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Set the Right Tone for Your Talk

When you present, your audience usually sizes you up before you even utter a word — so it’s critical to make a positive first impression.
Start by communicating ahead of time.
Send a thoughtfully written agenda with a concise but telling subject line — and be explicit about what the audience will get out of it.
Once they’re in the room, match your disposition to your presentation.
For your content to ring true, do you need to come across as passionate? Humbled by the challenges ahead? If you’re announcing a layoff: be somber, not happy. If your talk is upbeat, chat with individuals as the group gathers.
No matter what tone you’re trying to establish, be available and sincere.

Today’s Management Tip was adapted from the HBR Guide to Persuasive Presen

“The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.”

— Leo Babauta

Al-Azmat-ul-Allah

A great news reported by the daily the NEWS:

“A leading religious scholar at the Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak on Sunday withdrew his fatwa (religious decree) against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Inasf chief and said Imran Khan was a staunch Muslim who believed in the finality of the Prophethood of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace be upon him).

Request to Imran Khan

One of the Imran Khan’s promise with the nation was, that he will never allow any compromise on the dignity of Pakistan.
Up till now, it has been a norm that foreign ministers of USA and other countries have been directly calling to our President and the PM: whilst our FM’s can’t even think of calling their HOS or PM’s.
Moreover, foreign ambassadors have been meeting our President and the PM without any protocol; and similarly, our ambassadors can’t even think of doing the same in those foreign countries.
So my request to Imran Khan is that after he is blessed by Allah to lead Pakistan, he must stop such ways of in dignified treatment of Pakistan and its leaders.

Dawn TV has reported that Nawaz Sharif has said that he will provide Kargil inquiry report to India, if he became PM again.
For me, it looks unbelievable from a two time EXPERIENCED PM of Pakistan. And these people then have the audacity to say that PTI leadership is inexperienced.

Dawn TV has reported that Nawaz Sharif has said that he will provide Kargil inquiry report to India?
For me it looks unbelievable from a two time EXPERIENCED PM of Pakistan. And these people have the audacity to say PTI leadership is inexperienced.

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.”

— Epictetus

What a lethal advertisement of PPP (conversation between ex-Justice Abdul Qayyum and Saif ur Rehman of PMLN) just aired by Dunya TV Channel.

Unbelievable story of coercing a judge and dictating him to give maximum specific punishment.

Shame on CT Punjab govt.

An Express Tribune News:

Election coercion: We are being forced to make prisoners vote PML-N, say jail officials

Link:- http://tribune.com.pk/story/544555/election-coercion-we-are-being-forced-to-make-prisoners-vote-pml-n-say-jail-officials/

My Twitter message to USA hoping that US will excuse India from the threat of sanctions for enhancing trade etc. with Iran. However, Pakistan falls under different category and US informed Pak that be ready for sanctions if you try to get gas from Iran.

@USDOSDOT_Urdu Hope this will not attract any US Ire? Salman Khurshid in Tehran; India, Iran decide to give major push to bilateral ties – The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Salman-Khurshid-in-Tehran-India-Iran-decide-to-give-major-push-to-bilateral-ties/articleshow/19883766.cms