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CHANGING THE PARADIGM FROM “WHAT TO THINK” TO “HOW TO THINK”

CHANGING THE PARADIGM FROM “WHAT TO THINK” TO “HOW TO THINK”

Nishantha Kamaladasa, CEO, Distance Learning Center

The traditional school provides enough material about “what to think” but not sufficient enough insights to “how to think”. With a fast changing world first become obsolete soon and without the latter, the educated people become sure misfits.

Subject: Tropical ceylon 1932 as the British saw it

Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:12:29 +1200

This is a movie that everyone should watch

TROPICAL CEYLON 1932 Have sound on ! http://www.youtube.com/embed/vIlI5fhZsxQ?rel=0

http://www.youtube.com/embed/vIlI5fhZsxQ?rel=0

Posted by Editor/SLEN

Can We Learn From Doctors?

Can We Learn From Doctors?

The link below takes you to a brilliant write up by two doctors on how
to improve their standard on field practice. Where are we as
Engineers? How relevant is this to us? Are we worse off or better? Can
we do better? What?

http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=77085

Arjuna Manamperi
M-2062

Machinery Safety Part 3 (High Risk Machinery Part 2)

Machinery Safety Part 3

(High Risk Machinery Part 2)

Presented by: Eng. Luxman Graciyas Jansz

Legislation

High Risk Machinery is covered in Sri Lankan legislation under the Factories Ordinance in Part III, SAFETY (GENERAL PROVISIONS), from section 27 to 29 and 34 to 38.

Dear Member- Send your PHOTOGRAPHIC master pieces to IESL

By early May 2013. IESL will have a world class membership management system and a brand new website through which you will do ALL your interactions with the Institution and its members!

This is the second phase of the Project Excellence launched in February. The first phase of revamping the financial management system has been fully completed. For details on Project Excellence please go to the SLEN Blog: http://ieslslen.blogspot.com/2013/02/iesl-project-excellence.html

As part of the new website and the integrated membership management tool, IESL will have a "photo slider" on the home Page. The idea is to let our membership show case various photographs from the field, factories, universities, assignments, projects, historical events, etc.

Send your masterpiece to us to be published so that not only us but the world see the glory of our work, history, and progress.

Please send your photo graphs in very good quality (BEST 1024 x 768 pixel resolution, but 800 x 600 is ok too), JPEG format, to ieslitadmin@iesl.lk

The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems

The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business Review

http://blogs.hbr.org/kanter/2013/04/to-find-happiness-at-work-tap.html

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Arjuna Manamperi

M-2962

The Distinction between Leader and Manager.

By Eng Jayantha Ranatunga
10th April 2013

Most of those who answered the question 5 of the section B paper 2013 March have failed to describe the correct difference between the manager and leader. Many of them have misunderstood that the leader is a super or better manager. They mostly blame the public sector seniority based system for the promotion of executives to manager designations. Therefore they believe only a few will ever become leaders (or better managers as per their understanding).