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| Xpress Poll |
| Whether the suggestion of finance ministry to impose higher duty
on purchase of a diesel vehicle can help in reducing vehicular pollution?
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| Watermelon hunter |
| December 22, 2008 |
| Once upon a time there was a man who strayed from his own
country into the world known as the Land of Fools. He soon saw a number of
people in a field where they had been trying to reap wheat, staring at some
object in terror. “There is a monster in that field,” they told him. He looked,
and saw that the ‘monster’ was merely a huge watermelon.
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| Birth of Earmuffs |
| December 01, 2008 |
| It all started with ears. Chester Greenwood's ears got very
cold during the winters. Something had to be done. The invention? Earmuffs. To
shield his ears, chester decided on a combination of beaverfur on the outside
and black velvet for surface against the ear.
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| Safety Glass |
| November 03, 2008 |
| Edouard Benedictus, a French scientist, was working in his
laboratory. The year was 1903. Benedictus climbed a ladder to fetch reagents
from a shelf and inadvertently knocked a glass flask to the door.
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| Birth of Earmuffs |
| October 06, 2008 |
| It all started with ears. Chester Greenwood’s ears got very
cold during winters. Something had to be done. The invention? Earmuffs. To
shield his ears, Chester decided on a combination of beaver fur on the outside
and velvet for the surface against the ear.
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| Learn and Earn |
| September 08, 2008 |
| OChuan and Jing joined a wholesale company together just after
graduation. Both worked very hard.
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| The cracked Pot |
| August 11, 2008 |
| There was this water-bearer who had two large pots, each hung
on one end of a pole which he carried across his shoulder. One of the pots had
a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full
portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the master's
house.
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| Solutions, not problems |
| July 14, 2008 |
| One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management
was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan's biggest
cosmetic companies.
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| A Ten-Cent Idea |
| June 16, 2008 |
| When young F.W. Woolworth was a store clerk, he tried to
convince his employer to organise a ten-cent sale to reduce inventory. The
employer agreed, and the idea turned out to be a resounding success.
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| Time To Think |
| May 19, 2008 |
| Henry Ford hired an efficiency expert to go through his plant.
He said, "Find the non-productive people. Tell me who they are, and I will fire
them!"
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| The Expert |
| April 21, 2008 |
| Ever heard the story of the giant ship engine that failed? The
ship’s owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure out
how to fix the engine.
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| Sharpen Your Axe |
| March 24, 2008 |
| Once upon a time a very strong woodcutter asked a timber
merchant for a job and he got it. The pay was really good and so were the work
conditions. For this reason, the woodcutter was determined to do his best.
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| Market for shoes |
| February 25, 2008 |
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A shoe company wanted to expand its business. The toop management decided to
send a team of marketing professionals to assess market feasibility in a
remote, small and poor region.
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| A Donkey in the Well |
| January 28, 2008 |
| One day a farmer's donkey fell into a dry well. The animal
brayed piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.
Finally he decided that the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered
up anyway; it just wasn't worth retreving the donkey. He requested his
neighbours to come over and help him cover the well.Each picked up a shovel and
began to shovel dirt into the well ......
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| Sharing the seeds |
| December 31, 2007 |
| For nearly four decades, Half Moon Bay in California holds a
pumpkin competition every October. The biggest pumpkin grown in a season
wins......
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| Slow Down to Speed Up |
| December 03, 2007 |
| Look at the keyboard of any standard typewriter or
computer,Q,W,E,R,T and Y are the first six letters, followed by other alphabets
in what appears to be a random order......
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| Post it Notes |
| November 05, 2007 |
| The 3M company encourages creativity amongst its employees.
The company allows its researchers to spend 15% of their time on anyproject
that interest them...
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| It filled the whole room |
| October 08, 2007 |
| A wealthy businessman had spent the best years of his life
building his mammoth textile business. One day, he was told that he was dying
from an incurable disease. His immediate thought was about his business.
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| There is always a better way |
| September 10, 2007 |
| A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his
side. He held up a sign that read: "I am blind, please help." there were only a
few coins in the hat.....
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