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Algorithm is a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor. (Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/algorithm)

We can see the obvious words arrayed in sequence for rules, problem, a finite number of steps, and divisor.

What is time algorithm? I defined time algorithm in my own words in a sentence as; a person using a fraction of time in a day to cogitate specifically focus on how to work and reach a personal daily life’s goal.

The related elements between algorithm and time algorithm are;

1. Rules: using a fraction of time in a day to cogitate
2. Problem: a personal daily life’s goal
3. A definite number of steps: how to work and reach
4. Divisor: derived from human common daily life activities in time division (1 hour 20 minutes)

Method of Statement:

This method can be applied in all time categories; free, spare, schedule, quality, and prosper. Search for network, which means list down the identified problem solver individuals or bodies or organizations or authorities. Delegate search activities to proficient subordinates/parties in obtaining the best output from the data inputs (feedback/data gathering). Outsource the intended best output to be achieved to the related party to work for solution finding. Manage properly whatever feedback given by them the fits and gaps. Control the progress along the way in getting the best result.

Time Algorithm is a method of practicing self-motivation where time counts to solve a daily prioritized problem systematically in short-time. It helps individual in both ways; be creative and innovative. When it has been practiced daily, an individual can absorb the drastic pressure and able to release it back by giving practical way of solution finding regardless of the size of problem.

I write this article based on my true life searching and finding for what is a QTM (Quality Time Management) for me to make use it as my APQTM (A Personal Quality Time Management) and absolutely it is a type of writing which is characteristic apart from any other writers specific ideas in presenting and publishing their own personal thoughts.

1. Introduction

As a reader, listener, and observer many times we heard about QTM already been defined, meant, and outlined by qualified and professional speakers. Things which a layman in banal couldn’t catch up the details of explanations made and finally they accept it as too ’systematic’ for them to apply in their daily life and they have to forget about it.

Whereas, nature already provides ample time and space for a human to gets from lesson and learn about time which is an important factor in building up human life’s prosperity in all aspects. This is the thing that makes a human so special in this world, where, they can take and use time for their own learning pattern and formation completely with the learning process.

2. Personal definition

A person is freely to define each word spoken, written, expressed (body language) for what is time to reach the level of APQTM and to be their systematic QTM as good results spoken itself and not the theory alone. Human want to see the proven output and in less bother how it was done.

Time is an intangible space in one’s mind, where, its property can be designed by one’s brain to contemplate in creating its schedules to be called as scheduled time. What is a scheduled time? A scheduled time is a brain task to shift free time to spare time which is can be easily illustrated in the form of flowchart explanation, the five levels or stages;

Free time > Spare time > Schedule time > Quality time > Prosper time

From the above flowchart, it’s very obvious for a person to has ’schedule time’ as its position is in the middle of the beginning point of time (Free time) and the apogee point of time for ‘Prosper time’. Observe carefully, the bridging levels or stages are spare time, schedule time, and quality time. Which means how important for a person must learn what is spare time, schedule time, and quality time.

From my above explanations, it’s all about the proves for why a person must use free time to think about the important part for why to has own definition in structuring the meaning of each level of time in constructing their own prosperity life.

3. Quality state in time

As we have learned the five levels or stages of time in the Item 4, now we must learn what are the driven factors in a person which is imperative to be included as a non-stop practice in reaching quality state in time, regardless of its levels or stages. The driven factors in a person are the four; confident, effective detailed planner, networking, and diligent or assiduous.

At every five levels of time, a person must highly confident to be in the own world of ‘quality state in time’ by providing one’s own feasible, pragmatic, and effective short, middle, and long term goals by building up the details of vision, missions, and objectives in their weekly, monthly, and yearly planner (the written diary/organizer complete with future tasks to be accomplished). Which means every bit and beat of the clock really making a person merely working towards fruitful goals and at this moment a person understand how important a unit value for ’second’ in time counting, very valuable in daily life just from a planner it does generate blissful networking.

Diligently or assiduously working with the tasks written in a planner now be a must thing to do when we fully understood the meaning of a ‘quality state in time’ and how to work for it to shift oneself from Free time > Spare time > Schedule time > Quality time > Prosper time. At every level of it one person always hopes for the best while at the same time expecting worst. During this time, if one plan failed, as diligent or assiduous is concerned, a person can accept a failure is the right beginning to enjoy the future success. Why a person already able to accept failure? Very simple answer, work diligently or assiduously is a priority.

4. Time category

Time category divided into two categories; loss and profit in time. When is a person in ‘loss in time’ category? When a person does not want to learn the definition of time and practice ‘Quality state in time’. When is a person in ‘profit in time’ category? When a person practically apply practice makes perfect from learning the definition of time and practice ‘Quality state in time’.

5. Time management skills

Time management skills indicates the progress data of achievement versus time, by graph. Where, if we draw a vertical line (Y-axis) it represent by marking the value of achievement made and by drawing a horizontal line (X-axis) it represent period of time. The Y-axis and X-axis intercept each other at the point of zero value.

From the above paragraph, learning about ‘Time management skills’ it’s much easier to work with the all details of tasks listed in our planner versus time by building up one master graph for it, as shown below. Y-axis represent percentage of achievement and X-axis of period if time. Each task shown by dot or pin point.

Time Management Skills – Graph, is one of the control tools for quick learning about what is actually ‘Time management skills instead of learning through texts explanations. I mean, I give direct method how test our own ‘Time management skills’. That is why I used the words of ‘quick learning’.

6. Smart Integration

Smart integration means we integrate the Item 5, Item 6, and Item 7 in our network by means of outsourcing all of our tasks listed in the planner to the relevant efficient group or party or person, so that our time management will develop and growth incessantly with time.

7. Compendium

Mastering the learning process of the Item 2 (Personal definition), Item 3 (Quality state in time), and Item 5 (Time management skills) means professing APQTM and QTM. A life a system, a system is a calculation. Which means taking wrong calculation is using wrong system and wrong system is possessing wrong life, I mean wrong life is wrong life’s patter and formation.

Wal-mart entered India in stealth mode with the different name “BestPrice Modern Wholesale.”. They should have named it “Best Bazaar” following the local tradition! This entry itself is a big victory for Wal-mart considering the huge opposition from local retailers. Although the media says that mom-and-pop shops would be affected by Wal-mart’s direct entry in India, the truth is that giant local retailers like Reliance and Big Bazaar influence politicians to keep Wal-mart in check.

Despite of all these hurdles, Wal-mart entered India with the help of joint-venture with Bharti. We can debate for many days whether Wal-mart hurts small businesses. However, Wal-mart is good for consumers. Period.

Wal-mart’s entry in India is a turning point for Indian consumers. It will improve the healthy competition among major retailers which will ultimately benefit consumers – all of us!

Related Link: Why Wal-mart’s First India Store is not a Wal-mart

If you start a technology company (not the cinema portals, real tech company!) in India today, what are the odds of getting the funding from VCs? Sloka Telecom’s CEO Suraj Karampuri thinks that the chances are very slim. You need to manage to raise the funds from self, friends and family. Suraj gave an interesting interview in which he offers he views on tech start-up scenario in India and funding options for tech companies in India. VCs are more interested in investing in spammy sites like youmint. You can read more from Suraj’s interview here.

U.S. Newspaper industry is in a free fall mainly due to Internet. Everyone gets the information online. Many American newspapers are closing down in the recent times.

Few days ago, One more American newspaper went down. “Goodbye, Colorado” said the simple final front-page headline as, after nearly 150 years in business, the “Rocky Mountain News” folded up last Friday.

The final edition sold like wildfire Friday morning, less than 24 hours after the paper’s parent company, Cincinnati-based E.W. Scripps Co. announced its closure, leaving Denver, like most American cities, a one-newspaper town. Even that final edition copy was sold in eBay! Some people tried to make money out of it by selling that for $14.99.

“It’s in a free fall and nobody knows where the bottom is. It’s kind of like water in the toilet swirling around and nobody knows what is left when you’re done flushing,” media critic Eric Alterman was quoted as saying by CNN. (What kind of analogy these guys use?!)

Newspapers across U.S. are under pressure as readership declines along with advertising revenue. Last week, the San Francisco Chronicle announced it was in danger of being sold or closed if it doesn’t stop losing millions. Officials from the Hearst Corp., owners of the Chronicle, said the paper lost $50 million in 2008 and is on pace to lose more this year. Hearst said it is also prepared to close the Seattle Post-Intelligencer if it cannot be sold. The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News filed for bankruptcy protection last week, joining Chicago’s Tribune Co. and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune in Chapter 11 status.

Will the same fate awaits for Indian Newspaper Industry? No. Internet penetration is not widespread in India. Moreover newspaper media tycoons in India will make sure that it stays that way. It will take many years before anything close to this will happen to Indian newspapers. By then, they will be ready to meet the challenges.

Bollywood is getting professional makeover. It doesn’t need to rely on mafia to get the loans. Venture fund industry is willing to take risks in Indian cinema industry. New venture fund, Cinema Capital Venture Fund, was started few months ago to invest in Indian films. Recently it got approval from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) for bringing in Rs 50 crore to its existing fund. This fund had earlier raised Rs 175 crore.

Cinema capital venture fund plans to invest mainly in film production companies rather than individual films. Seems to be a good hedge.

I read about lot of different business strategies — both good and bad. I have never seen any strategy this stupid. Ryan Air is thinking about charging passengers to use toilet. The airlines may install coin slot on the toilet door according to its CEO Michael O’Leary.

Penny wise Pound foolish…

Source: BBC News

Two years ago, I wrote about filthy customer service in Subhiksha stores. It appears that thousands of other consumers also felt the same way. Subhiksha is closing 160 stores nationwide according to Economic Times.

The report adds that Subhiksha has not paid the salaries to its 15000 employees since October 2008. Subhiksha has also faced allegations of default in store rental payments from property owners. Subhiksha has also been defaulting on its rent payments. It is looking to renegotiate rentals with the real estate owners.

Besides, employee salaries and store rentals, Subhiksha has also been defaulting on the payments of suppliers. Fruit and vegetable vendors have already stopped supplies as the retailer has not been able to make payments to them. FMCG products’ suppliers have stopped supplying products to Subhiksha, too.

Related Links: Subhiksha battling for survival – Economic Times Story | Consumer complaints about Subhiksha

India remains the world leader in offshoring services in spite of economic crisis that affects the whole world. Analyzing 72 offshoring countries, the research firm Gartner has announced its ‘Top 30 offshoring destinations’, where India placed the top followed by China. The report shows that the dynamic nature of the market has seen a number of countries position themselves as credible alternatives to the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China).

According to the report 10 countries from Asia Pacific were represented in the 30 leading countries. These included the undisputed leader in offshore services, India and the greatest challenger in terms of potential scale, China. The rest are a mix of mature environments that offer limited cost benefits such as Australia, New Zealand and Singapore and emerging countries with a variety of challenges, but attractive costs, such as Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Ian Marriott, Research Vice President, Gartner opined that countries such as Mexico, Poland and Vietnam have continued to strengthen their position against leading alternatives, while others have forced their way into the ‘Top 30′. Only seven countries from America have appeared in the final list of 30. Whereas, as per the Gartner report these countries are becoming an attractive proposition for the largest buying market for offshore services -the U.S. Only Canada was rated ‘excellent’ for language (with fluent English and French) but Latin American countries are able to leverage their Spanish-language skills increasingly in the U.S.

The top 30 list also includes the countries such as Ireland, Israel and South Africa that fared well for language skills, because of the quality and quantity of English-language speakers.

Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Uruguay have left the Top 30 list this year, while new entrants in the top offshoring countries are Egypt, Morocco, Panama and Thailand.

In U.S., some employees that are on hourly wage sued the companies on time spent on booting the PCs. They claim that they are not paid for the time taken for booting, logging in and logging out. We see all kinds of weird lawsuits. This is one of them. What about the time the contractors spent in the bathrooms, cafeteria and for smoking? Will they reimburse the company for that?

What’s next? Will these companies sue the computer manufacturers?

More on this story is here.