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Also known as the "Pareto principle", the "principle of factor sparsity" and the "law of the vital few". It suggests that a high percentage of effects in any large system are caused by low percentage of variables. The principle was named after the Italian economist  Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of income in Italy was received by 20% of the Italian population. It goes something like this, 80% of outcomes can be attributed to 20% of the causes for a given event. It has been observed in many walks of life be it business  design, management or life in general. This rule is useful for focusing resources and in turn reaching higher levels of efficiency in design/product. Other examples can be given as -     80% of products usage involve 20% of it's features   80% of town's traffic is on 20% of it's roads   80%of company's revenue comes from 20% of it's products.   80% of innovation comes from 20% of it's people   80% of the ...

Dear Team  Abhaya, Your application has been shortlisted for the   ‘Leader in Volunteer Engagement’   category and your profile has been uploaded on our website for public voting. We are excited to announce that the  ‘VOTING’  phase of the iVolunteer Awards 2012 began on   February 20 th , 2013  and  will continue till  March 1 st , 2013 .  The  top five, most popular entries, chosen basis  public   votes , will win a direct entry to the  national   jury  level. Voting is open to everyone, to spread the word and involve others to vote, you can share this link  http://awards.ivolunteer.in/vote/organisation/492   with your friends, family and fans to seek their support. To vote they would have to take 3 simple steps: ·          Click  http://awards.ivolunteer.in/vote/organisation/492     to vie...

Ever since the onset of winter Abhayans have been busy distributing free blankets to destitute and abandoned people on the roads. They have rummaged their neighborhood in search of needy people in the dead of night and provided them much needed relief by way of these blankets. Most of them were women, children and barely mobile senior citizens. It is a noble deed beyond doubt to most citizens. However like every good deed some people view even this with certain amount of suspicion or contempt. Through this blog I want to address this particular section of our audience. Few statements that we get to hear once in a while are like “Why give free blankets. Why not teach them how to earn a blanket”, “Who knows whether they really need them. If they don’t need them they might actually sell it to someone else as second hand”, “They are probably habituated living like that”.             Very valid questions indeed...

Good day greetings to all.. abhaya is reaching its second level in serving the people and stepping towards establishing a permanent project for the benefit of the Uncared, abandoned destitute in the state of Andhra Pradesh. We have elected an executive committee and the action points discussed are updated for your reference.. While going forward, there are two primary questions for which we are not able to find answers... we shared our concern with close set of friends to suggest way forward.. The Questions to be addressed are How to increase monthly contributions to support more and more and needy people approaching us? Home of Happiness -  How to raise funds for this magnanimous project? As some great mind said, "If you remove 'I' and think of 'We', even Illness changes to Wellness". When we are thinking on how to serve the people, We got some honest thoughts from the Heart of our friend CS Sastry. We thank his for sharing those thoughts with a...

Dear abhayans! Greetings and good day. While spreading the godly work around, we always learn lot of things from different kinds of people. This is for our good as every single learning will further be refining our approach towards Service. When we go to college students only one or two shows passion to join hands for the community work… rest all do not have any idea about community work. In the process we learnt that students are busy with their studies, in achieving goals. Many of the students say that they can only think of service after getting settled in life! When some of the working professionals of abhaya sent emails to friends and colleagues who are settled in life at their work places, they often get very few responses stating that they are busy in meeting day to day priorities as they are tied up beyond explanation post settling in job!! But when we asked those settled people in the society, they normally say that they have absolutely no time and when we sought the s...