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Archive for March, 2013

Welcome Edits on Your Writing

A good writer welcomes good edits. A bad writer resents them, seeing them only as personal attacks. Share your material while it’s still rough — the feedback will help you improve it much faster than if you were toiling in isolation. Routinely ask your colleagues, including those you supervise, to read your drafts and suggest changes. Have them mark up the document and submit their revisions in writing, rather than in person where you might react defensively. Always thank them for their help. Encourage others on your team to seek out edits and offer them. Having room to improve should be the norm, not a sign of weakness.

Today’s Management Tip was adapted from the HBR Guide to Better Business Writing.

“Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.”

— Julia Child

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

― Winston Churchill

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

― Winston Churchill

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Time for a genuine change in Pakistan has come

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Imran Khan your time to deliver has come

“All great achievements require time.”
― Maya Angelou

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.

Sun Tzu

Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire.

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”

Anne Lamott –
author, political activist