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After months of struggle and long bidding processes, finally, Verizon makes an announcement that it acquired the core business of Yahoo for $4.83 billion. The main goal of this acquisition seems to be merging Yahoo and AOL (Which was acquired by Verizon last year). This is mainly for competing with giants such as Facebook and Google. If you don’t know let us tell you that AOL already owns TechCrunch. On the other hand, Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo is trying to be happy with this deal, even though it is taking away her job and putting an end to all her efforts that she took for shaping up Yahoo as the last CEO. She wrote a letter to her employees, have a look; Dear Yahoos, Moments ago, we announced an agreement with Verizon to acquire Yahoo’s operating business. This culminates a rigorous, thorough process over many months, and yields a great outcome for the company. Today’s announcement not only brings us an important step toward separating Yahoo’s operating business from o...

When we are worried about what other people are saying about us, then there is ego. Even when you are doing good, there will be some people who will find fault  with it. Similarly, there will be people to praise even if the person is corrupt. So, don't worry about it. If you make a mistake, accept it. That is intelligence. In the same way, others can also make mistakes. Don’t wait for them to ask for forgiveness. You forgive and move on. A mistake happened. Drop it. Don’t keep thinking of past mistakes and chewing on it like gum. It is like churning up a pile of garbage. You must save your mind at all costs. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

There’s a story. There was a housefly who lived on the leg of an elephant. She used to sit there all day. One day she got angry at the elephant and said, "I am going to leave this elephant!" Just when she decided to leave, the elephant moved a little and caused a lot of dust to rise up. The fly saw the dust and thought, "Oh, see, I have moved so much dust, that a storm is coming. Let it hit the el ephant. He will suffer." Now the elephant is not even aware there was a fly sitting on his leg. This is such ignorant talk saying, "I don't want to give my power to somebody." To whom will you give power? Do you have any power? What power do you have? You don't know what your mind is. You don't know how the mind works. You don't know how your mind acts, at what time, where it leads. It has only led you to so much misery again and again. There is no power at all in the mind. There is power only in the Divine. That is the only source of power. Bu...

1. Improves Communication Skills “When the river is calm, the reflection is clearer. When the mind is calm, there is greater clarity in the field of expression. Our sense of observation, perception and expression improve. As a result, we are able to communicate effectively and clearly,” says Bhanumathi Narasimhan, Teacher,  Sahaj Samadhi Meditation . Meditation makes you free from within, helps you drop the inhibitions and the barriers that prevent effective communication. 2. Gives  Clarity of Mind Do you sometimes find yourself swinging between different decisions and feel confused? Meditation is a mind without agitation, a mind that is calm and crystal clear. Confusions settle down and the way ahead opens up naturally. The right decisions, which are a combination of intuition and intelligence, can be made with ease in such a calm state of mind. 3. Nurtures Creativity Creativity wells up when you meditate. Creativity is the core of our personality; it just needs...

If you are a woman entrepreneur looking for more success and better results, here's a secret tool that will help you get there. Meditation - one of the key management skills today. Here are a few quick mantras to help you. Women today are independent, confident, exude strength and have the potential to carry out every task at its best. And proving equal ability as their male counterpart, they have now ventured out into running successful businesses. However, being a woman entrepreneur has its own set of challenges. Some quick meditation mantras can guide women in this challenging journey. At times when you feel overwhelmed with responsibilities or feel all alone amidst difficult situations, a few minutes of sitting alone with yourself can recharge and rejuvenate you more than you can ever imagine. Besides,  meditation adds many more skills to women entrepreneurs' kitty. #1: Juggling home and work becomes easy All women, either working or running their own business, woul...

The societies and nations of today are driven mainly by their economic process. The world is going through a transition where the era of ideologies and political systems are becoming redundant. In the next two decades, the economic leadership is poised to play a far more important role in the world than the political and the military leadership. Hence, we are presented with a great opportunity for large-scale change. So when economics are beginning to play such a big role, and the economic engine is driving the very fundamentals of the world, it is very important that the leaders who handle the economic process rise above ethnic, religious and national identities as the economic process can no longer be contained within any kind of identity or boundary. In the last decade, I have been a speaker at various economic and business forums including the World Economic Forum at Davos. In the initial phase, the question was always, “What is a  mystic’s  role in a business meeting?” ...

Everything we have created on this planet was essentially first created in the mind. All the work done by humans — both the wonderful things and the horrible things — first found expression in the mind, then became manifested in the outside world. In the yogic tradition, a well-established mind is referred to as a “Kalpavriksha” or a “wishing tree.” If you organize your mind to a certain level, it in turn organizes your whole system; your body, emotions and energies get organized in that direction. If this happens, you are a Kalpavriksha yourself. Anything that you wish will happen. Once we are empowered with a potential like this, it is very important that our physical action, emotional action, mental action and energy action are controlled and properly directed. If they are not, we become destructive, self-destructive. Right now, that is our problem. Technology, which was supposed to make our lives easy and beautiful, has become the source of our problems; we are destr...

There are two aspects to knowing life:  pragna  or  samadhi . Pragna is the path of awareness. Samadhi is the path of abandon. If you walk through the rain with utmost awareness, you will know rain in a certain way. But if you walk through the rain with absolute abandon, you will know rain another way. If you walk through the rain in total abandon, you will know the whole of it, but you will miss the point of it because you don’t care a damn what the point of rain is. What is the point of this life” is only for someone who does not have the necessary abandon to walk through this life, enjoying everything that is happening to him. He is trying to decipher the meaning of life because the magic of life has not hit him. With awareness, you will know the meaning of life. With abandon, you will know the magic of life. Do these two things meet somewhere? Yes. If you go into any one of them absolutely, you will realize they are same. They are two doors to the same room, but the...

How much you are worth need not be seen in terms of how much you are paid. How much you are worth should be assessed in terms of what responsibilities are given to you. The privilege is not the money that you receive; the privilege is that you have been allowed to create something. Money is a means for our survival, yes, and to that extent it is necessary. However, you must always assess yourself in terms of whatever you are being asked to do. What is the level of responsibility that is being offered to you? What is the opportunity for you to create something truly worthwhile, both for yourself and for everybody around you? Any work that you do in the world is truly worthwhile for you only if you are able to touch people’s lives deeply. For example, if you were to make a film, would you want to make a film nobody would want to watch? Or write a book that nobody would want to read? Or build a house that nobody would want to live in? You would not want to produce something nobody ...

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev highlights the danger of individualism in business In our country, we largely depend on doing the right things using individual values, morals and ethics, which is dangerous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Companies, chief executive officers (CEOs), wannabe-CEOs, just about everyone is in search of a purpose. Every year, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev ’s Isha Foundation conducts a leadership programme for entrepreneurs and CEOs at its ashram in Coimbatore. Conceptualized and conducted by him, and facilitated by people like Dr  Ram Charan , an acclaimed CEO coach to Fortune 500 companies, the residential programme hosts entrepreneurs and CXOs in search of meaning. They learn from other CEOs and leaders who serve as mentors or share their stories. Over the years, the programme and Vasudev himself have become destination points for CXOs looking for meaning. This interviewer attended one...