Wednesday, August 26, 1998
Being average is no business strategy
If you put your head in the refrigerator and your feet in the oven, on an average you should be doing fine. But, actually you are courting death. Being average is not the solution to survival, not the least when it comes to competing in the business world. Paul Numan, director, Tack International, a worldwide network of business training companies, believes that "companies that are average will be dead in the new millennium''.
Just be a friend, you will be in demand
Who hasn't felt the need of having someone to talk to, someone to unburden one's problems to, someone who while listening and understanding can also provide advice, solace and help. How many desperate suicide victims may have got another lease of life if they had had someone to talk to in the time of need? That someone is the role the counsellor plays.
Experts solve key Net security issue
Researchers at IBM and a Swiss university have developed a new system of securing information against even the most aggressive type of attack by computer hackers, a move that will help answer concerns about privacy and the integrity of electronic transactions on the Internet. But rather than take what IBM considers to be a fundamental breakthrough and exploit it commercially, the researchers plan to give away their findings for free -- in the hopes of bolstering public confidence in the security of the Internet.
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