“Blair option”

But even if Blair can get the economic development issues right, he can’t stop there if Abbas is to have a chance to succeed. Blair will need to gain Israel’s assurances that life for Palestinians, both in the West Bank and in Gaza, will become better. That includes greater freedom of movement, both within the West Bank and between it and Gaza.

Blair will also likely press Israel to prove its intentions by stopping all settlement activity in the West Bank – no new settlements, no expansion of existing ones.

By the same token, Blair will need to press the Palestinians to deliver a virtual cessation of attacks on Israel from Palestinian territories, including by Hamas, lest all peace efforts be blown apart by renewed fighting. As always, such a cessation would be at the mercy of extremists competing for power or bent on making peace impossible. In the process, Blair will have to talk to all parties, including Hamas – an Israeli and US sticking point.
These are all needs to be met even before the US can try again to broker a political settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. In the end, the obstacles may cause the “Blair option” to fall short. But everyone committed to a positive outcome for Israel, Palestine and the Middle east, should wish Blair good luck.

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Can solar be the ultimate energy source on Earth?

In my last column I pointed out that solar energy is – with exception of energy derived from nuclear, geothermal, tidal sources – the fundamental source of all energy on earth. Also mentioned was the fact that 90 petawatts – that's 90,000,000,000,000,000 watts for those who like to count the zeroes – of sunlight fall on the earth each day. And if the sunlight falling on earth at six specific locations was converted to electricity, the energy would more than meet current world needs (15 terawatts). So why haven't the governments of Algeria, Australia, Chile, China, Saudi Arabia & USA (the countries in which these locations are present) built solar conversion facilities at these locations? There are a number of technical reasons, but the principal reason is economic.

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You can’t run a business without winning trust of your subordinates and that is why many leaders fail...

Sure, these remote leaders attend meetings and other requisite functions, but they’d rather be staring into their computers. And if possible, all the messy, sweaty people stuff would be delegated to HR managers on another floor. Like know-it-alls, this breed of leader is dangerous, but for a different reason. They don’t engage, which means they can’t inspire. That’s a big problem.

A third category of lousy leadership is comprised of bosses who are just plain jerks. As a New York reader wrote us recently, “My boss is abusive, by which I mean disrespectful, finger-pointing and sometimes even paranoid.” Such leaders are usually protected from above because they deliver the numbers. But, with their destructive personalities, they rarely win their people’s trust.


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The new tiger…

High growth rate, booming international trade, tame inflation, high employment rate, manageable budget deficit…Phew! Mystified by all these economic indicators, then look to east Europe, a small country- Lithuania. This quiet and latent economy slowly crawled towards development and astonishingly emerged as brightest of all the Baltic States.

After the market crash of 1998, this Baltic Tiger revamped its economic policy and embarked on a developmental drive. Privatisation on large scale was adopted. This was followed by an effective tax collection procedure clubbed with reduction in administrative spending, which not only benefited them in short run but also in long run.

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