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If the world were a village of 100 people !!
4+ If the world were a village of 100 people:
- 61 villagers would be Asian (of that, 20 would be Chinese and 17 would be Indian), 14 would be African,
- 11 would be European,
- 9 would be Latin or South American,
- 5 would be North American,
- none of the villagers would be from Australia, Oceania, or Antarctica.
- At least 18 villagers would be unable to read or write but 33 would have cellular phones and 16 would be online on the Internet.
- 27 villagers would be under 15 years of age and 7 would be over 64 years old.
- There would be an equal number of males and females.
- There would be 18 cars in the village.
- 63 villagers would have inadequate sanitation.
+ Out of the 100 people:
- 33 villagers would be Christians,
- 20 would be Muslims,
- 13 would be Hindus,
- 6 would be Buddhists,
- 2 would be atheists,
- 12 would be non-religious,
- and the remaining 14 would be members of other religions.
- 30 villagers would be unemployed or underemployed.
+ while of those 70 who would work,
- 28 would work in agriculture (primary sector),
- 14 would work in industry (secondary sector),
- and the remaining 28 would work in the service sector (tertiary sector).
- 53 villagers would live on less than two U.S. dollars a day,
- One villager would have AIDS,
- 26 villagers would smoke,
- and 14 villagers would be obese.
- By the end of a year, one villager would die and two new villagers would be born so thus the population would climb to 101.
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Story Corner: Toward a Corporate Life
3Once upon a time a Washerman was bringing up two donkeys. Let us say Donkey-A and Donkey-B.
Donkey-A felt it was very energetic and could do better than the other. It always tried to pull the washerman’s attraction over it by taking more load and walking fast in front of him.
Innocent Donkey-B is normal, so it will walk normal, irrespective of the washerman’s presence. After a period of time, Washerman started pressurising Donkey-B to be like Donkey-A. But Donkey-B unable! to walk fast, got continuous punishment from washerman. It was crying and told personally to Donkey-A “Dear friend, only we two are here, why to compete with each other, we can carry equal load at normal speed”.
That made Donkey-A all the more energetic and next day it told to washerman that it can carry more load and even it can run fast also.
Obviously happier washerman looked at Donkey-B.., his BP raised and he started kicking Donkey-B. Next day with smile, Donkey-A carried more load and started running fast. But it was breathtaking for Donkey-B and it couldn’t act that way….But the washerman was frustrated, so he harassed Donkey-B terribly, and finally it fell down hopelessly.
Then Donkey-A felt itself as a supremo and happily started carrying more load with great speed. But now the Load of the Donkey-B is also being carried by Donkey-A., and still it has to run fast. For some period it did, finally due to fatigue it got tired and started feeling the pain. But washerman expected more from Donkey-A. It also tried best, but couldn’t cope up with his owners demand. The Washerman got angry with Donkey-A also and started harassing to take more load… Donkey-A was crying for long time and then tried its best… But it couldn’t meet the owner’s satisfaction. Finally the day came when due to frustration the washerman killed Donkey-A and went for searching some other Donkeys.
The Moral of this story:
- Think all colleagues are same and that everyone is capable. Always Share the Load equally. Don’t ever act smart in front of your Boss and never try for getting over-credit.
- Don’t feel happy when your colleague is under pressure.
- It doesn’t matter if you are A or B, for the Boss you shall be always DONKEY.
- And most importantly, Never Work Hard, Work Cleverly…. !!!
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How to success
1- PLAN while others are playing.
- STUDY while others are sleeping.
- DECIDE while others are delaying.
- PREPARE while others are daydreaming.
- BEGIN while others are procrastinating.
- WORK while others are wishing.
- SAVE while others are wasting .
- LISTEN while others are talking.
- SMILE while others are frowning.
- COMMEND while others are criticizing.
- PERSIST while others are quitting.
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Peter Moore resigns as head of Xbox
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It’s hard to call the Xbox 360 anything but a success, but having missed some sales numbers, ringing up an extra unexpected $1b on the corporate card because of warranty issues, and still generally failing to make a profit, it looks like Peter Moore, who we just sat down with a few days ago, has stepped down from his embattled position as the ringleader of Microsoft’s Xbox group. Successor to his role is Don Mattrick, who is taking over not just Peter’s position as VP of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, but leading the group (including Games for Windows) entirely. Moore’s new job? Prez of EA Sports, down in the SF bay area. Take THAT, Microsoft.
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