Power of Geometric Progression

Recently i heard an anecdote regarding the power of geometric progression, the anecdote goes like this:

There was a Sadhu(saint), who lives a normal life in the forests roaming near by villages for food and he is very knowledgeable person in all aspects and it is believed that he is the inventor of chess game.

Once he got a chance meet the king and explained the game, king got fascinated about the game as it involves the real life scenario and that to it's associated with the strategy.

King liked the game and told to sadhu that ask what ever you want i will give you, then sadhu asked i want rice, king replied that ask some thing that suits my status like gold, precious stones, etc.

Sadhu didn't change his mind and king told nodded for the sadhu request and asked hoe much rich you want then he told some conditions for fulfilling the the sadhu words, the conditions are:-

• Rice that can be filled the boxes of the chess board( 64 boxes) and 
• The number of rive grains should be double of every box succeeding it i.e., 1,2,4,8,16,32.....

At end of the day the king couldn't fulfill the sadhu gift and even he sold his entire kingdom for the fulfilling the sadhu gift because the condition that the sadhu told of the geometric progression series i.e.,

1,2,4,8,16,32,64,126,...(1,2^1,2^2,2^3,2^4,2^5,2^6,2^7,2^8....)

In another instance, Malcolm Gladwell in his book "Tipping point", he explains that when a paper is folded 50 times then the distance would as the approximate distance to the sun from the earth. That is the power of geometric progression.

Diplomatic mission extraterritoriality in country

Recently i came across some interesting facts about the diplomatic mission or embassy in the countries, where they enjoy at-most freedom from the host country.

This rules and procedures are laid down in Vienna convention on Diplomatic Relations-1961, a short summary of the convention is :-

• The convention has framed a legal document, which has 53 articles which contains defining a diplomatic, duties can be performed and relation of rules to the diplomat and embassy or mission.
• Articles 1,2, 3,4 & 5 describes defining a head of the mission, establishment of the mission or embassy, functions, agreement between the host & sending country and establishment of head of mission for more than two countries.
• Articles 14, 15 & 16 defines the classification of head of mission and assigning of diplomatic staff 
• Articles 22 defines that the entry of host country to the mission.
• Articles from 23 to 41 explains the exemptions to head of mission. diplomatic staff and agents.
• Articles 42,43 & 44 explains some of the functions of diplomats.
• Articles 45 & 46 tells what to perform in emergency times like war time, etc.

Some of exemptions to diplomats and mission/embassy from the host country is:-

• Tax exemptions and custom duty exemptions to diplomats.
• No civil or criminal cases against the diplomats.
• No interference in communication between diplomat and the home country.
• Immune to local laws and legal procedures.

Diplomatic Bag:- A bag or pouch usually carried by the diplomats for carrying confidential information from host country to their home country and it is exempted from checking by police, custom officials and this cannot be scanned through x-rays. scanners. This may a small bay, suit case , etc...

Diplomatic courier:- A person carrying the diplomatic bag and person enjoys exemption from scrutiny by the security people and there are given diplomatic immunity.

• Embassy or mission is the only place in the country that the host country laws are not implemented.

Law of 150- Dunbar's Number

We all know that man is social animal where we all makes social connections for building our personal and professional networks for accomplishing our goals.

In this regard, do you ever figured it out how many social relations can we make perfectly i.e. genuine connections ?...

Any guess.....

150
this is number that our brain(Neocortex) can handle and remember.

It is scientifically proven by famous professor named Robin Dunbar. He is British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist and presently working in Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. In this research in 1992 based on the understanding of human behavior and published a research paper named  " Neocortex size as a constraint on group size in primates".
In this paper he clearly explains the constrains of human brain and group size and etc. This law of 150 also explained in the book "Tipping point" by Malcolm Gladwell.

The Dunbar's Number or law of 150 tells that:

• Human brain can properly maintains social connections up to 150, it can remember more than that but the impact 150 is more and highly sensitive to this 150 connections.
• This number indicates that a individual genuine social relationship.

Dunbar has written. “Putting it another way, it’s the number of people you would not feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a drink if you happened to bump into them in a bar.”

Examples:-
W.L.Gore & Associates Inc., strictly incorporates this principle in their company and they design their plants such that it fit for 150 employees only.

One of religious group know as the Hutterites can find in European nations and this group of believe in the rule of 150  and they strongly believe that 150 number is the maximum number that the community lives together and they believe that adding one number  more to the community that they can change their believes and other cultural aspects.    

Uniqueness of W.L.Gore & Associates Inc.

W.L  Gore & Associates Inc, is an American company specializing in manufacturing of products associated with polymer polytetrafluoroethylene(PTFE) and it's headquarters situated at Newark, Delaware, USA.

Quick snapshot about the company:-

• Founders: Bill and Vieve Gore
• Founding year: 1958.
• Gore is one of the 200 largest privately held U.S. companies.
• For the 16th consecutive year, Gore earned a position on FORTUNE's annual list of the U.S. "100 Best Companies to Work For" in 2013. 
• Gore ranked 21st overall. Gore is now one of only a few companies to appear on all of the U.S. "100 Best Companies to Work For" lists since Robert Levering and Milton Moskowitz initiated the ranking in 1984. 

Gore company has been granted more than 2000 patents worldwide in various fields.  

How W.L.Gore & Associates is different from others:

1. Organizational Structure:- Gore company has a flat organizational structure  i.e, no hierarchy in the company  they termed as flat lattice organization and all the employees are designated as "Associates" and some of the top management people are termed as "Sponsors", who are their to advice and motivate employees 
2. Organizational Culture:- Gore company has team based, motivational and inspirational culture. As it encourages it's employees to come out with innovative ideas and freedom for expression.

A company like W.L.Gore & Associates Inc, exists in this present day world is miraculous and its purely the management team success. In other words i can say that the management team is striving hard to preserve this management and company philosophy for decades together.  

Preserving this type of company philosophy and organizational culture in present day virtual world is herculean task, but still they follow because their employees believe in their organization culture and system.

In the book Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, he clearly explains about the working of the Gore company.

Link to the company website is http://www.gore.com/en_xx/index.html 

Power of few from the book "The Tipping point"

Recently i read the book "The Tipping point"by Malcolm Gladwell, in this book  he clearly explains how little things can make a big difference.

In this book, he clearly describes how the few things in our lives change a lot and he explains about the connections between the people and impact of them in our every day lives.

In this book  he explains the Law of Few and stickiness factor

• Connectors:- Those are the people with large number of connections with people. 
• Mavens:- They are data banks, where this people has a lot of knowledge.
• Salesman:- They are people they can persuade others towards their choice.

In the stickiness factor he explains the reasons for the success of the TV shows( Sesame Street and Blue Clue's) in USA, in which understanding the audience is essential and delivery, but  understanding audience need is very difficult task.

In later part of the book he explains about the Law of One hundred and fifty and the power of context.
The Law of 150 says that the people can make good relationships between 150 people, beyond this the group can  divert from the main course this may lead to misunderstanding among the people.

The book goes very smoothly and has a good finishing.

I personally feel it is a good book for better understanding of our psychology, perceptions and external environment.

Venkat......

What does India Export?

We all know that we import oil from gulf countries;watches from Switzerland but what does India export?
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As far as my knowledge i think India exports talent(people) to all the developed countries, you name any company Indians are present.

In Indian context IIT's and IIM's play crucial role in developing, nurturing this young talent there by creating engines of future growth.

Indian's IIT'S and IIM's are the major powerhouses of talent generation, where it is considered as the toughest to get entry to the this prestigious institutes.
Some of the alumnus of IIT and Indians who showcased exemplary talent are listed below:-

1. Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
2. Sabeer Bhatia, founder of Hotmail.com
3. Vikram Pandit, ex-CEO of Citigroup.
4. Vinod Dham, regarded as Father of Pentium Chip 

Like this there are many more examples where Indians are proving their talent.

But when we understand that why these people left India?......

Is a billion dollar question......

but i think the external forces may forced them to leave this nation and many more.....


venkat....