links for 2009-10-22

October 22, 2009 in Links

• How Successful CEOs Respond to Failure – David Silverman – HarvardBusiness.org
  As Tom Watson, the founder of IBM said:
  "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure — or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you will find success."
  Here's another way to think about it. Once I was trying to fix a toilet and water began to blast upward from a fitting. The building Super, who was watching me, commented, "You know the difference between a professional plumber and an amateur?"
  "No," I said, frantically searching for a towel.
  "The professional makes as many mistakes as the amateur," he said, swinging a wrench onto the main valve and closing off the fountain, "The difference is, a professional fixes them faster."
  (tags: entrepreneurship failure leadership business lessons)
• The Best Indoor Plants for your Home to Create Fresh Air
  If you have some space in your home or office premises, it probably makes lots of sense to grow these plants because research says that there is a 42% probability of increasing blood oxygen by 1% if one stays inside a building housing these plants for 10 hours.
  And Kamal isnt the only person saying this. Earlier, a study conducted by NASA also suggested that certain houseplants (including Bamboo Palm and Snake Plant) can remove as much as 87% of indoor air pollutants within 24 hours.
  (tags: health environment lifestyle plants)