Banker to the Poor is a autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank. In 1974, Professor Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist from Chittagong University, led his students on a field trip to a poor village. They interviewed a woman who made bamboo stools, and learnt that she had […]
I was barely sitting down when I heard a voice from the other stall saying: ‘Hi, how are you?‘ I’m not the type to start a conversation in the men’s restroom but I don’t know what got into me, so I answered, somewhat embarrassed, ‘Doin’ just fine!‘ And the other […]
At a software conference, the participants were given an awkward question to answer. “If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had made the flight control software how many of you would leave from the plane immediately?”Among the forest of raised hands, only one […]
A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health […]
