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You don't need MBA, this is enough!

Jim Rogers said it best when he said "You don't need MBA to succeed."

Actually everything that we do is simple common sense. But we don’t understand this until we actually go through these educational processes. Perhaps that is what educational systems are designed for, like Zen, you go through the journey only to understand it that it was not worth it and you start realizing the true potential you always had within you.

Visualization of information is a very interesting subject and XPlane is in forefront of that. Founding of XPlane in 1982 is considered a milestone in data visualization. It has a cute and simple web page, with no more than 7 data objects. Yes, you read it right 7! Google by contrast has nine, generously speaking. The beauty of the site has to be seen to be believed. Their website is http://www.xplane.com/.

The crux of data visualization is to give the maximum amount of information in simplest form. XPlane's home page has following object. Have a look at this:

As Jim Rogers said you don't need MBA to succeed. This picture gives you more than an MBA would give you.

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