How many ways can you divided the entire economy into market segment? GICS shows one of the ways. Here are 10 ways…

1. Energy
2. Materials
3. Industrials
4. Consumer Discretionary
5. Consumer Staples
6. Health Care
7. Financials
8. Information Technology
9. Telecommunication Services
10. Utilities

The Index component weight of stock in S&P 500!

Here are the top 20 right now:

1 ExxonMobil
2 Microsoft
3 Apple
4 Johnson & Johnson
5 Procter & Gamble
6 General Electric
7 IBM
8 JPMorgan Chase
9 Bank of America
10 Chevron
11 Pfizer
12 AT&T
13 Wells Fargo
14 Cisco Systems
15 Google
16 Coca-Cola
17 Hewlett Packard
18 Merck
19 Intel
20 Wal Mart

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So what are the questions?

1. What’s going well for you?
2. What are you trying to ignore?
3. What’s Boring you?
4. How do you want to be remembered as?
5. What do you love?

5.75… what’s next?

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Challenge:Future is an international youth competition that connects corporate and global challenges with the power of student-driven innovation.
Imagined as a multi-year open innovation competition, each year Challenge:Future focuses on one specific theme, a universal challenge to be re-imagined and re-invented.

Challenge:Future – Challenge the Future, Shape the Present from Challenge:Future on Vimeo.

Book Title: THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Year written/published: 2003
Summary: Story of Henry, who time travels without any control and Clare, his wife.
Book Source: Google Books,
Some extracts:

Past and Future…

“Free will?”
He gets up, walks to the window, stands looking out over the Tatingers’ backyard. “I was just talking about that with a self from 1992. He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present. He says in the past we can only do what we did, and we can only be there if we were there.”
“But whenever I am, that’s my present. Shouldn’t I be able to decide—”
“No. Apparently not.”
“What did he say about the future?”
“Well, think. You go to the future, you do something, you come back to the present. Then the thing that you did is part of your past. So that’s probably inevitable, too.”

Determinism and creating the future…

Clare shrugs. “But sometimes you tell me something and I feel like the future is already there, you know? Like my future has happened in the past and I can’t do anything about it.”
“That’s called determinism,” I tell her. “It haunts my dreams.”
Clare is intrigued. “Why?”
“Well, if you are feeling boxed in by the idea that your future is unalterable, imagine how I feel. I’m constantly running up against the fact that I can’t change anything, even though I am right there, watching it.”

Free Will and our choices….

“The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway. Right?”
Clare wiggles her toes at me. “I guess.”
“And what do you vote for?”

Knowing death…

Alba smiles. “How do you do?” She is the most self-possessed child I’ve ever met.
I scrutinize her: where is Clare in this child? “Do we see each other much?”
She considers. “Not much. It’s been about a year. I saw you a few times when I was eight.”
“How old were you when I died?” I hold my breath. “Five.” Jesus. I can’t deal with this.
“I’m sorry! Should I not have said that?” Alba is contrite. I hug her to me. “It’s okay. I asked, didn’t I?”

Letter from Henry…

it was sweet beyond telling, to come as though from death to hold you, and to see the years all present in your face. I won’t tell you any more, so you can imagine it, so you can have it unrehearsed when the time comes, as it will, as it does come. We will see each other again, Clare. Until then, live, fully, present in the world, which is so beautiful.
It’s dark, now, and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.
Henry

Henry is 43, Clare is 82…. the final meet…

It’s not much different from the many other times he was gone, and I waited, except that this time I have instructions: this time I know Henry will come, eventually. I sometimes wonder if this readiness, this expectation,
prevents the miracle from happening. But I have no choice. He is coming, and I am here.

Book Title: Life Lessons for Mastering the Law of Attraction – 7 Essential Ingredients for Living a Prosperous Life
Author: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Jeasnna Gabellini, Eva Gregory
Year written/published: 2008
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Some extracts:

Thinking and Feeling…

Look back over your life once gaain and notice the correlation between what you were thinking and feeling and what you were getting in life… Think about this. There is no exception to this law anywhere in the Universe. Absolutely None! It is a law of physics.

the how…

By focusing on the how at this stage, you stop the process that moves you towards realizing your dreams. … In going to the how, you are trying to control your future instead of creating your future.

Intention and the results…

You don’t give up the intention, and you don’t give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.
~ Deepak Chopra

You are always at choice…

Do not settle for anything less than what you really want. You are declaring your worthiness. If you think something is not possible or is out of your reach, you’re probably not going to commit much energy and resources to accomplishing that goal. When you decide a desire is possible and you are  ready to have it, the Universe will assist you in having it unfold with ease.

forgiveness…

I came to understand that if you cna’t forgive someone, you cannot be open to abundance. If you are holding on to revenge, love can’t walk in. If you are hanging on to resentment, you are hanging on to being a victim. And if you are holding on to being a victim, there’s no space in your mind to be a victor.

Life, the teacher…

“when the student is ready, the teacher appears”. The teacher, however is not always a person. Sometimes the teacher appears simply as life, circumstances or synchronicities. I call them road signs, those apparently random events that show up in my life that bet to be notice.

money…

Money never starts an idea; It’s the idea that starts the money…
~ Mark Victor Hansen

Book Title: Harvard Business Review on the Innovative Enterprise
Author: HBR Publishing
Year written/published: 2003
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: How does/can corporations build innovative and creative cultures within their organisations?
Some extracts:

Time-Pressure/Creativity Matrix:

1. High Time pressure, High likelihood of creative thinking –> On a Mission
2. Low Time pressure, High likelihood of creative thinking –> On an Expedition
3. High Time pressure, Low likelihood of creative thinking –> On a Treadmill
4. Low Time pressure, Low likelihood of creative thinking –> On a Autopilot

Tough-minded ways to get innovative

1. Start at the top
2. allow innovation to rise
3. Know the competitive dynamics of your business
4. determine where innovative lives
5. once an idea is well-developed, go for broke

the peril of organizations excessive layering…

the structures, processes and people that keep things ticking smoothly can also cut off the generation of good ideas and can block their movement through the business system. Excessive layers, for example, kills ideas before senior managers ever consider them…. barriers fencing off R&D, marketing, production and finance block up functional problems before it’s too late for effective solutions.

Inspiring innovation… 16 innovation experts give their thoughts on…

1. Make it Norm
2. Put aside Ego
3. Mix up people
4. Don’t fear failure
5. Hire outsiders
6. Abandon the crowd
7. Let of of your ideas
8. Don’t underestimate science
9. fight negativity
10. Ask “What if?”
11. Merge passion and patience
12. outsmart your customers
13. experiment like crazy
14. Make it meaningful
15. Stop the bickering
16. Don’t innovate, solve problems

Research that reinvents the corporation…

1. Research on new work practices is as important as research on new products
2. Innovation is everywhere; the problem is learning form it
3. research can’t just produce innovation; it must “co produce” it
4. Research department’s ultimate innovation partner is the customer

Book Title: The Passion test – Effortless Path to discovering your Life purpose
Author: Janet Attwood and Chris Attwood
Year written/published: 2006
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Discovering your Passion and creating the life you choose to live
Some extracts:

By William Barclay….

There are 2 great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Intention, Attention, No tension…

Intention: consciously stating what you choose to create in your life is the first step to manifesting it

Attention: Give attention to what you choose to create in your life, and it will begin to show up

No Tension: Where you are open to waht is appearing in this moment, you allow God’s will to move through you.

clarity of what you want…

When you are clear, what you want will show up in your life, and only to the extent that you are clear.

the why… by Neitzsche…

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

7 keys to living life aligned with passion…

1. commitment
2. clarity
3. attention
4. stay open
5. integrity
6. persistence
7. follow your heart

Book Title: Pale Blue Dot
Author: Carl Sagan
Year written/published: 1997
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Human’s perception and conquest of the universe
Some extracts:

Our fear of tininess…

But if our objective is deep knowledge rather than shallow reassurance, the gains from this new perspective far outweigh the losses. Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs—in time, in space, and in potential—the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors. We gaze across billions of light-years of space to view the Universe shortly after the Big Bang, and plumb the fine structure of matter. We peer down into the core of our planet, and the blazing interior of our star… We are right to rejoice in our accomplishments, to be proud that our species has been able to see so far, and to judge our merit in part by the very science that has so deflated our pretensions.

The garden and the sin…

So long as we were incurious and obedient, I imagine, we could console ourselves with our importance and centrality, and tell ourselves that we were the reason the Universe was made. As we began to indulge our curiosity, though, to explore, to learn how the Universe really is, we expelled ourselves from Eden. Angels with a flaming sword were set as sentries at the gates of Paradise to bar our return. The gardeners became exiles and wanderers. Occasionally we mourn that lost world, but that, it seems to me, is maudlin and sentimental. We could not happily have remained ignorant forever.

Cosmic Purpose…

The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed. Sometimes it seems a very slender hope. The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life’s meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.
If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

Humbling us…

Even today, the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years, it still takes my breath away.
In every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined. I lie back in an open field and the sky surround me. I’m overpowered by its scale. It’s so vast and so far away that my own insignificance becomes palpable. But I don’t feel rejected by the sky. I’m a part of it, tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity, And when I concentrate on the stars, the planets, and their motions, I have an irresistible sense of machinery, clockwork, elegant precision working on a scale that, however lofty our aspirations, dwarfs and humbles us.

The release names of Ubuntu is so funny

1. Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS (Dapper Drake)
2. Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)
3. Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
4. Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
5. Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS (Hardy Heron)
6. Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
7. Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
8. Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

From Yanko Design:

Make a radical change in your lifestyle & begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances & yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, & conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, & hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new & different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security & adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning & its incredible beauty.

— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

What is the next wave in multi-touch technology? Use our fingers?

10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

There was a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend.?He read the dates on her tombstone from the beginning…to the end.

He noted first came the date of her birth and spoke the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.

For that dash stands for all the time that she spent alive on earth…?and only those who loved her know what that little line is worth.

It matters not, how much we own; the cars….the house…the cash.
What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.

So think about this long and hard…are there things you’d like to change??For you never know how much time is left that can still be re-arranged

If we would just slow down enough to consider what’s true and real and always try to understand the way that other’s feel. We’d be much less quick to anger and show appreciation more and love the people in our lives like we’ve never loved before.

So, when your eulogy’s being read and your life is being rehashed…would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your dash?

It’s been ages since i have heard the right description of a 21st century India… Shashi Tharoor says it beautifully…

the 7s of McKinsey – Shared Values:

1. Structure
2. System
3. Style
4. Staff
5. Skill
6. Strategy