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Management: Relating Is Everything.  HIS NAME IS LESS IMPORTANT HERE THAN HIS WORLD-CLASS ACHIEVEMENT IN MANAGING RICE PEOPLE. HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT? RICE IS THE FOOD OF MORE THAN HALF OF THE WORLD’S 6,500 MILLION HUMANS. IN ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE, I GET 200 MILLION ENGLISH PAGES FROM GOOGLE IN 0.50 SECONDS SEARCHING FOR RICE. In case you wanted to know: The actual search entries I typed were: rice -condoleeza -“rice university” -tim -anne -“edgar rice burroughs” – the minus sign (not hyphen) means ‘by all means exclude in the search.’ And the search results were only the pages published in the Internet. Here’s a comparative data on the importance of subject knowledge based on Google search in number of English pages: 81.2 million, Shakespeare 79.2 million,  Lost  TV Series 55.3 million, Al Qaeda 33.8 million, Beatles 31.7 million,  Da Vinci Code 31.0 million, Bill Gates 22.3 million, Albert Einstein 19.4 million, Tiger Woods 17.5 million, Britney Spears 02.3 million, Princess

Published 31 July 2006 Original Title: "Management: Relating Is Everything" HIS NAME IS LESS IMPORTANT HERE THAN HIS WORLD-CLASS ACHIEVEMENT IN MANAGING RICE PEOPLE. HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT? RICE IS THE FOOD OF MORE THAN HALF OF THE WORLD’S 6,500 MILLION HUMANS. IN ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE, I GET 200 MILLION ENGLISH PAGES FROM GOOGLE IN 0.50 SECONDS SEARCHING FOR RICE. In case you wanted to know: The actual search entries I typed were: rice -condoleeza -“rice university” -tim -anne -“edgar rice burroughs” – the minus sign (not hyphen) means ‘by all means exclude in the search.’ And the search results were only the pages published in the Internet. Here’s a comparative data on the importance of subject knowledge based on Google search in number of English pages: 81.2 million, Shakespeare 79.2 million,  Lost  TV Series 55.3 million, Al Qaeda 33.8 million, Beatles 31.7 million,  Da Vinci Code 31.0 million, Bill Gates 22.3 million, Albert Einstein 19.4 million, Tiger Woods 17