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Management cockpit:

In the eighteenth century America  cockfighting which was  bloody and mostly fatal end to the birds  was as popular as any  national sport in eighteenth-century America, with betting a prime part of it. The birds were big and strong and had  an athletic build. They were made strong ferocious and stood out  from other fowls in that historic era and even now same practice continues all over the world where the sport is held. 

The birds were “dubbed ” which refers to a practice in which a bird’s wattles and comb were removed so an opponent could not latch onto them in a fight. The specially reared cocks were fitted with deadly weapons in their legs and  were bred and trained for combat readiness .These knife fitted  roosters slashed at one another while  the crowds of onlookers, screamed and enjoyed the spectacle of combat to the death, and gambled .Cockfighting is  the second most popular sport after horse racing.

The first known reference for cockpit came from a  sport of cock fight where  the pit in which the cocks were made to fight  till death .Even today cockfight  is a very  popular sport in the rural areas of  southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and TamilNadu where people spend annually  IRS. 2 billion  in betting  .

The cockfight is an ‘industry  in the southern states where  over 1500 cockfight organizers organize cockfights during the harvest festival. The hybrid birds are trained on a daily basis and specialists are hired to tie two-inch knife on the bird’s legs to inflict bloody wounds on  the rival bird in the fight. The birds are fed with a highly nutritious diet composing of pulses, dry-fruits, minced meat (kheema ) and boiled eggs and are injected with hormones to make them more ferocious for the fights. 

The cocks are categorized as Dega (eagle), Kaaki (crow), Pearl and Nemali (peacock) and are rated based on how they are trained.This is like the seeding in the grand slam.

The word cockpit   must have then naturally been used to refer to  any scene of grisly combat, such as World War  battlefields. By the end of the 16th Century, the term was being used to describe sunken pits or cramped, confined spaces. 

The word cockpit was also used to describe the pit around the stage in a theater containing the lowest level of seats. In Royal Navy ship  the word cockpit was used for the  location of the ship's rudder controls  coxswain’s station .Literal meaning  was "boat servant" since it comes from the cock, a cockboat or other small vessel kept aboard a ship, and swain, an Old English term derived from the Old Norse sveinn meaning boy or servant. 

The term was used in referring to cramped small room   for midshipmen's compartment below decks; transferred to refer airplanes  and to cars .Cockpit came to be used for  the driver's seat of a car , especially a high performance one, and this is official terminology in Formula racing cars .

In the modern era this modified term management cockpit  represents the fourth generation of reports mainly  financial reports, scorecards, and prospective dashboards. 

The concept of a control room for management.Imagine the setting for a large corporate organization where each manager is able to access every bit of  information about the entire organization down to even smallest details  in real time. 

In managing change , these control centers can be highly effective in providing corrective action when needed without delays while implementing change program. The tool enables initiating changes through timely actions.

This concept was developed in 1989 by Patrick Georges, professor of management Solvay Business School, HEC Paris, College des Ingénieurs and neurosurgery.