“Manager to CEO: Corporate wisdom for Survival and Success” by Walter Vieira (Response Books, a division of Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2005)

Abstract

All of us, with no exception, wish to succeed in life and find peace, fulfillment and contentment. We spend nearly a-third of our lives at the workplace. Our joys and sorrows our agonies and ecstasies are colored by the experiences we have at the workplace. However, only a handful amongst us consciously prepare ourselves for survival and for attaining success. Apart from acquiring skills of various kinds, it is necessary for us to understand the environment in which we operate. To deal with the situations we confront during our career with maturity, poise and grace, we have to prepare ourselves and have to understand the human psyche and to imbibe a philosophy of life which will allow us to not only survive but succeed as well.

Petrified Neogene woods of Tripura

“…Affinities-The important features of the fossil, viz., diffuse porous wood, presence of vertical gum canals, vasicentric tracheids, almost exclusively solitary vessels, non septate fibres and broad xylem rays with heterogeneous ray tissue strongly indicate its affinity with Dipterocarpaceae (Hie, 199.1; Kribs, 1959;Metcalfe & Chalk, 1950;Miles, 1978;Pearson & Brown, 1932). The family can be divided into two groups (Ghosh, 1958) on the basis ofthe arrangement ofgum canals: (i) gum canals always in concennic rings (e.g., Shorea, Doona, Hopea, Parashorea, Pentacme, Balanocarpus and Dfyobalanops) and (ii) gum canals diffuse, solitary and in short tangential rows (e.g., Anisoptera, Dipterocarpus, Vatica, Vateria and Cotylelobium). As gum ducts in the present fossil wood are ofdiffuse type, it can be compared with the genera of second group.…”

“…As gum ducts in the present fossil wood are ofdiffuse type, it can be compared with the genera of second group. Ghosh (1958) has further given a key to distinguish these genera. According to this key our fossil shows maximum resemblance with Dipterocarpus Gaertner.…”

“…The genus Dipterocarpus Gaertner (Hindi name Gurjun) consists of about 69 species confined mainly to the Indo-Malayan region (MabberIey, 1997).1n India it is represented by 13 species found in Assam, the Andamans and the Western Ghats (Ghosh, 1958;Santapau & Henry, 1973). All ofthem are large to very large trees found in the tropical evergreen forests ofthe country.…”