Contrary to popular sailing - where sailors stuck to the shore while sailing and sailed close to the coast, he sailed away opposite to the coast, out into the unknown, away from the beaten track and rest is history. He was the first to traverse towards the West of the Atlantic and wanted to reach Asia by sailing West. He undertook a calculated risk and hence he succeeded in finding the new land. While most sailors sailed with the

Coast, so that they don't lose their way, he sailed against the coast and into the forbidden huge mass of watery expanse - the Atlantic - and rest was history. He dreamt of finding a trade-sea route to India, he failed. In his failure was a success that brought about a paradigm shift in sailing, exploring, conquering, and colonizing.We are talking about Christopher Columbus, Italian Sailor explorer, and colonizer, born 1451 Genoa, Italy.

We shall examine what went inside his mind that allowed him to take that giant leap.

Though there are various legends of people moving from Asia - when the continents

When Sam Walton walked inside the JcPenney's Retail shop in Des Moines, Iowa, as a management trainee,70 years back, even he would have not realized that the world of retailing would undergo a paradigm shift. And he's entering the retail market was not a coincidence but a deliberate decision that would change his life forever as well the way people looked at the retailing business. For the next sixty years, he will blaze a trail and leave a legacy hard to emulate