THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Satisfaction

"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching." - Anonymous

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Managing Yourself: What Brain Science Tells Us About How to Excel

As a child psychiatrist, I’m asked every day to help a struggling young person do better. For example, I recently saw a boy I’ll call Tommy, who was floundering in sixth grade in spite of increasingly vehement exhortations from his teachers and parents to try harder. I could see how downcast he was, so I immediately turned to a process I’ve developed for kids like him. It began with figuring out what he liked to do (build things and play guitar) and what he was good at (math, science, music, and hands-on projects) and urging him to do those things more often. I also arranged for him to be switched out of a class where there was a clear conflict with the teacher and into one where he felt more at ease, and I advised the adults in his life to make sure he was imaginatively engaged in the classroom, not just sitting there, bored. I told them to challenge Tommy but not in a punishing way; the message should be “I’m asking more from you because I know you have it in you.” Within weeks, he was working harder and was even eager to go to school. He started to receive positive feedback, which fueled his desire to work harder still.
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Minds

"Minds are like parachutes.They only function when they are open." - Sir James Dewar

TOPIC OF THE DAY

System Simulation

System Simulation (SSL) is a software engineering company specialising in text and multimedia information systems, based in Covent Garden, central London, England, and founded in 1970. SSL software provides support for large and small scale applications on networked and stand alone systems. They develop information products and services for a range of professional and commercial clients.

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Faith

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

TOPIC OF THE DAY

How to Stream Live Video

1.Download Webcam32 and install. Reboot your system.
2.Hook up your camera and any applicable software. Make sure that it is functioning correctly.
3.We have an ATI Video Card. Our camera is a DVI-D30.
4.Build a page on your domain using the code on this page:
Replace with your computer's ip address.
5.You can get your ip address by visiting this link from the computer that is hooked up to your camera:
http://whatismyip.com/

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Leadership

"Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others.It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed." - Mwai Kibaki

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Action learning

Action learning is an educational process whereby the participant studies their own actions and experience in order to improve performance. Learning acquire knowledge through actual actions and repetitions, rather than through traditional instruction.

Action learning is done in conjunction with others, in small groups called action learning sets. It is proposed as particularly suitable for adults, as it enables each person to reflect on and review the action they have taken and the learning points arising. This should then guide future action and improve performance.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Success

" Success depends on luck and luck means your strategy to achieve success." - Devendra Joshi

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Prediction Market

Prediction markets (also known as predictive markets, information markets, decision markets, idea futures, event derivatives, or virtual markets) are speculative markets created for the purpose of making predictions. The current market prices can then be interpreted as predictions of the probability of the event or the expected value of the parameter.

People who buy low and sell high are rewarded for improving the market prediction, while those who buy high and sell low are punished for degrading the market prediction. Evidence so far suggests that prediction markets are at least as accurate as other institutions predicting the same events with a similar pool of participants.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

control

“ You can only control what you can control.” - M.Neale

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Microprocessor

A microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a computer's central processing unit (CPU) on a single integrated circuit (IC, or microchip).

The first microprocessors emerged in the early 1970s and were used for electronic calculators, using binary-coded decimal(BCD) arithmetic on 4-bit words. Other embedded uses of 4-bit and 8-bit microprocessors, such as terminals, printers, various kinds of automation etc., followed soon after. Affordable 8-bit microprocessors with 16-bit addressing also led to the first general-purpose microcomputers from the mid-1970s on.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Mission

“To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal." by Abdul Kalam


TOPIC OF THE DAY

Do You Have a Mission Statement, or Are You on a Mission?

There's a clothing drop box down the street that says, "The American Red Cross of Massachusetts is a humanitarian organization, led by volunteers, that provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies." Good enough, so far. But adjacent to those words, in a font four times the size, and in bold, mind you, are the words, "Mission Statement." Which made me wonder, is this Red Cross's mission, or its mission statement? I don't want to go off on the Red Cross — the messaging on the drop box could just be some junior graphic designer's idea, and not an organizational mandate. But it spoke volumes about what was in the mind of the person who put it there. It gave away the context in which that person's work occurs: public relations. See, if you're on a mission, the box says something like, "Red Cross Emergency Clothing Drop Box!" in gigantic reflective lettering, and not a damned thing else. Because you're on a mission to get as much clothing as you can. But if the goal is to satisfy a contemporary set of communications and public relations standards, then it says trendy things like "Mission Statement."

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Life

“Life without hopes and dreams is like driving a car with no destination.” - Mabinty Kanu

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Strategic Leadership

Strategic Leadership provides the vision and direction for the growth and success of an organization. To successfully deal with change, all executives need the skills and tools for both strategy formulation and implementation. Managing change and
ambiguity requires strategic leaders who not only provide a sense of direction, but who can also build ownership and alignment within their workgroups to implement change.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Humor

“Humor is a great management tool. ” - Jeff Slutsky

TOPIC OF THE DAY

System software

System software is computer software designed to operate the computer hardware and to provide a platform for running application software.System software is composed of operating system and system utilities.These two major components have great importance on acquiring any computer system. The more you know about operating system the better your computer will serve you. This is why operating system and system utilities have a key role on acquiring a computer system.

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Leadership

“To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. ” - Aristotle Onassis

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Impact of Global Financial Crisis on Indian Economy

The financial crisis has been erupted in a comprehensive manner on Wall Street; there was some premature triumphalism among Indian policymakers and media persons. It has been argued that India would be relatively immune to this crisis, because of
the "strong fundamentals" of the economy and the supposedly well-regulated banking system.

These effects have been most marked among those developing countries where the foreign ownership of banks has been already well advanced, and when US-style financial sectors with the merging of banking and investment functions have been created.

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Business

“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.” - Robert H. Schuller

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Why Build a Business Strategy?


This article radically emphasizes on business strategy that the companies need to craft effectively for achieving the excellence in the life of business. "If you don't know where you are going, you will likely end up somewhere else." The same is true in business. Unless the company has a carefully crafted business strategy, it is essentially flying blind in the community of business.
Most of the strategists remarked that "a finished plan is generally worthless but careful planning is absolutely essential". The company needs to have an ability to respond to changing market conditions and to continue to ride a dead strategy eventually needed for its excellence in the business life. It's a fact that those organizations that adapt to changing conditions thrive and grow. Those that remain unaware or misjudge these challenges and opportunities and fail to develop a new business strategy eventually die.


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Interviews

“I learn something in the interviews from time to time.” - Samantha Bee

TOPIC OF THE DAY

The Worst Interview Question and How to Answer It

The following interview nightmare comes from when I was sitting on the board of directors of a small nonprofit: We were interviewing finalists for the executive director position, and one director asked the last candidate, "Larry, what do you consider your greatest weakness?" Larry thought a minute, flushed, and then answered, "Well, some people I've worked with would say that I have a tendency to just talk on and on without saying anything, but I couldn't agree. I know I like to talk, but I think that what I say has a lot of meaning. That is, while I am talking and talking, I am actually saying something..." He understood he was embarrassing himself, but he still droned on. We sat horrified. With his answer to this terrible (but oft-used) interview question, he proved his biggest weakness.

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Business

“I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. ” - Robert Bosch

TOPIC OF THE DAY

How to Turn Old Data into Business Gold

As I gaze around my office at the stacks of odd-sized discs and tapes containing data in forgotten formats from companies such as Quadronix and General Automation, I keep wondering: When am I going to have my NASA moment?

Everyone thinks of NASA as the quintessential forward-looking organization, but to me a NASA moment is a sudden insight in which a present-day problem is solved with "useless" resources from the past.

I call it a NASA moment because at the beginning of January I was impressed to read that a team of scientists at the space agency struck gold in a stash of data from lunar seismometers that had been beaming signals to Earth from 1969 through 1977. Somehow no one had erased the data, and when NASA needed seismic moon readings, there they were. The scientists were able to apply new analytical techniques to the data, yielding valuable insights such as that the moon has an iron-rich core similar to Earth's. Needless to say, delving into the archives was a lot less expensive, time-consuming, and risky than sending new seismic probes to the moon would have been.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Work

“O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. ” - Abu Bakr

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Quality of Work Life


Introduction

The term refers to the favourableness or unfavourableness of a total job environment for people. QWL programs are another way in which organisations recognise their responsibility to develop jobs and working conditions that are excellent for people as well as for economic health of the organisation. The elements in a typical QWL program include – open communications, equitable reward systems, a concern for employee job security and satisfying careers and participation in decision making. Many early QWL efforts focus on job enrichment. In addition to improving the work system, QWL programs usually emphasise development of employee skills, the reduction of occupational stress and the development of more co-operative labour-management relations.

Human resource departments are involved with efforts to improve productivity through changes in employee relations. QWL means having good supervision, good working conditions, good pay and benefits and an interesting, challenging and rewarding job. High QWL is sought through an employee relations philosophy that encourages the use of QWL efforts, which are systematic attempts by an organisation to give workers greater opportunities to affect their jobs and their contributions to the organisation's overall effectiveness. That is, a proactive human resource department finds ways to empower employees so that they draw on their "brains and wits," usually by getting the employees more involved in the decision-making process.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Success

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ” - Bill Cosby

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Enterprise Resource Planning

Introduction

From Inventory Control in the Sixties and Material Requirement Planning (MRP) in the Seventies and now we have Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).It refers to a software package which combines all computerized departments together with the help of a single integrated software program that uses a single database so that various department of a company can more easily share information and communicate with each other.
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Innovation

“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity” - Peter Drucker

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Can a Big Company Innovate Like a Start-Up?

When Google announced that co-founder Larry Page was replacing Eric Schmidt as CEO, the official reason was to "streamline decision making" at the top. Instead of a triumvirate, there would be one person clearly in charge. Speculation among Google-watchers, however, is that there were deeper underlying issues that triggered the change, including the fear that Google is losing its "start-up" edge. In an interview following the announcement, Page confirmed this concern by saying, "One of the primary goals I have is to get Google to be a big company that has the nimbleness and soul and passion and speed of a start-up."

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Talent

“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.” - John Wooden

TOPIC OF THE DAY

The Six Habits of a Talent Magnet
Talent is the make-or-break issue for business success. Few great entrepreneurs and CEOs of our acquaintance would contest that statement. If you are a leader who's serious about improving your capacity to attract the best talent, you need to develop the habits of a true talent magnet. From our research and experience with numerous CEOs and entrepreneurs, we've identified six:

1. Get to know the most talented individuals early on, when you don't need them. Can you name the best one or two people for each of the critical positions in your industry? If you can't, start by attending industry meetings and asking the right questions. If at all possible, begin socializing with the best individuals across particular disciplines. Who are they really as people, versus what they do for a living? What interests them, excites them, drives them? The very best time to get to know people is when you don't need to hire them now. If you don't establish a relationship first, chances are you will end up paying top dollar to get them — and even if they sign up, you may have trouble retaining them.

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Talent

““I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.” - Oscar Wilde

TOPIC OF THE DAY

3 Ways to Become a Talent Magnet

The most successful businesses often thrive because of their talent. Getting the best people should be at the top of every manager's list. To become a talent magnet, try developing these three habits:

1.Get to know talent before you need it. Spend time networking in your industry. Figure out who the shining stars are and what excites them about their work. Fostering these relationships early will pay off later.

2.Sell yourself, not the business. The most talented people get excited about working with leaders they can trust and learn from. Be sure people know why they should want to work for you.

3.Take time to cultivate. The best talent is likely busy with other projects. Think of recruiting these people as a long-term game: regularly update them about your business and vision for the future.

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Justice

“Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. ” - Mohandas Gandhi

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Marketing of Library and Information Services

ABSTRACT

The foundation for a great marketing plan of library and information services is to examine the library mission, values, and philosophy of service. Then analyze library capabilities and research customer needs to find out what works or what needs improvement. And then it is essential to use the analysis and research to establish goals, select strategies for promotion, develop the marketing plan of action, implement, and evaluate how well the libraries meet their goals. The results of evaluation can be used to make changes or to develop a new marketing plan that responds to changes in the library, in the community, and in the world of information. Marketing is not exclusively for businessmen. It is the "science of strategy," and its main objective is to make client (user) satisfaction, so it is necessary that the librarians are welcome to act enthusiastically on marketing applications. Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Database Technologies have been acting as key elements in this process.


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Imagination

“The imagination is man's power over nature. ” - Wallace Stevens

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Ethics in Marketing Research

Introduction:

Today, it is far too easy to begin practicing marketing research. But unethical research practice relying on poor information to make major decision has resulted in loss of market share, reduction in profits, and, in some cases, bankruptcy.

Ethics are moral principles or values generally governing the conduct of an individual or group. Ethics behavior is not, however, a one-way relationship clients, suppliers, as well as field services, must also act in an ethical manner. Ethical questions range from practical, narrowly defined issues, such as a researcher's obligation to be honest with its customers, to broader social and philosophical questions, such as a company's responsibility to preserve the environment and protect employee rights.

Unethical practices by some suppliers include abusing respondents, selling unnecessary research, and violating client include requesting bids when a supplier has been predetermined, requesting bids gain to free advice methodology, marketing false promises, and issuing unauthorized requests for proposals. Marketing research field services have used professional respondents, which I unethical.

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Life

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. ” - Sholom Aleichem

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Contemporary Strategies in Customer Satisfaction

A customer relation is the considerable strategy which has been now followed in various industries. Because if we consider expanded concept of product which includes all goods and services, we have the following marketing functions of a marketer:

a. Contractual: The searching of buyers and sellers.
b. Merchandising: Matching the products to customer needs and desires (the market requirements)
c. Pricing: determining the optimum price.
d. Promotion: Persuading the buyers to favour the firm and its products.
e. Physical distribution: The transport, warehousing and inventory control.

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Success

“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.” - Henry Ward Beecher

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Business Email Is Not A Teenage Chat Room

Don't get me wrong. I love teenagers. I used to be one. I just don't want to spend my day in one of their chat rooms, especially when I'm at the office.

What does this email say?

Today, I got back to my office late in the day after a series of meeting. There were a few emails in my inbox. I read them, answered two that needed replies, and then stopped dead on the last one. It was so poorly written it looked like the transcript of a teenager's chat room. I re-read it and still didn't understand. Tomorrow I will call the sender and ask him what he meant, but that's more time wasted - for both of us.

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Happiness

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ” - Dalai Lama

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Being a B-school Teacher

Zunis, a tribal group in Western New Mexico have a different perception of life. They belief in their collective ownership and sharing and their children in their learning process do not receive harsh punishment. Contrarily Kwakiutl living in the Vancouver Island of British Columbia gets motivation in competition. Kwakiutl's children take achieving and conquering as very high prestige in the social order.

K.C. Pratt, A.K. Nelson and K.M Sun's in one of their researches on nursery school student , states that, "human instinct are either very few or there is no existence of them in any pure and unmodified form." So Zunis collective ownership and Kwakiutl's competitive attitude are instinctive or an age old doctrine of survival. Cats kill rats because they have a killing instinct, instinct itself is a doctrine of survival.

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Ability

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” - Napoleon

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Rebalancing the global economy : A primer for policymakers

The global balances are a thorn in the side of the G20. This column launches a new eBook with the aim of providing policymakers and their advisers with up-to-date, comprehensive analyses of the central facets of global economic imbalances and to identify and evaluate potential national and systemic responses to this challenge.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Network

“All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

TOPIC OF THE DAY

The Three Networks You Need

We all know how important networks are in all the different parts of our lives: medical and health, financial and legal, and especially in work and career. What many don't know is that to be successful as a manager and leader you need not one but three networks: operational, developmental, and strategic.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Intellectual growth

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death ” - Albert Einstein

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Management of Intellectual Capital

Knowledge has become the most important fact of economic life of organizations. Today the concern of organization along with earning profits and being economically viable is to retain and exploit the talent of the people who work in the organization; to gain the loyalty of the customers it serves and learns from; to estimate and increase the value of its brands, copyrights, patents and other intellectual capital; to harness the collective knowledge embodied in its systems, to keep its management techniques, and history unique to itself. The above-mentioned are vital assets that are rarely managed and almost never managed skillfully; this is more true in the Indian context.

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Experience

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” - Auguste Rodin

TOPIC OF THE DAY

The Service Provider–Customer Paradox
We are seeing a paradox in customers’ relationships with their service providers, such as banks, utilities, and wireless carriers. In 2010, for the first time in six years, the percentage of consumers who switched service providers as a result of poor service (64 percent) declined, rather than increased, according to the annual Accenture Global Consumer Survey.

That finding reverses a five-year trend in which the number of consumers switching providers had risen steadily, from a low of 49 percent in 2005 to a high of 69 percent in 2009. The latest figure also seems to contradict the fact that satisfaction with customer service has decreased since 2009 in every one of 11 characteristics measured—from having customer service available at convenient times to accessing service through multiple channels. In short, customers expect more from their providers but think they are getting less.

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Intelligence

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. ” - Woodrow Wilson

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Placement Support Event : A Case for Management Institutes

There is a growing concern on the employability of management graduates coming out of educational institutions. Cook Book recipe syllabi are taught at the institutions under governed environment and little freedom is there for teacher. But today with teaching methodologies and educational pedagogies, there is an ample scope for a teacher in motivating the learner in classroom. This can enhance teaching learning process.

The next issue is how to market a student who is turned out from a management institute in the employment market. Now a days in the era of liberalization and globalization, there is a tremendous growth in ever sector. Most of the organizations are now looking for quality manpower. They organize campus recruitment, job melas, career meets and fairs to capture young talent straight from the colleges. "Catch Them Young" is the slogan and HR strategy for almost all new generation private companies.

This trend presents a challenge for the management institutes in fine tuning their young graduates and make them ready to face employability tests in the campus recruitment drives, job melas, career fairs etc.

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