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A chat with Dr.Devi Shetty, Narayana Hrudayalaya (Heart Specialist) Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees.  The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone.  Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart?  Ans: 1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, les... [More]

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"A person can receive great rewards from Allah on account of his good intentions alone, even if he is prevented from carrying out the intended deed. On the other hand, the deeds that he performs can become bereft of blessings if they are not accompanied by a good intention. Such deeds can actually be sinful." [Excerpt from the book] ... [More]

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Empathy is the ability to identify or sense what another person is feeling.  It is like seeing through someone else’s eyes.  Empathy should not be confused with compassion, which is the desire to alleviate the suffering of another, and sometimes contains empathy, but really goes beyond it.  You can act compassionately even wh... [More]

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Understand that in days of yore, factories consisted of people and machines. The goal was to use more machines, fewer people, and to design processes so that the people were interchangeable, low cost and easily replaced. The more leverage the factory-owner had, the better. Hence Personnel or the even more cruel term: HR. It views people as a natu... [More]

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A guide to project management book of knowledge 3rd edition - PMBOK 2004   Click Here for further details The PMBOK is a collection of processes and knowledge areas generally accepted as best practice within the project management discipline. The PMBOK is an internationally recognised standard (IEEE Std 149... [More]

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Singing and speaking have everything in common--except for maybe really good tunes. The main goal is to engage your audience and make them listen to you, so everything a singer does, a speaker ought to do too. Here are the absolute necessities of an engaging performance or presentation that Doug compiled for me: 1.    &n... [More]

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No matter when you’re productive hours are, it’s important you set up your day for greater wellbeing with some healthy morning rituals. Here are some ideas: Wake up. Don’t hit snooze. Jump out of bed as if someone threw a bucket of cold water on you. Half of your day’s success is actually showing up and being excited. R... [More]

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Someone once defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result each time" … unless of course you are talking about your career in technology (in that case doing the same thing over and over is probably insane, because everything else is going to change whether you adjust for it or no... [More]

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The Harvard Discovery on Success In 1970, sociologist Dr. Edward Banfield of Harvard University wrote a book entitled The Unheavenly City. He described one of the most profound studies on success and priority setting ever conducted. Banfield’s goal was to find out how and why some people became financially independent during the cours... [More]

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"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia." I've been doing a lot of traveling of late (probably too much), presenting to some very large and diverse groups of conference attendees and corporate clients; from P&G's brand managers, to owners and GM's of television and... [More]

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