. I will serve society better as an IAS officer.”
A law graduate from School of Excellence in Law, Adyar, Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Ms.Divyadharshini opted for Public Administration and Law as optional subjects.
Her father V.Shanmugam is a customs consultant.
Her mother S.Padmavathy is a homemaker.
Another Chennai-based candidate, R.V.Varun Kumar, secured the third rank.
“I would have got IAS with this rank. But I have opted for IPS. My heart was always with the police service. I did not join the private sector job after my graduation in engineering.”
“The only broadsheet I read was The Hindu. Google Books was also of help,” he says.
The fourth rank holder, Abhiram G. Sankar, who hails from Tirunelveli, says, “I opted for civil services after convincing my parents. ”
The UPSC has recommended a total of 920 candidates who appeared for the Civil Services Examination 2010 for appointment to the civil services.
Indo-Afghan ties to reach a new level: Manmohan
“India cannot be immune to instability in Afghanistan”
On the eve of his first visit to Kabul in six years, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday that he was looking forward to wide-ranging discussions with the Afghan leadership to advance India's partnership to a “new level'' in the coming years. Dr. Singh leaves for Afghanistan on Thursday morning and will return the next day.
The Prime Minister pointed out that India “cannot remain unaffected by developments in Afghanistan and it took a long-term view of our partnership with Afghanistan.” The government sources amplified Dr. Singh's observations by spelling out India's imperatives — security, economic and involvement of regional countries — in Afghanistan.
“India cannot be immune to instability in Afghanistan as it will affect our progress, development and security. We want Afghanistan to be the trade, transportation and energy hub connecting South Asia with Central Asia through unfettered and free transport links,” said the sources. “It is only through economic inter-dependence that the region can prosper,” they added.
TN, West Bengal register record poll percentage
For the first time in the electoral exercise in their respective States, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, which had Assembly elections recently, have created history by recording the highest percentage of voter turnout this time.While West Bengal recorded 84.46 per cent voter turnout this time, in 2006 Assembly poll it had 81.97 per cent polling. In Tamil Nadu, in the recent poll 78.80 per cent voters exercised their franchise compared to 70.82 per cent in 2006 poll. Puducherry had 85.57 per cent (it was 85.46 per cent in 2006 poll) voter turnout this time, Assam 76.04 per cent (75.77 per cent) and Kerala recorded 75.12 per cent (72.38 per cent) during this election.
Indian woman conquers Mt. Everest
Tine Mena, 25, of Arunachal Pradesh, has become the first Indian woman to successfully scale Mt. Everest this season. She reached the top of the world's highest peak , along with her guide Tsering Dorje Sherpa, 32, on May 9. — PTI
Raj Rajaratnam convicted
Raj Rajaratnam, 54, founder of the hedge fund group Galleon, was found guilty on Wednesday of fraud and conspiracy in the biggest ever insider trading case in the U.S. — PTI
Raman Singh: why appoint Binayak to Planning Commission panel?
Even as the Planning Commission stood by its decision to nominate Binayak Sen to its steering committee on health, there is a loud note of disapproval from Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, who has questioned the rationale behind the appointment, saying the rights activist is still facing trial.
“The people of Chhattisgarh do not approve of the appointment,” he said. “He has not been absolved of the charges by the court but just given bail,” Dr. Singh told journalists here.
(The Supreme Court recently granted bail to Dr. Sen, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Chhattisgarh trial court on charges of sedition.)
Pointing out that for such appointments a proper procedure was followed including scrutiny of antecedents, Dr Singh said: “Is there such a dearth of experts in the country that the Centre had to take the advice of a person accused of sedition?
New IT rules may make cyber cafés out of bounds
If the new rules framed by the Department of Information Technology for using cyber cafés are implemented in letter and spirit, they could well force people without their own computers to stay away from accessing the Internet, besides compelling the owners of these small businesses to store minute details about their customers' surfing habits in the face of penal action.
Notified last month, the IT (Guidelines for Cyber Café) Rules, 2011, require cyber café customers to furnish proper identification proof, a copy of which must be stored for a year. Acceptable identity cards include those issued by any school or college, or photo credit cards, passports, voter identity cards, PAN cards, driving licences or any cards issued by a government agency, including the UID number.
Schoolchildren who do not have a photo ID will not be allowed entry unless accompanied by an adult possessing identity proof.
Iran seeks enhanced regional role
Iran and the global powers are set to begin fresh talks, with south-west Asia in flux following uprisings in the Arab world and the death in Pakistan of Osama bin Laden.
Head of Iran's National Security Council Saeed Jalili wrote to European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton accepting the invitation for talks. He asked the global powers to align themselves with the political transformation that the region has been experiencing. “What we witness today obviously proves that…the future management of the world would be based on the will of nations for their self-determination.”
Mr. Jalili said the “developments of the past few months” had established that Iran three years ago had correctly identified the underlying principles that have brought about these changes.
Iran had last held talks with the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany in January in Istanbul.
The western powers have expressed anxiety about Iran's nuclear enrichment programme, which they fear can lead to Iran's emergence as an atomic weapon power
India goes down to Pakistan
The spectacular victory sequence that India constructed since the last World Cup in New Delhi was shattered when Pakistan inflicted a 3-1 defeat on Wednesday in the Azlan Shah hockey tournament here. India led 1-0 at half-time.
RCB cruises to its sixth win in-a-row
The farewell for Shane Warne at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium was not the desired one. Chris Gayle expectedly spoilt it.
Rajasthan Royals was beaten by Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Indian Premier League engagements at this venue came to an end with the home team unsure of a place in the play-offs.
Led by Virat Kohli in place of an injured Daniel Vettori, Royal Challengers with this nine-wicket win has almost sealed a play-offs slot with 15 points and three matches in hand. RR has 11 from 12 matches.
‘I came good when it mattered most'
Dronavalli Harika is delighted at having won one of the biggest titles of her career (the Asian women's chess championship in Moshad in Iran on Tuesday) and more importantly that she has once again qualified for the next edition of the World championship.
“This is a great feeling. The competition was very tough but I enjoyed the tournament and I am happy that I came good when it mattered most,” said Harika, whose first phone call was to her coach N. V. S. Ramaraju.
“The long wait for the big title has ended and this should help me in looking ahead,” said the 20-year-old from Guntur, who was top seeded in the tournament.
“The long hours of hard work with my coach has paid off. I did experiment a bit with my Defence variations rather unsuccessfully. ” said the former World junior champion.
ICC committee recommend Decision Review System in all international matches
The controversial Decision Review System (DRS) should be used in all international matches, the cricket committee of the International Cricket Council recommended on Wednesday.
“The committee, while recognising the need to take account of existing (television) contracts, unanimously recommended the system be used in all Test matches, one-day internationals and Twenty20s,” committee chairman Clive Lloyd, the former West Indies captain, told a news conference here at Lord's following the conclusion of a two-day meeting.
He added teams should be restricted to one unsuccessful challenge per innings in one-day and Twenty20 games, rather than the current two to stop what Dave Richardson, the ICC's general manager for cricket, called the ‘tactical' use of reviews.
The system, whereby players can challenge on-field decisions, was used in all matches throughout the recent World Cup in the subcontinent.
But for all other major international matches the agreement, in practice, of both sides is required although responsibility technically rests with the home board.
However, world champion India has been opposed to the system almost from its inception and a controversial lbw decision during its World Cup tied match with England.
Nevertheless, Richardson insisted: “The level of believability in ball-tracking systems has improved.
World table tennis championships :Sharath exits
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal suffered a shock 11-8, 9-11, 8-11, 7-11, 9-11 defeat to lower-ranked Chen Chien-An of Chinese Taipei in the first round of the World table tennis championships in Rotterdam.
FIH to launch ‘Project Chak De'
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has announced its intention to make India a hub of hockey activities.
Unveiling its plan of reviving its erstwhile Project India, now called ‘FIH Project Chak De,' the FIH has charted out the major features of the initiative.
Under the project, the FIH promised five important tournaments to be held in India in the next three years, establishment of invitation places for the country in elite events like the Champions Trophy and other televised tournaments, creation of a professional Indian league, administrative and international coaching support to assist Hockey India and support to schools and academies.
Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, FIH President Leandro Negre and Chief Executive Kelly Fairweather — encouraged by the success of the World Cup and Commonwealth Games last year — committed a few more events to India apart from those already allotte
Bin Laden death impacts on Russian security: Medvedev
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the killing of Osama bin Laden directly impacts on the country's security and called for strengthening security at Russian embassies abroad.
In his first public comment on bin Laden's killing, Mr. Medvedev noted links between al-Qaeda and the simmering insurgency in Russia's North Caucasus.
“The liquidation of terrorists, even as high-profile as the recently killed bin Laden, is directly related to the level of security in our country,” Mr. Medvedev told a meeting of the Security Council in his Gorky residence outside Moscow on Wednesday.
“It is no secret that the terrorist network al-Qaeda has regularly sent and continues to send its emissaries to the territory of our country,” said Mr. Medvedev.
Wipro to buy major stake in Brazilian firm
Wipro has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake of Brazil based Hydraulic Cylinder manufacturer R.K.M.Equipmentos Hidraulicos, subject to approvals, Wipro said in a statement.
Taj Gateway Hotel opens in Colombo
Indian Hotels Company (Taj group) on Wednesday announced the opening of the first international ‘gateway' hotel, with the re-branding of the Taj Airport Garden Hotel here
Centre allows FDI in Limited Liability Partnership firms
FIIs, foreign venture capital investors will not be allowed to invest in LLPs
In a policy amendment aimed at attracting more long-term foreign inflows, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday allowed foreign direct investment (FDI) in Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) firms, beginning with the ‘open' sectors such as mining, power and airports where monitoring is not required, subject to certain specific conditions.
“The FDI in LLPs will be implemented in a calibrated manner, beginning with the ‘open' sectors where monitoring is not required,” an official statement said. As per the CCEA approval for calibrated implementation, LLPs with FDI will be permitted through the government approval route (read Foreign Investment Promotion Board) in those sectors and activities where 100 per cent FDI is allowed through the automatic route and there are no FDI-linked performance related conditions.
However, LLPs with FDI will not be allowed to operate in agricultural and plantation activities, print media or real estate business and will also not be eligible to make any downstream investments.
With regard to funding of LLPs, the statement said that an Indian company, having FDI, will be permitted to make downstream investment in LLPs only if both the company as well as the LLP are operating in sectors where 100 per cent FDI is allowed, through the automatic route.
CCI to vet high value M&As
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Wednesday notified regulations that require corporates to seek its approval before going in for high-value mergers and acquisitions (M&As), while CCI will take a view on the proposed merger deals within 180 days of the filing of notice by the companies.
The new regulations — Competition Commission of India (Procedure in regard to the transaction of business relating to combinations) Regulations, 2011 — will come into effect from June 1.
According to the regulations, CCI can either approve the merger proposal or reject it or modify it. Companies would have to submit a fee of up to Rs.1 lakh for getting the CCI approval. Companies with a turnover of over Rs.1,500 crore will have to approach the CCI for approval before merging with another firm. Only those proposals would need the CCI's nod where the companies have combined assets of Rs.1,000 crore or more, or a combined turnover of Rs.3,000 crore or more.
9% GDP growth unlikely this fiscal, says Pranab
In line with the Reserve Bank's prognosis on the economic scenario, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee conceded that it would not be possible to achieve the targeted GDP (gross domestic product) growth rate of nine per cent during the current fiscal owing to volatility in global commodity prices.
“Due to volatility in international commodity prices and other supply constraints, it may not be possible to achieve the growth rate of nine per cent (+/-0.25 per cent) for the current financial year,” Mr. Mukherjee said while addressing probationers of Indian Economic Service (IES) here.
However, he expressed confidence that headline inflation [is] moderate to 7.0-7.5 per cent from the current high of near nine per cent.
Mr. Mukherjee felt that one of the major challenges that India faces is to “achieve sustained GDP growth at the rate of 9-10 per cent with fiscal prudence and moderate inflation”.
High growth was also essential to raise resources for funding social sector schemes such as guaranteed employment under MGNREGA, the Right to Education and the proposed Right to Food Act
165 University Avenue: Silicon Valley's 'lucky building'
BUSINESS
30 August 2010 Last updated at 23:01 GMT
For rapid growth and dizzying success, there's no better example than Google.
In just 12 years, Google has grown from three people in a suburban garage to a workforce of more than 20,000 in 70 offices around the world.
Craig Silverstein has been there from the start. He joined Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 to become the company's first employee.
"When we first started the company, I didn't have a title because we were very small," he remembers.
His suggestion was 'Vice President of Engineering'.
"They said, 'I think we'll leave that position open for a little while.' So we settled on Director of Technology and I've been that ever since."
Lucky
Silverstein believes that Google's founders had the right idea at the right time.
"Google was very lucky," he says.
"It started just at that time when there was a transition between being able to get around [the internet] with directories and friends' recommendations, to where you really needed to be able to search for things to find them."
And as the internet grew, so too did Google's payroll.
"We grew too big for the garage. We were six people. We had hired three more who hadn't started yet and so we needed a new space. And we spent a lot of time looking."
The office space they settled on was in the so-called 'lucky building' at 165 University Avenue - though Silverstein disagrees with this mantle.
"In the space right before us was some sort of website for learning Spanish or something like that. I've forgotten their name, but you've never heard of them. So certainly... it didn't entirely lead to blockbuster companies.
"I think what's really lucky is starting in Silicon Valley," he says.
"If you're a start-up, the support network for things like financing, legal help, for finding people who are able to do the human resources... it's so much better in Silicon Valley than most parts of the world."
"I think it's probably coincidence... that a lot of successful companies have come out of this one building, but it's not coincidence at all that a lot of successful companies have come out of this one part of the world."
30 August 2010 Last updated at 23:01 GMT
For rapid growth and dizzying success, there's no better example than Google.
In just 12 years, Google has grown from three people in a suburban garage to a workforce of more than 20,000 in 70 offices around the world.
Craig Silverstein has been there from the start. He joined Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 to become the company's first employee.
"When we first started the company, I didn't have a title because we were very small," he remembers.
His suggestion was 'Vice President of Engineering'.
"They said, 'I think we'll leave that position open for a little while.' So we settled on Director of Technology and I've been that ever since."
Lucky
Silverstein believes that Google's founders had the right idea at the right time.
"Google was very lucky," he says.
"It started just at that time when there was a transition between being able to get around [the internet] with directories and friends' recommendations, to where you really needed to be able to search for things to find them."
And as the internet grew, so too did Google's payroll.
"We grew too big for the garage. We were six people. We had hired three more who hadn't started yet and so we needed a new space. And we spent a lot of time looking."
The office space they settled on was in the so-called 'lucky building' at 165 University Avenue - though Silverstein disagrees with this mantle.
"In the space right before us was some sort of website for learning Spanish or something like that. I've forgotten their name, but you've never heard of them. So certainly... it didn't entirely lead to blockbuster companies.
"I think what's really lucky is starting in Silicon Valley," he says.
"If you're a start-up, the support network for things like financing, legal help, for finding people who are able to do the human resources... it's so much better in Silicon Valley than most parts of the world."
"I think it's probably coincidence... that a lot of successful companies have come out of this one building, but it's not coincidence at all that a lot of successful companies have come out of this one part of the world."
Start-up Stories: Mike Malone
BUSINESS
18 January 2011 Last updated at 16:49 GMT
"Great entrepreneurs are willing to die for their companies." Advice for those who want to start a business, from technology writer and Silicon Valley expert Michael S Malone.
If ever there was a reporter who could claim to really know Silicon Valley, and what makes its supremely successful entrepreneurs tick, it would have to be Mike Malone.
Mr Malone grew up in Sunnyvale, one of several small towns surrounding San Francisco Bay that are now home to some of the biggest and most successful technology companies in the world.
After working in public relations, he joined the San Jose Mercury News and became one of the first daily news reporters to cover high-technology industries as they began to flourish in northern California in the 1970s and 1980s.
He went on develop a career in journalism and broadcasting, and to be the author of many books, including "Bill and Dave", a celebrated biography of the founders of Hewlett-Packard, perhaps the archetypal Silicon Valley company.
Mike Malone also finds time to act as an advisor to new and established companies alike.
What factors does he think would-be entrepreneurs need to be most aware of?
Commitment
Many people who want to start a company underestimate the amount of time and effort involved.
According to Mr Malone "you can't say, 'well, I'm going to give it 80 percent but I want to spend more time with my family.' That doesn't work".
He recalls one entrepreneur telling him she was prepared to die for her company, if that's what it would take to make it succeed. What is needed is an almost fanatical devotion to the task of getting the company going, he says.
"You have to really believe in yourself and believe that you are in charge of your destiny, and you've got to keep moving forward".
Money
"When I go into a new start-up company and I see that they've got new desks and new chairs, and expensive computers, I immediately write that company off."
Mr Malone advises start-ups to keep a tight grip on their cash - not just because conserving cash will help them to survive longer, but also because it's a sign of the correct attitude, that the company is serious about succeeding in the longer term.
Fire yourself
Getting the right team in place is incredibly important. Do not hire your best friends just because you like them - everyone involved has to be able to deliver a good result.
"Go out and treat your team at the beginning the way you would treat the management team of your company 20 years on" advises Mike Malone.
It's also important to know when to move on. Many people who are good at starting companies are not so good at running them once they're firmly established. If that is the case, be prepared to let others with more developed management skills take over.
Ideas
The excitement that new ideas generate can often be valuable in helping to build team spirit in the early stages of creating a viable business. However, some companies have to develop many different products before they end up with one that they can actually sell.
Mr Malone cites the example of Hewlett-Packard, which tried "automatic bowling-pin setters…escalators…'intelligent' urinals…crazy crop-picking devices...They went through a whole list of ideas before they finally said, 'well you know, why don't we use Hewlett's graduate school project,' and that was the audio oscillator which they sold to Disney."
Sooner or later, product ideas have "to meet the test of the market place… companies that stick with great ideas that turn out to be impractical die."
Location
A sometimes overlooked question is the importance of where entrepreneurs should base themselves. To Mr Malone, Silicon Valley has advantages over many other places in the world. He points to the business-friendly 'eco-system' of the area, with its savvy venture capitalists ready to back the flow of ideas emerging from the campuses of Stanford and Berkeley.
But social attitudes towards business are perhaps even more important. For one thing, there's a willingness to not only accept failure, but also to embrace the learning opportunity it can present.
Another key factor is "an eternal optimism that the future is going to be better than the past. If you have a society where they always feel like the golden age was behind them, then there's no motive to keep going after that brass ring."
Other parts of the world that have tried to copy the Valley usually fail because they don't understand how interwoven the business community is with other parts of society.
"If you're going to build a Silicon Glen… or whatever you want to call it… it has to arise from the culture and the mores of the community in which it appears", says Mr Malone.
Half the battle lies in creating a climate where entrepreneurship is celebrated rather than stigmatised, and where there are business heroes to look up to. "We have our hall of fame. We tell our children stories about men and women that took gigantic risks and pulled it off."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12216759?print=true
18 January 2011 Last updated at 16:49 GMT
"Great entrepreneurs are willing to die for their companies." Advice for those who want to start a business, from technology writer and Silicon Valley expert Michael S Malone.
If ever there was a reporter who could claim to really know Silicon Valley, and what makes its supremely successful entrepreneurs tick, it would have to be Mike Malone.
Mr Malone grew up in Sunnyvale, one of several small towns surrounding San Francisco Bay that are now home to some of the biggest and most successful technology companies in the world.
After working in public relations, he joined the San Jose Mercury News and became one of the first daily news reporters to cover high-technology industries as they began to flourish in northern California in the 1970s and 1980s.
He went on develop a career in journalism and broadcasting, and to be the author of many books, including "Bill and Dave", a celebrated biography of the founders of Hewlett-Packard, perhaps the archetypal Silicon Valley company.
Mike Malone also finds time to act as an advisor to new and established companies alike.
What factors does he think would-be entrepreneurs need to be most aware of?
Commitment
Many people who want to start a company underestimate the amount of time and effort involved.
According to Mr Malone "you can't say, 'well, I'm going to give it 80 percent but I want to spend more time with my family.' That doesn't work".
He recalls one entrepreneur telling him she was prepared to die for her company, if that's what it would take to make it succeed. What is needed is an almost fanatical devotion to the task of getting the company going, he says.
"You have to really believe in yourself and believe that you are in charge of your destiny, and you've got to keep moving forward".
Money
"When I go into a new start-up company and I see that they've got new desks and new chairs, and expensive computers, I immediately write that company off."
Mr Malone advises start-ups to keep a tight grip on their cash - not just because conserving cash will help them to survive longer, but also because it's a sign of the correct attitude, that the company is serious about succeeding in the longer term.
Fire yourself
Getting the right team in place is incredibly important. Do not hire your best friends just because you like them - everyone involved has to be able to deliver a good result.
"Go out and treat your team at the beginning the way you would treat the management team of your company 20 years on" advises Mike Malone.
It's also important to know when to move on. Many people who are good at starting companies are not so good at running them once they're firmly established. If that is the case, be prepared to let others with more developed management skills take over.
Ideas
The excitement that new ideas generate can often be valuable in helping to build team spirit in the early stages of creating a viable business. However, some companies have to develop many different products before they end up with one that they can actually sell.
Mr Malone cites the example of Hewlett-Packard, which tried "automatic bowling-pin setters…escalators…'intelligent' urinals…crazy crop-picking devices...They went through a whole list of ideas before they finally said, 'well you know, why don't we use Hewlett's graduate school project,' and that was the audio oscillator which they sold to Disney."
Sooner or later, product ideas have "to meet the test of the market place… companies that stick with great ideas that turn out to be impractical die."
Location
A sometimes overlooked question is the importance of where entrepreneurs should base themselves. To Mr Malone, Silicon Valley has advantages over many other places in the world. He points to the business-friendly 'eco-system' of the area, with its savvy venture capitalists ready to back the flow of ideas emerging from the campuses of Stanford and Berkeley.
But social attitudes towards business are perhaps even more important. For one thing, there's a willingness to not only accept failure, but also to embrace the learning opportunity it can present.
Another key factor is "an eternal optimism that the future is going to be better than the past. If you have a society where they always feel like the golden age was behind them, then there's no motive to keep going after that brass ring."
Other parts of the world that have tried to copy the Valley usually fail because they don't understand how interwoven the business community is with other parts of society.
"If you're going to build a Silicon Glen… or whatever you want to call it… it has to arise from the culture and the mores of the community in which it appears", says Mr Malone.
Half the battle lies in creating a climate where entrepreneurship is celebrated rather than stigmatised, and where there are business heroes to look up to. "We have our hall of fame. We tell our children stories about men and women that took gigantic risks and pulled it off."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12216759?print=true
Is there a genius in all of us? from bbc
13 January 2011 Last updated at 01:36 GMT
Those who think geniuses are born and not made may be wrong, says writer David Shenk.
Where do athletic and artistic abilities come from? With phrases like "gifted musician", "natural athlete" and "innate intelligence", we have long assumed that talent is a genetic thing some of us have and others don't.
But new science suggests the source of abilities is much more interesting and improvisational. It turns out that everything we are is a developmental process and this includes what we get from our genes.
A century ago, geneticists saw genes as robot actors always uttering the same lines in exactly the same way, and much of the public is still stuck with this old idea. In recent years, though, scientists have seen a dramatic upgrade in their understanding of heredity.
They now know that genes interact with their surroundings, getting turned on and off all the time. In effect, the same genes have different effects depending on who they are talking to.
Malleable
"There are no genetic factors that can be studied independently of the environment," says Michael Meaney, a professor at McGill University in Canada.
Continue reading the main story “Start Quote
It would be folly to suggest that anyone can literally do or become anything. But the new science tells us that it's equally foolish to think that mediocrity is built into most of us”
End Quote David Shenk
"And there are no environmental factors that function independently of the genome. [A trait] emerges only from the interaction of gene and environment."
This means that everything about us - our personalities, our intelligence, our abilities - are actually determined by the lives we lead. The very notion of "innate" no longer holds together.
"In each case the individual animal starts its life with the capacity to develop in a number of distinctly different ways," says Patrick Bateson, a biologist at Cambridge University.
"The individual animal starts its life with the capacity to develop in a number of distinctly different ways. Like a jukebox, the individual has the potential to play a number of different developmental tunes. The particular developmental tune it does play is selected by [the environment] in which the individual is growing up."
Is it that genes don't matter? Of course not. We're all different and have different theoretical potentials from one another. There was never any chance of me being Cristiano Ronaldo. Only tiny Cristiano Ronaldo had a chance of being the Cristiano Ronaldo we know now.
But we also have to understand that he could have turned out to be quite a different person, with different abilities. His future football magnificence was not carved in genetic stone.
Doomed
This new developmental paradigm is a big idea to swallow, considering how much effort has gone into persuading us that each of us inherit a fixed amount of intelligence, and that most of us are doomed to be mediocre.
Continue reading the main story
How a London cabbie's brain grows
London cabbies famously navigate one of the most complex cities in the world.
In 1999, neurologist Eleanor Maguire conducted MRI scans on their brains and compared them with the brain scans of others.
In contrast with non-cabbies, experienced taxi drivers had a greatly enlarged posterior hippocampus - that part of the brain that specialises in recalling spatial representations.
What's more, the size of cabbies' hippocampi correlated directly with each driver's experience: the longer the driving career, the larger the posterior hippocampus.
That showed that spatial tasks were actively changing cabbies' brains. This was perfectly consistent with studies of violinists, Braille readers, meditation practitioners, and recovering stroke victims.
Our brains adapt in response to the demands we put on them.
The notion of a fixed IQ has been with us for almost a century. Yet the original inventor of the IQ test, Alfred Binet, had quite the opposite opinion, and the science turns out to favor Binet.
"Intelligence represents a set of competencies in development," said Robert Sternberg from Tufts University in the US, in 2005 after many decades of study.
Talent researchers Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Kevin Rathunde and Samuel Whalen agree.
"High academic achievers are not necessarily born 'smarter' than others," they write in their book Talented Teenagers. "But work harder and develop more self-discipline."
James Flynn of the University of Otago in New Zealand has documented how IQ scores themselves have steadily risen over the century - which, after careful analysis, he ascribes to increased cultural sophistication. In other words, we've all gotten smarter as our culture has sharpened us.
Most profoundly, Carol Dweck from Stanford University in the US, has demonstrated that students who understand intelligence is malleable rather than fixed are much more intellectually ambitious and successful.
The same dynamic applies to talent. This explains why today's top runners, swimmers, bicyclists, chess players, violinists and on and on, are so much more skilful than in previous generations.
All of these abilities are dependent on a slow, incremental process which various micro-cultures have figured out how to improve. Until recently, the nature of this improvement was merely intuitive and all but invisible to scientists and other observers.
Soft and sculptable
But in recent years, a whole new field of "expertise studies", led by Florida State University psychologist Anders Ericsson, has emerged which is cleverly documenting the sources and methods of such tiny, incremental improvements.
Born to be a footballer?
Bit by bit, they're gathering a better and better understanding of how different attitudes, teaching styles and precise types of practice and exercise push people along very different pathways.
Does your child have the potential to develop into a world-class athlete, a virtuoso musician, or a brilliant Nobel-winning scientist?
It would be folly to suggest that anyone can literally do or become anything. But the new science tells us that it's equally foolish to think that mediocrity is built into most of us, or that any of us can know our true limits before we've applied enormous resources and invested vast amounts of time.
Our abilities are not set in genetic stone. They are soft and sculptable, far into adulthood. With humility, with hope, and with extraordinary determination, greatness is something to which any kid - of any age - can aspire.
David Shenk is the author of The Genius in All of Us.
Those who think geniuses are born and not made may be wrong, says writer David Shenk.
Where do athletic and artistic abilities come from? With phrases like "gifted musician", "natural athlete" and "innate intelligence", we have long assumed that talent is a genetic thing some of us have and others don't.
But new science suggests the source of abilities is much more interesting and improvisational. It turns out that everything we are is a developmental process and this includes what we get from our genes.
A century ago, geneticists saw genes as robot actors always uttering the same lines in exactly the same way, and much of the public is still stuck with this old idea. In recent years, though, scientists have seen a dramatic upgrade in their understanding of heredity.
They now know that genes interact with their surroundings, getting turned on and off all the time. In effect, the same genes have different effects depending on who they are talking to.
Malleable
"There are no genetic factors that can be studied independently of the environment," says Michael Meaney, a professor at McGill University in Canada.
Continue reading the main story “Start Quote
It would be folly to suggest that anyone can literally do or become anything. But the new science tells us that it's equally foolish to think that mediocrity is built into most of us”
End Quote David Shenk
"And there are no environmental factors that function independently of the genome. [A trait] emerges only from the interaction of gene and environment."
This means that everything about us - our personalities, our intelligence, our abilities - are actually determined by the lives we lead. The very notion of "innate" no longer holds together.
"In each case the individual animal starts its life with the capacity to develop in a number of distinctly different ways," says Patrick Bateson, a biologist at Cambridge University.
"The individual animal starts its life with the capacity to develop in a number of distinctly different ways. Like a jukebox, the individual has the potential to play a number of different developmental tunes. The particular developmental tune it does play is selected by [the environment] in which the individual is growing up."
Is it that genes don't matter? Of course not. We're all different and have different theoretical potentials from one another. There was never any chance of me being Cristiano Ronaldo. Only tiny Cristiano Ronaldo had a chance of being the Cristiano Ronaldo we know now.
But we also have to understand that he could have turned out to be quite a different person, with different abilities. His future football magnificence was not carved in genetic stone.
Doomed
This new developmental paradigm is a big idea to swallow, considering how much effort has gone into persuading us that each of us inherit a fixed amount of intelligence, and that most of us are doomed to be mediocre.
Continue reading the main story
How a London cabbie's brain grows
London cabbies famously navigate one of the most complex cities in the world.
In 1999, neurologist Eleanor Maguire conducted MRI scans on their brains and compared them with the brain scans of others.
In contrast with non-cabbies, experienced taxi drivers had a greatly enlarged posterior hippocampus - that part of the brain that specialises in recalling spatial representations.
What's more, the size of cabbies' hippocampi correlated directly with each driver's experience: the longer the driving career, the larger the posterior hippocampus.
That showed that spatial tasks were actively changing cabbies' brains. This was perfectly consistent with studies of violinists, Braille readers, meditation practitioners, and recovering stroke victims.
Our brains adapt in response to the demands we put on them.
The notion of a fixed IQ has been with us for almost a century. Yet the original inventor of the IQ test, Alfred Binet, had quite the opposite opinion, and the science turns out to favor Binet.
"Intelligence represents a set of competencies in development," said Robert Sternberg from Tufts University in the US, in 2005 after many decades of study.
Talent researchers Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Kevin Rathunde and Samuel Whalen agree.
"High academic achievers are not necessarily born 'smarter' than others," they write in their book Talented Teenagers. "But work harder and develop more self-discipline."
James Flynn of the University of Otago in New Zealand has documented how IQ scores themselves have steadily risen over the century - which, after careful analysis, he ascribes to increased cultural sophistication. In other words, we've all gotten smarter as our culture has sharpened us.
Most profoundly, Carol Dweck from Stanford University in the US, has demonstrated that students who understand intelligence is malleable rather than fixed are much more intellectually ambitious and successful.
The same dynamic applies to talent. This explains why today's top runners, swimmers, bicyclists, chess players, violinists and on and on, are so much more skilful than in previous generations.
All of these abilities are dependent on a slow, incremental process which various micro-cultures have figured out how to improve. Until recently, the nature of this improvement was merely intuitive and all but invisible to scientists and other observers.
Soft and sculptable
But in recent years, a whole new field of "expertise studies", led by Florida State University psychologist Anders Ericsson, has emerged which is cleverly documenting the sources and methods of such tiny, incremental improvements.
Born to be a footballer?
Bit by bit, they're gathering a better and better understanding of how different attitudes, teaching styles and precise types of practice and exercise push people along very different pathways.
Does your child have the potential to develop into a world-class athlete, a virtuoso musician, or a brilliant Nobel-winning scientist?
It would be folly to suggest that anyone can literally do or become anything. But the new science tells us that it's equally foolish to think that mediocrity is built into most of us, or that any of us can know our true limits before we've applied enormous resources and invested vast amounts of time.
Our abilities are not set in genetic stone. They are soft and sculptable, far into adulthood. With humility, with hope, and with extraordinary determination, greatness is something to which any kid - of any age - can aspire.
David Shenk is the author of The Genius in All of Us.
jim rohn interview
Entrepreneur, Jan, 1996 by Robert McGarvey
When he was 25, Jim Rohn had pennies in his pocket, no money in the bank and creditors calling. He was straight off an Idaho farm, clerking in a store, and didn't have much planned for the future. Then Rohn met Earl Shoaffuan Entrepreneur who had made a fortune in vitaminsuand Shoaff told him his future would look exactly like his recent past . . . unless he made some big changes.
Like what? For starters, Shoaff told him he had to face the fact that it wasn't the government or taxes or competition that was keeping him down. What was? Rohn's own thinking about success: "My philosophy was all wrong," says Rohn. "I was preventing myself from succeeding."
So Rohn set about discarding his old thinking and adopting new disciplines for sharpening his skills and goals. "Do that," said Shoaff, "and you'll make millions."
Guess what? Shoaff was right. By age 31, Rohn had left clerking to become a top-flight salesman for Shoaffuand he had earned his first million. Rohn was on his way.
That was more than three decades ago, and today, Rohn is a staple on the motivational speaking circuit. But in an era where positive- thinking proponents are a dime a dozen, Rohn swims against the current by teaching the tough-love formula he learned from Shoaff. "It worked for me," he says, "and that formula for success works today just as it did yesterday."
Here, Rohnucreator of the videotape How to Have Your Best Year Everuoffers no easy answers, no quick rides to prosperity. But give him a close read, and you just may learn the secrets to the successes you dream of at night.
Entrepreneur: You say we have the ability to design our future. What about outside forces we can't controlusuch as competition, government regulations and so forth?
Jim Rohn: We tend to blame whatever happens to us on those external things, but we need to take personal responsibility. I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned from my mentor, Earl Shoaff, that the only way things would change for me is when I changed.
We cannot change the circumstances, but we can change what we do. Either you design your future or somebody else will design it for youuand guess what they may have done for you? Not much. The ability to design our future is in our hands, if we wish it to be.
Entrepreneur: What's the key factor in determining our future?
Rohn: It's your philosophy, the sum total of what you knowuthat's your guidance system. Unless we are exposed to ideas that let us expand and refine our guidance system, we will get stuck with the system that was handed to us. If we learn from our experiences, other people's experiences, books and seminars, we can expand our guidance system. That helps us discard errors we had been making in the past and take on new disciplines for the future.
When I met my mentor at age 25, I had been working six years, but I was broke. Within the next six years, I was rich. What made the difference? Simply this: Correcting my old errors and setting up new disciplines. Mr. Shoaff told me to read, and I didunot trash but books full of information that I needed to know about sales, management, financial planning and more. He told me to take classes, and I did. And that's how I changed my philosophy.
But how can you think about changing unless someone presents you with alternative thinking? You won't change where you are overnight, but overnight you can change the direction in which you are going.
Entrepreneur: You have said that we can change our lives in a day, and in fact, you provide the prescription for doing so. What's the starting point?
Rohn: Disgust. Disgust is a negative emotion, but it can have a powerful impact on that day you become disgusted with being on your knees looking for pennies. It's the day when something clicks for youuand it can click for any of us.
One day years ago, a Girl Scout came to my door and asked if I would buy some cookies. I didn't have the money, so I lied to her and said, "I already bought lots of boxes." After she walked away, I said to myself, "I don't want to live like this. How low can I getulying to a Girl Scout?" That was a turning point for me.
Entrepreneur: Nowadays many of us have that kind of experience, and afterward we decide to "affirm" ourselves into prosperity by saying things like "I am living a wealthy, successful life." Does that work?
Rohn: Affirmations without disciplines are the beginning of delusion. I believe in affirmations if they are true. If you are broke, the best thing to affirm is "I am broke." Put that up on the refrigerator and see it every day until it becomes powerful enough to prompt you into a life change.
Until you see the truth about your condition, positive thinking won't work. Listening to thousands of pre-conscious, subconscious, high-tech affirmations will not help. All you have to say is "I am not where I want to be in life, and something is wrong. What? Something is wrong with my philosophy." Once you understand that, your life can totally change.
Entrepreneur: To start a life change, don't we first need to absorb a healthy dose of motivation?
Rohn: For 25 years, I have debated with motivational speakers who say we should start [changing a person's life] by building motivation. But I say if you are on the wrong track and you get motivated, you'll just get to disaster quicker.
The first step is for you to be unhappy about where you are and to accept the blame. This is a traumatic decision to come to, but once you recognize you need to do the new disciplines to make changes in your life, you can get motivated. But just walking around telling yourself "I'm terrific, and I'm getting better"uthat's not going to help.
Entrepreneur: What do you mean by "do the new disciplines"?
Rohn: Doing a discipline is trying things that lead to progress, to productivity. For example, a discipline might be taking a class one night a week to develop a new skill. Or reading a book a week, listening to tapes, making cold calls, creating a financial plan. All these are disciplines.
Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doinguwe do them! Disciplines are the miracle workers. Knowledge not invested in disciplines is wasted.
Entrepreneur: Where do we learn our disciplines?
Rohn: Most of us pick up our disciplines from the people who surround us. I teach people to ask themselves: "Who am I around? What are they doing to me? Is it OK?" To start the process of change, we may need to disassociate from some of the people we know, and we also need to expand our associations by finding people of value and spending more time with them. You want to be around people who have turned pennies into fortunes.
Entrepreneur: Should we avoid people who have failed?
Rohn: Not entirely. There are some people with whom you want limited contact. In fact, I teach that for proper learning, you should talk to the failures as well as the successes. It's too bad failures don't give seminars. It would be great to hear from someone who really messed up a business.
Entrepreneur: Isn't one of your key teachings that failure befalls us not as a result of a major catastrophe but because of a series of little neglects?
Rohn: That's all failure is. Neglect starts as an infection; if we don't take care of it, it becomes a disease. Here's the formula for failure: Failure is a few errors in judgment repeated every day. Success, on the other hand, is simply the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
Entrepreneur: Let's go back to that life-changing day. After we feel disgust, what do we need next?
Rohn: The desire to change. You have to want it bad enough to do it. A great mystery is why some have the desire and others don't. I've also known people in whom the desire was suppressed for years, and one day, suddenly, it's there.
Once you have the desire, get working. That's the next steputaking action. Since I was 25 years old, nobody has had to say to me "When are you going to get going?" Once you have the desire, you see rest as a necessity, not an objective. When you see rest as an objective, you haven't learned that the great delight in life isn't rest, it's productivityuand productivity only happens when you have the disciplines
Entrepreneur: On that life-changing day, what else do we need?
Rohn: Resolve. That means saying "I will do it in spite of (whatever) until I succeed. I will keep doing the disciplines."
Recognize, too, that your battle often is within yourself. It's the whispers in your mind that tell you to relax, to let that task go without doingujust for today. Resolve is the turning point where you just say, "I will do it."
Entrepreneur: How do we maintain resolve in the face of obstacles?
Rohn: Paying the price is easy when the promise is clear and powerful. True happiness is making steady progress toward defined goals. You won't get there all at once. But if you are making reasonable progress, that's the recipe for happiness. And as you make progress, your resolve grows.
Entrepreneur: What's the secret to goal-setting?
Rohn: I teach a simple process: Decide what you want, write it down, and regularly check off the steps you're taking toward your goal. That's simple, but success is usually the result of doing simple stuff.
Ask yourself, "What do I want? What skills do I have to develop to get there? How will I do it? What disciplines do I need to follow?"
Entrepreneur: You also teach that we should make it a discipline to regularly reflect on what's happened to us.
Rohn: Reviewing your experiences makes them more valuable for the future. I call it "running the tapes again." You see the highs and the lows, what you've done, and what you need to do.
At the end of every day, take a few minutes. At the end of every week, take a few hours. At the end of every month, take half a day. At the end of every year, take a weekend. We all need some solitude to think about who we're seeing, what we're doing, what went right, what went wrong. Reflection helps to lock the experiences in your mind so you can draw on them in the future.
Entrepreneur: What do you tell Entrepreneurs who say they understand what you are talking about but they're too busy?
Rohn: You cannot be too busy to reflect. This is the time when you will come up with new ideas and refinements of existing ideas that will let you double or triple your productivity. If you don't take that kind of time, it's easy to stay on the track you're on and to miss some really big stuff.
Entrepreneur: Why do you advise Entrepreneurs to work even harder on personal development than on business?
Rohn: Income seldom exceeds personal development. There may be a time where you have a little good fortune and your income soars beyond your level of development, but in time it will come back down. That's why you need the discipline to read that book, to take that class.
An Entrepreneur, in particular, needs to learn a variety of skills. Just a tiny refinement of your thinking can multiply your results. If you don't do ituif you don't studyuyou may be missing huge chunks of money and satisfaction.
Entrepreneur: When we're making progress on the road to success, what pitfalls should we look out for?
Rohn: The twin killers of success are greed and impatience. The movie "Wall Street" told us greed is good, but it isn't. Greed means working toward something at the expense of others. True ambition, which is good, means working toward something by serving others. Help enough people get what they want, and you will get whatever you want.
As for impatience, that's being unwilling to wait for the process to unfold. If you've only been at the disciplines for a week and you give them up because you are impatient, you've aced yourself out of what could have been your fortune.
Picture the farmer who plants his seeds and, a few days later, is out in the field saying "Where's my crop?" Of course the farmer is a fool, but how many of us forget that it takes time to build a great company? That's something every Entrepreneur needs to understand.
Entrepreneur: When you say "This stuff is easy," do you mean it's easy to understand?
Rohn: And to do. The key is to not neglect what's easy. Is reading a book hard? Taking a class? Ask a person why he or she neglects the easy stuff, and you'll never hear a good answer. If there's something we should do and we don't do it, whose fault is that? Nobody's but our own.
Anybody, anywhere can take the steps toward success. Success isn't magical or mysterious. It's easy if we consistently follow the disciplines. As time unfolds, add more disciplines. As you accomplish one goal, go for the next. Just have patience with yourself, and in due time, you will do it.
COPYRIGHT 1996 Entrepreneur Media, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group
When he was 25, Jim Rohn had pennies in his pocket, no money in the bank and creditors calling. He was straight off an Idaho farm, clerking in a store, and didn't have much planned for the future. Then Rohn met Earl Shoaffuan Entrepreneur who had made a fortune in vitaminsuand Shoaff told him his future would look exactly like his recent past . . . unless he made some big changes.
Like what? For starters, Shoaff told him he had to face the fact that it wasn't the government or taxes or competition that was keeping him down. What was? Rohn's own thinking about success: "My philosophy was all wrong," says Rohn. "I was preventing myself from succeeding."
So Rohn set about discarding his old thinking and adopting new disciplines for sharpening his skills and goals. "Do that," said Shoaff, "and you'll make millions."
Guess what? Shoaff was right. By age 31, Rohn had left clerking to become a top-flight salesman for Shoaffuand he had earned his first million. Rohn was on his way.
That was more than three decades ago, and today, Rohn is a staple on the motivational speaking circuit. But in an era where positive- thinking proponents are a dime a dozen, Rohn swims against the current by teaching the tough-love formula he learned from Shoaff. "It worked for me," he says, "and that formula for success works today just as it did yesterday."
Here, Rohnucreator of the videotape How to Have Your Best Year Everuoffers no easy answers, no quick rides to prosperity. But give him a close read, and you just may learn the secrets to the successes you dream of at night.
Entrepreneur: You say we have the ability to design our future. What about outside forces we can't controlusuch as competition, government regulations and so forth?
Jim Rohn: We tend to blame whatever happens to us on those external things, but we need to take personal responsibility. I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned from my mentor, Earl Shoaff, that the only way things would change for me is when I changed.
We cannot change the circumstances, but we can change what we do. Either you design your future or somebody else will design it for youuand guess what they may have done for you? Not much. The ability to design our future is in our hands, if we wish it to be.
Entrepreneur: What's the key factor in determining our future?
Rohn: It's your philosophy, the sum total of what you knowuthat's your guidance system. Unless we are exposed to ideas that let us expand and refine our guidance system, we will get stuck with the system that was handed to us. If we learn from our experiences, other people's experiences, books and seminars, we can expand our guidance system. That helps us discard errors we had been making in the past and take on new disciplines for the future.
When I met my mentor at age 25, I had been working six years, but I was broke. Within the next six years, I was rich. What made the difference? Simply this: Correcting my old errors and setting up new disciplines. Mr. Shoaff told me to read, and I didunot trash but books full of information that I needed to know about sales, management, financial planning and more. He told me to take classes, and I did. And that's how I changed my philosophy.
But how can you think about changing unless someone presents you with alternative thinking? You won't change where you are overnight, but overnight you can change the direction in which you are going.
Entrepreneur: You have said that we can change our lives in a day, and in fact, you provide the prescription for doing so. What's the starting point?
Rohn: Disgust. Disgust is a negative emotion, but it can have a powerful impact on that day you become disgusted with being on your knees looking for pennies. It's the day when something clicks for youuand it can click for any of us.
One day years ago, a Girl Scout came to my door and asked if I would buy some cookies. I didn't have the money, so I lied to her and said, "I already bought lots of boxes." After she walked away, I said to myself, "I don't want to live like this. How low can I getulying to a Girl Scout?" That was a turning point for me.
Entrepreneur: Nowadays many of us have that kind of experience, and afterward we decide to "affirm" ourselves into prosperity by saying things like "I am living a wealthy, successful life." Does that work?
Rohn: Affirmations without disciplines are the beginning of delusion. I believe in affirmations if they are true. If you are broke, the best thing to affirm is "I am broke." Put that up on the refrigerator and see it every day until it becomes powerful enough to prompt you into a life change.
Until you see the truth about your condition, positive thinking won't work. Listening to thousands of pre-conscious, subconscious, high-tech affirmations will not help. All you have to say is "I am not where I want to be in life, and something is wrong. What? Something is wrong with my philosophy." Once you understand that, your life can totally change.
Entrepreneur: To start a life change, don't we first need to absorb a healthy dose of motivation?
Rohn: For 25 years, I have debated with motivational speakers who say we should start [changing a person's life] by building motivation. But I say if you are on the wrong track and you get motivated, you'll just get to disaster quicker.
The first step is for you to be unhappy about where you are and to accept the blame. This is a traumatic decision to come to, but once you recognize you need to do the new disciplines to make changes in your life, you can get motivated. But just walking around telling yourself "I'm terrific, and I'm getting better"uthat's not going to help.
Entrepreneur: What do you mean by "do the new disciplines"?
Rohn: Doing a discipline is trying things that lead to progress, to productivity. For example, a discipline might be taking a class one night a week to develop a new skill. Or reading a book a week, listening to tapes, making cold calls, creating a financial plan. All these are disciplines.
Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doinguwe do them! Disciplines are the miracle workers. Knowledge not invested in disciplines is wasted.
Entrepreneur: Where do we learn our disciplines?
Rohn: Most of us pick up our disciplines from the people who surround us. I teach people to ask themselves: "Who am I around? What are they doing to me? Is it OK?" To start the process of change, we may need to disassociate from some of the people we know, and we also need to expand our associations by finding people of value and spending more time with them. You want to be around people who have turned pennies into fortunes.
Entrepreneur: Should we avoid people who have failed?
Rohn: Not entirely. There are some people with whom you want limited contact. In fact, I teach that for proper learning, you should talk to the failures as well as the successes. It's too bad failures don't give seminars. It would be great to hear from someone who really messed up a business.
Entrepreneur: Isn't one of your key teachings that failure befalls us not as a result of a major catastrophe but because of a series of little neglects?
Rohn: That's all failure is. Neglect starts as an infection; if we don't take care of it, it becomes a disease. Here's the formula for failure: Failure is a few errors in judgment repeated every day. Success, on the other hand, is simply the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
Entrepreneur: Let's go back to that life-changing day. After we feel disgust, what do we need next?
Rohn: The desire to change. You have to want it bad enough to do it. A great mystery is why some have the desire and others don't. I've also known people in whom the desire was suppressed for years, and one day, suddenly, it's there.
Once you have the desire, get working. That's the next steputaking action. Since I was 25 years old, nobody has had to say to me "When are you going to get going?" Once you have the desire, you see rest as a necessity, not an objective. When you see rest as an objective, you haven't learned that the great delight in life isn't rest, it's productivityuand productivity only happens when you have the disciplines
Entrepreneur: On that life-changing day, what else do we need?
Rohn: Resolve. That means saying "I will do it in spite of (whatever) until I succeed. I will keep doing the disciplines."
Recognize, too, that your battle often is within yourself. It's the whispers in your mind that tell you to relax, to let that task go without doingujust for today. Resolve is the turning point where you just say, "I will do it."
Entrepreneur: How do we maintain resolve in the face of obstacles?
Rohn: Paying the price is easy when the promise is clear and powerful. True happiness is making steady progress toward defined goals. You won't get there all at once. But if you are making reasonable progress, that's the recipe for happiness. And as you make progress, your resolve grows.
Entrepreneur: What's the secret to goal-setting?
Rohn: I teach a simple process: Decide what you want, write it down, and regularly check off the steps you're taking toward your goal. That's simple, but success is usually the result of doing simple stuff.
Ask yourself, "What do I want? What skills do I have to develop to get there? How will I do it? What disciplines do I need to follow?"
Entrepreneur: You also teach that we should make it a discipline to regularly reflect on what's happened to us.
Rohn: Reviewing your experiences makes them more valuable for the future. I call it "running the tapes again." You see the highs and the lows, what you've done, and what you need to do.
At the end of every day, take a few minutes. At the end of every week, take a few hours. At the end of every month, take half a day. At the end of every year, take a weekend. We all need some solitude to think about who we're seeing, what we're doing, what went right, what went wrong. Reflection helps to lock the experiences in your mind so you can draw on them in the future.
Entrepreneur: What do you tell Entrepreneurs who say they understand what you are talking about but they're too busy?
Rohn: You cannot be too busy to reflect. This is the time when you will come up with new ideas and refinements of existing ideas that will let you double or triple your productivity. If you don't take that kind of time, it's easy to stay on the track you're on and to miss some really big stuff.
Entrepreneur: Why do you advise Entrepreneurs to work even harder on personal development than on business?
Rohn: Income seldom exceeds personal development. There may be a time where you have a little good fortune and your income soars beyond your level of development, but in time it will come back down. That's why you need the discipline to read that book, to take that class.
An Entrepreneur, in particular, needs to learn a variety of skills. Just a tiny refinement of your thinking can multiply your results. If you don't do ituif you don't studyuyou may be missing huge chunks of money and satisfaction.
Entrepreneur: When we're making progress on the road to success, what pitfalls should we look out for?
Rohn: The twin killers of success are greed and impatience. The movie "Wall Street" told us greed is good, but it isn't. Greed means working toward something at the expense of others. True ambition, which is good, means working toward something by serving others. Help enough people get what they want, and you will get whatever you want.
As for impatience, that's being unwilling to wait for the process to unfold. If you've only been at the disciplines for a week and you give them up because you are impatient, you've aced yourself out of what could have been your fortune.
Picture the farmer who plants his seeds and, a few days later, is out in the field saying "Where's my crop?" Of course the farmer is a fool, but how many of us forget that it takes time to build a great company? That's something every Entrepreneur needs to understand.
Entrepreneur: When you say "This stuff is easy," do you mean it's easy to understand?
Rohn: And to do. The key is to not neglect what's easy. Is reading a book hard? Taking a class? Ask a person why he or she neglects the easy stuff, and you'll never hear a good answer. If there's something we should do and we don't do it, whose fault is that? Nobody's but our own.
Anybody, anywhere can take the steps toward success. Success isn't magical or mysterious. It's easy if we consistently follow the disciplines. As time unfolds, add more disciplines. As you accomplish one goal, go for the next. Just have patience with yourself, and in due time, you will do it.
COPYRIGHT 1996 Entrepreneur Media, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group
Just do it - motivational speaker Jim Rohn - Interview
Entrepreneur, Jan, 1996 by Robert McGarvey
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When he was 25, Jim Rohn had pennies in his pocket, no money in the bank and creditors calling. He was straight off an Idaho farm, clerking in a store, and didn't have much planned for the future. Then Rohn met Earl Shoaffuan Entrepreneur who had made a fortune in vitaminsuand Shoaff told him his future would look exactly like his recent past . . . unless he made some big changes.
Like what? For starters, Shoaff told him he had to face the fact that it wasn't the government or taxes or competition that was keeping him down. What was? Rohn's own thinking about success: "My philosophy was all wrong," says Rohn. "I was preventing myself from succeeding."
So Rohn set about discarding his old thinking and adopting new disciplines for sharpening his skills and goals. "Do that," said Shoaff, "and you'll make millions."
Guess what? Shoaff was right. By age 31, Rohn had left clerking to become a top-flight salesman for Shoaffuand he had earned his first million. Rohn was on his way.
That was more than three decades ago, and today, Rohn is a staple on the motivational speaking circuit. But in an era where positive- thinking proponents are a dime a dozen, Rohn swims against the current by teaching the tough-love formula he learned from Shoaff. "It worked for me," he says, "and that formula for success works today just as it did yesterday."
Here, Rohnucreator of the videotape How to Have Your Best Year Everuoffers no easy answers, no quick rides to prosperity. But give him a close read, and you just may learn the secrets to the successes you dream of at night.
Entrepreneur: You say we have the ability to design our future. What about outside forces we can't controlusuch as competition, government regulations and so forth?
Jim Rohn: We tend to blame whatever happens to us on those external things, but we need to take personal responsibility. I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned from my mentor, Earl Shoaff, that the only way things would change for me is when I changed.
We cannot change the circumstances, but we can change what we do. Either you design your future or somebody else will design it for youuand guess what they may have done for you? Not much. The ability to design our future is in our hands, if we wish it to be.
Entrepreneur: What's the key factor in determining our future?
Rohn: It's your philosophy, the sum total of what you knowuthat's your guidance system. Unless we are exposed to ideas that let us expand and refine our guidance system, we will get stuck with the system that was handed to us. If we learn from our experiences, other people's experiences, books and seminars, we can expand our guidance system. That helps us discard errors we had been making in the past and take on new disciplines for the future.
When I met my mentor at age 25, I had been working six years, but I was broke. Within the next six years, I was rich. What made the difference? Simply this: Correcting my old errors and setting up new disciplines. Mr. Shoaff told me to read, and I didunot trash but books full of information that I needed to know about sales, management, financial planning and more. He told me to take classes, and I did. And that's how I changed my philosophy.
But how can you think about changing unless someone presents you with alternative thinking? You won't change where you are overnight, but overnight you can change the direction in which you are going.
Entrepreneur: You have said that we can change our lives in a day, and in fact, you provide the prescription for doing so. What's the starting point?
Rohn: Disgust. Disgust is a negative emotion, but it can have a powerful impact on that day you become disgusted with being on your knees looking for pennies. It's the day when something clicks for youuand it can click for any of us.
One day years ago, a Girl Scout came to my door and asked if I would buy some cookies. I didn't have the money, so I lied to her and said, "I already bought lots of boxes." After she walked away, I said to myself, "I don't want to live like this. How low can I getulying to a Girl Scout?" That was a turning point for me.
Entrepreneur: Nowadays many of us have that kind of experience, and afterward we decide to "affirm" ourselves into prosperity by saying things like "I am living a wealthy, successful life." Does that work?
Rohn: Affirmations without disciplines are the beginning of delusion. I believe in affirmations if they are true. If you are broke, the best thing to affirm is "I am broke." Put that up on the refrigerator and see it every day until it becomes powerful enough to prompt you into a life change.
Until you see the truth about your condition, positive thinking won't work. Listening to thousands of pre-conscious, subconscious, high-tech affirmations will not help. All you have to say is "I am not where I want to be in life, and something is wrong. What? Something is wrong with my philosophy." Once you understand that, your life can totally change.
Entrepreneur: To start a life change, don't we first need to absorb a healthy dose of motivation?
Rohn: For 25 years, I have debated with motivational speakers who say we should start [changing a person's life] by building motivation. But I say if you are on the wrong track and you get motivated, you'll just get to disaster quicker.
The first step is for you to be unhappy about where you are and to accept the blame. This is a traumatic decision to come to, but once you recognize you need to do the new disciplines to make changes in your life, you can get motivated. But just walking around telling yourself "I'm terrific, and I'm getting better"uthat's not going to help.
Entrepreneur: What do you mean by "do the new disciplines"?
Rohn: Doing a discipline is trying things that lead to progress, to productivity. For example, a discipline might be taking a class one night a week to develop a new skill. Or reading a book a week, listening to tapes, making cold calls, creating a financial plan. All these are disciplines.
Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doinguwe do them! Disciplines are the miracle workers. Knowledge not invested in disciplines is wasted.
Entrepreneur: Where do we learn our disciplines?
Rohn: Most of us pick up our disciplines from the people who surround us. I teach people to ask themselves: "Who am I around? What are they doing to me? Is it OK?" To start the process of change, we may need to disassociate from some of the people we know, and we also need to expand our associations by finding people of value and spending more time with them. You want to be around people who have turned pennies into fortunes.
Entrepreneur: Should we avoid people who have failed?
Rohn: Not entirely. There are some people with whom you want limited contact. In fact, I teach that for proper learning, you should talk to the failures as well as the successes. It's too bad failures don't give seminars. It would be great to hear from someone who really messed up a business.
Entrepreneur: Isn't one of your key teachings that failure befalls us not as a result of a major catastrophe but because of a series of little neglects?
Rohn: That's all failure is. Neglect starts as an infection; if we don't take care of it, it becomes a disease. Here's the formula for failure: Failure is a few errors in judgment repeated every day. Success, on the other hand, is simply the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
Entrepreneur: Let's go back to that life-changing day. After we feel disgust, what do we need next?
Rohn: The desire to change. You have to want it bad enough to do it. A great mystery is why some have the desire and others don't. I've also known people in whom the desire was suppressed for years, and one day, suddenly, it's there.
Once you have the desire, get working. That's the next steputaking action. Since I was 25 years old, nobody has had to say to me "When are you going to get going?" Once you have the desire, you see rest as a necessity, not an objective. When you see rest as an objective, you haven't learned that the great delight in life isn't rest, it's productivityuand productivity only happens when you have the disciplines
Entrepreneur: On that life-changing day, what else do we need?
Rohn: Resolve. That means saying "I will do it in spite of (whatever) until I succeed. I will keep doing the disciplines."
Recognize, too, that your battle often is within yourself. It's the whispers in your mind that tell you to relax, to let that task go without doingujust for today. Resolve is the turning point where you just say, "I will do it."
Entrepreneur: How do we maintain resolve in the face of obstacles?
Rohn: Paying the price is easy when the promise is clear and powerful. True happiness is making steady progress toward defined goals. You won't get there all at once. But if you are making reasonable progress, that's the recipe for happiness. And as you make progress, your resolve grows.
Entrepreneur: What's the secret to goal-setting?
Rohn: I teach a simple process: Decide what you want, write it down, and regularly check off the steps you're taking toward your goal. That's simple, but success is usually the result of doing simple stuff.
Ask yourself, "What do I want? What skills do I have to develop to get there? How will I do it? What disciplines do I need to follow?"
Entrepreneur: You also teach that we should make it a discipline to regularly reflect on what's happened to us.
Rohn: Reviewing your experiences makes them more valuable for the future. I call it "running the tapes again." You see the highs and the lows, what you've done, and what you need to do.
At the end of every day, take a few minutes. At the end of every week, take a few hours. At the end of every month, take half a day. At the end of every year, take a weekend. We all need some solitude to think about who we're seeing, what we're doing, what went right, what went wrong. Reflection helps to lock the experiences in your mind so you can draw on them in the future.
Entrepreneur: What do you tell Entrepreneurs who say they understand what you are talking about but they're too busy?
Rohn: You cannot be too busy to reflect. This is the time when you will come up with new ideas and refinements of existing ideas that will let you double or triple your productivity. If you don't take that kind of time, it's easy to stay on the track you're on and to miss some really big stuff.
Entrepreneur: Why do you advise Entrepreneurs to work even harder on personal development than on business?
Rohn: Income seldom exceeds personal development. There may be a time where you have a little good fortune and your income soars beyond your level of development, but in time it will come back down. That's why you need the discipline to read that book, to take that class.
An Entrepreneur, in particular, needs to learn a variety of skills. Just a tiny refinement of your thinking can multiply your results. If you don't do ituif you don't studyuyou may be missing huge chunks of money and satisfaction.
Entrepreneur: When we're making progress on the road to success, what pitfalls should we look out for?
Rohn: The twin killers of success are greed and impatience. The movie "Wall Street" told us greed is good, but it isn't. Greed means working toward something at the expense of others. True ambition, which is good, means working toward something by serving others. Help enough people get what they want, and you will get whatever you want.
As for impatience, that's being unwilling to wait for the process to unfold. If you've only been at the disciplines for a week and you give them up because you are impatient, you've aced yourself out of what could have been your fortune.
Picture the farmer who plants his seeds and, a few days later, is out in the field saying "Where's my crop?" Of course the farmer is a fool, but how many of us forget that it takes time to build a great company? That's something every Entrepreneur needs to understand.
Entrepreneur: When you say "This stuff is easy," do you mean it's easy to understand?
Rohn: And to do. The key is to not neglect what's easy. Is reading a book hard? Taking a class? Ask a person why he or she neglects the easy stuff, and you'll never hear a good answer. If there's something we should do and we don't do it, whose fault is that? Nobody's but our own.
Anybody, anywhere can take the steps toward success. Success isn't magical or mysterious. It's easy if we consistently follow the disciplines. As time unfolds, add more disciplines. As you accomplish one goal, go for the next. Just have patience with yourself, and in due time, you will do it.
COPYRIGHT 1996 Entrepreneur Media, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group
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When he was 25, Jim Rohn had pennies in his pocket, no money in the bank and creditors calling. He was straight off an Idaho farm, clerking in a store, and didn't have much planned for the future. Then Rohn met Earl Shoaffuan Entrepreneur who had made a fortune in vitaminsuand Shoaff told him his future would look exactly like his recent past . . . unless he made some big changes.
Like what? For starters, Shoaff told him he had to face the fact that it wasn't the government or taxes or competition that was keeping him down. What was? Rohn's own thinking about success: "My philosophy was all wrong," says Rohn. "I was preventing myself from succeeding."
So Rohn set about discarding his old thinking and adopting new disciplines for sharpening his skills and goals. "Do that," said Shoaff, "and you'll make millions."
Guess what? Shoaff was right. By age 31, Rohn had left clerking to become a top-flight salesman for Shoaffuand he had earned his first million. Rohn was on his way.
That was more than three decades ago, and today, Rohn is a staple on the motivational speaking circuit. But in an era where positive- thinking proponents are a dime a dozen, Rohn swims against the current by teaching the tough-love formula he learned from Shoaff. "It worked for me," he says, "and that formula for success works today just as it did yesterday."
Here, Rohnucreator of the videotape How to Have Your Best Year Everuoffers no easy answers, no quick rides to prosperity. But give him a close read, and you just may learn the secrets to the successes you dream of at night.
Entrepreneur: You say we have the ability to design our future. What about outside forces we can't controlusuch as competition, government regulations and so forth?
Jim Rohn: We tend to blame whatever happens to us on those external things, but we need to take personal responsibility. I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned from my mentor, Earl Shoaff, that the only way things would change for me is when I changed.
We cannot change the circumstances, but we can change what we do. Either you design your future or somebody else will design it for youuand guess what they may have done for you? Not much. The ability to design our future is in our hands, if we wish it to be.
Entrepreneur: What's the key factor in determining our future?
Rohn: It's your philosophy, the sum total of what you knowuthat's your guidance system. Unless we are exposed to ideas that let us expand and refine our guidance system, we will get stuck with the system that was handed to us. If we learn from our experiences, other people's experiences, books and seminars, we can expand our guidance system. That helps us discard errors we had been making in the past and take on new disciplines for the future.
When I met my mentor at age 25, I had been working six years, but I was broke. Within the next six years, I was rich. What made the difference? Simply this: Correcting my old errors and setting up new disciplines. Mr. Shoaff told me to read, and I didunot trash but books full of information that I needed to know about sales, management, financial planning and more. He told me to take classes, and I did. And that's how I changed my philosophy.
But how can you think about changing unless someone presents you with alternative thinking? You won't change where you are overnight, but overnight you can change the direction in which you are going.
Entrepreneur: You have said that we can change our lives in a day, and in fact, you provide the prescription for doing so. What's the starting point?
Rohn: Disgust. Disgust is a negative emotion, but it can have a powerful impact on that day you become disgusted with being on your knees looking for pennies. It's the day when something clicks for youuand it can click for any of us.
One day years ago, a Girl Scout came to my door and asked if I would buy some cookies. I didn't have the money, so I lied to her and said, "I already bought lots of boxes." After she walked away, I said to myself, "I don't want to live like this. How low can I getulying to a Girl Scout?" That was a turning point for me.
Entrepreneur: Nowadays many of us have that kind of experience, and afterward we decide to "affirm" ourselves into prosperity by saying things like "I am living a wealthy, successful life." Does that work?
Rohn: Affirmations without disciplines are the beginning of delusion. I believe in affirmations if they are true. If you are broke, the best thing to affirm is "I am broke." Put that up on the refrigerator and see it every day until it becomes powerful enough to prompt you into a life change.
Until you see the truth about your condition, positive thinking won't work. Listening to thousands of pre-conscious, subconscious, high-tech affirmations will not help. All you have to say is "I am not where I want to be in life, and something is wrong. What? Something is wrong with my philosophy." Once you understand that, your life can totally change.
Entrepreneur: To start a life change, don't we first need to absorb a healthy dose of motivation?
Rohn: For 25 years, I have debated with motivational speakers who say we should start [changing a person's life] by building motivation. But I say if you are on the wrong track and you get motivated, you'll just get to disaster quicker.
The first step is for you to be unhappy about where you are and to accept the blame. This is a traumatic decision to come to, but once you recognize you need to do the new disciplines to make changes in your life, you can get motivated. But just walking around telling yourself "I'm terrific, and I'm getting better"uthat's not going to help.
Entrepreneur: What do you mean by "do the new disciplines"?
Rohn: Doing a discipline is trying things that lead to progress, to productivity. For example, a discipline might be taking a class one night a week to develop a new skill. Or reading a book a week, listening to tapes, making cold calls, creating a financial plan. All these are disciplines.
Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doinguwe do them! Disciplines are the miracle workers. Knowledge not invested in disciplines is wasted.
Entrepreneur: Where do we learn our disciplines?
Rohn: Most of us pick up our disciplines from the people who surround us. I teach people to ask themselves: "Who am I around? What are they doing to me? Is it OK?" To start the process of change, we may need to disassociate from some of the people we know, and we also need to expand our associations by finding people of value and spending more time with them. You want to be around people who have turned pennies into fortunes.
Entrepreneur: Should we avoid people who have failed?
Rohn: Not entirely. There are some people with whom you want limited contact. In fact, I teach that for proper learning, you should talk to the failures as well as the successes. It's too bad failures don't give seminars. It would be great to hear from someone who really messed up a business.
Entrepreneur: Isn't one of your key teachings that failure befalls us not as a result of a major catastrophe but because of a series of little neglects?
Rohn: That's all failure is. Neglect starts as an infection; if we don't take care of it, it becomes a disease. Here's the formula for failure: Failure is a few errors in judgment repeated every day. Success, on the other hand, is simply the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
Entrepreneur: Let's go back to that life-changing day. After we feel disgust, what do we need next?
Rohn: The desire to change. You have to want it bad enough to do it. A great mystery is why some have the desire and others don't. I've also known people in whom the desire was suppressed for years, and one day, suddenly, it's there.
Once you have the desire, get working. That's the next steputaking action. Since I was 25 years old, nobody has had to say to me "When are you going to get going?" Once you have the desire, you see rest as a necessity, not an objective. When you see rest as an objective, you haven't learned that the great delight in life isn't rest, it's productivityuand productivity only happens when you have the disciplines
Entrepreneur: On that life-changing day, what else do we need?
Rohn: Resolve. That means saying "I will do it in spite of (whatever) until I succeed. I will keep doing the disciplines."
Recognize, too, that your battle often is within yourself. It's the whispers in your mind that tell you to relax, to let that task go without doingujust for today. Resolve is the turning point where you just say, "I will do it."
Entrepreneur: How do we maintain resolve in the face of obstacles?
Rohn: Paying the price is easy when the promise is clear and powerful. True happiness is making steady progress toward defined goals. You won't get there all at once. But if you are making reasonable progress, that's the recipe for happiness. And as you make progress, your resolve grows.
Entrepreneur: What's the secret to goal-setting?
Rohn: I teach a simple process: Decide what you want, write it down, and regularly check off the steps you're taking toward your goal. That's simple, but success is usually the result of doing simple stuff.
Ask yourself, "What do I want? What skills do I have to develop to get there? How will I do it? What disciplines do I need to follow?"
Entrepreneur: You also teach that we should make it a discipline to regularly reflect on what's happened to us.
Rohn: Reviewing your experiences makes them more valuable for the future. I call it "running the tapes again." You see the highs and the lows, what you've done, and what you need to do.
At the end of every day, take a few minutes. At the end of every week, take a few hours. At the end of every month, take half a day. At the end of every year, take a weekend. We all need some solitude to think about who we're seeing, what we're doing, what went right, what went wrong. Reflection helps to lock the experiences in your mind so you can draw on them in the future.
Entrepreneur: What do you tell Entrepreneurs who say they understand what you are talking about but they're too busy?
Rohn: You cannot be too busy to reflect. This is the time when you will come up with new ideas and refinements of existing ideas that will let you double or triple your productivity. If you don't take that kind of time, it's easy to stay on the track you're on and to miss some really big stuff.
Entrepreneur: Why do you advise Entrepreneurs to work even harder on personal development than on business?
Rohn: Income seldom exceeds personal development. There may be a time where you have a little good fortune and your income soars beyond your level of development, but in time it will come back down. That's why you need the discipline to read that book, to take that class.
An Entrepreneur, in particular, needs to learn a variety of skills. Just a tiny refinement of your thinking can multiply your results. If you don't do ituif you don't studyuyou may be missing huge chunks of money and satisfaction.
Entrepreneur: When we're making progress on the road to success, what pitfalls should we look out for?
Rohn: The twin killers of success are greed and impatience. The movie "Wall Street" told us greed is good, but it isn't. Greed means working toward something at the expense of others. True ambition, which is good, means working toward something by serving others. Help enough people get what they want, and you will get whatever you want.
As for impatience, that's being unwilling to wait for the process to unfold. If you've only been at the disciplines for a week and you give them up because you are impatient, you've aced yourself out of what could have been your fortune.
Picture the farmer who plants his seeds and, a few days later, is out in the field saying "Where's my crop?" Of course the farmer is a fool, but how many of us forget that it takes time to build a great company? That's something every Entrepreneur needs to understand.
Entrepreneur: When you say "This stuff is easy," do you mean it's easy to understand?
Rohn: And to do. The key is to not neglect what's easy. Is reading a book hard? Taking a class? Ask a person why he or she neglects the easy stuff, and you'll never hear a good answer. If there's something we should do and we don't do it, whose fault is that? Nobody's but our own.
Anybody, anywhere can take the steps toward success. Success isn't magical or mysterious. It's easy if we consistently follow the disciplines. As time unfolds, add more disciplines. As you accomplish one goal, go for the next. Just have patience with yourself, and in due time, you will do it.
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Formula 1 boss Christian Horner: 'Don't let them tell you you're too young
The new Formula 1 champion Sebastian Vettel may be a German, but it's a Brit who's largely responsible for his success. Christian Horner, 37, has been team principal of Red Bull Racing since 2004, when Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz bought the former Jaguar F1 team. Born in Leamington Spa, Horner started out as a driver, having raced karts from the age of 11.
After competing in Formula Renault, Formula 3 and Formula 2, he founded his own team, Arden, for his move to Formula 3000 in 1997, before switching to management.
'It was never an issue to me to be the youngest boss in the business, and while there were some doubters who thought, 'Who's this upstart?', I was able to build a strong group around me,' said Christian Horner
Set your goals as early as you can.
I was fascinated by speed as a child, and I did a deal with my parents to take a year out to see if I could make my way in motorsport. It proved to be a very rapid education. I was having to deal with all kinds of people and learn on the job. My friends at university were doing eight hours a week; I was doing eight hours a day. It was the classic university of life, and I wouldn't change it for anything.
Don't let them tell you you're too young.
Age is no barrier. It should be down to who you are and how you conduct yourself. It was never an issue to me to be the youngest boss in the business, and while there were some doubters who thought, 'Who's this upstart?', I was able to build a strong group around me.
Understand the mechanics of organisations.
Dave Richards (former F1 boss and Aston Martin chairman) was hugely supportive in helping me develop Arden. He became a partner for a while and gave me plenty of useful advice. I moved my team up to the site of his company, Prodrive, in Banbury, Oxfordshire, and it gave me a great insight into how a big organisation functions. Getting inside those places and seeing how they operate is crucial.
Give 100 per cent.
If you have a talent, focus all your time and attention on it. Only a handful of drivers get to the top in F1, but who says it won't be you? Both Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber came from humble backgrounds, but through talent and determination they've succeeded. Cream always rises to the top.
Be honest with yourself.
In 1998 I was competing against top drivers like Juan Pablo Montoya and Nick Heidfeld and I had to admit I wasn't at their level. I didn't have the talent, so rather than keep chasing a dream that wasn't going to happen, I decided to focus my attention elsewhere.
Build from the bottom up.
Arden was a start-up - two mechanics, one part-time in an off -licence, an engineer and a part-time truck driver. From there we were able to create the most successful team in F3000 of that era.
Take risks.
I had a good sponsorship package from a Russian oil company, but I bought back the shares, took full control of the business and went for it by employing two top drivers. Financially it was disastrous. I was hustling deals just to keep the cars on the track and pay the engineers, but I had nothing to lose. It was stressful, but I had few overheads and no family commitments. I put every penny I had into that year and it paid o ff.
Get everyone rowing together.
You can have the best, but they have to be in tune as a team. Jaguar had a talented team, but when we took them over in 2004 they'd never managed to achieve much success. We still have many of
those people here. It was a matter of getting them to pull in the right direction.
Go for the top talent.
My strategy in F3000 was to go and find the best mechanics, the best technicians and the best drivers. I took that into Red Bull, particularly when it came to employing Adrian Newey to design the car, because he's the best guy in the business.
Encourage team spirit.
The commitment and sacrifices made within Red Bull this season have been phenomenal. We had receptionists volunteering to jump on a plane with a component to make sure we could put a competitive car on the track. In Istanbul a rear wing arrived minutes before the qualifying session, allowing Mark Webber to take pole. There are a lot of unsung heroes here. The driver is just the frontman.
Don't look for scapegoats.
Stability and continuity are key factors in success. Jaguar had a revolving door of management, and that's not our way. We win as a team and lose as a team. Once you're in a blame culture you're on a slippery slope.
Think outside the box.
If you're not a Ferrari or a McLaren you have to rely on creative solutions. The car is e ffectively a prototype at each race, and it's relentless. Measures have been introduced in F1 to restrict spending, which is good. We've been prudent and successful. The gap has narrowed, because we have thought creatively and innovatively to ensure every penny spent is justified.
Back your instincts.
Race strategy is vital and we've developed complex software that runs through thousands of permutations dependent on the scenario, but sometimes you have to go with your gut instinct. In Singapore we pitted Mark early under the safety car when logically it wasn't the right thing to do. It was a gamble, but the upside was he finished on the podium rather than sixth.
Don't play favourites.
It was important that Mark and Sebastian could see they were getting the same support and equipment. When you have two guys competing for the biggest goal in motorsport, tension is inevitable, but they brought the best out of each other. We didn't favour either one, and if we had we'd have lost the championship. Mark and Sebastian had a long discussion after the season ended, and they're fine. We've seen how teams can be split by issues between drivers, but I'm confident that won't be the case next season.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1337519/Formula-1-boss-Christian-Horner-Dont-let-tell-youre-young.html#ixzz180yvVoj4
DEC 10, 2010 11:39 EST
What started out as a small group of activists operating a clearing house for leaked secret documents, WikiLeaks looks like it is turning into an international grass roots movement that needs no central figure to fight a “data war” in the name of Internet freedom.
It could be a long war, no matter whether Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, remains the world’s most prominent anti-secrecy figure or not.
Since November 28, when WikiLeaks began releasing a quarter of a million classified U.S. State Department cables from embassies around the world, there have been several attempts to drive the organization off the Internet and cut its channels for receiving donations. A day after Assange was arrested in London, Internet activists struck back.
While he was in prison, cut off from contact with his organization, computer hackers attacked the websites of MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal which had stopped processing donations for WikiLeaks; Amazon.com, which had banished WikiLeaks from using its rented servers; a Swiss bank and the website of the Swedish prosecutor who had issued an arrest warrant for Assange on charges of sexual misconduct.
“This movement is bigger than Assange,” said a comment in one of the dozens of passionate Internet debates on Operation Payback, as the counter-attack was called. Peter LaVenia, a leader of the New York State Green Party, described WikiLeaks as “the most important thing to happen to the cause of democratic rule” since the student revolts of 1968 in the U.S. and Europe. The mood and tone of pro-WikiLeak activists indeed evoke memories of the anti-establishment sentiment of 1968.
Since 2007, when Assange, a 39-year-old ex-hacker, set up WikiLeaks, his organization has been closely identified with him as the indispensable leader. He has described himself as “the heart and soul of this organization, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier and all the rest.” But the last few days of “hacktivism” show that even without him, the genie he uncorked could not be stuffed back into the bottle.
“This is cyber guerrilla warfare,” said Charles Dodd, a consultant to U.S. government agencies on cyber security. “They attack from the shadows and they have no fear of retaliation. There are no rules of engagement in this kind of emerging warfare.”
In the Kalashnikov-carrying kind of guerrilla war, one of the aims is to provoke the government into harsh reactions that generate sympathy for the cause and attract new followers. The American reaction to WikiLeaks’ dump of embassy cables seems to have achieved just that.
PRESSURE AND INTIMIDATION
Politicians from both sides of the spectrum have portrayed him as an arch-villain. Right-wing pundits have called for his assassination. Mike Huckabee, a presidential contender in 2008, says he should be executed.
The companies that cut off ties with WikiLeaks denied having caved to pressure from the U.S. government, but that was not the perception abroad.
In Geneva, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, expressed “concern about reports” of pressure on private companies to close down credit lines for WikiLeak donations. “If WikiLeaks has committed any recognizable illegal act, then this should be handled through the legal system,” she said, “and not through pressure and intimidation including on third parties.”
Particularly not, she might have added, in a country whose Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, had waxed lyrical in a speech in January about an Internet free of government interference and the need for American companies not to buckle to any form of censorship. “American companies need to make a principled stand. This needs to be part of our national brand.”
Nice words, well delivered. But the before-and-after WikiLeaks comparison of Clinton statements is stark. The leaks of the cables, many with brutally frank assessments of foreign leaders, were not just an attack on America’s foreign policy interests but “an attack on the international community,” she said. Clinton did not return to the subject of principled American companies or the national brand.
President Barack Obama has stayed away from the WikiLeaks controversy entirely. But his attorney general, Eric Holder, is trying to put together a legal case that would allow Assange’s extradition from Sweden to the United States. It’s a hard case to make because officials have yet to answer convincingly the question why WikiLeaks’ boss should be tried and not executives of the New York Times, the U.S. newspaper that printed some of the most sensitive leaked correspondence.
Getting Assange, an Australian, into an American court would also be a serious tactical mistake. It would turn him into a free speech martyr at a time disaffected former WikiLeaks staffers are preparing to launch a rival anti-secrecy site. Why? They left because of his high-handed management style and the organization’s lack of transparency.
The respected Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter quoted one of the prospective founders of the new group as saying they wanted an organization that was “democratically governed, rather than limited to one group or individual.” That doesn’t mean letting up on making official secrets public.
“Our long-term goal is to build a strong, transparent platform to support whistleblowers, while at the same time encouraging others to start similar projects.”
http://blogs.reuters.com/bernddebusmann/2010/12/10/wikileaks-cyberwar-and-julian-assange/
What started out as a small group of activists operating a clearing house for leaked secret documents, WikiLeaks looks like it is turning into an international grass roots movement that needs no central figure to fight a “data war” in the name of Internet freedom.
It could be a long war, no matter whether Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, remains the world’s most prominent anti-secrecy figure or not.
Since November 28, when WikiLeaks began releasing a quarter of a million classified U.S. State Department cables from embassies around the world, there have been several attempts to drive the organization off the Internet and cut its channels for receiving donations. A day after Assange was arrested in London, Internet activists struck back.
While he was in prison, cut off from contact with his organization, computer hackers attacked the websites of MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal which had stopped processing donations for WikiLeaks; Amazon.com, which had banished WikiLeaks from using its rented servers; a Swiss bank and the website of the Swedish prosecutor who had issued an arrest warrant for Assange on charges of sexual misconduct.
“This movement is bigger than Assange,” said a comment in one of the dozens of passionate Internet debates on Operation Payback, as the counter-attack was called. Peter LaVenia, a leader of the New York State Green Party, described WikiLeaks as “the most important thing to happen to the cause of democratic rule” since the student revolts of 1968 in the U.S. and Europe. The mood and tone of pro-WikiLeak activists indeed evoke memories of the anti-establishment sentiment of 1968.
Since 2007, when Assange, a 39-year-old ex-hacker, set up WikiLeaks, his organization has been closely identified with him as the indispensable leader. He has described himself as “the heart and soul of this organization, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier and all the rest.” But the last few days of “hacktivism” show that even without him, the genie he uncorked could not be stuffed back into the bottle.
“This is cyber guerrilla warfare,” said Charles Dodd, a consultant to U.S. government agencies on cyber security. “They attack from the shadows and they have no fear of retaliation. There are no rules of engagement in this kind of emerging warfare.”
In the Kalashnikov-carrying kind of guerrilla war, one of the aims is to provoke the government into harsh reactions that generate sympathy for the cause and attract new followers. The American reaction to WikiLeaks’ dump of embassy cables seems to have achieved just that.
PRESSURE AND INTIMIDATION
Politicians from both sides of the spectrum have portrayed him as an arch-villain. Right-wing pundits have called for his assassination. Mike Huckabee, a presidential contender in 2008, says he should be executed.
The companies that cut off ties with WikiLeaks denied having caved to pressure from the U.S. government, but that was not the perception abroad.
In Geneva, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, expressed “concern about reports” of pressure on private companies to close down credit lines for WikiLeak donations. “If WikiLeaks has committed any recognizable illegal act, then this should be handled through the legal system,” she said, “and not through pressure and intimidation including on third parties.”
Particularly not, she might have added, in a country whose Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, had waxed lyrical in a speech in January about an Internet free of government interference and the need for American companies not to buckle to any form of censorship. “American companies need to make a principled stand. This needs to be part of our national brand.”
Nice words, well delivered. But the before-and-after WikiLeaks comparison of Clinton statements is stark. The leaks of the cables, many with brutally frank assessments of foreign leaders, were not just an attack on America’s foreign policy interests but “an attack on the international community,” she said. Clinton did not return to the subject of principled American companies or the national brand.
President Barack Obama has stayed away from the WikiLeaks controversy entirely. But his attorney general, Eric Holder, is trying to put together a legal case that would allow Assange’s extradition from Sweden to the United States. It’s a hard case to make because officials have yet to answer convincingly the question why WikiLeaks’ boss should be tried and not executives of the New York Times, the U.S. newspaper that printed some of the most sensitive leaked correspondence.
Getting Assange, an Australian, into an American court would also be a serious tactical mistake. It would turn him into a free speech martyr at a time disaffected former WikiLeaks staffers are preparing to launch a rival anti-secrecy site. Why? They left because of his high-handed management style and the organization’s lack of transparency.
The respected Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter quoted one of the prospective founders of the new group as saying they wanted an organization that was “democratically governed, rather than limited to one group or individual.” That doesn’t mean letting up on making official secrets public.
“Our long-term goal is to build a strong, transparent platform to support whistleblowers, while at the same time encouraging others to start similar projects.”
http://blogs.reuters.com/bernddebusmann/2010/12/10/wikileaks-cyberwar-and-julian-assange/
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Is Wikileaks An Internet 9-11?
by Zen Gardner
Think about it. Where is this seemingly staged Wikileaks furor taking us? While we participate in digging into the juicy tidbits of information that incriminate just about anybody and everybody, where is it all going?
Lessons of 9/11
While 9/11 served as a wake up call to those awake and aware enough to see the obvious demolitions and misinformation and resultant "Pearl Harbor" effect, most of the world fell for it. And now people are literally bending over, as in airport 'screenings', to the onslaught of police state fascism worldwide. It's staggering. In fact, it's Orwellian. The armies, police and private sector are at war with the vague concept of terrorism – an unbeatable enemy in a war that can be drawn out indefinitely and fought in any arena necessary.
And what was the result of this declared war on terrorism? Not a war on terror, but an increase in fear and terror, all to justify the economic, social and political clampdown that has followed.
What will the Wikileaks debacle herald?
You guessed it–the last bastion of freedom of information and expression, a free Internet, will topple. After all, if information is now the enemy, we must carefully police any and every aspect of this dangerous medium–all for the safety and protection of 'we the people'.
Oh, we'll still have the Internet, just like you can still fly. You'll just have to be on the "approved" list, screened, stamped, zapped, mugged and molested if you want to get "on the net". No biggie. Thanks Julian–job well done.
Warning Signs
#1. Wikileaks—WAY too approved and publicized. Every TV and cable network, press worldwide, official recognition from every level of government. Heck, he even does a TED talk! Where's anyone else trying to expose the agenda? Only Julian. Hmmm.
#2. Biggie: This supposed system fighter says the 9/11 truth issue is "a distraction". Mustn't step on your bosses' toes now, should we Julian.. Very suspicious if you ask me.
#3. Wikileaks and Assange's sketchy background:
The WikiLeaks website first appeared on the Internet in December 2006.[15][16] The site claims to have been "founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa".[5] The creators of WikiLeaks have not been formally identified.[17] It has been represented in public since January 2007 by Julian Assange and others. Assange describes himself as a member of WikiLeaks' advisory board.[18] (Wikipedia)
Also, Assange reportedly wrote for both the New York Times and the Economist which is fishy as well–not a real enlightened or 'alternative' mindset. His mysterious persona also plays well to the Wikileaks furtive image so people won't expect to know too much, which also is very 'convenient' for keeping anything hidden.
[NOTE: There doesn't have to be deliberate, conscious involvement in some agenda on Wikileaks' part, but it helps. He, they, could be 'useful idiots' whose program has been conveniently co-opted by the controllers to serve their purpose. Either way, look for the pattern and the effects.]
#4. Watch the hype: There's a growing crescendo of anger and hate that is now being whipped up–to the point that Assange is being called a new kind of terrorist–and more disturbingly, and as expected, the comparison is now being drawn between Assange and Bin Laden:
Social Media Leaks Categorize Julian Assange As the Osama Bin Laden Of The Internet
The founder of WikiLeaks is not only a wanted man by the American authorities, his now infamous Web site
WikiLeaks is also under attack by notorious hackers, while its services are being cut-off by Amazon and EveryDNS.net. Although not officially announced, Julian Assange might be considered today's public enemy number-one, taking the place of the illusive Osama bin Laden. Not since 9/11 has any one figure reached such notoriety due to what many consider acts against a state.
Like bin Laden, Assange has no permanent address, does not maintain a headquarters, employs only a select few confidants and has taken to hiding in covert areas. Younger than bin Laden, Assange at 39 years-old may be a little more mobile than the 53 year-old, choosing to hopscotch the globe versus hibernating in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
While his face resides on the covers of magazines and newspapers around the world, similar to a Wild West 'Wanted' poster, little is known about his day-to-day activities. Like bin Laden's video addresses, while the CIA and other mercenaries are seeking his where-a-bouts, it's amazing that he still finds ways to release updates justifying his actions. (SOURCE)
Notice also how we've been hearing about Wikileaks' exploits for a few years now, giving us time to make the connection between it and sensational and 'destructive informational terrorism'. Similarly we heard about Osama through the Yemen and Nairobi attacks being attibuted to him, imprinting his "brand" on the collective mind which led to the foregone phony conclusion that he had masterminded the 9/11 attacks.
Ah, 'But what about these apparent exposures? Would they attack their own?'
Could all these serious indictments against their own just be a deflecting smokescreen to hide the real purpose? Sure worked last time. So why wouldn't they risk taking down some of their own to give this psychological operation credibility?
Pentagon strikes 'its own' on 9/11—need I say more?
The Tactic Is Very Familiar – Know Your Enemy
First there's the Hegelian Dialectic – create a problem, provoke a reaction and then implement the pre-planned solution. The staged 9/11 attacks, including the internationally inhabited World Trade Center, 'justified' the ensuing wars and worldwide clampdown on freedoms in the name of 'security', including the horrendous Patriot Act that was already written and just waiting for an excuse to be signed and implemented.
Similarly, this attack over the international Internet and drawing in diplomatic communities worldwide by exposing state secrets from a variety of countries will greatly help usher in international measures in the name of 'security', probably spearheaded once again by the fascist US government with coinciding EU, Canadian & Australian measures. It's already under way with the Department of Homeland Security confiscating websites.
All they need is 'the right incident" to justify bringing on full control. Like "Internet Terrorism"? They just can't use that term enough now, can they. After all, it's a war on terror, and "if you're not for us, you're for theterrorists." The ultimate false choice, just like everything else they foist on the human consciousness.
Pretty clever these ol' boys. It's in their blood.
Those manipulating world events belong to a cult, a brotherhood that hides behind many names and guises, and to which they pledge their absolute loyalty above everything, even their own flesh and blood. Commonly referred to as the Illuminati, this cult has an agenda they work to fulfill using certain rituals, methods and tactics.
One of their central themes and modus operandums is "Ordo Ab Chao"– order out of chaos. Create the chaos, pitting anyone against anyone while controlling and fomenting both sides–hence the double headed red phoenix symbol– for any reason, even killing or exposing their own, to create an illogical madness that they think only they can see through and understand. All the while they are manipulating world governments, banks, armies and corporate leaders and drawing the net on the outcome they have already planned.
Fear and confusion is the climate they love to foment. As long as there's a confused and uninformed populace, the ignorant and fearful masses will be crying out for help from the 'powers that be' – the very "powers that be" that caused all the problems in the first place.
They're not out to help, they're out to control. At any cost, by any means necessary.
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