THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Innovation

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

- Thomas A. Edison

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SERVQUAL Method

SERVQUAL is an empirically derived method that may be used by a services organization to improve service quality. The method involves...
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Business

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

- Henry Ford

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Inventory

Inventory is the total amount of goods and/or materials contained in a store or factory at any given time. Store owners need to know the precise number of items on their shelves and storage areas in order to place orders or control losses. Factory managers need to know how many units of their products are available for customer orders. Restaurants need to order more food based on their current supplies and menu needs. All of these business rely on an inventory count to provide answers.

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O Jerusalem

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Dreams

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

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Peter Debye

Peter Joseph William Debye (March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate.

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O Jerusalem

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Dreams

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

- John Barrymore

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Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 April 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer whose work was pivotal to the development of mathematical astronomy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799-1825). This seminal work translated the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus, opening up a broader range of problems.

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The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Love

"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds."

- William Shakespeare

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Joseph Fourier

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (March 21, 1768 – May 16, 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their application to problems of heat flow. The Fourier transform is also named in his honour. Fourier is also generally credited with the discovery of the greenhouse effect.

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The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Faith

"We walk by faith, not by sight."

- The Bible

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Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik (Hindi: अलका याज्ञिक or अलका याज्ञनिक) (born March 20, 1966[1] in Calcutta, West Bengal, India) is an Indian singer. She is born into a Gujarati family. Both her parents were well versed in classical music.

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301 Ways to Have Fun at Work

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Think

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."

- Horace Walpole

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Walter Haworth

Sir Walter Norman Haworth (March 19, 1883, Chorley, Lancashire – March 19, 1950, Barnt Green, Worcestershire) was a British chemist who is best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid (vitamin C) whilst working at Birmingham University.

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301 Ways to Have Fun at Work

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Faith

"If you must doubt, doubt your doubts - never your beliefs."

- Anonymous

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Augustus De Morgan

Augustus De Morgan (27 June 1806 – 18 March 1871) was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, and made its idea rigorous.[1] The De Morgan crater on the Moon is named after him.

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301 Ways to Have Fun at Work

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Advice

"Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble."

- Sidney J. Harris

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Gottlieb Daimler

Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (March 17, 1834 - March 6, 1900) was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist, born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg), in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development.

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Growth and Development

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Revenge

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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Frederick Reines

Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918 – August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment, and may be the only scientist in history "so intimately associated with the discovery of an elementary particle and the subsequent thorough investigation of its fundamental properties".

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Growth and Development

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

ATTITUDE

It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude. - Zig Ziglar

TOPIC OF THE DAY

THE BULLSHIP EFFECT

The Bullwhip Effect (or Whiplash Effect) is an observed phenomenon in forecast-driven distribution channels. The concept has its roots in J Forrester's Industrial Dynamics (1961) and thus it is also known as the Forrester Effect. Since the oscillating demand magnification upstream a supply chain reminds someone of a cracking whip it became famous as the Bullwhip Effect.

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Bullwhip Tutorial

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Arise

I'm not concerned that you have fallen,
I'm concerned that you arise.

- Abraham Lincoln

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Giovanni Schiaparelli

LGiovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (March 14, 1835 – July 4, 1910) was an Italian astronomer. He studied at the University of Turin and Berlin Observatory and worked for over forty years at Brera Observatory.

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Growth and Development

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Answer

"The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions."

- Susan Sontag

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L. Ron Hubbard

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was a fiction writer who devised a self-help technique called Dianetics and philosophy known as Scientology, out of which grew a large organization later identifying itself as a religion: the Church of Scientology. In addition to fiction (most notably science fiction), Hubbard wrote a body of works comprising the Scientology doctrine[2] and is perhaps best known for having written Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health in 1950.

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Growth and Development

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Life

"Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave!"

- Constantin Brancusi

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Shreya Ghoshal

Shreya Ghoshal or Shreya Ghosal (Hindi: श्रेया घोषाल, born March 12, 1984 in Rawatbhata, Rajasthan) is an Indian playback singer. She performed several songs in Bollywood, regional films and also for Indian soaps like Kasturi. Besides Hindi, she has also sung songs in Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, .

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Software That Sells

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Enthusiasm

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Alexander Fleming

Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1922 and the discovery of the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Florey and Chain.

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Software That Sells

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Learning

"Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners."

- William Shakespeare

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Val Logsdon Fitch

Val Logsdon Fitch (born March 10, 1923, Merriman, Nebraska, USA) is an American nuclear physicist. A native of Merriman, Nebraska, he graduated from McGill University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1948 and completed his Ph.D. in physics in 1954 from Columbia University. In World War II, he worked on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. He is a member of the faculty at Princeton University.

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Software That Sells

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Learning

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

- Bill Gates

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Zakir Hussain

Ustad Zakir Hussain (Hindi: ज़ाकिर हुसैन, Urdu: زاکِر حسین), born March 9, 1951, is a famous Indian tabla player. He is widely considered as the world's best tabla player. He has also won awards and recognitions for his contribution to the world of music.

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The 3 Mistakes of My Life

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Hard Work

"I've always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got."

- Alan Bond

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Alfred Nobel died on December 10, 1896. The provisions of his will and their unusual purpose, as well as their partly incomplete form, attracted great attention and soon led to skepticism and criticism, also aimed at the testator due to his international spirit. Only after several years of negotiations and often rather bitter conflicts, and after various obstacles had been circumvented or overcome, could the fundamental concepts presented in the will assume solid form with the establishment of the Nobel Foundation.

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Nobel Prize Winners

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Command

"He who refuses to obey cannot command."

- Kenyan Proverb

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Julius Wagner-Jauregg, (March 7, 1857 Wels, Upper Austria – September 27, 1940 Vienna) was an Austrian physician.

Jauregg was born Julius Wagner Ritter von Jauregg before the 1919 abolition of Austrian titles of nobility. He studied Medicine at the University of Vienna from 1874 to 1880, where he also studied with Salomon Stricker in the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology, obtaining his doctor's degree in 1880. From 1883 to 1887 he worked with Maximilian Leidesdorf in the Psychiatric Clinic, although his original training was not in the pathology of the nervous system. In 1889 he succeeded the famous Richard von Krafft-Ebing at the Neuro-Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Graz, and started his research on Goitre, cretinism and iodine. In 1893 he became Extraordinary Professor of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases, and Director of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases in Vienna, as successor to Theodor Meynert. Ten years later, in 1902, Wagner-Jauregg moved to the psychiatric clinic at the General Hospital and in 1911 he returned to his former post.

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The 3 Mistakes of My Life

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Praise

Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear.

- William Shakespeare

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Alan Greenspan

Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926 in New York City) is an American economist and was from 1987 to 2006 the Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States. He currently works as a private advisor, making speeches and providing consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC.

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Monkey Business

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Imagination

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

Mark Twain

TOPIC OF THE DAY

James Tobin

James Tobin[1] was born on March 5, 1918 in Champaign, Illinois. His parents were Louis Michael Tobin, a journalist working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Margaret Edgerton Tobin, a social worker. Tobin followed primary school at the University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois, a laboratory school in the university's campus.

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Microfinance India-State of the Sector Report 2008 by N. Srinivasan

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Success

"Failure is success if we learn from it."

Malcolm Forbes

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington

Charles Scott Sherrington was born on Nov. 27, 1857, in Islington. He began his medical studies at the Royal College of England and ended them in 1879 at St. Thomas Hospital in London as a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Then he went to Cambridge, where he soon became a fellow of Caius College.

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Financial Intelligence for HR Professionals by Karen Berman, Joe Knight

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Time

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."

George Bernard Shaw

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Born and educated in Scotland, he was the son of Alexander Melville Bell, inventor of visible speech, an alphabet that used symbols to represent human sounds.

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Economics: The Basics By Tony Cleaver

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Education

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

Edward Everett

TOPIC OF THE DAY

GD & Interview

5 Tips To Use For Success In The Group Discussion/Interview At Management Institutes Like The IIM's.


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Post-capitalist society by Peter F. Drucker

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Technology

"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without talking about the other.."

- Bill Gates

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Technology Transfer

Technology transfer is the process of sharing of skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing and facilities among governments and other institutions to ensure that scientific and technological developments are accessible to a wider range of users who can then further develop and exploit the technology into new products, processes, applications, materials or services. While conceptually the practice has been utilized for many years (in ancient times, Archimedes was notable for applying science to practical problems), the present-day volume of research, combined with high-profile

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