How to be successful for individuals and companies-stats and random thoughts

1. Keep yourself upto date on what is happening in your industry
2. Why is it happening and what are the implications of the change
3. Explore what can be done faster,cheaper and better.
4. Keep on top of technology and more importantly know how to use the same.One must know the basics and how to build on them-this means do not skip daily reading of http://slashdot.org
   
5. Know the trends,who makes them happen and which are the best companies and how they manage the distribution of information to their employees and customers both.A great company does all that and more and ABB,Intel,HP, 3i,Toyota, and McGraw-Hill are some of the companies I really admire.Find a couple of great lists of the best companies at www.fast50.com and www.global100.org
   
6. Use time very sagaciously-this also means not wasting your colleague's time.Remember your colleagues work real smart and you should be able to learn from the ones that matter.Getting things done to your satisfaction is truly important.Any bloody fool should be able to pick the threads from where you left.
7. Motivate yourself your colleagues and the people around you-and the best way I know to begin the day is with a prayer and a smile-prayer gives the confidence and a smile spreads the warmth.
8. A company always needs feedback on its health.
9. Have fun and keep good company around you and show sincere appreciation to people who help.The bonus is that these people will help you again and again.

Keep your head on your shoulders and before becoming the mean successful industrialists think about the lesser fortunate people.Find below some statistics to remove you from the comfort zone.

More than one billion people in the world live on less than one dollar a day. Another 2.7 billion struggle to survive on less than two dollars per day. Poverty in the developing world, however, goes far beyond income poverty. It means having to walk more than one mile everyday simply to collect water and firewood; it means suffering diseases that were eradicated from rich countries decades ago. Every year eleven million children die—most under the age of five and more than six million from completely preventable causes like malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.

In some deeply impoverished nations less than half of the children are in primary school and under 20 percent go to secondary school. Around the world, a total of 114 million children do not get even a basic education and 584 million women are illiterate.

Following are basic facts outlining the roots and manifestations of the poverty affecting more than one third of our world.

Health
■ Every year six million children die from malnutrition before their fifth birthday.
■ More than 50 percent of Africans suffer from water-related diseases such as cholera and infant diarrhea.
■ Everyday HIV/AIDS kills 6,000 people and another 8,200 people are infected with this deadly virus.
■ Every 30 seconds an African child dies of malaria—more than one million child deaths a year.
■ Each year, approximately 300 to 500 million people are infected with malaria. Approximately three
million people die as a result.
■ TB is the leading AIDS-related killer and in some parts of Africa, 75 percent of people with HIV
also have TB.

Hunger

■ More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day…300 million are children.
■ Of these 300 million children, only eight percent are victims of famine or other emergency situations.
More than 90 percent are suffering long-term malnourishment and micronutrient deficiency.
■ Every 3.6 seconds another person dies of starvation and the large majority are children under the age of 5.

Water

■ More than 2.6 billion people—over 40 per cent of the world’s population—do not have basic sanitation,
and more than one billion people still use unsafe sources of drinking water.
■ Four out of every ten people in the world don’t have access even to a simple latrine.
■ Five million people, mostly children, die each year from water-borne diseases.

Now think again as to how you can make a difference to even a single person among these and actually do it.It will give you the best satisfaction.-that is real stepping stone to success.Only when you become satisfied will you think of doing something for everyone including yourself..I am helping out by creating more awareness and actually helping out in the best way I can by giving cash and/or goods privately whenever I can and am happy I could do it and yes I pray too for these people who are less fortunate than me.It gives me satisfaction.

A note about the sources I use to find the websites in this blog-I see so many websites and read a lot of articles and inbetween the lines and form my own conclusions based on what I read and write and naming every source is an impossible task!.So just trust me and if you do not believe me Search-you will be better off doiing it.

Patenting well-India and other developing countries need not follow US and UK blindly,we are all seeing Iraq and I will submit that patents in India and developed countries will hurt the poor people most as many drugs will go beyond reach for many.The cheap drugs that are exprted to developing countries too are going to be hit and we all know who will benefit truly!
The rich seem to get richer all the time.A website I know of that is making a difference to both for profit and Non profit ventures is www.omidyar.net

Enough of Gyaan imparted for the day.