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Leadership

"He who has great power should use it lightly."

- Seneca

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ISO9000

ISO9000 is a standard laid out by an international body, the ISO. The term ISO is not an acronym, as is often assumed, but is rather short for the Greek word isos, which means 'equal'. In English, the group is known as the International Organization for Standards, and in French it is known as the Organisation internationale de normalisation. Were an acronym used, it would result in different names in different languages -- IOS in English and OIN in French, for example.

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Self-Discipline

"Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power"

- Lao Tzu

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Ashutosh Mukherjee

Many people are rejected after filling out a credit card application because of poor credit. The problem with this is that a major credit card is needed to make reservations for hotels, motels, car rentals and airline flights. Credit cards are also necessary when placing orders online or over the phone. Does this mean a person with bad credit can't do any of these things? Not if that person has a prepaid credit card.

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Change

"A youngman graduated yesterday, stopped learning today, will be an uneducated tomorrow"

- Unknown

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P.V.Narasimha Rao

Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao was born on 28 June 1921 and died on 23 December 2004...

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Communism

"The theory of communism may be summed up in one sentence: abolish all private property"

- Karl Marx

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Mildred J. Hill

Mildred J. Hill (June 27, 1859 - June 5, 1916) was an American songwriter, who composed one of the best-known songs in the world -- "Good Morning to All," better known as "Happy Birthday to You".

The song "Happy Birthday" was written by American sisters Patty and Mildred Hill in 1893 when they were school teachers in Louisville, Kentucky. The verse was originally intended as a classroom greeting entitled "Good Morning To All". The lyrics were copyrighted in 1935, 11 years before Patty's death, and the ownership has swapped hands in multi-million dollar deals ever since. The copyright is currently owned by Warner Communications who bought the rights for $28 million in 1985 and is scheduled to expire in 2021


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Self-Discipline

"Well begun is half done"

- Aristotle

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What are Prepaid Credit Cards?

Many people are rejected after filling out a credit card application because of poor credit. The problem with this is that a major credit card is needed to make reservations for hotels, motels, car rentals and airline flights. Credit cards are also necessary when placing orders online or over the phone. Does this mean a person with bad credit can't do any of these things? Not if that person has a prepaid credit card.

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Change

"The rate of change is not going to slow down anytimesoon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades"

- John P. Kotter

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V. P. Singh

Vishwanath Pratap Singh (Hindi: विश्वनाथ प्रताप सिंह, born 25 June 1931) was the tenth Prime Minister of the Republic of India.

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Change

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change"

- Confucius

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V. V. Giri

Varahagiri Venkata Giri (August 10, 1894 - June 23, 1980), commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth president of the Republic of India (August 24, 1969 - August 23, 1974).

He was born into a Telugu-speaking family, residing in Berhampur in the Ganjam district of the erstwhile Madras Presidency. The town and district are now part of the state of Orissa.

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Leadership

"A leader is one who influences a specific group of people to move i a God given direction

- J.Robert Clinton

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Alan Mathison Turing

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer.

Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computer science. Turing provided an influential formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, formulating the now widely accepted "Turing" version of the Church–Turing thesis, namely that any practical computing model has either the equivalent or a subset of the capabilities of a Turing machine. With the Turing test, he made a significant and characteristically provocative contribution to the debate regarding artificial intelligence: whether it will ever be possible to say that a machine is conscious and can think. He later worked at the National Physical Laboratory, creating one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, although it was never actually built. In 1948 he moved to the University of Manchester to work, largely on software, on the Manchester Mark I, then emerging as one of the world's earliest true computers


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Leadership

"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."

- Jack Welch

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Amrish Puri

Amrish Lal Puri (Hindi: अमरीश पुरी, Urdu: اَمریش پُری, June 22, 1932 – January 12, 2005) was an Indian actor who appeared primarily in Bollywood movies. He acted as a main or supporting role in over 400 movies. He played character roles and was well-known as a villain. He had a striking bass voice and an outsize acting style that made him a convincing villain in even the most melodramatic movies. He is especially remembered for his roles as Mola Ram in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and as Mogambo in Mr India (1987).

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Change

"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got."

- Peter Drucker

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Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto (Sindhi:بینظیر ڀھٽو ) (Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو) (b. 21 June 1953 in Karachi) was the first woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state. The charismatic Bhutto was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1988, only to be deposed 20 months later by the country's military-supported president Ghulam Ishaq Khan who controversially used the Eighth Amendment to dissolve parliament and force an election. She was re-elected in 1993 but was dismissed three years later amid various corruption scandals by then president Farooq Leghari, who also used the Eighth Amendment discretionary powers. In 2006, at the request of the Pakistani government, Interpol issued a request for her arrest and that of her husband.

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Leadership

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth (pronounced /vɪkrəm seːʈʰ/), born June 20, 1952 is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist. An unusually forthcoming writer whose published material is replete with un- or thinly-disguised details as to the personal lives of himself and his intimates related in a highly engaging narrative voice, Seth has said that he is somewhat perplexed that his readers often in consequence presume to an unwelcome degree of personal familiarity with him.


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Excellence

"We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle

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Raj Chandra Bose

Raj Chandra Bose (June 19, 1901 - October 31, 1987) Indian mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory and the theory of error-correcting codes in which the class of BCH codes is partly named after him.


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Leaders

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers. who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."

- David Gergen

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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie (1947- ), Postcolonial and postmodern Anglo-Indian novelist known for his use of mythology, fantasy, religious and traditional materials in a series of works with links to magical realism

Born in Bombay to a Moslem family of middle class background; his grandfather was a poet in the Urdu literary tradition, his father a businessman educated in England (Cambridge)

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Vision

"A leaders role is to raise people's aspiration for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there."

- David Gergen

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Leander Paes

Leander Adrian Paes (born June 17, 1973) is an Indian male tennis professional who currently features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament. He is as one of the most successful professional Indian tennis players. He has won various doubles and mixed doubles events at the Tennis Grand Slam events. He is also the recipient of India’s highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1996-1997 and the Padmashri award in 2001 for his contribution to Tennis in India.

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Self-Discipline

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everybody else."

- Henry Ward Beecher

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Thomas H. Weller

Thomas Huckle Weller was born at Ann Arbor, Michigan, on June 15th, 1915. He was educated at the public schools there, and later at the University of Michigan, where his father, Carl Vernon Weller had an appointment in the Pathology Department of the Medical School. Entering this University in 1932, T. H. Weller graduated in 1936, taking the A.B. degree.

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Leadership

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

- Henry Kissinger

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E. M. S. Namboodiripad

Stefanie Maria Graf (born June 14, 1969, in Mannheim, West Germany) is a former World No. 1 ranked female tennis player from Germany. Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Smith Court's 24. In December 1999, Graf was named the greatest female tennis player of the 20th century by a panel of experts assembled by the Associated Press.[2] Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, named her as the best female player of the 20th century
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Character

"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."

- Immanuel Kant

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E. M. S. Namboodiripad

Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad,(June 13, 1909 – March 19, 1998), popularly knows as EMS, was an Indian Communist leader and the first Chief Minister of Kerala. Namboodiripad was one of the architects of unified Kerala. He was renowned as a committed socialist and a marxist theorist.

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Character

"A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself .... he belongs to whatever can make captive of him."

- John Foster

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George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Before his presidency, Bush was the 43rd Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan. He has also served as the member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th district of Texas (1967–1971), the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1973), Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1973–1974), Chief of the United States Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China (1974–1976), and Director of Central Intelligence (1976–1977).

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Leadership

"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."

- Sam Rayburn

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Paulo Coelho

Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he attended law school, but in 1970 abandoned his studies to travel throughout Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile, as well as Europe and North Africa.

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Leadership

"Success is a matter of understanding and religously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success."

- Robert J. Ringer

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Kiran Bedi

Kiran Bedi is an Indian police officer and is the first woman to join the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972. She was born on 9th June 1949 in Amritsar, Punjab state, India, and is one of the most celebrated and widely known police officers who ever served the Indian Police Force. Kiran Bedi is the second of the four daughters of her parents, Prakash Lal Peshawaria and Prem Lata Peshawaria

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Future

"Be as a tower firmly set; shakes not its top for any blast that blows."

- Dante

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All India Radio

All India Radio (AIR for short), officially known as Akashvani (Devanagari: आकाशवाणी, ākāshvānī) is the radio broadcaster of India and a division of Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India), an autonomous corporation of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. It is the sister service of Prasar Bharati's Doordarshan, the national television broadcaster.

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Future

"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious."

- John Sculley

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Mahesh Bhupathi

Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi, born June 7, 1974, Madras, India) is a professional tennis player from India. He turned professional in 1995. In 2001, he was awarded the Padma Shri. He currently resides in Bangalore and is among the best doubles tennis players in the world with 10 grand slam titles to his credit including mixed doubles. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament (with Rika Hiraki[1] in Mixed Doubles).

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Management

"It is not enough to have great qualities; we should also have the management of them."

- La Rochefoucauld

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Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar

Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar (Kannada:ಮಾಸ್ತಿೀ ವೆಂಕಟೇಶ ಐಯಂಗಾರ್) (June 6, 1891 - June 6, 1986) was a popular writer in Kannada language. He was the fourth person among seven recipients[1] of Jnanpith Award for Kannada the highest literary honour conferred in India. He was popularly referred to as Maasti Kannadada Aasti which means Maasti is Kannada's Treasure. He is most renowned for his short stories. He wrote under the pen name Srinivasa. He was honored with the title Rajasevasakta by then Maharaja of Mysore Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wadeyar.

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Culture

"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one.Try, instead to work with what you've got."

- Peter Drucker

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Adam Smith

Smith was a son of the controller of the customs at Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The exact date of Smith's birth is unknown, but he was baptized at Kirkcaldy on June 5, 1723, his father having died some six months previously. At around the age of 4, he was kidnapped by a band of Gypsies, but he was quickly rescued by his uncle and returned to his mother. Smith's biographer, John Rae, commented wryly that he feared Smith would have made "a poor Gypsy"[2]. There is no record of Smith having any siblings.

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Leadership

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is learning aganiest the right wall."

- Stephen R. Covey

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Christopher Cockerell

Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell (June 4, 1910 – June 1, 1999) was an English engineer, inventor of the hovercraft.

Cockerell was born in Cambridge, England, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, having previously been the secretary of William Morris. Christopher Cockerell was educated at Gresham's School, Holt...


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Career

"A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery."

- Michael Hammer

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Johnny Weissmuller

Johnny Weissmuller (June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won fifty-two US National Championships and set sixty-seven world records. After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in films, a role he played in twelve motion pictures. Other actors also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller was the best-known. His distinctive, ululating Tarzan yell is still often used in films.

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Leader

"Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you."

- Henry Gilmer

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Marilyn Monroe

Actress. In a career that spanned 16 years, with no acting experience and through the promotion of her sex symbol image, Marilyn became a Hollywood media star and a legend while making 29 movies. She was born in Los Angeles at General Hospital to unmarried Gladys Pearl Monroe Baker. Her father was Charles Stanley Gifford, a salesman for the studio where Marilyn's mother worked as a film-cutter. The recently divorced Gifford had no desire to be involved and left Gladys when informed of her pregnancy.

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