Living With Change
August 21, 2013 2 Comments
The Birth Of Virgin Atlantic
August 21, 2013 2 Comments
“In ’79, when Joan, my fiancee and I were on a holiday in the British Virgin Islands, we were trying to catch a flight to Puerto Rico; but the local Puerto Rican scheduled flight was cancelled. The airport terminal was full of stranded passengers. I made a few calls to charter companies and agreed to charter a plane for $2000 to Puerto Rico. Cheekily leaving out Joan’s and my name, I divided the price by the remaining number of passengers, borrowed a blackboard and wrote: VIRGIN AIRWAYS: $39 for a single flight to Puerto Rico. I walked around the airport terminal and soon filled every seat on the charter plane. As we landed at Puerto Rico, a passenger turned to me and said: “Virgin Airways isn’t too bad – smarten up the services a little and you could be in business.When VA was launched in ’84, not one person thought it would survive for more than a year. The bosses of these 13 big American airlines, that we competed with, said we’d fail. Now 21 years later, all 13 of them are out of business – proving the number 13 is unlucky for some.”- Sir Richard Branson
So you see,every one of your problems,is an opportunity to get started in business.
Using “Unused Bandwidth”
August 21, 2013 Leave a comment
Bill Gates believes that the mind has a lot of “unused bandwidth ” that can be filled in while the eyes are just wandering around.
So he had a giant map of the world pasted on the ceiling of his study, so he could look up at the map whenever he took a break from the computer. He also put up a map of Africa on the wall of his garage so his eyes could sweep over it while getting in and out of his car.
Maps might not be quite our thing,to each their own,but why not surround ourselves with the sort of things we would rather know more of ?Just tap the unused bandwidth?
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