Loud Thinking

Archive for April, 2014

Confidence is full trust, reliability and assurance in yourself or others.

“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”

Alice Walker (born 1944);
Author and activist

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift.

Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

To Manage Designers, Understand Their Career Paths

Making creative expertise a lasting part of your company means more than just hiring a few designers – you have to retain, direct, and promote them. Often, there are two distinct career paths that emerge for creative professionals, each stemming from its own set of motivations, and each demanding its own approach to management. Distinguishing the two can help you lead creative teams.
Creative directors are drawn to tasks they’re not explicitly qualified for, and they can also excel at things that aren’t “creative” — coding, marketing strategy, finance, etc. Encourage this curiosity and push them to oversee multiple facets of a creative project.
Master craftsmen tend to have a narrower focus. They master the tools of their trade and perfect their products, deliberating over every detail. They need a clear way to advance without getting pushed into management. Often, this means defining a new position.

Adapted by HBR from “ Managing Designers on Two Different Tracks” by Sean Madden.

Who is Poor…!

Abdullah was a very wealthy man. One day he took his son Umar to the countryside to show him how poor people lead their lives. He wanted to show him the difference between the poor and the rich.

They lived with the poor peasants on the field for three days to know their way of living.

On their way back home into the city Abdullah asked Umar, “How did you find the countryside, Son ?” Umar replied, “It was indeed great, Dad!”

Abdullah further asked, “Did you see the way poor people live?” Umar replied, “Yes, I did!” Abdullah asked, “So tell me what lesson did the trip teach you ?”

Umar said: “There is a lot of difference in their way of living and ours”
“We have a pool and they have a river which has no end”
“We have imported lamps in our house and they have stars at night”
“We have tall grey buildings that block the sunlight and they have open fields with plenty of sunlight shining through the clouds”
“We buy our food while they grow theirs”
“The air we breathe is polluted and the air they breathe is fresh”
“We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them”

Abdullah stood there speechless. Then Umar added, “Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are !”

The father who wanted to teach his son a lesson learns a great lesson himself at the end.

Try Seeing the world through the eyes of a kid, you will love every bit of it !

Most warm congratulations to the Srilankan nation for winning not only the T20 World Cup but Asia Cup ODI tournament, as well.

Great achievement…!

It was not a loss of India but of Indian Cement..!

India you just lost due to the team management’s crazy decision of playing Youraj Singh and excluding Shekhar Dhawan.

You also lost because MSD for the first time buckled under pressure, for the reasons best known to India.

May be MSD is mentally shaken and badly missing Sri Navasan.

May be MSD will say I can’t play without the man I love. Remember King of England once said “I can’t live without the woman I love” and left the throne.

Moreover, Indian batsmen seemed pulverised in the last 4 overs where they scored ONLY 19 runs.

India also played a very high number of 47 dot balls.

Basic responsibility of defeat lies on MS Dhoni, which he must accept and resign, not for the loss of the World Cup but handing it over to SL in a plate.

May be MSD is mentally finished due to corruption charges back home.

MSD can be a better executive at Indian cements.

Tons of congratulations to Sri Lankan nation for a well deserved and well earned T20 World Cup victory at Dhaka tonight.

He Sri Lanka remembers that their 1st ever ICC tournament victory was achieved in 1996 at Lahore, when they won the ODI World Cup.

We wish all the best to Sri Lanka and join with them in their celebrations of a memorable victory.

Keep up your good work Sri Lanka.

Pakistani Street Children football players are pride of the nation..!

Thank you Pakistani kids for giving such a joy to the entire nation, by getting the world No. 3 position in the Street Child Football World Cup tournament held in Brazil.

Boys… the nation is proud of you and hope that our cricket team players will take a leaf from your book; and will always play for the prestige of the country.

India strikes back..!