Loud Thinking

Archive for 2013

“Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, encourage you, inspire you, enhance you, and make you happy. If you have people who do none of the above, let them go.”

— Unknown

“If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.”

“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”

— Mary Lou Retton

“Don’t lower your standards. Instead, wait for people to rise up to your expectations.”

— Susan Gale

Are You Ready for Executive Coaching?

Until you decide to commit to changing the way you lead wholeheartedly, no coach can help. Before you put your faith (and a huge financial commitment) in a coach, be sure you’re prepared to get the most out of it:
Decide if you want a cheerleader or a coach. Many coaches know that they can build lucrative client bases by acting like Little League coaches: Everything evokes a “good job!” But automatic praise is useless. An ethical coach doesn’t bring pom-poms to meetings with clients, so hire carefully to meet your needs.
Remember that a critique is not a personal attack. It’s easy to feel stung by constructive feedback, but no competent coach would gratuitously put you down. Accept that any and all advice from your coach is intended to be helpful, not hurtful—even if it smarts.

Adapted by HBR from “Get the Most Out of Executive Coaching,” by Steven Berglas.

Pakistan defeat comprehensively within 4 days, South Africa, the world number one ranking team, in the world of Test cricket.

Pakistan is #1

Pakistan Paindabad.

Pakistanis are a true sports loving people. Nothing unites the nation more than the news of an international level victory in any sporting arena. I am greatly surprised about the fact, that why our successive governments failed to channelise the energy of our youth, towards the various traditional and non traditional sports, to lure them away from the engulfing culture of drugs and related crimes.

If, we have to put the sports in Pakistan back on the right track, two basic things are necessary. Firstly, a vision and secondly, visionary leaders, to put Pakistan back on top, at the worlds’ sports map.

As far as, the vision is concerned, nothing ever said about sports can match the following quote of Mr. Nelson Mandela, “Sport has the power to change the world…it has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than government in breaking down racial barriers.”

Attention Mr. Ahsan Iqbal, who wants to outsource Pakistan’s Vision 2025 planning job to a foreign consultant.

Vision is the ability to think ahead with imagination or wisdom.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”

John Lubbock (1834-1913);
Biologist, politician

Whether Pakistan wins or lose the first Test against the South Africans, Azhar Ali has no place in the team for the 2nd Test.

Ahmad Shahzad must replace him, under all circumstances.

Pakistan cricket team chasing a target of 40 runs is playing like as if, the target is 400 runs..!