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Will Carling, the iPad detective

How would you feel if you found an iPad on a train and took it home, only to find a near-six-foot tall rugby player (think, American football for seriously tough guys) hammering on your door, demanding it back? That’s precisely what happened yesterday when UK sports celebrity and former England rugby captain, Will Carling, OBE, left his iPad on the train. Fortunately he had MobileMe’s Find My iPhone feature enabled, so he was...

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Story Corner: HONESTY is still the best policy

Once a general manager wanted to test his people who had come from all over India, about their values of life. He announced that in their seminar folder, there is PVC pouch and in it there is a seed. When they return, they must put it in a good soil in a pot and look after it very well. He would hold a competition in the next year’s seminar and that the best plants would be awarded suitably. Everyone did what was told to him. A year...

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Story Corner: Interesting Management Stories

Story # 1 It’s a fine sunny day in the forest and a lion is sitting outside his cave, lying lazily in the sun. Along comes a fox, out on a walk. Fox: “Do you know the time, because my watch is broken” Lion: “Oh, I can easily fix the watch for you” Fox: “Hmm… But it’s a very complicated mechanism, and your big claws will only destroy it even more.” Lion: “Oh no, give it to me, and...

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Story Corner: Asking the right Question !

Jack and Max are walking from religious service. Jack wonders whether it would be all right to smoke while praying. Max replies, “Why don’t you ask the Priest?” So Jack goes up to the Priest and asks, “Father, may I smoke while I pray ?” The Priest replies, “No, my son, you may not! That’s utter disrespect to our religion.” Jack goes back to his friend and tells him what the good Priest told...

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Story Corner: The man who promised to tell the truth

Once a man came to the prophet Muhammad (S) and said, “Oh Prophet of Allah, I have many bad habits. Which one of them should I give up first?” The prophet said, “Give up telling lies first and always speak the truth.” The man promised to do so and went home. At night the man was about to go out to steal. Before setting out, he thought for a moment about the promise he made with the prophet. “If tomorrow the...

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Story Corner: Difference between appraisal & resignation

-A newly joined trainee engineer asks his boss “what is the meaning of appraisal?” –Boss: “Do you know the meaning of resignation?” –Trainee: “Yes I do” –Boss: “So let me make you understand what an appraisal is by comparing it with resignation” Comparison study : Appraisal and Resignation In appraisal meeting they will speak only about your weakness, errors and...

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