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Robert’s Rules of Order
Revised for Deliberative Assemblies

• Art. I.—How Business Is Conducted in Deliberative Assemblies.
• Introduction of Business
• What Precedes Debate
• Obtaining the Floor
• Motions and Resolutions
• Seconding Motions
• Stating the Question
• Debate
• Secondary Motions
• Putting the Question and Announcing the Vote
• Proper Motions to Use to Accomplish Certain Objects
• Art. II.—General Classification of Motions.
• Main or Principal Motions
• Subsidiary Motions
• Incidental Motions
• Privileged Motions
• Some Main and Unclassified Motions
• Art. III.—Privileged Motions.
• Fix the Time to which the Assembly shall Adjourn
• Adjourn
• Take a Recess
• Questions of Privilege
• General and Special Orders and a Call for the Orders of the Day
• Art. IV.—Incidental Motions.
• Questions of Order and Appeal
• Suspension of the Rules
• Objection to the Consideration of a Question
• Division of a Question, and Consideration by Paragraph or Seriatim
• Division of the Assembly, and Motions relating to Methods of Voting, or to Closing or Reopening the Polls
• Motions relating to Methods of Making, or to Closing or to Reopening Nominations
• Requests growing out of Business Pending or that has just been pending, as, a Parliamentary Inquiry, a Request for Information, for Leave to Withdraw a Motion, to Read Papers, to be Excused from a Duty, or for any other Privilege
• Art. V.—Subsidiary Motions.
• Lay on the Table
• The Previous Question
• Limit or Extend Limits of Debate
• Postpone Definitely, or to a Certain Time
• Commit or Refer, or Recommit
• Amend
• Postpone Indefinitely
• Art. VI.—Some Main and Unclassified Motions.
• Take from the Table
• Reconsider
• Rescind
• Renewal of a Motion
• Ratify
• Dilatory, Absurd, or Frivolous Motions
• Call of the House
• Art. VII.—Debate.
• Debate
• Decorum in Debate
• Closing and Preventing Debate
• Principles of Debate and Undebatable Motions
• Art. VIII.—Vote.
• Voting
• Votes that are Null and Void even if Unanimous
• Motions requiring more than a Majority Vote
• Art. IX.—Committees and Boards.
• Committees Classified
• Boards of Managers, etc., and Executive Committees
• Ex-Officio Members of Boards and Committees
• Committees, Special and Standing
• Reception of Reports
• Adoption or Acceptance of Reports
• Committee of the Whole
• As if in Committee of the Whole
• Informal Consideration
• Art. X.—The Officers and the Minutes.
• Chairman or President
• Secretary or Clerk
• The Minutes
• Executive Secretary
• Treasurer
• Art. XI.—Miscellaneous.
• Session
• Order of Business
• Nominations and Elections
• Constitutions, By-laws, Rules of Order, and Standing Rules
• Amendments of Constitutions, By-laws, and Rules of Order

• Art. XII.—Organization and Meetings.
• An Occasional or Mass Meeting.
• Organization
• Adoption of Resolutions
• Committee to draft Resolutions
• Semi-Permanent Mass Meeting
• A Permanent Society.
• First Meeting
• Second Meeting
• Regular Meeting
• Meeting of a Convention.
• An Organized Convention
• A Convention not yet Organized
• Art. XIII.—Legal Rights of Assemblies and Trial of Their Members.
• Right of an Assembly to Punish its Members
• Right of an Assembly to Eject any one from its Place of Meeting
• Rights of Ecclesiastical Tribunals
• Trial of Members of Societies
• Plan for Study of Parliamentary Law.
• Introduction
• Lesson Outlines

best practice (W3)

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According to the Wikipedia, the term "best practice" was popularized in professional and business management books starting in the late 1980s and generally refers to the best possible way of doing something. While the term is relatively new, the concept is as old as the human race. Enterprising people have always looked for better ways to perform tasks and reach goals. If vast numbers of people in similar circumstances have the same goal and can agree on the best way to achieve it, the procedure could be labeled a "best practice".
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Business (W3)

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Economics A-Z

The Economics A-Z is adapted from "Essential Economics", by Matthew Bishop (interviewed here), published by Profile Books.

• Absolute advantage | Adaptive expectations | Adverse selection | Agency costs | Agricultural policy | Agriculture | Aid | Altruism | Amortisation | Animal spirits | Antitrust | Appreciation | Arbitrage | Arbitrage pricing theory | Asian crisis | Assets | Asymmetric information | Asymmetric shock | Auctions | Austrian economics | Autarky | Average
• Backwardation | Balance of payments | Balanced budget | Bank | Bankruptcy | Barriers to entry (or exit) | Barter | Basel 1 and 2 | Basis point | Bear | Behavioural economics | Beta | | Black economy | Black-Scholes | Bonds | Boom and bust | Bounded rationality | Brand | Bretton Woods | Bubble | Budget | Bull | Business confidence | Business cycle | Buyer's market
• Cannibalise | Capacity | Capital | Capital adequacy ratio | Capital asset pricing model | Capital controls | Capital flight | Capital gains | Capital intensive | Capital markets | Capital structure | Capitalism | CAPM | Cartel | Catch-up effect | Central bank | Ceteris paribus | Charity | Classical dichotomy | Classical economics | Closed economy | Coase theorem | Collateral | Collusion | Command economy | Commoditisation | Commodity | Common goods | Communism | Comparative advantage | Competition | Competitive advantage | Competitiveness | Complementary goods | Compound interest | Concentration | Conditionality | Consumer confidence | Consumer prices | Consumer surplus | Consumption | Contagion | Contestable market | Convergence | Corruption | Cost of capital | Cost-benefit analysis | Creative destruction | Credit | Credit creation | Credit crunch | Creditor | Crony capitalism | Crowding out | Currency board | Currency peg | Current account
• De Soto, Hernando | Deadweight cost/loss | Debt | Debt forgiveness | Debt-equity ratio | Default | Deficit | Deflation | Demand | Demand curve | Demographics | Deposit insurance | Depreciation | Depression | Deregulation | Derivatives | Devaluation | Developing countries | Development economics | Diminishing returns | Direct taxation | Discount rate | Discounted cashflow | Diseconomies of scale | Disequilibrium | Disinflation | Disintermediation | Diversification | Dividend | Division of labour | Dollarisation | Dominant firm | Dumping
• ECB | Econometrics | Economic and monetary union | Economic indicator | Economic man | Economic rent | Economic sanctions | Economics | Economies of scale | Effective exchange rate | Efficiency | Efficiency wages | Efficient market hypothesis | Elasticity | Emerging markets | Endogenous | Engel's law | Enron | Enterprise | Entrepreneur | Environmental economics | Equilibrium | Equities | Equity | Equity risk premium | Euro | Euro Zone | Eurodollar | European Central Bank | European Union | Evolutionary economics | Excess returns | Exchange controls | Exchange rate | Exogenous | Expectations | Expected returns | Expenditure tax | Export credit | Exports | Externality
• Factor cost | Factors of production | Factory prices | Fair trade | FDI | Federal Reserve System | Financial centre | Financial instrument | Financial intermediary | Financial markets | Financial system | Fine tuning | Firms | First-mover advantage | Fiscal drag | Fiscal neutrality | Fiscal policy | Fixed costs | Flotation | Forecasting | Foreign direct investment | Forward contracts | Free lunch | Free riding | Free trade | Frictional unemployment | Friedman, Milton | Full employment | Fungible | Futures
• G7, G8, G10, G21, G22, G26 | GATT | GDP | Gearing | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade | General equilibrium | Generational accounting | Giffen goods | Gilts | Gini coefficient | Global public goods | Globalisation | gni | GNP | Gold | Gold standard | Golden rule | Government | Government bonds | Government debt | Government expenditure | Government revenue | Greenspan, Alan | Gresham's law | Gross domestic product | Gross national product | Growth
• Hard currency | Hawala | Hayek, Friedrich | Hedge | Hedge funds | Herfindahl-Hirschman index | Homo economicus | Horizontal equity | Horizontal integration | Hot money | House prices | Human capital | Human Development Index | Hyper-inflation | Hypothecation | Hysteresis
• ILO | IMF | Imperfect competition | Imports | Income | Income effect | Income tax | Incumbent advantage | Index numbers | Indexation | Indifference curve | Indirect taxation | Inelastic | Inequality | Inferior goods | Inflation | Inflation target | Information | Infrastructure | Innovation | Insider trading | Institutional economics | Institutional investors | Insurance | Intangible assets | Intellectual capital | Interest | Interest rate | International aid | International Labour Organisation | International Monetary Fund | International trade | Intervention | Investment | Invisible hand | Invisible trade | Inward investment
• J-curve | Job search | Joint supply
• Keynes, John Maynard | Keynesian | Kleptocracy | Kondratieff wave
• Labour | Labour intensive | Labour market flexibility | Labour theory of value | Laffer curve | Lagging indicators | Laissez-faire | Land | Land tax | Law and economics | LBO | Leading indicators | Lender of last resort | Leverage | Leveraged buy-out | Liberal economics | Liberalisation | LIBOR | Life | Life-cycle hypothesis | Liquidity | Liquidity preference | Liquidity trap | Lock-in | Long run | Lump of labour fallacy | Lump-sum tax | Luxuries
• Macroeconomic policy | Macroeconomics | Manufacturing | Marginal | Market capitalisation | Market failure | Market forces | Market power | Marshall Plan | Marshall, Alfred | Marx, Karl | Mean | Mean reversion | Median | Medium term | Menu costs | Mercantilism | Mergers and acquisitions | Microeconomics | Minimum wage | Misery index | Mixed economy | Mobility | Mode | Modelling | Modern portfolio theory | Monetarism | Monetary neutrality | Monetary policy | Money | Money illusion | Money markets | Money supply | Monopolistic competition | Monopoly | Monopsony | Moral hazard | Most-favoured nation | Multiplier
• NAFTA | NAIRU | Nash equilibrium | Nation building | National debt | National income | Nationalisation | Natural monopoly | Natural rate of unemployment | Negative income tax | Neo-classical economics | Net present value | Network effect | Neutrality | New economy | New growth theory | New trade theory | NGO | Nominal value | Non-price competition | Normal goods | Normative economics | NPV | Null hypothesis
• OECD | Offshore | Okun's law | Oligopoly | OPEC | Open economy | Open-market operations | Opportunity cost | Optimal currency area | Optimum | Option | Output | Output gap | Outsourcing | Outward investment | Over the counter | Overheating | Overshooting
• Pareto efficiency | Paris Club | Patents | Path dependence | Peak pricing | Percentage point | Percentile | Perfect competition | Permanent income hypothesis | Phillips curve | Pigou effect | Plaza Accord | Population | Positional goods | Positive economics | Poverty | Poverty trap | PPP | Precautionary motive | Predatory pricing | Preference | Present value | Price | Price discrimination | Price elasticity | Price mechanism | Price regulation | Price/earnings ratio | Principal-agent theory | Private equity | Privatisation | Probability | Producer prices | Producer surplus | Production function | Productivity | Profit | Profit margin | Profit maximisation | Progressive taxation | Propensity | Property rights | Prospect theory | Protectionism | Public goods | Public spending | Public utility | Public-private | Purchasing power parity
• Q theory | Quantity theory of money | Quartile | Queueing | Quota
• R squared | Random walk | Rate of return | Rate of return regulation | Ratings | Rational expectations | Rationality | Rationing | Real balance effect | Real exchange rate | Real interest rate | Real options theory | Real terms | Recession | Reciprocity | Redlining | Reflation | Regional policy | Regression analysis | Regressive tax | Regulation | Regulatory arbitrage | Regulatory capture | Regulatory failure | Regulatory risk | Relative income hypothesis | Rent | Rent-seeking | Replacement cost | Replacement rate | Repo | Required return | Rescheduling | Reservation wage | Reserve currency | Reserve ratio | Reserve requirements | Reserves | Residual risk | Restrictive practice | Returns | Revealed preference | Ricardian equivalence | Ricardo, David | Risk | Risk averse | Risk management | Risk neutral | Risk premium | Risk seeking | Risk-free rate
• Safe harbour | Satisficing | Savings | Say's law | Scalability | Scarcity | Scenario analysis | Schumpeter, Joseph | SDR | Search costs | Seasonally adjusted | Second-best theory | Secondary market | Securities | Securitisation | Seignorage | Seller's market | Seniority | Sequencing | Services | Shadow price | Shareholder value | Shares | Sharpe ratio | Shock | Short-termism | Shorting | Signalling | Simple interest | Smith, Adam | Social benefits/costs | Social capital | Social market | Socialism | Soft currency | Soft dollars | Soft loan | Sovereign risk | Speculation | Speculative motive | Spot price | Spread | Stabilisation | Stability and Growth Pact | Stagflation | Stagnation | Stakeholders | Standard deviation | Standard error | Statistical significance | Sterilised intervention | Sticky prices | Stochastic process | Stocks | Stress-testing | Structural adjustment | Structural unemployment | Subsidy | Substitute goods | Substitution effect | Sunk costs | Supply | Supply curve | Supply-side policies | Sustainable growth | Swap | Systematic risk | Systemic risk
• Tangible assets | Tariff | Tax arbitrage | Tax avoidance | Tax base | Tax burden | Tax competition | Tax efficient | Tax evasion | Tax haven | Tax incidence | Taxation | Technical progress | Terms of trade | Third way | Tick | Tiger economies | Time series | Time value of money | Tobin, James | Total return | Trade | Trade area | Trade cycle | Trade deficit/surplus | Trade unions | Trade-weighted exchange rate | Tragedy of the commons | Transaction costs | Transfer pricing | Transfers | Transition economies | Transmission mechanism | Transparency | Treasury bills | Trough | Trust
• Uncertainty | Underground economy | Unemployment | Unemployment trap | Unions | Usury | Utility
• Value added | Value at risk | Variable costs | | Venture capital | Vertical equity | Vertical integration | Visible trade | Volatility | Voluntary unemployment
• Wage drift | Wages | Wealth effect | Wealth tax | Weightless economy | Welfare | Welfare economics | Welfare to work | Windfall gains | Windfall profit | Winner-takes-all markets | Withholding tax | World Bank | World Trade Organisation
• X-efficiency
• Yield | Yield curve | Yield gap

Exportgüter von US
Exportgüter von Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika

• Chemieprodukte
• Fahrzeuge
• Lebende Tiere
• Maschinen
• Nahrungsmittel

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Franchising-Terrorismus (W3)

"Terrorism carried out by people hired or inspired by, but who have no formal contact with, a separate terrorist organization."

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Franchising (W3)

How Franchising Works

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How Customs Works

Inside this Article

• Introduction to How Customs Works
• Duty Calls
• Smuggler's Blues
• Manning the Gates
• Lots More Information
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Importgüter von US
Importgüter von Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika

• Brennstoffe
• Fahrzeuge
• Maschinen
• Nahrungsmittel

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incentivize
Incentive Reisen
Disincentive
Disincentives
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incentor (W2)
Des Brot ich eß', des Lied ich sing

From the Latin "incanere", meaning "to sing to", The idea is "If you play the music, someone has to = dance." - Was also "nach jemandes Pfeife tanzen (lassen)" entspricht.

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Peter Principle, Peterprinzip, Peter-Prinzip (W3)

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Six Sigma
Six-Sigma-Methode (W3)

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6. Paranoia

Wer sich ans Schießen gewöhnt hat, bleibt dabei. Die einzige Konzession an den Fortschritt ist, größere, kompliziertere Kanonen zu bauen. Kanonen wie die "Six-Sigma-Methode".

Die wurde ursprünglich vom amerikanischen Halbleiterhersteller Motorola zur Fehlervermeidung entwickelt. Die Quintessenz der Methode ist es, nicht mehr als 3,4 Fehler bei einer Million Fehlermöglichkeiten in einem Prozessschritt zuzulassen. Das entspricht einer Zuverlässigkeit oder Fehlerfreiheit von 99,99966 Prozent. Daraus ergeben sich theoretisch fehlerfreie Produkte. Bei Halbleitern, also Prozessoren und Chips, sind selbst kleinste Fehler problematisch. Doch gilt das auch für andere Produkte, für Dienstleistungen sogar? Der Kunde empfindet ein Produkt als fehlerfrei, wenn es funktioniert, ein Problem löst. Perfektion ist reine Theorie - die bei beschleunigten Produktzyklen zur schieren Illusion wird.
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A data-driven management philosophy developed by Motorola for eliminating defects, waste and quality-control problems in manufacturing. The basic idea behind Six Sigma is that if one can measure the amount of “defects” in a process, one can systematically determine how to eliminate them, getting as close to zero defects (i.e., perfection) as possible.
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The term is derived from the Greek letter "sigma", a mathematical term that represents a "measure of variation".
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Der Name "Six Sigma" kommt nun daher, dass bei "Six Sigma" die Forderung erhoben wird, dass die nächstgelegene Toleranzgrenze mindestens 6 Standardabweichungen ("6s", englisch ausgesprochen "Six Sigma") vom Mittelwert entfernt liegen soll ("Six-Sigma-Level"). Nur wenn diese Forderung erfüllt ist, kann man davon ausgehen, dass praktisch eine "Nullfehlerproduktion" erzielt wird, die Toleranzgrenzen also so gut wie nie überschritten werden.
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Wieso eigentlich "Six" und wieso "Sigma"?
(Wir setzen das Puzzle zusammen)
In den beiden vorherigen Abschnitten haben wir zwei interessante Phänomene beschrieben. Bei Ersterem handelt es sich um die Leistung der zahlreichen unterschiedlichen Merkmale eines Produkts, einer Dienstleistung, einer Transaktion, eines Prozesses oder Systems. Das zweite Phänomen beschreibt, dass das Kurzzeitleistungsniveau - wie gut oder schlecht die Leistung auch immer sein mag - langfristig abflacht. Der Begriff "Six Sigma" stammt aus der Statistik und Methodik, mit deren Hilfe auf zwei Probleme eingegangen werden soll: Das Zusammenspiel von typischem Verhalten und die natürliche Zunahme der Streuung, die langfristig bei jedem Merkmal oder Prozess auftritt.

Das "Sigma-Niveau" ist eine universelle Messmethode, mit deren Hilfe festgestellt werden kann, wie gut ein bestimmter Prozess oder bestimmtes Merkmal funktioniert und somit den Erwartungen entspricht. Je höher der Sigma-Wert, umso leistungsfähiger ist der Prozess. Versagt ein kritischer Prozess zum Beispiel zu 31 Prozent der vorgegebenen Zeit, spricht man von einem "Sigma-Niveau" von "zwei". Erfüllt er jedoch zu 93,3 Prozent der relevanten Zeit erwartungsgemäß seine Leistungen, so spricht man von "drei" Sigma.
Tabelle 1.1 stellt das "Sigma-Niveau" dar.
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Peter, Laurence J.
Raymond Hull
Das Peter-Prinzip
oder
Die Hierarchie der Unfähigen