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What a game of Cricket it was last week when India won the Triangular Series final by beating Sri-Lanka in a nail biting match. All credit to captain MS Dhoni for the special knock one more time. Dhoni is a real Leader and consistently leading from front for quite some time now. Cricket in India is a religion and THE only game followed by whole nation. That means the team members and especially the captain goes through a lots of pressure situations to live upto the Nation's expectations The debate on 'who is the most successful captain in the history of Indian cricket is no more. What makes MSD such is a consistently successful Leader? Here are the 10 things in my view: 1. Know your Stuff - Mahi knows the game very well. The conditions, opponents, requirements, challenge in each game is different. A great leader knows all these parameters very well and plans the strategies, risks and opportunities. The knowledge of the core domain for any leader is vital and alignme...

We were looking for a tenant for our Nagpur apartment recently. Apart from letting some relatives and friends know about the vacant apartment, we posted ads on a couple of web sites. Not surprisingly enough, most of the leads came through the online channel. Yesterday, we were about to finalize the deal with one family. We did not know the person earlier nor there were any other references who knew the person. However, based on the person's name and employer, it took less than 10 seconds to locate him on Facebook. We could read all (almost) the attributes of the person which we wanted to verify before making a decision to rent our home to him. Who are the people in the close circle, what kind of family they are, the educational qualifications, their likes are dislikes, and many more things. It is very important to carefully commit anything into Internet since there is no 'delete' or roll-back button there. With advent of Big-Data technologies like Hadoop, it is very ea...