Forget the carrot and stick. Motivation and innovation come from a desire to help
For decades, bosses have assumed that the best way to motivate workers is by promising financial gain and threatening financial loss. With one hand they dangle a carrot of more pay while brandishing in the other, the stick of "get to work or you're fired."
However, according to a recent article in the New York Times, research in organizational psychology strongly suggests that people are more innovative and more successful when motivated by a desire to help other people.
This is a vast departure from the management theories of the past which have assumed that success in business is "the survival of the fittest." Under this way of thinking, helping others is a waste of time and effort... except insofar as it's self-serving.

What Do You Like Best About Your Job?

Over the past 20 years, I've interviewed hundreds of successful people, mostly top executives and top salespeople. I start nearly every conversation with a simple question: "What do you like best about your job?"
In every case, these highly-successful individuals have responded to that question with some variation of: "I like helping people." When I probe, I usually discover that they're not just talking about customers. They want to help coworkers, too.
When I look at the different types of writing I've done in my life, there's no question that I've been happier, more productive, and more innovative in exact proportion to the likelihood that what I'm writing will help others be more successful.
I'll bet if you honestly review the jobs you've done in the past, and the job you're doing right now, you've accomplished more when you were certain that you were helping others than when you weren't quite sure.
The lesson here is simple: when you focus on helping others rather than helping yourself, you draw upon your deepest sources of motivation. It frees your creativity and energy while developing simultaneously developing both empathy and patience.
It's not a dog-eat-dog world out there. It's a "let's make this happen together" world.
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MUMBAI: India's foreign exchange (forex) reserves decreased by $720.3 million to $292.64 billion for the week ended March 29, according to data released by the central bank.


The reserves had increased by $1.05 billion to $293.36 billion for the week ended March 22.

The foreign currency assets (FCA) - the biggest component of the forex reserves - fell by $689.4 million at $259.72 billion, according to the weekly statistical supplement released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

The FCA had risen by $1.06 billion at $260.41 billion in the previous week.

The central bank said FCA in US dollar terms included the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US currencies held in reserve, such as the pound sterling, euro and yen.

Gold reserves value remained the same at $26.29 billion.

However, the special drawing rights (SDRs) decreased by $14.3 million to $4.32 billion during the week under review, while reserves with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) went down by $16.6 million to $2.30 billion.

The SDRs had decreased by $7.5 million to $4.34 billion during the previous week, while reserves with the IMF had went down by $4.1 million to $2.31 billion.

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl brought to England after being shot in the head by the Taliban, has announced the first donation from her new education charity with the support of Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie.

Malala, who now attends Edgbaston High School for girls in Birmingham, said it was the happiest moment of her life, in a video played at the Women in the World summit in New York City.

The 15-year-old set up the Malala Fund after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban in October, after standing up for her right to go to school in her home country.

She spent hours undergoing major surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham wherea surgeons tried to repair the damage caused by a bullet which grazed her brain.

The grant of 45,000 US dollars will be given to an unnamed organisation in the Swat Valley in Pakistan to support the education of 40 girls aged five to 12 who would otherwise be forced into domestic labour.

The organisation, which was not named for security reasons, will offer a safe place for the girls to study as well as financial support for their families.

In a video played to an audience of thousands she said: “Announcing the first grant of the Malala Fund is the happiest moment in my life.

“I invite all of you to support the Malala Fund and let us turn the education of 40 girls into 40 million girls.”
Hollywood actress and UN special envoy Jolie introduced the video and pledged to give 200,000 US dollars to the fund.

She praised the young girl’s courage.

“Here’s what they accomplished,” Jolie said of Malala’s attackers. “They shot her point-blank range in the head – and made her stronger. The brutal attempt to silence her voice made it stronger.”

The Malala Fund supports the education and empowerment of girls in Pakistan and around the world and provides grants to civil society organizations and individuals focused on education.

The fund is run by a board of trustees, including Malala and her family, with the support of the Vital Voices Global Partnership, founded by Hilary Clinton.

(Reuters) - Five Egyptians were killed and eight wounded in clashes between Christians and Muslims in a town near Cairo, security sources said on Saturday, in some of the worst sectarian violence in Egypt for months.Christian-Muslim confrontations have increased in Muslim-majority Egypt since the overthrow of former president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 gave freer rein to hardline Islamists repressed under his rule.
Four Christian Copts and one Muslim were killed when members of both communities started fighting and shooting at each other in El Khusus north of the Egyptian capital, the sources said. State news agency MENA put the death toll at four.
An angry crowd smashed shops belonging to Christians, residents said. A Reuters reporter saw a burned-out Coptic day care centre and several damaged shops belonging to Christian traders. An apartment inhabited by Muslims was also burned.
Residents said the violence broke out on Friday when a group of Christian children were drawing on a wall of a Muslim religious institute.
A Reuters reporter saw what looked like a swastika drawn on the wall. Muslim residents said it had offended them because it looked like a cross.
"I saw the kids drawing on the wall after afternoon prayers so I grabbed them and told them to remove what they'd just written," said Mahmoud Mahmoud al-Alfi, a Muslim resident.
Then another man arrived and started beating the children, drawing a large crowd, he said. The situation escalated when someone drew a gun and fired into the air, killing one boy with a stray bullet.
"Suddenly the area was full of weapons," Alfi said, while weeping Muslim women sat nearby in front of a house, showing pictures of a man they said had been killed during the clashes.
The president's office expressed condolences to the victims and vowed to fight any sectarian violence.
"The presidency ... totally rejects any attempt against the unity and cohesiveness of Egyptian society and will decisively confront any attempt to spark sectarian strife among Egyptian people, Muslim and Christian," according to a statement.
Muslim leaders were also quick to condemn the sectarian violence which comes as Egypt struggles with a severe economic crisis and high inflation after two years of political upheaval.
Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, of Egypt's leading Islamic authority Al-Azhar, urged measures to prevent the situation from escalating and to "preserve the national character which characterises the Egyptian people, Muslims and Christians," MENA said.
"The sectarian riots which happened in El Khusus are unacceptable and grave," Saad al-Katatni, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood political party, said on his Facebook website. "There are some who want to set Egypt ablaze and create crises."
President Mohamed Mursi, a Brotherhood leader elected in June, has promised to protect the rights of Copts, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt's 84 million people.
TIGHT SECURITY
On Saturday the situation was calm but tense in the small town where Muslims and Christians live close to each other but in separate streets. Security was tight with police vehicles parked in the main streets.
Police detained 15 people, a security source said.
In a Christian neighbourhood dozens of angry young men gathered at noon on Saturday, chanting "with our blood and soul we sacrifice ourselves for the cross". The crowds left after a priest came and asked them to leave to calm tensions.
"There are people who want to cause sectarian strife between Muslims and Christians," said a Christian man who gave his name as Kameel. "I've been here longer than 30 years and I have never seen any violence or extremism in our area."
Sectarian tensions have often flared into violence, particularly in rural areas where rivalries between clans or families sometimes add to friction. Love affairs between Muslims and Christians have also sparked clashed in the past.
Since Mubarak was ousted by a popular uprising, Christians have complained of several attacks on churches by radical Islamists, incidents that have sharpened longstanding Christian complaints about being sidelined in the workplace and in law.
As an example, they point to rules that make it harder to obtain official permission to build a church than a mosque.
Last month, a court sentenced a Muslim to death for killing two people in a dispute with Christians in a southern town.
In October 2011, 25 people, most of them Coptic demonstrators, were killed in clashes with troops in Cairo.
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The pain could be due to uterine contractions (abnormal at this stage), or some problem related to the intestines. Please consult your gynecologist immediately – a physical exam is a must to diagnose possible cause of pain and whether or not you need admission or photolytic therapy (to stop uterine contractions).
It’s normal to feel some abdominal discomfort during pregnancy, but it can be hard to determine when it’s time to head to your health care provider to get checked out. Severe and consistent abdominal pain needs immediate attention. If pain or cramping is accompanied by bleeding, fever, changes in vaginal discharge, light-hardheadedness, urinary irritation, or nausea, then you should contact your health care provider as soon as possible.
In the first 20 weeks, abdominal pain could be a warning signal for a couple of serious conditions:

• Ectopic pregnancy is the first problem that you’ll want to rule out because it can be fatal. An ectopic pregnancy occurs when the fertilized egg implants outside of the uterus, in the fallopian tube, ovaries, abdomen or the cervix. If you have an ectopic pregnancy, you will probably feel abdominal pain before you even know your pregnant because it will usually present itself anywhere from 4-7 weeks gestation. Sometimes a pregnancy test will give you a negative result when you have an ectopic pregnancy. Symptoms of an ectopic pregnancy include: bleeding or spotting, pain in the abdomen, back, shoulders or neck, dizziness and low blood pressure. The pain might become worse during bowel movements or physical activity. If you start to experience symptoms of shock accompanied with heavy bleeding, call 911 immediately.

• Miscarriage is the loss of a pregnancy within the first 20 weeks. Signs of miscarriage are: spotting, bleeding, passing tissue or clots, pain and cramping in the lower abdomen, persistent lower back pain and the absence of pregnancy symptoms. The symptoms might be hard to recognize because they can present themselves over a period of a couple days. Severe bleeding needs medical attention immediately. Otherwise, call your health care provider if you exhibit symptoms of a miscarriage.

Throughout your pregnancy abdominal pain can often be caused by normal bodily functions:

• Small periods of cramping before or during an orgasm are normal and do not warrant medical attention.
• Gas pains are more common during pregnancy because digestion is slowed and there is more pressure on the stomach and intestines.
• Constipation pain is also common during pregnancy. The growing uterus puts pressure on the rectum and slower digestion contributes to constipation. This pressure can also cause a Bowel obstruction, which requires medical attention.

During pregnancy, some causes of abdominal pain are related to the pregnancy and may or may not require medical attention:

• Round Ligament stretching around the abdomen occurs because as the pregnancy progresses, the ligaments stretch and become thicker. Short, stabbing pains commonly occur during the second trimester in response to movement. If the pain lingers after movements, you should contact a health care professional.
• Braxton Hicks contractions are common in mid to late pregnancy and act as “preparation exercises” for the uterus before giving birth. They are typically irregular and painless before 37 weeks.
• If contractions become painful or come in closer intervals before 37 weeks, then it could be a sign of premature labor. Premature labor is often accompanied by some vaginal discharge, possibly bloody mucus. You might also experience cramping and lower back pain. Get in touch with a medical professional if you suspect premature labor; it can sometimes be stopped.

There are also serious pregnancy complications that can cause abdominal pain throughout pregnancy:

• Preeclampsia is a common condition of pregnancy that is identified by a rise in blood pressure and protein in the urine. It’s unknown what the cause is. Swollen face, hands, feet and ankles can point to preeclampsia. Severe preeclampsia can cause intense abdominal pain often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, headache, and problems with your vision. Preeclampsia requires immediate medical attention and consistent monitoring until you give birth.
• Placental Abruption is the separation of the placenta from the uterus partially or completely. Bleeding or light spotting is the most apparent symptom. It can cause abdominal tenderness, back pain, contractions or one long, hard contraction of the uterus. Placental abruption needs treatment immediately.

Pregnant or not, there are causes of abdominal pain that all require medical attention:

• Stomach viruses
• Kidney stones (more common during pregnancy)
• Food poisoning
• Gallbladder issues (more common during pregnancy)
• Appendicitis
• Hepatitis or problems of the liver
• Problems with the pancreas (more common during pregnancy)
• Urinary tract infection (more common during pregnancy)

If you experience any abdominal pain during pregnancy and don’t know what the cause is, you should contact your health care provider. Do not panic if you experience abdominal pain – often times the cause of pain during pregnancy is not serious but it’s better to take a cautious approach. A health professional will be able to help you narrow down the possible causes and give you the attention you need should the situation become serious.
Missed periods and light bleeding
Not all women experience a missed period in those early weeks after conception – this is not only be confusing, but can lead to miscalculated due dates and worry that the pregnancy may not continue.
A few women will experience what is called an ‘implantation bleed’ instead of a normal period, even though they have conceived a baby.
This is where a light bleed occurs as the growing baby burrows into the lining of their mother’s uterus, usually about 12 days after the egg has been fertilised, or ‘conceived’ in the fallopian tube.
An implantation bleed will typically occur just before, or around the time, the next period would have been due. However, it is usually not as heavy, or as long as a normal period.
Doctors or midwives will usually try and find out if a woman’s last ‘period’ was normal, to avoid calculating the baby’s due date from an implantation bleed, which would miscalculate the baby’s due date at about 3 to 4 weeks later.
Occasionally, a woman will continue to have a small, red or pinkish vaginal loss for a day or so around the time that their period would have been due, for example at around 4, 8, 12 and 16 weeks of the pregnancy.
This is more common during early pregnancy, but can persist into later pregnancy as well.
Some women will experience bright spotting (fresh bleeding), or brown spotting (bleeding that happened a day or so ago), at some stage during their pregnancy. This may appear as a heavy bleed, like a period, or like a ‘light period’ or simply as something small which is noticed when wiping herself after going to the toilet.
About 50% of women who experience bleeding during the first 12 weeks of their pregnancy will continue to experience a normal pregnancy.
Spotting after intercourse is often the result of the increased sensitivity of your cervix to any kind of minor bumping or irritation. After the first trimester; spotting is less likely to occur, and even if it does, it’s still not necessarily an ominous sign. If you feel cramps in your abdomen (the area around your stomach), don’t panic right away. Sometimes cramping is nothing more than a gentle reminder to take it easy, and at other times it might be a sign of digestive problems. Occasionally, however, cramping can be an emergency signal that says you need medical attention.
Take It Easy
The muscles and ligaments that support your uterus are being pulled and stretched in all directions during pregnancy. This can cause occasional cramping. The pain might be mild or sharp. It might be particularly noticeable when you make a quick move, get up out of a chair, cough, or sneeze. This is nothing to worry about. Some women get cramps when they exercise and put additional stress on muscles and ligaments that are already strained. If you feel cramps while exercising, listen to your body. Stop and rest. This is not the time to work through pain.
Cramps can also remind you to watch what you eat. As in your prepregnancy days, poor digestion will cause cramps. If you overeat or eat the wrong foods, you might feel stomach cramps. If you are constipated, you will feel cramps that can be very painful.
Warning
Sometimes cramps are a danger signal that shouldn’t be ignored. There are three specific medical conditions that are usually accompanied by cramping:
Miscarriage. About 20 percent of all pregnancies end in a miscarriage within the first three months of pregnancy. (Miscarriage is the delivery of a baby before it is developed enough to survive outside the womb.) Severe cramping in the first trimester (often accompanied by bleeding from the vagina) can signal trouble. If you feel constant abdominal pain (with or without bleeding), call your doctor right away.    Ectopic pregnancy. When the fertilized egg settles somewhere outside the uterus, you will get a positive pregnancy test, but as the egg begins to grow it cannot survive and will cause sharp abdominal pains and bleeding.
Preterm labor. Each year, hundreds of thousands of babies are born long before they are due. These babies announce their plans for an early entrance with a variety of signals that include cramping.
If your cramps are severe and/or persistent, call your doctor immediately.

The second day of the Lux Cozi TOIFA celebrations, leading up to the grand finale in Vancouver, saw notable names from Bollywood and quotable quotes by them becoming the highlight of the evening.

A vibrant extravaganza by designer Manish Malhotra celebrated 100 years of Indian cinema and the trendsetting fashion in Hindi films over the decades, with Urmila Matondkar, Raveena Tandon, Neha Dhupia, Nargis Fakhri and Sonal Chauhan turning showstoppers. The evening saw technical awards being given across 12 categories. 

Award                                             Winner                                         Film
Best Editing                                  Namrata Rao                                   Kahaani
Best Cinematography                   S Ravi Varman                                 Barfi
Best Choreography                    Ganesh Acharya -                             Chikni Chameli     Agneepath
Best Special Effects                   Kvsanjit, Rajiv Ghosh                         Raaz 3
Best Costume Design               Aki Narula, Shafalina                           Barfi
Best Art Direction                        Rajat Podar                                     Barfi
Best Action                               Conrad Palmisano, Markos               Ek Tha Tiger
Best Background Score                   Pritam                                          Barfi
Best Sound Recording             Anita Khushwaha                                  Talaash
Best Story                             Advaita Kala, Sujoy Ghosh                    Kahaani
Best Screenplay                         Sujoy Ghosh                                     Kahaani
Best Dialogue                     Anurag Kashyap, Akhilesh Jaiswal,         Gangs of Wasseypur I
                                              Zeishan Quadri, Sachin Ladia    

 

David Bowie is back with another epic new mini-movie, directed by video genius Floria Sigismondi (Marilyn Manson, Sigur Ros, Ellie Goulding, Leonard Cohen, two landmark '90s Bowie vids). In a bit of inspired casting, the Thin White Duke’s new video co-stars thin white duchess Tilda Swinton as his dutiful wife—but really, she looks more like his long-lost twin.
For years, the uncanny resemblance between Bowie and the Oscar-winning actress has been noted by observers—so much so that there's an entire Tumblr site, TildaStardust.com, devoted to their separated-at-birth similarity. In 2003, fashion photographer Craig McDean actually orchestrated a shoot with Tilda during which she dressed up as Bowie, and last year, Hint Fashion Magazine even published a rather convincing compare-and-contrast blogpost titled "Visual Proof That David Bowie And Tilda Swinton Are The Same Person."
David Bowie in "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)"Well, the fact that Bowie and Swindon appear onscreen on the same time in "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" obviously refutes Hint's theory—unless director Sigismondi used some creative CGI, of course. But perhaps what more important is how amazing Bowie looks in this video, in general.
You see, when Bowie unexpectedly emerged from a decade-long seclusion last month on his 66th birthday—releasing a new music video, “Where Are We Now,” and announcing plans to issue The Next Day, his first album since 2003’s Reality—it was cause for celebration, but there was just one minor problem: His famously aquiline likeness could barely be discerned in the “Where Are We Now” video. He merely appeared as some sort of conjoined twin, his digitally obscured face peeking out from a black shroud. Considering that Bowie had practically gone into hiding since his heart attack of '03, and that rumors about his supposed ill health had run rampant in the years since, it was worrying that he had opted to not show his full self in his comeback clip.
Model Iselin Steiro as a young BowieBut in his new video tour de force, the man looks virtually untouched by time: still handsome, glamorous, regal, and, for lack of a better adjective, positively Bowie-esque. Tilda, along with Norwegian model Iselin Steiro (who plays the younger, flame-haired Bowie in the video's band scenes) deliver stunning performances, for sure, but there’s little doubt that fans’ eyes will be riveted only to the real Bowie whenever he’s onscreen.
And as for any fans whose ears were mildly underwhelmed by the mellow moodiness of “Where Are We Now,” they'll be happy to know that Bowie’s new tune is a much more propulsively rocking affair, proving that the man hasn’t lost his edge at age 66.

David Bowie’s Tony Visconti-produced new album, The Next Day, comes out in the U.S. on March 12.

It goes without saying that Trent Reznor’s managed to notch a lot of different accolades on his resume—from his early days with Nine Inch Nails to his Grammy-winning film score work. However, here’s one you may not know about: He’s actually married to a musician, and she happens to be his partner on his latest musical endeavor.
Here's the scoop on Reznor's talented wife, who's his main collaborator in the project How To Destroy Angels, which is releasing its first full-length album on Tuesday.
Mariqueen Maandig,(who goes by the nickname “Q” with friends), a striking Filipino beauty who grew up in Orange County, Calif. and dabbled in musical theater during her school years, claimed she never wanted to be a professional musician—she actually wanted to be a fashion stylist instead.
Accordingly, she entered the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandise following graduation. However, finding the curriculum uninspiring, she jumped at the chance to enter back into the music world when a friend offered to hook her up with an emerging band.
Maandig ended up joining Los Angeles buzz band West Indian Girl and fronted the group from 2004 through 2009, meeting Reznor during her tenure there. She released two albums with the dance/psychedelic-rock outfit and managed to keep her budding relationship with Reznor under wraps until the announcement of their engagement in 2009.
To this day, the couple has managed to maintain an air of mystery about their relationship. “I tell people [Trent and I] met at a Mensa meeting, because we met under such unusual circumstances,” she noted to WWD in 2011—without elaborating on what those circumstances were.
Maandig announced retirement from her band after accepting Reznor’s proposal; while Reznor himself played his final show with NIN in September of 2009. The two married a month later, with no apparent hard feelings from their former colleagues.
“She couldn’t be marrying a cooler guy,” noted a post on West Indian Girl’s official site. “Talk about analog and digital love --their kids might all have moogs for arms.”
The following year, the couple announced their collaborative project How To Destroy Angels—which also included c0mposer Atticus Ross and art director Rob Sheridan, both of whom had worked extensively with Reznor over the years. Shortly after the news leaked out that Reznor’s latest musical partner was, well, his literal partner, the newlyweds and their bandmates released a six-song EP under their new name.
How To Destroy Angels went on to notch a track on the 2011 Girl With The Dragon Tattoo soundtrack (which Reznor produced, scoring a Golden Globe nomination), and followed that up with yet another EP in November of 2012--with the promise to eager fans that a full-length would be on the way shortly.
Reznor and Maandig, despite juggling two young children by this time, kept their promise and announced in January that the long-awaited album, Welcome Oblivion, would be released in early March. To seal the deal, How To Destroy Angels released an ominous, dystopian video for single "How Long" later in the month.
How To Destroy Angels will be playing famed California music mega-fest Coachella in April.