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The Hydrocarbon Conundrum – Tenny Thomas

https://tennythomas.net/2015/05/04/the-hydrocarbon-conundrum

Lead Inspire. Live. Hydrocarbons have always been a blessing and a curse. Their utility remains a conundrum of the 21st century. The greatest uses of hydrocarbons are as fuel of combustion, particularly in motor fuel and heating application. When hydrocarbons are burned, they release carbon di-oxide which is a greenhouse gas that causes ocean acidification and increase in world temperatures by one degree Celsius. Contributing to global warming and climate change. As explained in an earlier post. Means a ...

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Materialism & Climate change – Tenny Thomas

https://tennythomas.net/2015/04/24/materialism-climate-change

Lead Inspire. Live. Materialism and Climate change. I wouldn’t say that it is bad to be rich or prosperous, but with increasing wealth, we have to be cognizant of the fact that we need to have a balance with respect to our consumption patterns. Have you guys ever heard about the Little Ice Age? 2015 has been a very hard year. Plunging oil prices has resulted in a brutal economic slowdown especially in my home province of Alberta, Canada, which is also home to one of the largest oil deposits. Over-consump...

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Confrontation – Tenny Thomas

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Lead Inspire. Live. Is face-to-face confrontation a good thing? Why are leaders avoiding face-to-face confrontation these days? I had a chance to converse with many people who were at many times being laid off from different companies; and the common refrain that they keep mentioning is that-. Is confrontation a bad thing? I was searching some literature over confrontation in the hopes of writing a blog post on confrontation. I came across the following quote from David Bowie-. February 28, 2015. Fill in...

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Intuition – Tenny Thomas

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Lead Inspire. Live. I believe in intuitions and inspirationsI sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am. Albert Einstein. A natural ability or power that makes it possible to know something without any proof or evidence : a feeling that guides a person to act a certain way without fully understanding why…. Have you ever felt the inner voice that tries to talk to you before you undertake a significant task in life? That I am right. I do not. That I am’. What made him dream about that snake.

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Poetry – Tenny Thomas

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Lead Inspire. Live. Run now my friend this is your only chance of escape-. Yelled the old sage to me as I made my way out of the prison-. Quickly did I run, not for once looking back,. From the dark prison of life that held me without any hope. Chased by people who never cared for me,. Yet care for me now since I flee their midst,. Their lies and negativity had once pounded me,. And kept me in the dungeon of hell within my own life,. Never wanting to see them again,. I ran around exhilarated and enthused,.

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How I found my first job and learnt from it – Tenny Thomas

https://tennythomas.net/2015/05/31/how-i-found-my-first-job-and-learnt-from-it

Lead Inspire. Live. How I found my first job and learnt from it. There is always a job prepared for you somewhere. It is for you to see it, believe in it, chase it with all you have and get it. Some of the main lessons that I learnt from my experience is as follows:. Finding a job is like trying to catch a butterfly. You need to be tenacious, focussed and remember never to give up. Timing is very important. One of the main reasons why I had to wait 8 months to get a break was that I started searching...

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Long-reads – Tenny Thomas

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Lead Inspire. Live. About Race and American Crime. Nobody should deny that there aren’t any racial or religious tensions. Living only as an expatriate in the Middle East for a longer time than as an immigrant to Canada, I would say assimilation is not a choice but a necessity and it takes a long, long time. Racial feelings can be contradictory. Racial feelings can wreck havoc in a society. Picture courtesy: http:/ atvfest.com/2016/screenings/american-crime. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).

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Never Conform – Tenny Thomas

https://tennythomas.net/2015/04/05/never-conform

Lead Inspire. Live. Recently while researching about group dynamics among people, I stumbled upon a decades old set of psychological experiments conducted by Solomon Asch in 1951. These pathbreaking experiments show how societal pressure causes a person to conform. Conformity (spelled as [k uh. N-fawr-mi-tee]) is defined by dictionary.com. Normative influence: Because they want to fit in the. Informative influence: Because they believe that the group is better informed. April 5, 2015. November 1, 2015.

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Natural Selection – Tenny Thomas

https://tennythomas.net/2015/05/09/natural-selection

Lead Inspire. Live. One needs to be intentional about the behaviours or habits that he allows into his life. As E.O Wilson remarked, We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become . I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful is preserved, by the term of natural selection . Charles Darwin. The chickens were then later moved to a different henhouse with natural conditions (and less stressful conditions). It...

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Why I hate M&A? – Tenny Thomas

https://tennythomas.net/2015/03/30/why-i-hate-ma

Lead Inspire. Live. Why I hate M&A? I am a big big opponent of mergers and acquisitions and no matter whatever is being promised, most often people who spend day and night striving to build the company end up paying a heavy price. I have always believed that each company has an agenda for profit making. Set of values and culture. That it wants to follow to conduct the business and the humans. Since he was unlucky to stand against the might of Thomas Alva Edison, many of his inventions today are sadly foo...