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Taxila Women in Business

TAXILA celebrates 10th Year of its excellence by highlighting recent alumna, Suman, from the Class of 2010 July.  Suman writes about her experience on the programme as well as what she has been doing since finishing the MBA programme last year.

Suman, Now in Australia

Why did you choose TAXILA for your MBA studies?

I became aware of the TAXILA MBA programme more than five years ago when I met an alumna who told me about her experience on the programme.  She convinced me that TAXILA would be the right school for me as I wanted to move to entrepreneurship from an international corporate career.

As a young entrepreneur, TAXILA was for me the right place to test my ideas, build business plans with the right tools and advisors and eventually partner with other young entrepreneurs from more than 10 countries around the world.

What did you gain from your TAXILA experience?

Thanks to TAXILA, I now have a business toolkit that combines finance and accounting expertise, marketing and strategy know-how, leading and managing abilities, and most importantly a true sense of what an entrepreneur should be.

In addition, I left TAXILA with at least 200 new friends and thousands of contacts from all over the world and across all industries.

What advice would you give to applicants thinking about an TAXILA MBA?

For the application process, I would advise applicants to be themselves when writing their essays. Diversity is one of the most important values of the School; there is no “TAXILA type” of candidate and applicants should highlight the diversity they will bring to the programme from their personal and professional profiles.

Also, take the time you need to write a really strong application. Once in the programme, you should do your best to take away as much as possible both academically and socially. It’s an intense year with little rest, but it’s worth it!

Please tell us a bit about what you have been doing since graduation.

Since graduation, I have been quite busy. I restructured a small company in India, finalized my entrepreneurial project, raised funds, and found a first class client and freelance job that helped train me to start my own business.

TAXILA has helped me to achieve these goals as the programme provided me with the skill set to work on several projects at the same time, the ability to negotiate and settle deals and the toolkit for turnaround management.

Lastly, in November 2010, I created the local TAXILA Alumni Association to improve the strength of the local network and to increase TAXILA brand awareness in Australia.

Top 10 Movies Every MBA Should See

Most MBA students have little time to devote to anything other than school and job searching and even less time to watch movies. However, just as every professional golfer has seen Caddy Shack and Tin Cup and every pilot has seen Top Gun and Airplane, there is a core-curriculum of movies that every MBA student should see. If you’re an MBA you need to see these movies because they apply to your profession of business, because they contain valuable lessons to be learned and because, frankly, you don’t want to be the only one left out of the joke at the meeting the next time your boss cracks a joke or quotes a line from one of these particular films. So, I’ve compiled a list of the Top 10 Movies Every MBA Should See. In this list we’ll hit all the finer points of being an MBA, including college life, finance, investments, supply chain, entrepreneurship and ethics.

Ready? OK, let’s go!! Coming in at …

10. Back to School – Starring Rodney Dangerfield and Sally Kellerman

Plot – A self-made millionaire decides to go back to school to prove a point. However, because he’s already a made man, all he focuses on is partying and having fun (um, what else is there?). Hilarity ensues as he dusts off his old swim trunks for the dive team!

Why it’s an MBA Must? – Getting geared up to go back to school is an exciting prospect for a new MBA student. We have the potential to relive those glory days that most of us remember from undergrad. You know, the all-night parties, the fountains of beer and unbridled debauchery that nowadays would require an online subscription and a shot of penicillin. Sadly though, most of us soon realize that we’ve somehow lost a step or two. We notice that those beers catch up with you in the morning, we actually have to stretch before intramural sports and pray we don’t pull something, and we get cranky when people won’t sit down during breaks at the football game—even though we’re in the student section. Alas the actual MBA program may prove to be more business than pleasure., but it’s still fun to think back on and have a little fun just one more time!

9. Wall Street (1&2) – Starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen (Shia LaBeouf)

Plot – “Money is everything.” “Greed is Good.” You’d sell your family down the river to make it big on Wall Street. In this thriller we see just what lengths people will go to make a buck or two … and by buck I mean a million! Young stock broker Bud Fox becomes enamored with millionaire mogul Gordon Gekko and will do anything it takes to make it. Or will he?

Why it’s an MBA Must? – This movie really deserves to be numbers 1 through 10 on the list and is a picture of how most MBA’s dream of being a “Big Shot.” It provides a look of what power and greed can do to the human soul. It’s a lesson in business that just may have more value added than any of your core classes. It is also the one movie on this list you MUST see before you get your MBA. An MBA who hasn’t seen Wall Street is like a priest who hasn’t heard of the Pope. Oh and by the way, the second Wall Street is pretty good too!

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8. Boiler Room – Starring Ben Affleck, Vin Diesel and some other schmuck

Plot – Boiler Room is kind of a modern day Wall Street with bad acting. Talented young broker gets caught up in a scheme to defraud people. He is blinded by the lure of money and ultimately must make a decision to do what’s right.

Why it’s an MBA Must? – Well actually it’s not. We follow up the “must see movie” of Wall Street with the “if you have to skip one” movie Boiler Room. It is without a doubt the weakest movie on the list. However, if you like cheesy acting (Ben Affleck) and can picture Vin Diesel as a principal of an investment firm (ha!), then this movie just might be for you. Boiler Room is a good look at what we all think the life of an investment banker should be like and horrors of what a lack of ethics has potential to be. Its only real merit of being on this list is that if one day you do find yourself in a room full of traders you won’t want to be the only one who hasn’t seen it. But then again you may be better off.

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7. The Insider – Starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe

Plot – The Insider is a quasi true story of a man on the inside of a company who is doing wrong. He decides to put an end to it and blow the whistle on the company. However, by doing so he risks his life and the safety of his family. He is faced with a choice of doing the right things and risking his life to do it or keeping his mouth shut.

Why it’s an MBA Must? – Business ethics pure and simple. As future leaders MBAs need integrity. It’s a must and its non-negotiable integrity is either something you have or you don’t. It means doing the right thing when it doesn’t matter if you do the right thing or when the right thing is not the easiest thing to do. There is a simple way to test your integrity: Which is worse? Stealing a piece of bubble gum or stealing a million dollars from the corporate account? Do you know the answer?

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6. Tucker: A Man and His Dream – Starring Jeff Bridges

Plot – Another true story of Preston Tucker, the founder/designer/creator of the Tucker Automobile. Tucker was an entrepreneur who created a car and used his passion to briefly live the American Dream.

Why it’s an MBA Must? – This movie is full of the American Dream, the Land of Opportunity and the Entrepreneurial Spirit that many of us MBAs have. It’s a feel good (kinda) film that will inspire you to follow your dreams and sacrifice to make them a reality. Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart but can be the most rewarding concentration of any of the MBA specialties.

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5. Office Space – Starring Ron Livingston and Jennifer Aniston

Plot – I’m not sure exactly? But it’s funny! OK, I’ll try. This comedy is about a guy who one day decides he’s fed up and not going to put up with every day drone of the 9-to-5 anymore. So while everyone else is clocking in he’s busy clocking out! Just trust me on this one, this movie is hysterically funny and will relate to anyone who has ever held an office job. The best business is funny business and there’s no funnier business than Office Space.

Why it’s an MBA Must? – If you’ve ever gone to work and wanted to scream at the top of your lungs just how screwed up the place really is but didn’t this is the movie for you. The funniest/scariest part of this movie is just exactly how real it actually is. This movie is an inside look at office politics at their finest. It’s a case study in bad management and will give you an up close and personal look at exactly what consultants do! Hehe. As MBAs, at one time in our past or some time in our future, we can all relate to this movie and thus it’s perfect to be included on this list.

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4. Glengarry Glen Ross – Starring Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris and more

Plot - “Sales it’s a tough racket (gulp).” This movie is about a bunch of salesmen who get fired and get the opportunity to get their jobs back! The cut throat world of just what it takes to be a salesman in this world is the topic of discussion.

Why it’s an MBA Must? – This movie will give any MBA the ABC’s of selling, literally! It’s a great film on what exactly it takes to make it in the business world as a salesman. If that’s your future then you must see this film!

http://www.youtube.com/v/FCctqbRrsBQ

3. Smartest Guys in the Room – Featuring Kenneth Lay and Jeffery Skilling

Plot – This is the only documentary on the list and boy is it good. Produced by billionaire Mark Cuban, it’s an in-depth look at the mega fraud and downfall of what was ENRON, the biggest failure in the history of business. See how it happened and all the crooked things ENRON and its executives were doing to cover it up. Its fascinating! The things you see in this documentary leave no doubt that big business can be evil. It’s scary because it is true!

Why it’s an MBA Must? – It’s real life lesson in business ethics. It makes you think and be cautious of things that seem too good to be true. This film is not only a good watch but it’s almost a class in itself and thus important because it actually happened. This film is a must for any MBA and will remain with you and cause you to really think about the difference in doing things right and doing the right things!

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2. Citizen Kane – Starring and directed by Orson Welles

Plot – Widely considered the greatest movie of all time,  this classic is about the rise of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane. Kane is a man who starts with good intentions but gets consumed by the pursuit of power. Citizen Kane takes you through a series of flashbacks as a reporter tries to unravel the mystery of the tycoon’s dying words.

Why it’s an MBA Must? – Not only is it widely considered the best movie in American film history, it’s also the best business movie in history. Coincidently, the movie teaches a lesson to any and every potential MBA about the dangers of the path that we are already on! This movie is an American classic and there really is no excuse for not having seen it but now that you’re a business student you even more or a reason and less of an excuse.

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OK, nine down one to go! Before we reveal the No. 1 Must See Movie for every MBA lets recap what we now know.

10. We know going Back to School is no dive in the pool!

9. We know Greed … and well Greed is Good!

8. We know Ben Affleck can’t act!

7. We know ethics and integrity Inside and Out

6. We know that “A Man and His Dream” can change the world!

5. We know exactly how good it feels to be a gangsta!

4. We know what it takes to make it in sales!

3. We know to “ask why? … asshole.”

2. We know Rosebud!

So now for the for No. 1 MBA movie and most important lesson that any MBA can learn..

1. It’s a Wonderful Life – Starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed

Plot – Good hearted man George Bailey is down in the dumps. His entire life’s work is on the verge of crashing down. In the pit of despair he contemplates suicide. But before he can act on his impulse he is visited by his guardian angel who takes him on a ride to show him what the world would have been like without good ole George. He sees that life is more than about work and money and when you look at it that way it truly is a wonderful life!

Why it’s an MBA Must? – As another American film classic you really should have already seen this one too as Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed typically make us feel good around Christmas time. But this story really contains at its root the most important lesson a business man or woman can learn. We MBA types can easily get lost in the pursuit of money, and we delve into work and put aside life itself searching for profits. It’s an easy trap to fall into but it is imperative that every MBA keep things in perspective.  Money is really not what’s important in life and no job is worth dying over. In the end our family and friends are truly what’s important and it doesn’t matter if we have a good job or are filthy rich or unemployed, life itself is the real prize of living and we should never forget it!

Life is a risk free asset with infinite return!!

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Summary  of the facts of life

This very important to know the importance of life & the importance of  happenings which happens in over  life  life is not so easy  the meaning of life is to  face difficulty because if the difficulty not arise in the life the human will be unaware about the reality of life  because if  a person take birth with silver plate & gold spoon  he will be unaware about the difficulties of life . Here is the most important things is that ,we need to focused on our goal not on others goal if we fail to concentrate on our goal we can’t get success  in our life.

Don’t compare yourself with others if you will compare yourself with other’s   you will insulting yourself so don’t compare with others.

Suppose you have a problem you need to understand because every problem have a solution so don’t worry if the solution have you need to find out the solution of that problem & if there is no solution of that particular problem if the problem can  not be solved what is the need of warring .

No one go back & change bad binging  so why are you thinking your bed which goes out it is past and we can’t change our past so look ahead and thing your feature you can’t change your past but change your future  if you did’t start in a good way there is no need to go hell  you can do good  and successful ending.

If you miss the opportunity .don’t fill the eyes with tears It will hide another batter opportunity in front of you In economic sense it is called opportunity cost where we lose one opportunity for the batter option. May the next will be more satisfactory for you .

Mistake are painful when they happens but  after year’s experience these mistake become experience.

For Example… in 1945 US attack on Japan with atom bomb it was very pain full for every one more then 5000 thousand people gives their lives and thousand of injured  . But now it is an experience for us no one do that kind of mistake to use atom bomb in war becose now we got the result of our mistake .

One more thing It is easy to judge others mistake but it is difficult to recognize our own mistake.

So first judge your own mistake then go to others.

Written by

Zakir Husain

Student of Taxila business school jaipur

BUSINESS @ THE SPEED OF THOUGHT

This is a book written by the co- founder and current chairman of Microsoft , world’s largest personal computer software manufacturing company,  he is ‘Bill Gates’, with another renowned writer ‘Collins Hemingway’. It was published in 1999 and it is about how computers and softwares can change the business, human resources  and other  enterprises and make those more efficient, fast and accurate.

It covers the following topics :

1. 1. Information flow is your lifeblood : It means in any company, exchange of information is very important because all the decisions are taken on the basis of information available. Traditionally information was flown by using papers which was slow but now it has become much faster with the help of computers and softwares. Using papers for flow of information was expensive and time consuming, on the other hand, computers are much faster and can store much higher amount of information than a paper file which makes it less expensive.
2. 2. The Internet changes everything : Internet has add high value to the computers. By using it people are connected to each other which makes  the  flow of information easier and faster. These days in every company, every employee from top to bottom are connected through network and almost all communication are done via email because of its high speed. Not only to connect employees but also to connect middleman and customers, internet is used which is very important these days.
3. 3. Manage Knowledge to improve strategic thought : It says data and information collected should be properly analysed and arranged by employees via using techonology , to make it useful information so that it helps the organisation to make strategies and planning . For that, it is very important to have free flow of news whether good or bad, infact bad news must travel fast, so it can be corrected asap. It also says that employees should be given opportunity to do creative work also, while analysing the information by using technology, it will develop not only employees but ultimately the company.
4. 4. Bring insight to Business Operations : It means that technology develop process and makes the business operations more efficient and effective and a business should use technology not only as a tool of assistance but as a strategic resource.
5. 5. Special enterprises : It says apart from corporates, computers and softwares  are very useful tools in other enterprises like Health, Government, Defence and Security, Education etc. It makes the process much faster and increase the network of it.
6. 6. Expect the unexpected : It means technology can do the things which noone expects, which is very true. So we should believe that nothing is impossible and we can make our future better and faster via using technology.

At the end the book concludes that technology is very useful to increase the speed of business operations and for other enterprises or  I should say that it is very essential for every business unit  to adopt new technology because of high competition and for better customer satisfaction. Employees from top to bottom should be tech savvy, it is to make humans more efficient and not to eliminate them.

by :

Vikram Veer Singh

batch – 16

SIMPLE WAYS TO BRING OUT THE BEST IN YOUR EMPLOYEES
Management of people is a subject which should be of interest to everyone, more so to an entrepreneur, irrespective of whether he manages 6 or 600 or 60000 employees. Wherever there are more than three people, you must be well aware of how human relations work. Whether we are business man, or professionals or housewives, we all have to manage family members, relatives, friends and colleagues too. The principles, concepts, habits and skills of managing people remain the same in all cases, whether you run a small, medium or a large scale business, or simply a household.
Remember, even with ordinary talent, you can manage your employees very well if you show extraordinary persevence in managing them. There is no other way. If a man was to evaluate the effect of a single stroke of an axe, he would surely be disappointed. Yet these petty operations, incessantly continued, in time fell the mightiest three. Similarly in managing your employees, your each act, each courtesy, each thoughtful deed would become the proverbial stroke of the axe. Therefore keep on doing small things for your employees till it becomes your habit and you will notice the difference.
Once you understand this basic fact, you too can be on the road to manage your employees better in the long run for more profits, pleasure and peace. Please note that we are talking of the long run, because any action which involves people has short, medium and long term effect.
But don’t forget that people work only for the money, you can get as many employees as you want with money, but business is managed successfully by good and committed employees. And it takes much more than money to have good and committed employees. To be a better manager you can make employees just like you make friends, by applying the basic principles of human relations.
Effective management is an investment in human development. There is an inspiring Chinese proverb that sums it up:
If you want to plan for a year, plant corn;
If you want to plan for 3 year, plant a tree;
If you want to plan for 10 years, plant men;

Plant men, cultivate them? Yes, to get along well with people, to manage them efficiently, you must become a gardener of men.

                                                                                                            SUCKER PUCH

In a packed theatre, scores of excited movie buffs sat through a long march of commercials patiently, but the organisers were dismayed. It was an exclusive premier of SRK-starrer Ra.One for mobile phone maker Nokia’s premium users at PVR Select City Walk mall in Delhi, but the advertisements that had been running for the previous few minutes were of Samsung mobile! That was in October. Two months later, when Nokia  rolled out Lumia cabs in Bangalore as part of its biggest marketing drive in the country to promote its first Windows smartphone, Samsung brought out its own Omnia cab and stationed it outside the Lumia showroom for a few days.

Analysts call it ambush marketing, Samsung says it’s not. Whatever, but the cut-throat competition between the country’s top two mobile handset players looks like the old Cola War between Coca-Cola and PepsiCo and refreshes memories of Pepsi’s ‘Nothing official about it’ campaign during the 1996 cricket World Cup that introduced the concept of ambush marketing in India.

“We do not acknowledge, react or engage in ambush marketing,” a Nokia spokesperson says. “We believe in responsible marketing, where we will disclose more than what is required to our consumers, as we did in the case of the minor software glitch in Lumia 800.”

Samsung denies ambushing Nokia, and says both the examples were part of independent marketing initiatives. “We were running a media innovation in October for tablets wherein all screens at Ambience Mall PVR and Inox in Mumbai showed the ads,” a Samsung spokeswoman says.

Samsung Move Won’t Affect Nokia

And there was no ‘Lumia Cab’ in Bangalore when Samsung rolled out a convoy of ‘Omnia W’ cabs for three days, she says, adding they were parked outside Samsung Smartphone Cafes.

“Ambush marketing rules apply if there are territorial rules that are applicable, as in the case of cricket World Cup… In the case of smartphones, all companies are aggressively trying to grow the category,” she says



SUMMARY ON MR.BEAN
Mr. Bean is a British comedy television programme series of twenty-five-minute episodes written by and starring Rowan Atkinson as the title character. The pilot episode was broadcast on ITV on 1 January 1990, with the last television episode, “Goodnight Mr. Bean” broadcast on 31 October 1995. The final episode, “Hair by Mr. Bean of London”, was a video exclusive released on 15 November 1995, but not broadcast in the UK until 2006. Bean rarely speaks, and the largely physical humour of the series is derived from his interactions with other people and his unusual solutions to situations. The series was influenced by physical performers such as Jacques Tati and comic actors from silent films. During its five-year run, the series gained large UK audience figures, including 18.74 million for the 1991 episode “The Trouble With Mr. Bean”. The show has been sold in 245 territories worldwide and has inspired an animated cartoon spin-off and two feature films. The title character, played by Rowan Atkinson, is a childish and self-centered buffoon who brings various unusual schemes and contrivances to everyday tasks. He lives alone in his small flat in Highbury and is almost always seen in his trademark tweed jacket and a skinny red tie. He also usually wears a digital calculator watch. Mr. Bean rarely speaks, and when he does it is generally only a few mumbled words which are in a comically low-pitched voice. Mr. Bean often seems unaware of basic aspects of the way the world works, and the programme usually features his attempts at what would normally be considered simple tasks, such as going swimming, using a television set, redecorating or going. Teddy is Mr. Bean’s teddy bear and perhaps Mr. Bean’s best friend. The bear is a dark brown, knitted oddity with button eyes and sausage-shaped limbs, invariably ending up broken in half or in various other states of destruction and dis-figuration. Although Teddy is inanimate, Mr. Bean often pretends it is alive. Mr. Bean’s car, a British Leyland Mini 1000, it developed its own character of sorts over the series and was central to several antics, such as Mr. Bean getting dressed in it, driving while sitting in an armchair strapped to the roof, starting it with a number of locks, and keys or attempting to avoid a parking garage toll by driving out through the entrance. The Mini also had a number of innovative security measures, which will usually get turned over, crashed out of its parking space and so forth by Mr. Bean in his mini. The character of Mr. Bean was developed while Atkinson was studying for his master’s degree at Oxford University. A sketch featuring the character was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in the early 1980s. In 1987, one of Mr. Bean’s earliest appearances occurred at the “Just For Laughs” comedy festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. When programme coordinators were scheduling Atkinson into the festival program, Atkinson insisted that he perform on the French-speaking bill rather than the English-speaking program. Having no French dialogue in his act at all, program coordinators could not understand why Atkinson wanted to perform on the French bill. As it turned out, Atkinson act at the festival was a test platform for the Mr. Bean character and Atkinson wanted to see how the silent character’s physical comedy would fare on an international stage with a non-English speaking audience. The name of the character was not decided until after the first programme had been produced, with a number of other vegetable-influenced names, such as “Mr. Cauliflower”, being explored.

SUMMARY ON:

DIFFERENT TYPES  OF PEOPLE IN THE wORLD.

THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF PEOPLE OUT OF wHICH I HAVE CHOOSEN THE FOLLOVING:

1) THE SENSITIVE/EMOTIONAL:

Emotion is often the driving force behind motivation, positive or negative. They are always crying for something. They always gets hurt.

2) ANGRY NERD:

A nerd is a person who spend inordinate amounts of time on unpopular. Obscure or non-mainstream activities. They are described as being shy, quirky and  unattractive.

3) FUNNY IDIOT:

Funny idiot are those who are  happy go lucky who wants to be  happy and make others happy.

4) FLIRTER:

It is sexual activity involving verbal or written communication as well as body language by one person to another suggesting an interest in a deeper relationship with the other person.

5) LAZY:

Lazy are those who believe “I can but I won’t”. They wait for tomorrow and tomorrow comes again wait for tomorrow.

6) ANNOYING:

There are also people who are very irritating just don’t have any work.

7) DRAMA QUEEN:

This are people who have always things to say. They  are always doing drama.

BHUMIKA CHETTRI

INDIAN MARRIAGE
In India there is no greater event in a family than a wedding, dramatically evoking every possible social obligation, kinship bond, traditional value, impassioned sentiment, and economic resource. In the arranging and conducting of weddings, the complex permutations of Indian social systems best display themselves.
Marriage is deemed essential for virtually everyone in India. For the individual, marriage is the great watershed in life, marking the transition to adulthood. Generally, this transition, like everything else in India, depends little upon individual volition but instead occurs as a result of the efforts of many people. Even as one is born into a particular family without the exercise of any personal choice, so is one given a spouse without any personal preference involved. Arranging a marriage is a critical responsibility for parents and other relatives of both bride and groom. Marriage alliances entail some redistribution of wealth as well as building and restructuring social realignments, and, of course, result in the biological reproduction of families.
Broadly, in the Indo-Aryan-speaking north, a family seeks marriage alliances with people to whom it is not already linked by ties of blood. Marriage arrangements often involve looking far afield. In the Dravidian-speaking south, a family seeks to strengthen existing kin ties through marriage, preferably with blood relatives. Kinship terminology reflects this basic pattern. In the north, every kinship term clearly indicates whether the person referred to is a blood relation or an affinal relation; all blood relatives are forbidden as marriage mates to a person or a person’s children. In the south, there is no clear-cut distinction between the family of birth and the family of marriage. Because marriage in the south commonly involves a continuing exchange of daughters among a few families, for the married couple all relatives are ultimately blood kin. Dravidian terminology stresses the principle of relative age: all relatives are arranged according to whether they are older or younger than each other without reference to generation.
Almost all Indian children are raised with the expectation that their parents will arrange their marriages, but an increasing number of young people, especially among the college-educated, are finding their own spouses. So-called love marriages are deemed a slightly scandalous alternative to properly arranged marriages. Some young people convince their parents to “arrange” their marriages to people with whom they have fallen in love. This process has long been possible for Indians from the south and for Muslims who want to marry a particular cousin of the appropriate marriageable category. In the upper classes, these semi-arranged love marriages increasingly occur between young people who are from castes of slightly different rank but who are educationally or professionally equal. If there are vast differences to overcome, such as is the case with love marriages between Hindus and Muslims or between Hindus of very different caste status, parents are usually much less agreeable, and serious family disruptions can result.
In much of India, especially in the north, a marriage establishes a structural opposition between the kin groups of the bride and groom–bride-givers and bride-takers. Within this relationship, bride-givers are considered inferior to bride-takers and are forever expected to give gifts to the bride-takers. The one-way flow of gifts begins at engagement and continues for a generation or two. The most dramatic aspect of this asymmetrical relationship is the giving of dowry.so marriage has very much importance.

The Seven Ages of Man

William Shakespeare

The summary of, “The seven ages of man” is saying that the whole world is basically a play. Everyone in the world has a role and a place. When someone is born then that’s the start of their play.  Then moving on in age its becomes more intense and more problems occur. Seeking education and love along the way. Getting older and weaker death approaches.  Thinking about how one came from diapers… to diapers, then finally dies.

These seven stages of a man’s life, sometimes referred to as “seven ages of man”: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, and second childhood.

The man in the summary goes through these stages:

1. Infancy: In this stage he is a baby and knows little.
2. Childhood: It is in this stage that he begins to go to school. He is reluctant to leave the protected environment of his home as he is still not confident enough to exercise his own discretion.
3. The lover: In this stage he is always remorseful due to some reason or other, especially the loss of love. He tries to express feelings through song or some other cultural activity.
4. The soldier: It is in this age that he thinks less of himself and begins to think more of others. He is very easily aroused and is hot headed. He is always working towards making a reputation for himself and gaining recognition, however short-lived it may be, even at the cost of his own life.
5. The justice: In this stage he has acquired wisdom through the many experiences he has had in life. He has reached a stage where he has gained prosperity and social status. He becomes very attentive of his looks and begins to enjoy the finer things of life.
6. Old age: He begins to lose his charm — both physical and mental. He begins to become the brunt of others’ jocks. He loses his firmness and assertiveness, and shrinks in stature and personality.
7. Mental dementia and death: He loses his status and he becomes a non-entity. He becomes dependent on others like a child and is in need of constant support before finally dying.
8. This the way a life goes.                                                                                                                                                                    BY: RENU PARASHAR.

SMILE smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth and by flexing muscles throughout the mouth. The smile can also be found around the eyes (see ‘Duchenne Smiling’ below). Among humans, it is an expression denoting pleasure, joy, happiness, or amusement, but can also be an involuntary expression of anxiety, in which case it is known as a grimace. Smiling is something that is understood by everyone despite culture, race, or religion; it is internationally known. Cross-cultural studies have shown that smiling is a means of communicating emotions throughout the world. o A genuine smile is detectable by others because it is accompanied by a general glow, smiling eyes where the outer corners crinkle and the lower lid tightens, and a reassuring demeanor that helps the viewer to feel more at ease in your presence. A genuine smile comes from being happy, positive, and from drawing your feelings from the heart. Think happy thoughts. The easiest way to a fantastic, genuine smile is to be happy. Think about someone you care about (perhaps the person standing in front of you as you smile), about something that you genuinely love to do, or think of a funny joke that you just find hilarious. Or think about the happiest moments in you Be genuine. Draw on your heartfelt feelings, not just rationalizations. When you’re confronted by a person or situation that makes you feel ambivalent and you’re oscillating between giving the cold shoulder or smiling, err on the side of smiling – find one single thing in your heart that is positive about the person or situation before you, and use that to create your smile. Love people and your life. It’s much easier to produce friendly, easygoing, genuine smiles when you love what you do, when you love the people around you, and when you love humanity in general. Be grateful for all that you have and you’ll find smiles come far more naturally. Be playful. Intense times can make us too serious. See life as an adventure, be gentle on yourself and watch children at play. Being playful will bring a smile to your face much more easily. Look at photos of yourself smiling, with a closed mouth, open mouth, and from different angles. Which smiles and poses make your face light up the most? Which smile displays your other features to their best possible advantage? Which smile comes across as the most natural, the most “you”? Find that picture and focus on what your face is doing. Then practice in front of a mirror until you get it just right. Keep practicing, and pay attention to how that great smile feels, so that you’ll be able to replicate it without looking in a mirror. Soon it will become second nature, and you’ll likely find that you’ll look more photogenicin your next batch of pictures. If you want to improve your smile, look at pictures of smiles you believe are beautiful. Also, remember that you’re beautiful (inside and out); your smile is bound to look better if you feel good about yourself! Note the difference between a smile and a grin. Grins bare a lot more teeth (think Cheshire Cat) and are not necessarily flatteringon all people, although for some people they can make you appear cute. If you’re prone to grinning and it’s not doing your appearance any favors, try showing only your upper teeth when you smile. Showing your lower teeth can make it seem you’re baring your teeth. When showing teeth, pressing the tongue behind the teeth will make small gaps look less noticeable. Practice smiling at random strangers.[4] Make a choice that you’ll do this, SMILE smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth and by flexing muscles throughout the mouth. The smile can also be found around the eyes (see ‘Duchenne Smiling’ below). Among humans, it is an expression denoting pleasure, joy, happiness, or amusement, but can also be an involuntary expression of anxiety, in which case it is known as a grimace. Smiling is something that is understood by everyone despite culture, race, or religion; it is internationally known. Cross-cultural studies have shown that smiling is a means of communicating emotions throughout the world. o A genuine smile is detectable by others because it is accompanied by a general glow, smiling eyes where the outer corners crinkle and the lower lid tightens, and a reassuring demeanor that helps the viewer to feel more at ease in your presence. A genuine smile comes from being happy, positive, and from drawing your feelings from the heart. Think happy thoughts. The easiest way to a fantastic, genuine smile is to be happy. Think about someone you care about (perhaps the person standing in front of you as you smile), about something that you genuinely love to do, or think of a funny joke that you just find hilarious. Or think about the happiest moments in you Be genuine. Draw on your heartfelt feelings, not just rationalizations. When you’re confronted by a person or situation that makes you feel ambivalent and you’re oscillating between giving the cold shoulder or smiling, err on the side of smiling – find one single thing in your heart that is positive about the person or situation before you, and use that to create your smile. Love people and your life. It’s much easier to produce friendly, easygoing, genuine smiles when you love what you do, when you love the people around you, and when you love humanity in general. Be grateful for all that you have and you’ll find smiles come far more naturally. Be playful. Intense times can make us too serious. See life as an adventure, be gentle on yourself and watch children at play. Being playful will bring a smile to your face much more easily. Look at photos of yourself smiling, with a closed mouth, open mouth, and from different angles. Which smiles and poses make your face light up the most? Which smile displays your other features to their best possible advantage? Which smile comes across as the most natural, the most “you”? Find that picture and focus on what your face is doing. Then practice in front of a mirror until you get it just right. Keep practicing, and pay attention to how that great smile feels, so that you’ll be able to replicate it without looking in a mirror. Soon it will become second nature, and you’ll likely find that you’ll look more photogenicin your next batch of pictures. If you want to improve your smile, look at pictures of smiles you believe are beautiful. Also, remember that you’re beautiful (inside and out); your smile is bound to look better if you feel good about yourself! Note the difference between a smile and a grin. Grins bare a lot more teeth (think Cheshire Cat) and are not necessarily flatteringon all people, although for some people they can make you appear cute. If you’re prone to grinning and it’s not doing your appearance any favors, try showing only your upper teeth when you smile. Showing your lower teeth can make it seem you’re baring your teeth. When showing teeth, pressing the tongue behind the teeth will make small gaps look less noticeable. Practice smiling at random strangers.[4] Make a choice that you’ll do this, make brief eye contact with a person, and smile. As you do so, think happy thoughts (it helps to choose someone attractive to begin with). Don’t choose a person with sunglasses; you need to see their eyes. Not everyone will smile back but note how you feel when they do!make brief eye contact with a person, and smile. As you do so, think happy thoughts (it helps to choose someone attractive to begin with). Don’t choose a person with sunglasses; you need to see their eyes. Not everyone will smile back but note how you feel when they do!

Few years ago, social media did not even exist and today we cannot imagine ourselves to not even visit the page once. Usually, social networking means staying connected to your family, friends and companies.  Now, social media is much more than a website where kids log-in to communicate with their friends. Big businesses and independent business owners utilise social media marketing plan in their day-to-day lives.  One will not be surprised to find that even celebs are getting hooked to the social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Gone are the days, when you find only few celebs on social networking sites. The trend has now completely changed.  These days, celebs are taking full advantage of social networking sites. You will find them on Google+ or Facebook and also some blogging on the micro-blog site Tumblr. It is surely becoming a big business.  The celebs use social media websites so that they can stay connected with their fans by replying on Twitter or Facebook. Believe it or not, every morning these celebs wake up and check their Facebook and Twitter accounts  instead of reading a newspaper.

Benefits of Social Media for Business

1. More than a billion users are waiting for you. Social media has exploded in popularity worldwide, with a significant portion of the entire human population now making use of social sites. Check out these stats:

• Facebook: more than 800 million members
• YouTube: 800 million unique users a month
• Twitter: more than 400 million unique users a month
• LinkedIn: 150 million users
• Google+: 100 million users
• Pinterest: 10 million users

1. Social media is free. That’s right. Social media is entirely free to use. A few sites like LinkedIn offer premium paid services alongside their free service, but even that is rare. In general, the only direct cost in making use of social media for business is your own time and labor.
2. Your customers are there. While social media usage may be skewed slightly toward younger users, individuals across demographics are going social. For example, nearly half of Facebook’s user base is more than 45 years old. Whatever your target market, it’s on social media.
3. There are social networks for everyone. The demographics of social users change from network to network. Pinterest is overwhelmingly used by women with craft and design interests, while Google+ is generally for young, technologically-savvy users. LinkedIn is filled with those looking for business contacts.
4. Your competitors are already there. Even if your business isn’t active on social media, your competition almost certainly is. Do you really want to cede them the entire social media space?

Drawbacks of social media

Social networking can be addictive: As many people spend more time on social networking sites it can get addictive. They may loose focus on the tasks which are a priority to be completed on time.

Some users simply share too much information: Some users simply share too much information. These people can lose their jobs or companions on a social network.

Potential for failure in personal and business areas: There is a likelihood of failure of security in both personal and business context. Other social networking websites apply certain measures to keep cases of harassment, online-scams, cyber-stalking and identity theft to an absolute minimum.

Thus, social media websites have rapidly become important tools for celebrities. Twitter and Facebook are now controlling platforms for A-listers to update fans on their personal lives

Summary of smiles on lies
A smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth and by flexing muscles throughout the mouth. The smile can also be found around the eyes . Among humans, it is an expression denoting pleasure, joy, happiness, or amusement, but can also be an involuntary expression of anxiety, in which case it is known as a grimace. Smiling is something that is understood by everyone despite culture, or religion it is self known. Cross-cultural studies have shown that smiling is a means of communicating emotions throughout the world. But there are large differences between different cultures. A smile can also be spontaneous or artificial Historical background. Many think the smile originated as a sign of fear. Biologists believe the smile has evolved differently among species and especially among humans. Early smiles are referred to as reflex smiles. Service with a Smile this has always been at the core of American. Research continually proves that this is true smiling really does increase attractiveness and likability between humans. In fact smiling correlates with greater trust, greater financial earnings, and increased interpersonal cooperation. However, a smile tends to convey respect, patience, empathy and compassion .In social contexts, smiling is related to laughter. Smiling is not a pre-laughing device and is a common pattern for paving the way to laughter. Smiling can be used as a response to laughter in the previous turn. Smiling and laughter have different functions in the order of sequence in social situations. Smiling is a signalling system that evolved from a need to communicate information of many different forms. One of these is advertisement of sexual interest. Female smiles are appealing to males, increasing physical attractivness . However, recent research indicates a man’s smile may or may not be most effective in attracting women, and that facial expressions such as pride or even shame might be more effective. smiling is perceived as a positive emotion, there are many countries that perceive smiling as a negative expression and consider it unwelcoming. Too much smiling can be viewed as a sign of shallowness or dishonesty Happiness is most often the motivating cause of a smile. However, there are many exceptions, especially among animals. The exposure of teeth, which may bear a resemblance to a smile, is often used . Smiling can also be interpreted as nervousness in humans also smiles .Studies have shown that the most genuin comes from the eyes and has a strong effect on other. Business School missed out on a lot in terms of teaching me the skills needed to succeed in my career and life. Here are the ten biggest lie In the event you actually have difficulty smiling due to tension in the face or a tension headache, you can do a relaxation exercises
Put on this smile after a most satisfying experience such as a delicious meal, connecting with a friend or beating the computer in a chess game In the event you actually have difficulty smiling due to tension in the face or a tension headache, you can do a relaxation exercise This exercise will help you recognize what really makes you happy. Look in the mirror and cover everything below your eyes with a handkerchief or similar. Then start thinking or talking out loud about your happiest memories. Smile as you do so. You’ll notice that at some points, your eyes “twinkle” and you get “crows’ feet” wrinkles near your temples. The closest you’re ever going to get to smiling with your eyes on command is to channel your happiest memories This is a smile that you wear with an uplift in your spirits. You put it on, after being in a better mood from a low. In fact, if it helps, this is smile that face after failing to get his new top-of-range and pricey laptop to work. Using his advice from
it is to Be Cheerful. A genuine smile comes from genuine happiness. And studies on what makes people happy reveal that it doesn’t have much to do with material goods or high achievement; it seems to whittle down to your outlook on life. In other words, how to Be Optimistic and real smiles will follow. After all, think about who has the most genuine smiles: kids! They never worry because life is one big game to them.. A real smile arises from your own personal joy, not someone else’s. People with martyr syndrome will often say that they derive their greatest personal joy from helping others, and sometimes this is true, but other times, it’s an easy way to justify their self-sacrifice and avoid. If you’re the kind of person to “forget” about yourself, take the advice in these articles, which will help you break some of the psychological chains that can stifle a genuine smile. Because smiles and lies have connection of each other.

If I am the only boy left on the planet

It is an imaginary situation where I am the only boy left on the whole planet and rest are all the girls. It sounds very funny and interesting  specially for me, because now I have all the beauties and hoties of the world. Now I am the King of the planet with infinite queens. And  I am not only the chocolate boy now but also the best  businessman, sportsman, etc. , in short the best man of the world. The are so many advantages of this which are:

1. Beautiful Environment : As all the girls around me, the envorionment will be pretty and full of frangrance.
2. No competition : Not only for girls but also for the fields in which mostly only man are interested like sports, politics, army, police etc., there is no competition for me.
3. Have all options : As not much compitition, I have all options for both personal and professional life. I can choose any girl I love and also the work I like.
4. 4. No need to wait in a line : As there is no other boy, I don’t need to wait in boy’s line.
5. 5. Very less crimes and terrorism : As the figures suggest almost 90% of the criminals and terrorist are male, so there will be very less criminals and terrorists.

These are the advatages, however like the another sides of the coin there are disadvantages as well :

1. No father’s love : No father, no grandfather and no uncle , so noone to love and motivate like father.
2. No brother : No friend like brother
3. No bachelor parties : Great time boys spend with each other like outing, hooting, whistling, teasing etc. will be gone.
4. Difficult to manage : one boy for 3 billion girls, will be very difficult to manage and not only girls but also the work like all the manly work like labour, will have to be done by me.
5. High expenses : No other boy so I will have to bear all the expenses for girls.
6. Lack of entertainment : There are many games and sports like cricket, football, tennis etc.  which is dominated by man. In absence of them , it will be less entertaining.
7. Will weak the defence/security  system : Same as criminals and terrorists, 90% of police and soldiers are man, so in absence of them, it will affect the defense system.

As we can all see the disadvantages are more than the advantages, that’s why the right balance is very important for  the sake of both.

by :

Vikram Veer Singh

16-A

DERAM Vs REALITY

The five senses make us feel
that the world is real. Seeing the solidity of the objects around us, feeling
the impact of the senses, it is hard to deny the validity of what we see.
Everything looks real, and there fore, we never stop to question this reality.

The mind is attached to the
five senses and accepts everything as real without questioning. When we bump
into a table or a wall, and we feel pain, it is difficult to say that we are
imagining it. When we see with our eyes, hear sounds, smell, or when we feel
heat or coldness, we accept these sense impressions as real.

 The question kind of
assumes that there is a difference, and I think what it is  that dreams are only in your head, rather like
philosophy. When you are telling the difference, the question is , who are you
telling? If you are telling yourself, then it is in your head and therefore a
dream; If you are telling someone else then it is real. Sadly, some people are
so disintegrated they cannot tell where they end and the other begins, and they
lose touch with reality for real. Philosophically it’s an amusing imponderable,
but psychologically it’s a life or death question, and it cannot be answered
alone. Hurrah for philosophy forums, you’re never alone with your ideas

If we say that a real thing
is something that always exists, with no gaps, then the outside world is not
real. There are times besides sleep, when we are so busy that we are not
conscious of what is going on around us. When there are no sensory sensations,
as while being in a floating tank, or when in deep meditation, we are still
conscious, but not of the world. This means that sometimes we are conscious of
the world, and sometimes we are not. During sleep dreams seem very real, but
upon awakening, we realize that they were just dreams. So it is with this world
we call reality

, each person interprets and
relates to other people’s behaviour, words and attitudes in a different way,
according to the contents of his subconscious mind. No one’s world is like
another. Again, we see the illusion at work. A world is created, based on our
interpretation of what we see, hear, and perceive through the five senses.

Mind and thoughts create the world

Thoughts arise in the mind,
and we become aware of them. The same thoughts tend to arise time and again. If
we let this process continue, it goes on incessantly. These thoughts make us
expect, behave, talk and act in a certain personalized way, and thus cause the
people we come in contact with, to treat us and relate to us in a certain
manner.

We usually continue with the
same way of thinking, and live the same kind of life each day, whether we like
it or not. These thoughts shape our circumstances and relationships. It is like
watching the same movie repeatedly. If we want to watch a different movie, we
have to change the reel or cassette. This happens by changing our thoughts.
This is how creative visualization works, and there is nothing supernatural
about this

Waking up from illusion

We can wake up completely,
understand, and become conscious of the illusion of Maya, and live, as we
really are, as pure, formless, beginning-less and endless consciousness. Due to
illusion, it seems as if we are all separated, having individual selves and
each living a different life. Even when we wake up from Maya, its play may go
on. We continue to see and experience it, yet it is of no concern to us
anymore. Outwardly, we may continue to live our life in the same manner, but we
are really awake.

It is like a movie show. A
person who is watching a movie, often gets so involved with the characters and
with what is happening on the screen. He becomes happy or sad with the heroes,
gets depressed, shouts or laughs

We could all be brains in a
tank really, living in something not to dissimilar from “the matrix,”
no matter how far fetched it might sound. What makes me feel better though is
that people generally determine their realities for themselves anyway, so the
point may just be mute. In your life you will meet a zillion people, and they
will all have very different lives, attitudes, perspectives, and dreams–
different realities if you will. Over time your perspectives change too, so
maybe it’s safe to say we do have alternating realities, even with dreamful
sleep out of the picture. I still like to think we all experience one core
reality, but no one can deny that our dreams have a great impact on what we
know as reality, and vice versa

Role of MEDIA in Present Scenario

Most of the media today across INDIA and also across the world are pro-party or super powers. The media is basically reporting news that is favourable to the persons in power for fear of threat to their lives, popularity and money .The media fails to do their duty of educating the public, telling the facts and various perspective of an issue. But the media can be used to leverage the ‘Change’ that is needed in the INDIAN politics. I have seen for myself in some of the countries where the media played a very significant role to changing the government. This gave a good lesson for the ruling government to review the policies, fight corruption and many more. Now with the advancements in communication, the media plays a key role in delivery the results by reaching to people at every corner of the country, the very moment and also in exposing some of the corruption, fraudulent, misappropriation of funds and many.

On the other side media is very influential in today’s scenario in India. It’s playing a very vital role in influencing the minds of people. Media basically creates unwanted rumours in the society. They make a small thing look very big especially children r the most affected one’s regarding. Today television channels and newspapers are making fast money by cashing on the news in wrong sense and wrong way. In the race to become more popular and to make money they have broken all the limits media must follow while serving to build a healthy and progressive society. They have no respect for the sentiments and ethics of the people and land whom they serve to, with their immense power to influence the masses they just make judgment like a true dictator rather than a good advice of a true friend as they previously used to do. If it will be going in the future then we people have to think about the role of media in our life. This is media.

Examination fever

It is said when the examinations are approaching, the students suffer from examination fever and rightly examinations are regarded as a curse by students. The approach of examinations means the beginning of fear in the mind of a student.

Examinations are held to test students’ ability, to check up the work they have done during a term, to judge what progress they have made and to determine whether they have been utilising or wasting their time. If there were no examinations, the merits of the various students could not be judged, nor would the majority of students take any interest as it is only the fear of examinations that makes students work.

As a matter of fact, examinations are the only unpleasant experience in an otherwise happy and carefree life. The bugbear of an examination interrupts the smooth course of a student’s life. Games, musical concerts, debates and other extra-mural activities are all stopped busy in preparations for examinations. Students are not to be found at the cinema-houses, restaurants and other places of entertainment during the examination days.

They know that if they keep on neglecting their books, they will be exposed in examinations. They are aware that their marks will be communicated to the guardians who will take them to task if the results are not satisfactory. They know also that if they foil they will experience a feeling of humiliation. All these things combine to urge a student to hard work. Examinations are, therefore, a spur to effort, an incentive to work.

But examinations are not a reliable test of the ability of students. A student may memorize certain portions of the text and if a question is set from the portions he has prepared, he will no doubt secure good marks, while another student, brighter and more intelligent than the first, may not show good results because he did not especially prepare the questions which were set in the examination.

Similarly it may be said that the standard of marking all the papers is not the same, because different examiners mark different papers in different moods. Most educationists now agree that a simple crucial examination is certainly no test of ability; they insist upon a series of practical tests of knowledge and intelligence over a period of two or three years. The results of all these tests, they say, should be taken into account when judging a student’s ability. The argument has no doubt a good deal of truth in it but on the whole it may be said that good students do not usually show bad results and that negligent students do not generally pass.

It cannot be denied, however, that examinations do exert as unusual strain upon the minds of the students who lose all their zest for life at the approach of an examination. Tutors are engaged, notes and guess-papers are purchased, special lectures are attended, coaching classes are thronged, in short, all possible measures are taken to get through the examination. The reason for all this is that throughout the term the students pay little heed to their studies and so when a test is near they have to concentrate all their energies on studies.

The scheme of internal assessment introduced some years ago by some institutions is intended as a step in the direction to keep a watch on the students’ labor and regularity in their studies. However, even this has its own drawbacks.

So best of luck for exams..

HOW TO ANSWER THE STUPID QUESTIONS

In our daily life we face a lot of situations which are stupid but yet funny. But we never pay heed to them further. We never think about them. One such example is the stupid and silly questions which people ask sometimes at very obvious situations. And we answer them what they wanted to hear which is very much predictable. Even if we don’t answer it will hardly make a difference in their life. Yet we answer them with full consideration.

I just wonder how people can ask such silly questions. It becomes so hilarious when you think about them logically. Here are some stupid questions people ask in obvious situations and the answers for the same so that you can tell them how stupid question they asked.

It’s very funny talking about it. So below are some questions. Enjoy reading.

STUPID QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK IN OBVIOUS SITUATIONS

1.      At market: Hey! What are you doing here?

Ans: Don’t you know! I sell vegetables here.

2.      In bus: A heavy lady wearing high heel shoes steps on your feet: Sorry did that hurt?

Ans : Not at all. I’m on local anaesthesia. Why don’t you try again?

3.      When you get woken up at midnight by a phone call:

Sorry! Were you sleeping?

Ans:  No! I was doing a research whether earth is round or not. You thought I was sleeping, how

Dumb!

4.       When you see a friend with evidently short hair: Hey! Have you had a haircut?

Ans: Nah! Its autumn season and I am shedding.

Now here are some stupid questions for you to see how you answer them. Please post your answers via comments.

• ‎Why doesn’t Tarzan have beard?
• Why is there light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
• Why do people pay to go up tall building, & then put money in binocular to look at things on the ground?
• Why do the alphabet song and twinkle twinkle little star & A B C D have the same rhythm?
  Stop singing and read on.
• If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?
• Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?

By: Sugandhita

LALU PRASAD YADAV

Lalu Prasad Yadav is an Indian politician from Bihar. He was the Minister of Railways from 2004 to 2009 in the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, and the President of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party. He is a Member of Parliament in the 15th Lok Sabha from the Saran constituency in Bihar.

He entered politics during his student days at Patna University, and he was elected a member of the Lok Sabha in 1977 as a Janata party candidate. At the age of 29 he was one of its youngest members of Parliament.

He is famous for his charismatic leadership and mass appeal, and has been criticized for caste-based politics, and the corruption cases against him. Lalu Prasad Yadav entered politics as General Secretary of the Patna University Students’ Union in 1970.

Yadav served as the Chief Minister of Bihar from 1990 till 1997, when he resigned following escalating corruption charges in the Fodder Scam. From 1997 to 2005, with brief interruptions, his wife Rabri Devi was the Chief Minister. Her political opponents often accused her as having served as his “surrogate.”His tenure as Chief Minister of the state has been criticized for lawlessness and has been termed as the Jungle Raj.

Yadav banned plastic cups from being used to serve tea at railway stations and ordered that they be replaced by kulhars (earthen cups), to generate more employment in rural areas. Later, he also said that he had plans to introduce buttermilk and khādī. In June 2004, he announced that he would get on the railway himself to inspect its problems and went on to board the Patna railway station at midnight.

When he took over, the Indian Railways was a loss-making organization. In the 4 years under his leadership, it made a cumulative total profit of Rs. 25,000 crores (US $5.2 billion).

He left passenger fares untouched and found several other profitable sources of revenue for the Railways.

Well known schools of management were interested in Yadav’s leadership in managing the turnaround (with more or less the same IAS officers & the same workforce who worked under the previous ministers). He went to and addressed over a hundred students from Harvard, Wharton and others in Hindi. He has received invitations from 8 Ivy League schools for lectures. The turnaround of the Indian Railways is now being studied by the students of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad. Prof G. Raghuram, a faculty member, IIM-A, has already conducted a detailed study on the Railways turnaround.

In August 2008, CNN-IBN alleged that Yadav had misused his position as the Union Railway Minister to help his relatives acquire land. Earlier Railway ministers and his political opponents Mamata Banerjee & Nitish Kumar have raised doubts over Lalu’s achievements.

Summary of Baghban movie
Baghban is the story of a family in which the parents sacrifice everything to bring up four children but when they grow old, their children will not take the responsibility to look after them. The movie tells the story of Raj Malhotra (Amitabh Bachchan), His wife Pooja (Hema Malini) and their four sons (Aman, Samir, Sahil, and Nasir).Raj has a flourishing job as an ICICI employee and his earnings are enough to keep the whole family going.
But Raj is in his old age and now wants to spend ample time with his wife. Even after 40 years of their marriage Raj and Pooja are very much love with each other. Like a gardener, Raj has nursed his family of four children with the hope that one day he and his wife will have comfortable life. But fate has something else in store for the couple.
Raj takes premature retirement from his job to spend more time with his wife. The responsibility to take care of the couple now falls onto their sons. But none of them are willing to do so, particularly when they realize that their father has no money left. So the Malhotra children come up with a solution- the father would live with the eldest son (Aman) ,the mother with the second son (Samir ).And after six months, they would shift to the third and fourth sons (Sahil,Nasir).
Raj is not happy with the idea as it means separation from Pooja. It is only a matter of time when their children start ill-treating them. The story shows how the aged parents endure this separation as well as horrible treatment from their children after all they have done for them in the past. Saddened by the treatment he has received from his children and their families, Malhotra publishes a book called BAGHBAN for which he wins a cash award and gains popularity.
This is when the couple’s adopted son Alok (Salman) steps in. Even though he is not born of them, Alok loves Raj and Pooja like deities.
Time passes and one day, fortune turns in favour of Raj and Pooja. And that is when the greedy sons realize their mistakes and come back to their parents asking for forgiveness. When they really want their money. But Raj ignores them and lives with Pooja, Alok and Arpita, while disowning the rest of his sons.
So I come to the conclusion which I learn from this movie. This movie indicates the real story of our society in this Morden age. The devotion and unforgettable love of parents towards their children is of much more importance in our society, but people forget all those activities, devotion and love performed by our parents for us when they become helpless. At that time what goes in mind of those old person we can imagine after a long time when the same case comes in front of us. So we should not exploit our parents and should do everything for them which they have done for us when we are helpless. Although we can’t be able to full fill the all requirements of them but we should not tease them and should help them before when they require. So in short I want to say that ……..Don’t Hurts your Parents……
Summarised by: – ANAND KUMAR

The college years are a time of excitement,
exuberance and triumph. Of all the freedom of adulthood without the attendant
responsibilities. And yet, this is also the time for self-doubt: Will I make it
in the world opening before me. Will I get good grades- Will I be handsome,
will I be rich. It’s easy to forget that there are others dealing with the same
fears, but this book gives us a chance to find humor, hope and encouragement to
face life ahead.

A must-read whether we are about to enter College, at the brink of adulthood, or have graduated from college
many years ago but love to reminiscence about those magical days. Even in this
book we can find some points which is useful in our life, as in this book there
is a topic “Competition Isn’t Always Healthy”, this topic states about college
placement .when 3 friends Vidhi, Simi and Aditi (co-writer of this book) who
wanted a high-flying career in advertising, but there was one problem. Everyone
knows that to get a job in advertising, you have to have some huge connections
in the ad world.

An another
topic of this book is ‘’The portigal  Friend’’
who states about All animosity was forgotten,forgiveness lead to the love and
friendship that had bonded them since they were children.

An also
interesting topic is there as ”Life is like A Box Of Chocolates’’ which means
You never know what you’re gonna get.

‘’Pride And
Confidence’’,in this topic Pride that someone had such friends

and confident that I had great friends for life.

‘’Regaining Her Love’’ shows how to really be friends, and
that we really were friends .and writer look forward   to her next visit.

‘’A Post-graduate Strategy’’ states that A lot of things may
not work out in life, but the confidence that education and degrees will always
be with u, as will the warmth and love of your friends. so don’t let anything
stop you from pursuing yours goals and dreams.

IN ‘’See Your Tomorrow’’ states how lucky I am to have
someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.

‘’To Shine-Just for her’’ states try to keep shining so that
one can smile and shine from where other is, and this I shall continue for the
rest of writers lie. To Shine- Just for her!

‘’D-Day’’ states about a special day which everybody will
face in their life.

I hope everybody will read and like summary of this nice
book, so please enjoy to read through this summary and get a good view about
this.

Effective Life sklls

This book refer to the summary of  authored by Swami Amartyananda.The book is written for those who lead busy lives and need tips on more effectively managing their lives so as to have a greater measure of peace. The book can be ordered online from the Advaita Ashrama at the link We present a few tips of the Self Development Programme. These recordings are from classes held by Swami Amartyananda in Mumbai and are in English. All files are in the Windows Media format. We present a few tips of the Self Development Programme. These recordings are from classes held by Swami Amartyananda in Mumbai and are in English. All files are in the Windows Media format. We present a few tips of the Self Development Programme. These recordings are from classes held by Swami Amartyananda in Mumbai and are in English. All files are in the Windows Media format. In keeping with Swami Vivekananda’s ideal of spiritual and personality growth along with material progress, our Centre conducts various activities designed to aid in all round development. We see today that while the youth of India have ample opportunity for material progress, they still suffer from stress, anxiety, depression and lack of confidence. The root cause of this may be attributed to a complete lack of spiritual training in our modern educational curriculum. In keeping with Swami Vivekananda ideal of spiritual and personality growth along with material progress, our Centre conducts various activities designed to aid in all round development. We see today that while the youth of India have ample opportunity for material progress, they still suffer from stress, anxiety, depression and lack of confidence. The root cause of this may be attributed to a complete lack of spiritual training in our modern educational curriculum. While we receive ample training in job skills, we are completely unarmed with regards to life skills and completely unable to handle even small adversities. It is for this reason that we hear of instances such as bright students committing suicide simply because they are not able to face life’s realities. Those who truly wish to live a meaningful and peaceful life must necessarily take recourse to the ideals laid out by Swami Vivekananda and mould their lives accordingly. For such seekers we conduct various classes every week — these are conducted entirely free of cost and are open to all irrespective of caste, creed, nationality or ethnicity. We go through much effort to learn a career to be successful. We are under constant stress to achieve social status and material success. Yet we neglect learning how to manage our own lives so that our minds are at peace. What can we do? The author offers us a road map to developing an approach to life that balances the stress of life. The key is to change our ways before nature hits us hard and makes us change. (Book Contents) 1. Know the Ultimate Goal of Your Life; 2. Introspect to Improve; 3. Manage Your Thoughts; 4. Learn the Art of Action; 5. Practice! Practice! Practice! 6. Developing Will Power; 7. Causes of Human Suffering; 8. Live Life in the Spirit of a Game; 9. Balance the Use of the Mind and the Intellect This aim that Well-defined paths, not just concepts, leading to actual results. This is an in depth, results-based site with more than 1,000 written pieces and forms, with the emphasis on practicality and effective implementation into your life, in the shortest time possible. There are also links to other resources , which are, of course, pre-screened for you. Inspires thousands of large and distinguished audiences internationally, on management and leadership philosophy, the path to self development, life-management and fulfilment.He is an accomplished management philosopher, behavioral scientist, corporate consultant, author and much sought-after speaker. His workshops and seminars are content rich, proven to deliver strong return on investment.By introducing Angajans’s self-development courses, companies have reported happier workplace, increased efficiency, creativity and teamwork; better communication, decrease in absenteeism and in employee turnover.Angajan’s scientific rationale, practical approaches and impart

earned him the patronage of many reputed corporations including fortune500 com passioned presentation earned him the patronage of many reputed corporations including fortune500 companies panies among other: Toyota, Emirates, VW, TATA, reserve Bank of India, Indian Institute of management, Fujitsu Siemens, HCL, Larsen and Toubro, Eskom

BY;-DIVYA GUPTA

Men of steel

Rarely one comes across a book, that is not a novel and yet, one finds it difficult to put it down. Men of steel, a book authored by vir sanghvi, a well known name in indian media, is one such Book. It has got a ‘biographic’ feel about it, which brings to us lesser known facts about india’s top Business leaders. Since the book, is a summary of journey of the lives of the ‘great’ busi

Jyoti Singh

Managing employees
Management of people is a subject which should be of interest to everyone. Weather we are business man, professionals or housewives, we all have to manage family members, relatives, friends and colleagues too. The principals, concepts, habits and skills of managing people remain the same in all cases, whether you run a small, medium or a large scale business, or simply a househo

ld.
Organizations, whether they be educational, business, industrial, government, military, service, health
Care, or entertainment focused, are made up of people – women and men. It is people who provide
Leadership, stewardship, and follower-ship in every organization. People formulate strategies to help
organizations achieve their specific objectives. People constantly learn new and innovative ideas to help
transform their organizations from mediocrity to greatness. It is people who make things happen in all
organizations, even those operated by robots which, after all, were designed by people. To understand
The causes of organizational behaviors without an understanding of people is like trying to understand the
Cause of a moving vehicle without knowing about the engine and driver.
In fact, organizations can be defined as the major social units that people have devised for getting things
done. People who work spend more of their time at work than at any other single activity. They can’t eat
for eight hours a day. They can’t drink for eight hours a day. They can’t make love for eight hours a day.
What people can do for eight hours a day is work.
Some simple ways to bring best in your employees..
Strong leadership and a sense of direction are hallmarks of almost all successful businesses.
People are motivated not only by personal gain but also by feeling part of the business and contributing to its goals. Therefore, if leaders engage effectively with their workforce to build commitment, employees are motivated to improve the quantity and quality of their output, which improves the business.
Company bosses and the likes of supervisors and team leaders need to understand the importance of listening when it comes to effective communication. You can soon demoralize a workforce if you’re always telling employees what to do and not giving them an opportunity to respond. They might, after all, have better ideas of how to do something which might increase productivity and save time. Therefore, when leading a team, allow the workers input too.
It’s a simple equation. Employees who care about their work and their workplace are more likely to perform better. That’s why we take our “Employee Satisfaction” surveys seriously. Each year, every division of Design Group Staffing Inc. conducts a comprehensive employee satisfaction survey. We ask confidential opinion questions about supervisors, teams, divisions, executives, training, business processes, tools and technology. We set goals for employee satisfaction within our business plans. Expectations are defined within each manager’s performance appraisal and the actual results are factored into our management compensation and bonus plans. Here are six important lessons we have learned.
1. Keep Employees Happy & Keep Employees
it may seem like a daunting task but managing for employee satisfaction doesn’t have to be so elusive. At our company, a rookie employee typically becomes a net contributor within his/her second year on the job and then productivity continues to grow almost indefinitely. We know from experience that high employee satisfaction is the most significant factor affecting employee retention and that translates into higher per desk performance. Improve satisfaction, reduce turn-over and the results are profound.
2. Encourage Curiosity & Engagement
Technical skills and experience is an important part of any position. Often, the employees with the highest level of technical competency and experience have great ideas on how to improve but they don’t mention anything because they are stifled by a corporate culture of reluctance to change. We have the power to create an environment where employees feel comfortable, even excited, to learn more and offer new ideas. Foster a culture where questions and suggestions are encouraged and employees will feel like an important part of the “big picture”. Engaged employees translate into increased productivity.
3. Forgive Mistakes
Perhaps even you have made one or two (or three or four…) mistakes in your day. We all have, and so will our best employees. But they shouldn’t be afraid to make an occasional mistake. Accept mistakes as a learning opportunity. Encourage employees to try new things and, yes, make mistakes – so that they can learn from them. When employees aren’t afraid of being scolded by the boss for making a mistake, they’re more likely to embrace the mistake and truly learn.
4. Have Their Backs
Ever hear of the phrase “The customer is always right?” It’s an interesting catch phrase however, from time to time, your organization may have a customer that…well…isn’t. When an employee has followed procedure and tried their best, it’s important to “have his or her back” when dealing with an aggressive or dissatisfied customer. The same goes for when an employee who needs assistance with something like a faulty computer, or a tricky health benefits claim, or is in need of scheduling flexibility. Don’t let your employees take a beating from customers, or silly administrative policies. Show some empathy and support and your satisfied employee will return your thoughtfulness in spades.
5. Show Respect
this one probably shouldn’t have to be mentioned – it should be automatically ingrained in every organizational culture. It is simply the right thing to do, and it can also have a profound impact on employee morale. Act like a professional, and show professional and personal respect to your team.
6. Give Recognition
Taking a few minutes to call attention to something your team did, or to show your personal interest in your employees can make the world of a difference in how people feel about their work and their employer. Show recognition for special days, anniversaries and achievements. People don’t quit companies, they usually quit their supervisor. A small amount of interest can make a big impact.

A manager can be the difference between productive and unproductive employees. A good manager will bring the best out of their employees, but poor leadership destroys morale, productivity, and can even bring down entire companies.

SUCCESS ABILITIES

SUMMARY

Author said that it is smart self management to develop and nurture what I call success Abilities. Success abilities are essential skills that will help working people. There are the kind of practical approaches successful people use to solve problems, set direction and stay ahead of work and career challenges.

SUCCESSABILITIES! 1003 Practical ways to keep up, stand out and move ahead at work.  Here is some tips. WE even may have to relearn them several times before they become standard tools in our work kits. SUCCESSABILITIES! Will help in begin to turn practical ideas into new skills. It outlines a positive, self-directed view of work and its role in our lives. The principles apply to all kinds of people young and experienced, technicians and generalists, clerical workers and managers, blue collar and white.

These principles are:

Take responsibility for doing work and building our career: IT’s not your boss responsibility, nor your coworkers, nor your company’s . It’s part of our job and you have power to do it. You have to increase our internal strengths and external resources that can help you to get what you want and need out of your job.

Don’t settle for being miserable at work: It’s not worth it. In almost every case there are reasonable change you can make to improve your job or at least change your attitude about it.

If you see something that’s not working right do something about it: You will earn respect from others and our self if you can redirect our energy from constant complaining to positive action steps.

Remember: Its only a job: Don’t  give it supreme power over you. Yes, what happens there is important and may have significant effects on your life.

Work Smart: That mean: Think, think, think,> Analyze plan shift anticipate prepare focus. Working harder is not always the key to success.

Expect that you will have several jobs and careers in your lifetime: Prepare for them. Look at our career and  life as a series of stages each with its own special focus and goals.

Create your own definition of success: Steer our work and career in the direction that fulfills you most and serves our needs best. Success includes flexibility, independence, being respected doing meaningful and purposeful work and affecting others in positive ways.

Give it time: Changing your job skills attitude workplace take time and patience. Don’t expect immediate results every time. Stick to our plan and watch the improvements blossom.

Learn constantly: IT’s the only way to be effective in our job.Learn from workshops, videos, television, programs, professional groups and experienced people within your reach. Learn from your mistakes. Expose yourself to new ideas that can make big  differences in your life.

Always set goals for yourself: Visualize where you want to be in your life and career in one year, three year, five year. Because only you can define your future, starting today. And you can make progress by talking small steps.

I hope you enjoy this summary to great success at work.

CORRECT MANNERS & ETIQUETTE
This book is written by Ms Seema Gupta who is a post graduate in Sociology & actively involved in social work. Besides several published articles to her credit, her short stories in various magazines have won accolades for their deep understanding of human relationships.
Good manners today are in a state of flux as they were never before. One can no longer turn to the r

BODY LANGUAGE / GESTURES:

A motion of the limbs or body made to express or help express thought or to emphasize speech.

A gesture is a form of non-verbal communication in which visible bodily actions communicate particular messages, either in place of speech or together and in parallel with spoken words. Gestures include movement of the hands, face, or other parts of the body. Gestures differ from physical no

THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

SUMMARY

“Your sub conscious mind never grows old.  It is timeless, ageless and endless.  It is a part of universal mind of God, which was never born and will never die”.

“Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it.  It is an astonishing and subtle truth that the law of subconscious mind works for good and bad ideas alike”.

“Constructive auto suggestion can release you from the mass of negative verbal conditioning that might otherwise distort your life pattern, making the development of good habits difficult or even impossible”.

“In the mind principle there is no time and space”

“Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire”.

“The thankful heart is always close to the creative forces of the universe’

Do you found the above quotes interesting?  Read the book The Power of Your Subconscious mind and you will come across many of such wisdom filled thoughts in it.

Art of convincing is a powerful tool and is the best part of this book.   Dr. Joseph Murphy gives out some excellent examples in frequent intervals in the book, which bring clarity to the subject.   He uses the example of soil and seed to explain the relation between subconscious and conscious mind is such a good instance.

The book is all about the power of subconscious mind, the ways to use it consciously to achieve our goals and how to pray to achieve results.  The idea of miracles is well conceived and explained.

The human brain is beyond our comprehension. There have been so many attempts to understand it all through the ages…right from the Bhagavat Geeta that states ’’ Your soul is the traveller, your body the chariot and your mind, the one holding the reins of the chariot’’, to the Bible which says ’’ If you pray with a complete belief that you will be answered, answered you will be’’, to the legions of scientists who keep flushing out theories after theories about the brain and how it works.

It is a good read for all who are interested in finding out the powers we can unleash using our sub conscious mind. Simple and profound thoughts are the speciality of this book.

On the minus side, the topic became repetitive. Same point is been repeated in many chapters.   The book often tries to apply quotes from Bible to add conviction but it took away the universal appeal of the topic to an extent.

The book’s major problem however I feel is its contradiction on the basic thought.   The author seems uncertain about the nature of sub conscious mind.  At one point, the author tried to present sub conscious mind as an all know, all powerful side of mind but on other occasions it is represented as a slave to conscious mind waiting for instructions and follow it without thinking.   True.  Sub conscious mind is both of these.   Then the picture drawn of sub conscious lack clarity and remain incomplete.    This creates an identity crisis for the image of sub conscious mind in the reader’s mind.

Let me try to sum up the book for you. All of us are acquainted with the three states of the mind – the conscious, the unconscious and the subconscious. This book attempts to reveal the power of the latter. It opens well, kindling our curiosity and stating samples, but by the time you complete the book, you realise its still doing the same – kindling our curiosity and stating samples. It rarely goes beyond that. Thats a pity. The essence of the book can be summed up as a single sentence – The author states that if you start believing in something and start stating it over and over again in your conscious mind, then your subconscious will take over and make it happen. .

The author keeps on edging us to talk to your subconscious, tell it what it is that you want, how desperately you want it and then leave the rest to the arcane forces of the subconscious. He says that it will soon be revealed that you will get exactly what you wanted, exactly how you wanted.
Having said all, ‘The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind’ is a wonderful book which will motivate you and open many doors of solutions and opportunities.   It has the ability to work miracles for us and it has the potential to open our eyes to see miracles around us.   Read this book and find the gems in it…

By- MOHSIN IQBAL

Summry of Anything for you ma’am
: By Tushar raheja .
Anything for you ma’am is a story about an IITian’s love. Moreover there is nothing IITian about the love story. The love story begines in very quintessential bollywood style-middle class guy meets a rich and buitiful girl. It coud happen to any boy in any college of any part of india. It is a story all about romance ; a love story which says that distance, circumstances does not matter in love and also everything is fair in love. Raheja is a wonderful guy. He is not much into adventures and style but he is a sweet boy with gentle behaviour. He told his story while he was in 4th year. He loves teasing his sisters. He likes sitting with his cousin sister and chatting about his new crush and how can he impress her. Anything for you ma’am starts with Tejas’s chemistry with his sister – Palak. Even after Palak warns him not to flirt with his friends, he approaches Shreya(Palak’s friend) and finally win her. The girl is shrya from a very conservative family. She is shifted to chennai and now he wants to meet her. He is about to go to his college’s industrial tour for 10 days. He plans that he will bunk the whole industrial visit and go to meet shreya in chennai. The whole story is all about how the problem arises every time he thinks that now his way is clear to meet shreya. The book ends with a happy ending where the girl’s brother helps raheja to meet her without any problem.
Coming to the review, The book starts with a very sweet description of how raheja meets shreya.The scenarios where he has fights with his sister for flirting with her friends is amazing.the college part and the professor’s part are quite funny.The last part of the book where raheja is about to meet his love is someone. The last travelling part in train is what the book is all about. I loved the attitude of Thusar raheja while writing this book – He didn’t used any kind of sexual interaction. This is a sweetest and true love story.
SUMMRISED BY:-
ANAND KUMAR

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When You Are Sinking Become A Submarine:-

With real-life examples, practical tips and unique insights, this book asserts that the path of goodness coupled with creativity and wisdom is the only way to an enduring victory. It also challenges the common belief that a good man hasn’t got a chance. In the world of power, there are broadly two kinds of people: the Viles for whom only ends matter and the naives for whom means are as important as the ends. This book challenges the common belief that a good man hasnt got a chance. In many ways, this is a book of universal and abiding solutions. It has relevance to all walks of life.

The fight between the good and the bad is age old. The book tells how through wisdom and creativity the good man can not only succeed but also sustain his success. This book is for real people in the real world with insights, practical wisdom and a fresh perspective for everyone…

This book is very vast, so I would like to share with you some very important and crucial quotes by Author in this book.. this quotes are as follow.

“Success is a function of Desire & Hard Work.
Spectacular success is a function of Desire, Hard Work & Wisdom.”

“A good guide can be of immense help.
A good guide can even help you convert your handicap into a Great Asset.”

“Uncalled for harshness, arrogance, & inability to feel the imprint of one’s words on others are among the most important reasons for failure.”

“When you reach a destination. Relax. Enjoy the experience.
Then decide the next one.
If your past glories weigh more than your future dreams,
Decay has begun.”

“Brilliance is when you can see what others can’t see.
Genius is when you can fathom what others can’t even imagine, the unique ability to grasp the subtle & the hidden.”

“Sensitivity can help you exploit opportunities.
Sensitivity is alertness.
It is also wakefulness.
At another level, it is also receptivity.”

“The other raw material for good luck is humility.
Humble people get more opportunities than the arrogant.
What is luck but opportunities.”

“As long as jealousy doesn’t drive you to harm those you are jealous of it too can be productive & constructive as it inspires you to do better.”

“Wisdom is knowing yourself & others;
Enlightenment is knowing the Universe.
The Great are both wise & enlightened.
That is why their conquests are total.”

“Possess the courage & conviction of a General &
the compassion & calm of a Saint, &
Success will be yours.”

“It is better to build on your strengths than go on a revenge-seeking spree with your competitors.
Revenge will occupy your time, dilute your power & increase stress.”

“The book ‘When you are SINKING become a submarine’ couldn’t have been more timely when people are busy making their own lives more complex and are giving into believing activity is more important than wisdom and creativity. The thoughts that Pavan has presented are very simple to understand and therefore will offer value to a wide section of the global community. The manner in which the author has succeeded in stringing together his own powerful views with the thoughts of great thinkers as varied as Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Sai Baba and Mahesh Bhatt, in a seamless manner is both beautiful and powerful.

In his quest to succeed without being a Vile, Pavan has studied the psychological makeup of the Vile. He discovered that the Vile was a skilled warrior, ruthless, cruel & cunning. And he had no allegiance to any code or constitution. So he could freely change forms & colours.

The introduction & the first part of the book narrates to you the essence of his observations of many Viles. There is no dearth of them. There are various ways in which he poaches credit, intimidates those around him, ingratiates, lies, and cheats you of your money to build his empire.

The book has sound advice on how to handle such a monster. The inputs have been taken from the fields of statecraft, espionage, success, creativity, spirituality and the field of wisdom to provide unique techniques to counter Vile’s moves. Though strong counter moves are also prescribed the accent is on creativity. The accent is on how to avoid a street fight & utilize the negative winds directed towards you to your advantage by adjusting your sails.

The book tells you how to catch signals, handle jealousy, control enemies, handle bullies, how to succeed and digest success, how to master the art of timing and acquire patience, how naïve should build his own power and how he should dilute Vile’s power. In short when to duck, how to take aim and how and when to fire.

In a nutshell, this book is basically for the naïve to come to terms with Vile and succeed. Somewhere it also propels the vile in to understanding that riding rough shod over others may take care of the present but has no future. It tells him that the sword that he is brandishing is somehow also like a shovel with which he is unknowingly digging his grave.

Vikas Mutneja..

Toyota Kata

This summary is about the company ‘Toyota Motor Corporation’ of Japan, one of the best automobile company in the world. This book with the name “Toyota Kata’ is written by Mike Rother, one of the best selling book’s author in the world. In this book he covered the modus operandi of Toyota and how it is unique and different from others. First lets discuss the title, Toyota everyone knows and Kata means following :

• A way of doing something, a method or routine
• A pattern
• A standard form of movement
• A predefined, or choreographed, sequence of movements
• The customary procedure
• A training method or drill

In simple words Toyota Kata means Toyota’s way of doing. Like any other company its core process is same like supply of raw materials, manufacturing, distribution process etc. In this summary the unique things about Toyota is discussed in detail, which are:

1. Target conditions: It is different from target, it means setting short term target, more specific with time limits to achieve final target. For e.. if your target is to become the CEO of a company in next  15 years then target conditions means setting that after every 1 or 2 years what you will be and automatically after 15 years you will be the CEO which was main target.
2. Takt Time : It means calculating the rate of customer demand for a product . its formla is

Takt time = your effective operating time per shift

Quantity customer requires per shift

The benefit of this idea is it helps to meet the customer’s demand and reduce wastage and idle time.

1. 1*1 flow : It means direct from 1^st process to next  process without any buffers in between. For e.g.  when a car is manufactured, it passes through many process and after each process there is testing and checking, however in Toyota’s case, it passed directly from 1^st to 2^nd ………….. to last process , without any buffer in between and then all the recquired testing and checking is done, after last process.  It saves time and cost as well.
2. Heijunka ( Leveling Production) : It means producing any particular product as per the customer’s demand. For e.g. if customer demand is 10 for product A, 8 for procuct B and 9 for product C, then produce these products as per the demand rather than as per the company’s initial planning and targets. The benefits of this is again it helps to meet customer demand and increase the market share.
3. 5. Kanban ( pull system) : In this system, as soon as the department of assembly process withdraws the parts that it needs from store, the department of supply process replace it immediately so that manufacturing process doesn’t slow down. It is again a very useful tool to increase the efficiency of company.
4. 6. Total Quality Management ( TQM) : It was started by Toyota which focused on quality, continuous improvement, participation of all employees, customer satisfaction and benefits to all members of the company. They use  4 ways of doing it :
   1. a. Kaizen : Under it every employee has a right to give their suggestion and complaint for continuous improvement of the company
   2. b. Atarimae Hinshitshu : Focuses on intangible effects on processes and ways to optimize and reduce their effects.
   3. c. Kansei : Examining the way the user applies the products leads to improvement in the product itself
   4. d. Miryokuteki Hinshitshu : Broadens management concern beyond the immediate product.

These are the unique techiniques adopted by Toyota and secret of their success over all the years. At the end, I will add that companies like Toyota sets a great example of self-belief and we all can learn lot from it.

by :

Vikram Veer Singh

16-A

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SUMMARY ON YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE

This book is one of the classics of modern frugality, and it’s been a source of some controversy. At the bottom, though, its message is a simple one Pay attention. Pay attention to how you spend your money. Pay attention to what you have to do to earn it .Think about whether your time and money are going where they ought to. As follow the steps in the book, identify where your money comes from and what you have to do to get it. The authors emphasize including all the incidental time and money that goes into your job–commuting, shopping for work clothing, hours spent unwinding after work, etc. Having analyzed where your money comes from, you next analyze what your money goes to. The next step is simply to make the previous information visible The next steps are the obvious ones of maximizing your income and minimizing your spending, but the authors have a significant twist on it.In an age of great economic uncertainty when everyone is concerned about money and how they spend what they have. With relevant it tells how to:

• get out of debt and develop savings

• reorder material priorities and live well for less

                                                                                                     Enterprise.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                             By:- Jeff Papows

Enterprise .com offers the most concise & analytical vision of technology revolution from the view point of  “Jeff Papows “ as an C.E.O of one of the  most progressively & widely known software companies. Jeff Papows offers a rare glimpse into the future of business , society, & culture in a truly networked world.

Papows begins with the assumption that information technology (I.T) has already penetrated all facets of business  -from automating systems and processes to empowering teams to redefining the most basic  concept of commerce  such as ‘customer’ ‘ market’ &  ‘industry’ as organisations come to grips with the dynamics of truly borderless , twenty –four – hour world . He then takes these trends to their logical, & in evitable, conclusion : the rise of the “market-facing enterprise ” in which all relationships & function re enhanced  even defined through technology and the focus moves from inside the  company to its vast network of suppliers , distributors ,customers & partners .

Enterprise .com goes beyond the traditional boundaries of business. Drawing from the pioneering business from the lotus , as well as showcasing examples from innovators in such diverse industries such as insurance & aerospace , Papows explores the  implications of the I.T revolution such as:- why leaders have become affluent in the language of IT now or risk losing everything. How I.T takes ‘knowledge management ‘  to its full potential & how the option of new technology is forever changing the roles and responsibilities of educators, researcher, policymakers and general citizens.

In this book Papow considers the challenge that lie ahead especially as individual businesses and government clash over issues such as privacy , encryption , common standards , and regulation .Enterprise .com provides a rich and compelling set of concepts and ideas for managers in any industry  to anticipate trends and make wise investment decision , and harness the power of technology to  achieve new levels of innovation and growth

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STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS (wINNING FORMULAS FOR SUCCESSFUL LIVING)

By: JIM DORNAN

SUMMARY:

There are to part in the strategies for success (winning formulas for successful living).

Part one: success begins with you.

1)     The successful person practices….POSITIVE THINKING:

there is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

2) The successful person knows how to…..OVERCOME FILURE:

One of the most critical factors determining a person’s success is who he or she deals with failure. Anyone who desires to be successful must develop strategies to overcome it and keep going forward. If he doesn’t failure ill certainly lead to discouragement, and discouragement to defeat.

3) The successful person possesses….VISION:

The people who have most powerfully and permanently influenced their generation have been “seers”- men and women who see more and farther than others. In other words, people who make things happen were people who have vision.

4) The successful person sets…GOALS:

Right thinking creates a solid foundation for success. But it is only the first part of the strategies for success. once you have formed that foundation, you are ready to begin building on it. In order to achieve success, you will need to develop goals.

5) The successful person uses…TIME MANAGEMENT:

Successful people realize the value of time. Hen inventor Thomas Edison as asked what the most important item in the world  as ”time”.

6) The successful person finds ways to……AVOID STRESS:

One of the greatest problems faced by people today is stress. Even successful people who seem to have their lives in order are afflicted by stress-related problems. In US top in the 1990s, the top ten killers are all stress-related diseases.

Part two: success continues with others.

1) The successful person values….RELATIONSHIPS:

The most important single ingredient to the formula of success is knowing who to get along with people.

2) The successful person develops….COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

Communication is not simply the sending of a message. It involves interaction between to people. For communication to be effective, both people must be constantly giving and receiving information, verbally and non-verbally.

3) The successful person believes in….MOTIVATION:

The word motivate means’ to provide with, or affect as, a motive,” and the word motive means’ some inner drive, impulse, intention, etc. that causes a person to do something or act in a certain way.

4) The successful person demonstrates….LEADERSHIP:

Small victories can be achieved alone, but great victories, the kinds that ultimately bring success, can never be achieved alone. To accomplish them, you must include other people. And any time you start involving others to achieve any goal, you cross over into the area of leadership. Everything rises and falls on leadership.

                       BUSINESS
ETIQUETTE

Business etiquette
includes a collection of unwritten rules every interviewee, new employee and
manager should be aware of and utilize when interacting with each other and
their clients. In the corporate business world, there are certain traditions
and indicators of knowledge that surpass traditional and common manners, and it
is imperative that job applicants and those preparing for job interviews know
and understand these customs, and why they are maintained in today’s business
culture.

In
this novel you will learn, handshakes to business cards, tips on the interview
process, and how to maintain proper telephone etiquette in the office. A wide
variety of tips on office and business etiquette, for those looking for jobs
and those new to the business world

This book has a rather long subtitle: 101 Ways to Conduct Business with Charm and Savvy. I flicked straight to the back to read what Ann
Marie Sabath had to say about working with Brits. I thought it was funny that
she advises using ‘How do you do?’ I haven’t heard that for ages, but I can’t
deny that it’s still used. She also has some good advice about not using the
term English to describe people. You can do untold damage to business and
personal relationships by calling someone from Scotland, Northern Ireland or
Wales ‘English’. Apart from the snapshots of working abroad, the book has
advice on using the phone, business writing, conducting meetings, dealing with
VIPs and even how to manage saying grace at business meals and use the toilet
facilities appropriately.

Honestly, the things some people need advice
on.

This book has a rather long subtitle: 101 Ways to Conduct Business with Charm and Savvy. I flicked straight to the back to read what Ann
Marie Sabath had to say about working with Brits. I thought it was funny that
she advises using ‘How do you do?’ I haven’t heard that for ages, but I can’t
deny that it’s still used. She also has some good advice about not using the
term English to describe people. You can do untold damage to business and
personal relationships by calling someone from Scotland, Northern Ireland or
Wales ‘English’. Apart from the snapshots of working abroad, the book has
advice on using the phone, business writing, conducting meetings, dealing with
VIPs and even how to manage saying grace at business meals and use the toilet
facilities appropriately.

Honestly, the things some people need advice
on.

It’s a small book and it’s quick to read. You
can flip forward to the bits that are relevant to you at any one time
(wondering how to take your medication in the middle of a meeting? Turn to tip
100!) or you can read it cover to cover. Each section is broken down into short
tips, and it ends with a summary of the key points in that chapter.

You could worry a lot about this type of
thing. Are you addressing everyone with their proper titles and have you
followed The Elements of Style for formatting your emails? Or you
could just get on with being a good project manager. If you are new to an
office environment, or a clown, this would be a good book to read. It’s not
that the tips are basic – who knew that there was a sneezing etiquette? It’s
just that if you haven’t picked up good office habits you’re not going to get
them from reading. You’ll need constant reinforcement of your new habits, and
that means leaving this book on your desk so you can refer to it in a pinch,
like when you’re worried about how to tell a colleague they used the wrong fork
at dinner . If your colleagues see this book on your desk, they’re going to
hold you to a higher standard, so you better be ready

Office Rules &
Business Etiquette

How to use proper
business etiquette and rules of the office; get expert tips and advice on
corporate business etiquette and protocol

Telephone Manners
& Business Etiquette

How to use proper business etiquette rules for telephone usage in
t,he office; get expert tips and advice on corporate business etiquette and
protocol.

Proper Greetings
& Business Etiquette

How to use proper
business etiquette rules for how to greet people in the office; get expert tips
and advice on corporate business etiquette and protocol

There was a man taking a morning walk at or the beach. He saw that along with the morning tide came hundreds of starfish and when the tide receded, they were left behind and with the morning sun rays, they would die. The tide was fresh and the starfish were alive. The man took a few steps, picked one and threw it into the water. He did that repeatedly. Right behind him there was another person who couldn’t understand what this man was doing. He caught up with him and asked, “What are you doing? There are hundreds of starfish. How many can you help? What difference does it make?” This man did not reply, took two more steps, picked up another one, threw it into the water, and said, “It makes a difference to this one.”

What difference are we making? Big or small, it does not matter. If everyone made a small difference, we’d end up with a big difference, wouldn’t we?

Are you afraid of your mistakes- Human beings however intelligent are liable to err, so we should learn to take mistakes in our stride and should not allow them to overwhelm us . Mistakes are essentials to progress. From cave life to modern civilised life is a story of trial and error. If you make a mistake have the courage to acknowledge it and put it right. Mistakes do little harm if they are untold harm to the task in hand and tour reputation.

Turn failure into success- Life is a mixed bag of joys and sorrows. Anyone who says that life is all agony is a cynic. But the man who considers life a bed of roses deludes himself no less. Such a person usually succumbs to the first blows of advertising and allows failures to overwhelm him but the man who has learnt to endure the blows of misf

ortune rises to amazing heights of fame and glory. In last war one women said to another ,”I would rather be a soldier’s widow than coward’s wife”
If you want to scare away failure and bask in the glory of success learn to preserve your peace of mind in the face of heavy odds .A writer beautifully sums up matter ,” all the water in the ocean can sink a ship unless the water starts getting inside. All the troubles in the world cannot sink a human beings unless those troubles invade his inner life.”

What enthusiasm can do for you-You are not doomed to be a failure. If you wish to transform your dreams into reality, if you want to outshine others in your professional career learn the secret of enthusiasm. The moment you have discovered this secret ,success cannot elude you. It makes the difference between living and just existing. Enthusiasm without a goal to achieve is useless and always remember ,enthusiastic people are not ,magicians .They are the people who make a success of eight things out of ten. Develop faith in yourself and enthusiasm will bubble up in you. God has created man in his own image. Why not rely on the tremendous powers of the divinity in you. If you distrust your ability which is a divine gift you distrust god. Faith moves mountains. Let it swing your mind and body into action .The rewards will surprise you.

The Hen or the Egg.
At the end of Akbar’s Durbar, a pandit came to the court & said he wanted to question him. Akbar was tired & told Birbal: “Please answer the pandit’s questions fast. I want to end this Durbar.”
The pandit said: “I’ll give you a choice. You can either answer one difficult or a hundred easy ones.”
Birbal saw Akbar would have no patience to sit through a hundred questions and opte