Unplanned career?

Writing in Rolling Stone magazine in 1997 on the difference between success and failure in the music industry, Chris Heath said, "It's not the plans you think up that make the difference. It's how you use the accidents."

"He's probably right" says WPP's Jon Steel.

Steel offers a personal view on the advantages of an unplanned career in this article

Ackoff on B-School education

When he retired from the Wharton School in 1986, Professor Russell Ackoff wickedly identified three contributions of a business school education:

- It gives students a vocabulary that enables them to speak with authority on things they do not understand

- It gives them a set of operating principles that enable them to withstand any amount of disconfirming evidence

- It gives them a ticket to a job where they can learn something about management

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The Opium Trail Shocker

92% of the world's opium is produced in Afghanistan!!!!

As much as one-third of Afghanistan's GDP comes from growing poppy and illicit drugs including opium and its two derivatives, morphine and heroin, as well as hashish production!

Moonspell sums up why the above isn't going to change for a long time to come:

"Opium, we fantasize,
As we fuse with your root,
You are a strange flower,
We are your strangest fruit"

Thanks 'Times of India'

Imagine growing up reading the 'Education' section of a newspaper and then years later being informed that they wanna feature you!!! Thanks 'TOI', it was an honour!