Money Bags

This is the only time we will see this.

Calendar for July 2011

This year July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This happens once every 823 years. This is called money bags.

This year we're going to experience four unusual dates

1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11. 11/11/11 and that's not all.....
Take the last two digits of the year in which you were born - now add the age you will be this year. Amazing but true.

Tomorrow In Head

The name Leonardo Da Vinci would swiftly have us visualize the masterpiece oil paintings of Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, amongst others. But Da Vinci's legacy was more than Mona Lisa. He spent more time sketching engineering imventions than he did paintings. He thought of these inventions even before there were materials available to bulding them and never in his mind that his inventions would be a reality some day. Da Vinci woke up with tomorrow in his head, it made him great as a result.

Da Vinci used the right and left brains and to capitalize on them. The right brain uses creativity and the left brain uses logic thinking. Most of us uses either the right or the left brain and left the other untapped. When we are able to use two brains, we may be able to wake up with tomorrow in our head. Think again.

When people leave

When good staff leave may be due to following attributes:

Environment factors
If bosses do not generate a good corporate culture, the staff will lose their motivation. A career will become `just a job'. What drives people away? A department in which the staff is not nurtured, a company where boses are indifferent to the needs of the staff or a place no one practises basic courtesies.

Lack of succession planning
If an organisation does not have one in place, the message you give your staff is `we do not have a career path for you'.

Standards and procedures in the office
If there is favouritism and the boss' decisions smack of discrimination, if people abuse the system and no one cares, then good people leave.

Nature of job
Clever executives want challenges that drive them towards excellence. One little flaw in their character is that they get bored easily. That is why bosses need to consider how they can get the best from their staff. When you expect your staff to do the same job year in and year out, with no `escape clause', they will leave no matter what you pay. Remember the market will bear the cost of excellence.

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Mistakes

If a barber makes a mistake, it's a new style.
If a driver makes a mistake, it is a new path.
If an engineer makes a mistake, it is a new venture.
If parents makes a mistake, it is a new generation.
If a politician makes a mistake, it is a new law.
If a scientist makes a mistake, it is a new invention.
If a tailor makes a mistake, it is a new fashion.
If a teacher makes a mistake, it is a new theory.

If our boss makes a mistake, it is a NEW IDEA.
If an employee makes a mistake, it is still a `MISTAKE'

If a Project Manager makes a mistake, Is it called misS management????

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Bad bosses

Types of bad bosses
The following are the type of bad bosses:

The Autocratic Manager
This type of managers still exist in an Organisation and they think they are the most intelligent ones who can make decisions as they are of the belief they are the thinkers in the Organisation.

The Clueless Manager
This type of Managers do not have the slightest clue of what they are doing. You go to him with one problem to solve and you go out of his room with an additional problems in hand. Not a problem solver.

The Weak Manager
This type of managers who won't stand up for you. They just toe the party line and they avoid risks.

The Micro Manager
This type of Managers are the one who do not place a trust in anyone. They want to check and counter check everything you do.

The Hard Task Master
This type of manager who thinks that working late is the hallmark of a good manager. He does not have a life and does not expect you to either. As he works late everything, he expects you to do so too.

Managing `bad' bosses is a very difficult and sensitive exercise. Always remember that finding a perfect boss/employee match is almost impossible.

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Something to ponder

Arguing with your Boss is like wrestling with a pig in mud.
After a while you realise that while you are getting dirty, the pig is actually enjoying it.
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Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.
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Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers.
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It is not exactly cheating. I prefer to consider it creative problem solving.
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Behind every successful woman, is a man who is surprised.
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness, did'nt know where to shop.
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Forgive your enemies but remember their names
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Some plain is physical and some is mental, but one that's both is dental.
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Kids Are Quick

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Teacher : Maria, go to the map and find North America
Maria : Here it is.
Teacher : Correct. Now class who discovered America?
Class : Maria
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Teacher : John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
John : You told me to do it without using tables.
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Teacher : Glenn, how do you spell `crocodile?'
Glenn : K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L
Teacher : No, that's wrong
Glenn : Maybe it is worng, but you asked me how I spell it.
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Teacher : Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
Donald : H I J K L M N O
Teacher : What are you talking about?
Donald : Yesterday you said it's H to O
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Teacher : Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago.
Winnie : Me
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Teacher : Glen, why do you always get so dirty?
Glen : Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground that you are.
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Teacher : Millie, give me a sentence starting with `I'
Millie : I is.....
Teacher : No, Millie...... Always say, `I am.'
Millie : All right....`I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.'
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Teacher : George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but also admitted it. How, Louis, do you know why his father didn't punish him>
Louis : Because George still had the axe in his hand.
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Teacher : Now, Simon, tell me frankly do you say prayers before eating?
Simon : No sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good cook.
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Teacher : Clyde, your composition on `My Dog' is exactly the same as your brother's. Did you copy his?
Clyde : No Sir. It's the same dog.
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Teacher : Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
Harold : Teacher
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Just for laughs.