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Is it really a matter of checkers and chess?

“Average managers play checkers, while great managers play chess.”
- Marcus Buckingham.
(”What Great Managers Do“, Harvard Business Review, Apr05)
Buckingham goes on to explain that in checkers the pieces are uniform and interchangeable. While in chess, each piece is unique (more or less) and the player who wins is the one who can tap onto the [...]

Harold and Kumar go to White Castle

It had me in splits for almost the entire length of the movie - easily one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. It tells the story of two friends - a Korean and an Indian who are bent upon getting burgers at White Castle, the burger joint. The entire movie [...]

Me too..!

I am gonna be confined to the four walls of my home for 10 whole days - don’t ask, its depressing enough. Anyways, that means I don’t have an excuse anymore not to open up the skeletons in my bookshelf. Nanopolitan has book tagged me! So here goes.
Total number of books I own: In Germany, [...]

CDs from the pirates

I am getting good at keeping a straight face when I really want to laugh.
Today, I did not laugh when my colleague secretly confessed that he bought his Corrs CD from the pirates. Nor, when another male colleague distributed chocolates because he was pregnant.
You see, they patiently correct me when I say things like “Wurde [...]

A good read : Economist’s survey on International Banking

I still havent caught up on my readings - but heres a nice one. Last week’s Economist had a series of essays on International Banking. If you like/work in/are interested in banking and finance, dont miss it. What it lacks in depth, it makes up in breadth. From the evolution of the complex American [...]

Sudoku - on my terms

I am a novice at Sudoku and I have promised myself I wont be lured into it. Some promises are hard to keep. One always finds a way out. I have promised myself I wont be lured into solving Sudoku. So I made my own.

The easiest way out in Sudoku ( ok, this is [...]

Am back!

I am back - back home. Its nice to feel my own bed, drink my home-made coffee and shower at my leisure in my warm shower. Also waiting for me is a whole bag of unopened mail, most of which are in German, which means I have a long date with my dictionary and the [...]