The Hindu Business Line : Monday, February 05, 2007

ENVIRONMENT
Drowning in e-waste
When we read media reports that Britain tops the European league in building mountains of waste from consumer products used and thrown when they are still serviceable, is it time to ask ourselves whether it is ... More

Climate-change: The real Doomsday
The supreme danger staring the planet in the face is that the climate-change process may have become irreversible, and no matter what mankind chooses to do today it cannot prevent the development of a terrestrial climate totally inhospitable to the c ontinuation of life as we know today. More

INFRASTRUCTURE
Think `SDZs', not SEZs
Had the Government thought of creating Special Development Zones instead of the Economic Zones, and created better educational, medical, communication, municipal and other facilities of direct value to people. Had it explained to the people that just to pay for those amenities, it is establishing a Public-Private Partnership and bringing in major industry, then the SEZs, or rather SDZs, would have been met with much enthusiasm, not scepticism, says P. V. INDIRESAN. More

PETROLEUM
HUBBERTSPEAK
Pareto's principle of oil-fields
One of the assumptions behind the Hubbert theory is that the probability of oil-field discovery is directly proportional to the amount of undiscovered oil. What this means is that oil-field discovery would also follow a bell curve (similar to the ... More

MANAGEMENT
Driver's skill in the Nissan U-turn
Turnarounds require fresh thinking. A turnaround manager even by resisting the temptation to decry systems and operations in existence and keeping himself from overstating the problems of the firm, can achieve success. All that one needs to do is to focus on re-awakening the talents already existing in the company. More

Human communication
Of all the numerous facets of management, the most complex is the one to do with human communication. This is not just because human beings are complex in themselves. Of course, they are veritable continents ... More

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