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To Attract the Best Talent, Offer Meaningful Work

Talented people used to want high salaries and stable career paths, but now they want work with purpose. Here’s how your company can offer candidates meaningful and attractive roles:

Get serious about impact. Determine the positive impact your organization seeks to make in the world. You don’t have to be a social enterprise to do good.

Tell that story well. Call it marketing or storytelling, but make sure you’re communicating how much you care about your mission and how you’re working toward it.

Design roles for their future, not just yours. Many people see a job as one of many stepping-stones they’ll visit over the course of a career. Focus on making your stone as attractive and inviting as possible. Decent pay, rewarding perks, and large doses of autonomy demonstrate that you take professional development seriously.

Adapted HBR from “What Job Candidates Really Want: Meaningful Work,” by Nathaniel Koloc.

The influence of Indian army over Indian government .. http://t.co/DjSKiCOupF

My old comments on a TOI news of 21 September, 2012 and latest observations of a senior US army general about the influence of the Indian army over its government.

Greatness of a general doesn’t lie in waging and winning a war. Rather, in avoiding the war.

Indian Army chief opposes PM’s trip to Pak (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Army-chief-opposes-PMs-trip-to-Pak/articleshow/16482507.cms#write )

Here, I Remember what Winston Churchill said about the generals, “war is too serious a business to be left to the generals”. Adding to that I will say “peace is even more serious a business to be left to the generals, who by their training are mostly prone to their myopic and tunnel vision.”

I wonder, if the Berlin wall would ever have been removed, if the decision was left to the generals.

So Gen. Bikram Singh should also know that it’s not Siachin, but the future of 1.5 billion humanity of sub continent which is at stake. If, the blood has been shed on a foolish act in the past, why not take action to stop further shedding of blood, for the noble cause of peace & eradication of ignorance and poverty, in the sub continent.

The thinking of such generals, can delay the emancipation of Indians and Pakistanis, but can never permanently deny the divends of peace to such a large world population, which is no more interested in continued acrimony, between the two neighboring countries.

Now,the peace loving people of both the countries have decided once for ever, that they will no more remain the prisoner of the past.

If any body wants to observe the dividends of peace between the neighbors, just look at Europe, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

Now, I invite the attention of all those people towards the following eye opening comments of a senior US army general, reported on 29 July, 2013 by the TOI, who say within and outside Pakistan, that Pak army is very influential in exercising its authority over the civilian governments in Pakistan, with reference to the major policy issues of the country.

WASHINGTON: The Indian Army is by far the most influential in the Asia Pacific region, a top American General said as he stressed on the importance of building military-to-military relationship between the two countries.

“As is in many of the Asia-Pacific countries, the army is the dominant service in those countries. India is a prime example. It is by far the largest service. It is by far the most influential,” US Army chief of staff General Raymond T Odierno said.

Link:- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Indian-Army-most-influential-in-Asia-Pacific-region-US-General/articleshow/21465988.cms

Mr. Ishaq Dar, where are the $800 million you said will be received from the Etisalat? Hope it was not a lolly pop for the nation..!

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

— Michael Jordan

Learning is the process of gaining knowledge.

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”

Abigail Adams (1744-1818);
U.S. First Lady (1797-1801)

Focus on Learning Your First 30 Days on the Job

When starting a new job, you want to focus your first month on finding out as much as you can about the organization, the people, and your role. This can start before you assume the new job by browsing the company website and talking with people who know the organization well, such as former employees. Soon after you begin the job, review detailed operating plans and performance data. Look through recent reviews for all of your direct reports. Meet with each of them one-on-one and ask about their view of the team and where it needs to go. While you’re taking in all of this information, be sure to develop hypotheses about what you need to get done and the best way to go about it. And of course, all of this learning will generate additional questions, so never stop asking them even when you’ve started to take action.

Adapted by HBR from The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded.

Benefits of Walking

The human body is made to walk. Â
Walking 30 minutes a day cuts the rate of people becoming diabetic by more than half and it cuts the risk of people over 60 becoming diabetic by almost 70 percent. Â
Walking cuts the risk of stroke by more than 25 percent. Â
Walking reduces hypertension. The body has over 100,000 miles of blood vessels. Those blood vessels are more supple and healthier when we walk. Â
Walking cuts the risk of cancer as well as diabetes and stroke. Â
Women who walk have a 20 percent lower likelihood of getting breast cancer and a 31 percent lower risk of getting colon cancer. Â
Women with breast cancer who walk regularly can reduce their recurrence rate and their mortality rate by over 50 percent. Â
The human body works better when we walk. The body resists diseases better when we walk, and the body heals faster when we walk. Â
We don’t have to walk a lot. Thirty minutes a day has a huge impact on our health. Â
Men who walk thirty minutes a day have a significantly lower level of prostate cancer. Men who walk regularly have a 60 percent lower risk of colon cancer. Â
For men with prostate cancer, studies have shown that walkers have a 46 percent lower mortality rate. Â
Walking also helps prevent depression, and people who walk regularly are more likely to see improvements in their depression. Â
In one study, people who walked and took medication scored twice as well in 30 days as the women who only took the medication. Another study showed that depressed people who walked regularly had a significantly higher level of not being depressed in a year compared to depressed people who did not walk. The body generates endorphins when we walk. Endorphins help us feel good. Â
Walking strengthens the heart. Walking strengthens bones.Â
Walking improves the circulatory system. Â
Walking generates positive neurochemicals. Healthy eating is important but dieting can trigger negative neurochemicals and can be hard to do. Â
Walking generates positive neurochemicals. People look forward to walking and enjoy walking. Â
And research shows that fit beats fat for many people. Walking half an hour a day has health benefits that exceed the benefits of losing 20 pounds. Â
When we walk every day, our bodies are healthier and stronger. A single 30 minute walk can reduce blood pressure by five points for over 20 hours. Â
Walking reduces the risk of blood clots in your legs. Â
People who walk regularly have much lower risk of deep vein thrombosis. Â
People who walk are less likely to catch colds, and when people get colds, walkers have a 46 percent shorter symptom time from their colds. Â
Walking improves the health of our blood, as well. Walking is a good boost of high density cholesterol and people with high levels of HDL are less likely to have heart attacks and stroke. Â
Walking significantly diminishes the risk of hip fracture and the need for gallstone surgery is 20 to 31 percent lower for walkers. Â
Walking is the right thing to do. The best news is that the 30 minutes doesn’t have to be done in one lump of time. Two 15 minute walks achieve the same goals. Three 10 minute walks achieve most of those goals. Â
We can walk 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes at night and achieve our walking goals. Â
Walking feels good. It helps the body heal. It keeps the body healthy. It improves our biological health, our physical health, our psychosocial health, and helps with our emotional health. Walking can literally add years entire years to your life.
Its good to walk.
Be good to yourself. Be good to your body.
ALL ACCUPRESSURE POINTS ARE IN THE SOLE OF YOUR FEET ……
JUST LIKE YOUR HANDS !!

Compiled by Mr. Rafiuddin Sheikh (Karachi).

“Out with everything you don’t need — the junk, clutter,
hang-ups and hurts — and in with the fresh, fantastic,
unencumbered life you’ve always wanted.”

— Oprah