E32 – Does your boss have your back ?
This is story about a lesson in leadership that the Dr Satish Dhawan then the Chairman of The Indian Space Research Organisation taught Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam who was then the Mission Director of a Satellite Launch Program. It was 17th of August, 1979. At SriHarikota Space Centre, a 4 stage Satellite Launch Vehicle was ready for lift-off……
E31 – Human Computers
There was an African-American girl called Dorothy Vaughn who was born in 1910. She was very good at her studies and did well through college and she went on to become a…
E30 – Brown M&Ms
Van Halen is a famous American Hard Rock band formed in Pasadena, California in 1972. It is credited with restoring hard rock to the forefront of the American Music scene in the 1980s…..
E29 – The Battle of Taranto
Few people have heard about the Battle of Taranto which took place on November 11th and 12th, 1940, even though it has forever changed…
E28 – The Pygmalion Effect
Today’s story in a small way involves one of my favourite movies the Audrey Hepburn & Rex Harrison Classic – ‘My Fair Lady’. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s classic ‘Pygmalion’, the movie mesmerizes us about possibilities as Professor Higgins demonstrates…
E27 – The Street Corner Experiment
This is a story about an experiment conducted around the time I was born. The winter of 1968. The place New York. Three researchers – Stanley Milgram, Leonard Bickman and Lawrence Berkowitz picked a 50 ft stretch of a sidewalk in New York for this experiment……
E26 – Watermelons Of Parra
This story was one that was told by late Manohar Parrikar erstwhile Chief Minister of Goa. This story was shared by him during an event in Baroda on the 11th of September 2016. It talks about the days when he grew up in a small village in north Goa called Parra. Parra is…
E24 – Power Of Checklist
It was 30th October, 1935. The place was the Wright Air Field in Dayton, Ohio. A small crowd consisting of officers of the US Army Air Corps and marketing executives of two of the largest airplane manufacturers had gathered to witness a flight competition. The Air Corps were…
E23 – Curse of Knowledge
In 1990, at Stanford University there was a student called Elizabeth Newton and she was doing a postgraduate degree. Her thesis for her dissertation is an experiment that she published under the title, ‘The curse of knowledge’…….
E21 – Three Feet Away From Gold
This story takes place during the Colorado Gold Rush. The story is about a guy called Darcy who lived in Williamsburg in Maryland. And Darcy’s uncle went off to the Colorado gold rush and staked his claim……..