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Dear Readers Your Ymag turns 25. Congratulations! Is this quarter of a century signifying the 3/4th of the journey yet to be accomplished and beyond OR is it completion of 25 steps taken one at a time to move towards and along actions, results and celebrations? I came across a very provocative quote, “Most people die at 25. They just hang around till 75.” This is alarming! How about keeping the spirit of 25 alive, active and in perpetuity? Onus is on us. Actions begin with us. Don’t forget your single finger action that begins during April this year in India. Your act to vote intelligently. Time to Choose, wisely! whY not! Cheers, Rajiv Khurana Editor [email protected] 9810211256.

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25 Leadership Actions… 2

25 Lessons for Life 3-4

25 Most Annoying Things That Bosses Do

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25 Accidental Discoveries 6-12

25 Life quotes 13-14

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Appreciate

Back-up

Coach

Delegate

Encourage

Feedback and feed forward

Go out of the way!

Hand hold in tough situations

Introspect periodically for improvement

Jubilation and celebration on results

Keep commitment

Listen attentively

Mix well with people

New ways to improve situations

Optimize on resources

Pass on the passion

Quality and Quantity of output

Review impartially

Speak regularly

Tolerate minor mistakes

Upgrade competence consistently

Vision enhancement of people

Win-Win in practice

‘Xcite and enthuse frequently

Yearn for more …and if you do all these, you get the bonus-

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#25 April 1, 2014 1. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. 2. If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Don’t bother reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay. 3. In life, you usually get what you ask for, but it rarely comes in the package you think it’s supposed to come in. 4. Never let one bad day make you feel like you have a bad life. 5. Tell the truth, or eventually someone will tell it for you. 6. Surround yourself with positive people who are going to push you toward greatness. Eliminate those who are trying to keep you from it. 7. Maturity is not when we start speaking about big things, it’s when we start understanding the small things. 8. Not forgiving is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. 9. Age wrinkles the body. Quitting on your dreams wrinkles the soul. 10. The past can’t hurt you anymore – not unless you let it. 11. The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong one, we get lost, and we turn back. But maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. 12. You can grow stronger from the pain if you don’t let it destroy you. 13. The worst person to be around is the one who complains about everything and appreciates nothing. Avoid these people at all costs.


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#25 April 1, 2014 14. Live in such a way that if someone decided to speak badly of you, no one would believe it. 15. It’s your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. 16. If someone can’t accept you at your worst, they don’t deserve you at your best. 17. The road to success is always under construction. 18. Never make a big decision when you’re angry, and never make a big promise when you’re overjoyed. 19. Don’t count the number of friends you have; count the number of friends you can count on. 20. Imperfections are important, and so are mistakes. You get to be good by learning from your mistakes and you get to be real by being imperfect. 21. Not trying is failing. 22. Being happy doesn’t always make us grateful, but being grateful will always make us happy 23. The only time you should look back is to see how far you’ve come. 24. When something bad happens you can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you. 25. Good relationships are not just about the good times you share; it’s also about the obstacles you go through together, and the fact that you still say “I love you” in the end.

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1. Complain when you’re literally three minutes late. 2. Expect you to read their minds. 3. Treat you like you’re a moron. 4. Give you completely contradictory instructions. 5. And then act like it’s your fault when things go wrong. 6. Make you do the most unpleasant parts of their job. 7. Speak corporate mumbo jumbo. 8. Use passive aggressive lingo. 9. Or, on the other extreme, make blunt threats. 10. Tell you you need to be “independent” and “manage yourself.” 11. But then get angry when you don’t doublecheck with them about every single tiny thing you do. 12. Tell you to always ask questions. 13. But then get annoyed when you ask questions. 14. Treat you like their pet monkey. 15. Act like your ideas are stupid. 16. Expect you to structure your entire life around them. 17. Play favorites. 18. Talk to you like you’re a naughty two-year-old. 19. Tell you to do something when they see you’re already doing it. 20. Act like you can just teleport into the office. 21. Abuse the meaning of the smile. 22. Wonder “where you were” when you’re away from your desk for more than thirty seconds. 23. Talk about the importance of a pleasant work environment and then run the office like a small labor camp. 24. Tell you they need an employee who “isn’t just in it for the money.” 25. Expect you to do their job 10x better than them. But for about 1/8 of their salary.

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Penicillin When Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming came back from vacation he noticed that his bacteria were all being killed off by a strange fungus. Modern medicine has never been the same. 24

The Microwave After Percy Spencer, an engineer working for Raytheon, walked in front of a Magnetron he noticed that the chocolate bar in his pocket melted. Several years later he successfully put together the first microwave oven. 23

Velcro While on a hiking trip in 1941 Swiss engineer Georges de Mestral found burrs clinging to his pants and realized that the burr’s hooks would cling to anything loop shaped. All he had to do was recreate the loops. 22

Teflon Roy Plunkett, a scientist at DuPont, was looking for ways to make refrigerators more home friendly by replacing their somewhat dangerous refrigerants. One of the samples he was working with ended up leaving a strange, slippery resin that was resistent to heat and chemicals.

Accidental Discoveries


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Vulcanized Rubber Although in the 1830s the inability of rubber to withstand extreme temperatures led many to write it off, Charles Goodyear saw things differently. After years of experimenting he accidentally dropped one of his concoctions on the stove and it didn’t burn. Rubber was now weatherproof. 20

Coca-Cola John Pemberton was not a businessman. He just wanted to cure headaches. His recipes consisted of two things – coca leaves and cola nuts. When his lab assistant accidentally mixed the two with carbonated water Coke was born. 19

Radioactivity In 1896 French scientist Henri Becquerel was working on an experiment where uranium enriched crystal was burning an image onto a photographic plate using sunlight…or so he thought. When dark clouds rolled in one day he put the equipment in a drawer to continue another day. When he came back a few days later he found that the crystal had somehow still managed to emit rays that “fogged the plate”.



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Smart Dust When chemistry graduate students working on a silicon chip accidentally shattered it they discovered that the tiny bits of the chip were still sending signals. They coined the bits “smart dust” and today they play a role in technologies used to attack and destroy tumours. 17

Corn Flakes Keith Kellogg was assisting his brother who worked as a doctor at Battle Creek Sanatorium with patients and their diets when he accidentally left the bread dough sitting out one day. He decided to bake it anyway and the flaky snack that emerged was a hit among the patients. 16

Dynamite Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist and engineer was trying to stabilize nitro-glycerine so that it could be stored when a series of accidents eventually led to the death of his brother in an explosion. Some say this pushed him even harder. One day while he was transporting some of the compound a can started leaking. The packing mixture, however, started absorbing the liquid. Since nitro-glycerine is most dangerous in its liquid form he had found his answer…absorb it.



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Saccharin Constantine Fahlberg, a scientist at John Hopkins University accidentally carried some compounds from the lab home with him. While eating dinner he realized the bread tasted strangely sweet in spite of the fact that he hadn’t used any sugar. He then realized it had come from the lab. 14

Pacemaker While building an oscillator to record heart beat sounds in animals at Cornell University Wilson Greatbatch accidentally grabbed the wrong transistor. After switching on the device he found it to have a very familiar rhythmic pulsing sound, very similar to a human heart. 13

Modern Anaesthesia Although alcohol has long been the drug of choice when it comes to amputations and other painful battlefield style procedures, in the 1800s several doctors realized that ether and nitrous oxide (laughing gas) inhibited pain in people under the influence. 12

Silly Putty During World War II, while attempting to create a synthetic rubber substitute, James Wright dropped boric acid into silicone oil. The result was a bouncy substance that had no apparent use. In 1950 marketing expert Peter Hodgson saw its potential as a toy and now we have Silly Putty.



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Post-it Notes In 1974 3M employee Arthur Fry used what 3M had deemed a useless sticky substance to hold bookmarks in his hymnal while singing in the church choir. Although 3M was initially sceptical about selling adhesive notes, today they are glad they did. 10

Slinky In 1943, naval engineer Richard James was trying to develop a spring that would support and stabilize sensitive equipment on ships. When one of the springs accidentally fell off a shelf, it continued moving, and James got the idea for a toy 9

Potato Chips Chef George Crum came up with the snack in 1853 when he was fed up with a customer who kept sending his fried potatoes back to the kitchen saying they weren’t crunchy enough. Annoyed, Crum sliced them as thin as possible, fried them in hot grease, and doused them in salt. The customer loved them. 8

Fireworks Invented 2,000 years ago in China, legend has it that a cook accidentally mixed charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter, all items commonly found in a kitchen back then. The mixture burned and when compressed in a bamboo tube, it exploded.



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Play-Doh Play-Doh was accidentally invented in 1955 by Joseph and Noah McVicker while trying to make a wallpaper cleaner. It was marketed a year later by toy manufacturer Rainbow Crafts. 6

Super Glue In 1942 Dr. Harry Coover found that a substance he created, cyanoacrylate, was a failure. It stuck to everything it touched just a little too well. 5

X-Rays Yes, we know X-Rays are not an “invention” but their discovery was still a pretty cool accident. In 1895 German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen was performing an experiment with Cathode ray tubes when he notice a piece of fluorescent cardboard lighting up from across the room in spite of the fact that a thick screen was between the cathode ray emitter and the cardboard. Light was apparently passing through a solid object. 4

Chocolate Chip Cookies According to legend the owner of Toll House Inn, Mrs. Wakefield, was making chocolate cookies but ran out of regular baker’s chocolate so she substituted broken pieces of semi-sweet chocolate thinking they would mix into the batter. She was wrong.



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Popsicles In 1905 11 year old Frank Epperson left a mixture of powdered soda and water on the porch with a stir stick in the cup. That night temperatures dropped below zero and he discovered his treat the next morning. As any humble 11 year old would do he named it after himself – the epsicle. Nearly two decades later he went public with his snack and changed the name to Popsicle. 2

Stainless Steel Although steel has been forged for millenia, because it is mostly iron, it rusts. For centuries metallurgists had attempted to add other substances to steel to prevent the inevitable with only modest success. In 1912, however, Harry Brearly was trying to create a gun barrel that would resist erosion. After several months he realized that one of his failures retained its luster. It contained 12 percent chromium and that was just enough. 1

Plastic Chances are you are currently within arms reach of something plastic, especially if you are reading this. In 1907 Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland set out to find a replacement for shellac. Although his combination of formaldehyde and phenol failed to catch on he noticed that by controlling the temperature and combining the mixture with wood flour, asbestos, or slate dust, he could create a compound that was moldable, robust, non-conductive, and heat-resistant. He called his invention Bakelite and today it has without a doubt completely transformed our world.


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I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” –Muhammad Ali “You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.” –Robert Anthony “There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.” –Henry Ford “Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.” –J.C. Penny “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” –Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee “It’s not about time, it’s about choices. How are you spending your choices?” –Beverly Adamo “Success…seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” –Conrad Hilton “That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking—why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now…” –Timothy Ferriss

“Intolerance of your present creates your future.” –Mike Murdock “The dreamers are the saviors of the world.” – James Allen “Destiny is not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice.” –Anonymous “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” –Eleanor Roosevelt “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” –Vince Lombardi “It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.” –E.E. Cummings “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” –George Elio

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#25 April 1, 2014

“How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” –Trina Paulus “Do not let what you can not do; interfere with what you can do.” –John Wooden “One man with courage makes a majority.” –Andrew Jackson “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” –Henry Ford “Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” –Albert Einstein “Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.” –Charles De Gaulle “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.” –John Milton

“You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.” –Wallace D. Wattles “Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what.” –Spryte Loriano The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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