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Faith

"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Javagal Srinath

Javagal Srinath (Kannada: ಜಾವಗಲ್‌ ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ್‌) (born August 31, 1969 in Mysore, Karnataka) is a former Indian cricketer. He was a frontline fast bowler for the Indian cricket team until his retirement, being the only Indian pace bowler apart from Kapil Dev to take 200 Test wickets. At his peak, he was arguably India's fastest bowler ever.

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Poetry

"Always be a poet, even in prose."

- Charles Baudelaire

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Cross Ownership

Cross ownership is a method of reinforcing business relationships by owning stock in the companies with which a given company does business. In the US, it also refers to a type of investment in different mass-media properties in one market.

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Work

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

- Thomas A. Edison

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009), known as the "King of Pop", was an American musician and one of the most commercially successful entertainers of all time. His unique contributions to music and dance, along with a highly publicized personal life, made him a prominent figure in popular culture for four decades.

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Business

"Business is a combination of war and sport."

- Andre Maurois

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Executive compensation

Executive compensation is how top executives of business corporations are paid. This includes a basic salary, bonuses, shares, options and other company benefits. Over the past three decades, executive compensation has risen dramatically beyond the rising levels of an average worker's wage.[1] Executive compensation is an important part of corporate governance, and is often determined by a company's board of directors.

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Wisdom

"The doors of wisdom are never shut."

- Benjamin Franklin

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Human Interaction Management

Human Interaction Management (HIM) is a set of management principles, patterns and techniques complementary to Business process management. HIM provides process-based support for innovative, adaptive, collaborative human work and allows it to be integrated in a structured way with more routinized work processes that are often largely automated.

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Success

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

- George S. Patton

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa (August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997), born Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (pronounced [aɡnɛs ɡɔnˈdʒa bɔˈjadʒju]), was an Albanian[2][3] Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship[4] who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries.

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Peace

"We make war that we may live in peace."

- Aristotle

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Econometrics

Econometrics is a discipline which combines mathematics with the study of economics to analyze information and work with mathematical models to explore scenarios and theoretical situations. The study of econometrics tends to be especially strong on statistics, with statistics being a powerful tool when it comes to analysis, and it requires comfort in the fields of both economics and mathematics. This academic pursuit was created in the 1930s, when numerous mathematicians started to explore mathematical relationships in the economic world. Today, it is offered at numerous educational institutions, and leading researchers in this field can be found all over the world.

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Time

"You can never plan the future by the past."

- Edmund Burke

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Team Building

Team building is a process that develops cooperation and teamwork within a work unit. To constitute an effective team, its members must share a common goal, have respect for each other, and be motivated to use the strengths of each member to achieve their objectives. Current corporate philosophy stresses that each member of a team plays an integral part in the success of the company.

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Music

"Music is the best means we have of digesting time."

- W.H.Auden

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Theory of Constraints

Theory of Constraints (TOC) is an overall management philosophy introduced by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt in his 1984 book titled The Goal, that is geared to help organizations continually achieve their goal.[1] The title comes from the contention that any manageable system is limited in achieving more of its goal by a very small number of constraints, and that there is always at least one constraint.

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Music

"Music is the best means we have of digesting time."

- W.H.Auden

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Theory of Constraints

Theory of Constraints (TOC) is an overall management philosophy introduced by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt in his 1984 book titled The Goal, that is geared to help organizations continually achieve their goal.[1] The title comes from the contention that any manageable system is limited in achieving more of its goal by a very small number of constraints, and that there is always at least one constraint.

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Death

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Padma Vibhushan Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS (Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்), English: /ˌtʃʌndrəˈʃeɪkɑr/)[2] (October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995)[3] was a Indian born American astrophysicist. He was a Nobel laureate in physics along with William Alfred Fowler for their work in the theoretical structure and evolution of stars.[1] He was the nephew of Indian Nobel Laureate Sir C. V. Raman.

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History

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down."

- A. Whitney Brown

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Competitor analysis

Competitor analysis in marketing and strategic management is an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and potential competitors. This analysis provides both an offensive and defensive strategic context through which to identify opportunities and threats. Competitor profiling coalesces all of the relevant sources of competitor analysis into one framework in the support of efficient and effective strategy formulation, implementation, monitoring and adjustment.[1]

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Work

"All things are difficult before they are easy."

- Thomas Fuller

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Demerger

Demergers are situations in which divisions or subsidiaries of parent companies are split off into their own independent corporations. The process for a demerger can vary slightly, depending on the reasons behind the implementation of the split. Generally, the parent company maintains some degree of financial interest in the newly formed corporation, although that interest may not be enough to maintain control of the functionality of the new corporate entity.

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Business

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

- Henry Ford

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Culturual Intelligence

Cultural intelligence, cultural quotient or CQ, is a theory within management and organisational psychology, positing that understanding the impact of an individual's cultural background on their behaviour is essential for effective business, and measuring an individual's ability to engage successfully in any environment or social setting. First described by Christopher Earley and Soon Ang in Cultural Intelligence: Individual Interactions Across Cultures.

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Peace

"Peace is its own reward."

- M. K. Gandhi

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Job Rotation

Job rotation is an approach to management development where an individual is moved through a schedule of assignments designed to give him or her a breadth of exposure to the entire operation.

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Success

"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."

- Mother Teresa

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Hans Christian Ørsted

Hans Christian Ørsted (14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist who is best known for discovering that electric currents can create magnetic fields, which is an important part of Electromagnetism. He shaped post-Kantian philosophy and advances in science throughout the late nineteenth century.[1] He was also the first modern thinker to explicitly describe and name the thought experiment.

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Friends

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

- Abraham Lincoln

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Vikram Sarabhai

Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (August 12, 1919 – December 31, 1971) was an Indian physicist. He is considered to be the Father of the Indian space program.

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Wisdom

"Wisdom begins in wonder."

- Socrates

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Frederick W. Smith

Frederick Wallace Smith (born August 11, 1944, in Marks, Mississippi), or Fred Smith, is the founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx, originally known as Federal Express, the first overnight express delivery company in the world, and the largest in the United States. The company is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Success

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."

- Oscar Wilde

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V. V. Giri

Varahagiri Venkata Giri (Telugu: వరాహగిరి వేంకట గిరి) (10 August 1894 – 23 June 1980), commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth president of the Republic of India from 24 August 1969 to 23 August 1974.

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Modern Economy

"In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything." - Bill Clinton

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Economic Survey 2008-2009

The preparation of Economic Survey is essentially a pre-budget exercise for any State. The survey is conducted to understand the nuances of the state economy, its strengths and...

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Forgiveness

"Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself ."

- Suzanne Somers

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Facility Management

Facility management is an interdisciplinary field primarily devoted to the maintenance and care of large commercial or institutional buildings, such as hotels, resorts, schools, office complexes, sports arenas or convention centers. Duties may include the care of air conditioning, electric power, plumbing and lighting systems; cleaning; decoration; groundskeeping and security. Some or all of these duties can be assisted by computer programs.

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Technology

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."

- B. F. Skinner

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Neil Armstrong

Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is an American aviator and a former astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He was the first person to set foot on the Moon. His first spaceflight was aboard Gemini 8 in 1966, for which he was the command pilot. On this mission, he performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft together with pilot David Scott. Armstrong's second and last spaceflight was as mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission on July 20, 1969. On this mission, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent 2½ hours exploring while Michael Collins remained in orbit in the Command Module. Armstrong is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

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Wisdom

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

- Bertrand Russell

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Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar (Bengali:কিশোর কুমার,Hindi: किशोर कुमार}) (August 4, 1929 – October 13, 1987) was Indian film playback singer and actor. Along with Mukesh and Mohammed Rafi, he dominated Indian film playback music from the 1950s to the 1970s. Kumar also achieved notable success as a lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.

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Priority

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."

- Stephen Covey

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Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is an individual who accepts financial risks and undertakes new financial ventures. The word derives from the French "entre" (to enter) and "prendre" (to take), and in a general sense applies to any person starting a new project or trying a new opportunity.

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Nature

"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Industrial espionage

Industrial espionage or corporate espionage is espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of national security purposes.

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