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Indlish: The Book For Every English Speaking India
Do Indians equate ‘impressive’ English with incomprehensible English? Many unfortunately do. The clumsy Victorian English hangs like a dead albatross around each educated Indian’s neck. Our feudal culture frowns on directness of expression. Indian English is often no more than an Indian language in disguise. With this funny, quirky book Jyoti Sanyal launches an all-out war against bad English and offers modern-day antidotes to archaic Indlish.
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Corruption How To Deal With Its Impact On Buss. &
Corrupt behavior is causing problems for our communities, not because laws are weak or because we are insufficiently diligent, but because it is so pervasive. While most noticeable in government and business, corruption is also found among religious organizations, non-profit groups, sports teams and individual families. Because corrupt behavior is not restricted to illegal activities, it hampers society s progress whenever rules are bent, boundaries are trespassed and standards are lowered. Although no culture in history has yet ended corruption, this book shows how its impact and spread can be effectively limited by adopting new attitudes and approaches for its control. Some topics and quotes from corruption the difficulty of defining corruption the fact that corruption is sometimes hard to discern does not make it any less despicable or suggest that it needs to be eradicated from society any less diligently. Why corruption continues to grow when incentives money, position, rewards are high enough and the chance of detection or the level of punishment low enough, corruption abounds. The solution to corruption a complete cure for corruption is probably a fantasy; controlling [it] to the point of limiting the damage it does to society seems very possible. Take this quiz do you think corruption taints this situation you have two cows. You do an initial public offering. You force the two cows to produce the milk of four. One cow drops dead. Not to worry. You tell the brokers you have downsized to reduce expenses. Your stock goes up. Was your statement to the brokers an act of corruption yes? No?.
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40 Minutes With God
Prayer and a strong faith in God are the keys to our healing in this world and he next. 40 Minutes with God will help you with both. Harold G. Koenig MD Author of best seller "The Healing Power of Faith" Dr. Vinod Nigam's splendid book is a window onto the medicine of the future. -Larry Dossey, MD, Dallas, Texas, USA Author of Healing Words and The Power of Premonitions ???you sound like me. I know several patients who prayed or left their troubles to god and healed their cancers. -Bernic Siegel, MD, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Author of Love, Medicine and Miracles Prayer has tremendous power to heal. Dr. V.K. Nigam, a surgeon, prays to alleviate his patient's sufferings and cure them of chronic illnesses. In 40 Minutes With God, he shares his meditation techniques and shows how spirituality can breach the boundaries that limit traditiional medicine. He does not rely on his skills with the scalpel alone, he prays for his patients. He is one of the few Indian doctors who has a medical technique patent to his name, that is "Window Operation" for Hydrocele. The Times of India Dr. Vinod Kumar Nigam, a laparoscopic surgeon prays for his patients for forty minutes every morning and has found it quite fruitful. He is not alone as researchers substantiate the belief that prayers possess miraculous powers. Hindustan Times This is really a how-to-book that goes beyond talking about spirituality and prayer and tells you how to make science and spirituality a part of your life. The two concepts are not at war, but actually complement each other. Mankind can truly progress only when spirituality and science learn to co-exist. Science and spirituality are both essential for one's well being. Examples mentioned in the course of this book are real case histories, but names of those involved have been changed to keep their identites confidential. These are meant to open the connecting door between spirituality and science for the reader. Prayer is a universal phenomenon and advocat
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Thinking Strategically-The Competitive Edge in Bus
Thinking Strategically is a bestselling book that teaches its readers to face and tide over almost any adversary in professional life. This book builds itself on case studies from the fields of business, sports, politics, gambling, and even movies. What it basically does is outline the techniques of strategy making, and teach the readers the ways to apply the same. The book begins with an introduction to the subject of strategic behavior. It then deals with the subject in three different sections. The first section involves the reading and understanding of the rival's strategy. The second and third sections highlight the means of putting into place strategies and resolving problems with them. The case studies included give the readers a fair idea as to how they may expect the results to turn out in real life.
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Outdoor Traning
There is a growing interest in the use of the outdoors in training and development. This training resource contains 48 practical activities that can be run, many with minimal cost, in a range of outdoor settings. This source book will provide trainers with a full understanding of how to use the ?big? outdoors in their training programmes, as well as helping them in the purchasing process when seeking to book outdoor programmes through specialist suppliers. Providing practical advice and inspiration, these management-based exercises cover the whole range of ?outdoor media? - from the lightweight ?carpark? activities, right through to water, cliffs and caves activities where more specialist help is needed. Table of Contents The outdoors and how to use it for management development: Matching real tasks to real people Safety 2 Classes of exercises: general information: Car park or field exercises Navigation exercises Water-based exercises Cliff-face exercises Underground exercises 3. The Theoretical Basis 4. Safety Procedures: Water-based exercises Cliff-face exercises Scaffolding Navigation exercises Underground exercises 5. How to use this Sourcebook 6. Car park or field exercises: Across the Great Divide All aloft Ankles away Bipod bipeds Blind intent Blue Peter Container ferry Credibility gap Design of the times First service Going the distance J am tomorrow Playing a blinder Poacher?s escape Passover The crate escape Triple barrel Twin peaks Two short planks Wayward flock 7.Navigation exercises: A good run for your money Black box Cakes and ale Cook?s tour The rescuers Riotous assembly Round the houses Trails and tribulations 8. Water-based exercises: A bridged version Beecher?s Brook Cash float Deliverance Endeavourance Necessary measures Off the hook Plato 9. Cliff-face exercises: Haul of fame Rock compilation Up Pompeii 10. Underground exercises: Dangerous Diners Club District and Circle Mine of information The rescuers down under The tube 11. Combined exercises: Free transfer Get smart! Jack and Jill of all trades Monetary multiplier 12.Appendix I: Supplementary 13. Appendix II: Supplementary notes Reviewing skills Brainstorming Interpersonal process A problem-solving process The team formation process Problem -definition window Management styles Map reading notes Environment and heritage Further reading Useful addresses.
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Tatics
What does it take to succeed in today's competitive world? Is it luck? Talent? Why do some people emerge as successful while others - who seem to work just as hard - never make it? Are special skills required? This book is based upon 50 interviews with men and women - eg, Chris Bonington, Mark McCormack, Terence Conran, Malcolm Forbes, Hans Eysenck - who have been outstandingly successful in a variety of fields. With his usual perceptiveness, Edward de Bono analyses their different paths to success, revealing that underneath their different styles and their greatly different personal qualities are a few characteristics which are common to all successful people. De Bono provides the lessons for anyone seeking success in their lives.
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What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School
Mark McCormack, dubbed 'the most powerful man in sport', founded IMG (International Management Group) on a handshake. It was the first and is the most successful sports management company in the world, marketing the likes of Andre Agassi, Nick Faldo and Monica Seles, and becoming a multi-million dollar, world-wide corporation whose activities in the business and marketing spheres are so diverse as to defy classification. Now, Mark McCormack reveals the secret of his success in this straight-talking guide to key business issues like analyzing yourself and others, sales, negotiation, time management, decision-making and communication. What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School fills the gaps between a business school education and the street knowledge that comes from the day-to-day experience of running a business and managing people. It shares the business skills, techniques and wisdom gleaned from twenty-five years of experience and is guaranteed to make anyone's professional life more successful.
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Power
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive,The 48 Laws of Power was a piercing distillation of three thousand years of the history of power. This new concise edition of the 500 page bestseller distils yet further the wisdom of great thinkers such as Machiavelli, Sun-tzu and Carl von Clausewitz, and the legacies of statesmen, warrors, seducers and con men throughout the ages.