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THE SCIENCE OF SUCCESS: Nine Things Successful People Do Differently

THE SCIENCE OF SUCCESS: Nine Things Successful People Do Differently : Cross-posted from the Harvard Business Review Why have you been so successful in reaching some of your goals, but not others? If you aren...

UN Day : 24th Oct. 2011

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UN Secretary General's message on UN day : Days from now, the human family will welcome its seven billionth member. Some say our planet is too crowded. I say we are seven billion strong. The world has made remarkable progress since the United Nations was born 66 years ago today. We are living longer. More of our children survive. More and more of us live at peace, under democratic rule of law. As we have seen in this dramatic year, people everywhere are standing up for their rights and human freedoms. And yet … all this progress is under threat. From economic crisis. Rising joblessness and inequality. Climate change. Around the world, too many people live in fear. Too many people believe their governments and the global economy can no longer deliver for them. In these turbulent times, there is only one answer: Unity of purpose. Global problems demand global solutions. They compel all nations to unite in action on an agenda for the world’s people. That is the very mi

UN Secretary General's message on THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NON-VIOLENCE (2nd Oct. 2011)

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We mark this year’s International Day of Non-Violence in a world dramatically altered since our last commemoration. The powerful engine behind that wave of change – beginning in Tunisia and then spreading across North Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere – was none other than a non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights. The individuals – many of them youth – at the helm and heart of these movements toppled long-entrenched governments, delivered a rebuke to those who embrace violence, and emboldened other oppressed peoples to think that the path of non-violence might work for them, too. There is a heavy risk for those who stare down the barrel of a gun armed only with the knowledge that they have right on their side. But courageous individuals who believe in and use non-violence leave oppressors facing what is for them an unpalatable option – crack down harder or negotiate. The former simply reveals the bankruptcy of the systems they are defending; the latter could well s