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Think About Inclusion, Not Just Diversity

Creating diversity at work isn’t enough. You also need to foster inclusion, so all people feel valued. When employees feel welcome, they’re more likely to be engaged and participate in decision-making. To promote inclusiveness in your organization:
Don’t gravitate toward similarity. Curb this tendency by asking: Who is getting hired and promoted? Whose opinions have I left out? Am I building relationships with people who are different from me?
Reduce subtle biases. Minority groups can often be excluded from important conversations or judged more harshly. Make sure everyone has access to training, professional development, networks, and important committees.
Encourage difference. Out-group employees sometimes conform to fit in, negating the positive impact of diversity. Seek out different opinions and ask them, “How can we leverage your unique perspective more effectively?”
Bring everyone into the conversation. Don’t leave out employees in the majority group. Explain why change is necessary and make everyone accountable.

Adapted from “ Diversity Is Useless Without Inclusivity” by Christine M. Riordan.

Daily “The News” Exposes the lie of the PM on the floor of the house.

COAS assured his positive role in current situation: Chaudhry Nisar

August 28, 2014 – Updated 220 PKT
From Web Edition

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday said that the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Raheel Sharif has assured to play his positive role in the current political situation of the country.

In a statement, Chaudhry Nisar said the government had asked the Army Chief for the military’s role in the current security and political situation in the country.

He said the COAS in response showed expressed his agreement on the army’s positive role in the country’s prevailing political situation.

Chaudhry Nisar’s statement came after a meeting of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif in which they had an exchange of views on current political impasse in the country.

PM Nawaz and General Raheel agreed to adopt steps for resumption of dialogues with protesting parties — Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT).

They also agreed to resolve the issue in the greatest national interest through negotiations.

@AnsarAAbbasi:
Interior Minister Ch Nisar says that Army Chief has been askd by govt to play his role to defuse the present tension. IK-TuQ in trouble now

@HamidMirGEO:
A Uniform solution:Pakistan Army contacted Imran Khan and Qadri for mediation with PM Nawaz Sharif in next 24 hours

@HamidMirGEO:
Salim Safi told me last night during my live show on Geo that Ch Nisar informed him COAS will play his positive role on the request of govt

The statement that PMLN is its own biggest enemy seems to be an under statement..!

Match, set and game over..!

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”

—Leo Rosten (1908-1997)
Writer, Teacher

An extract of my email which I wrote to the PM Mian M Nawaz Sharif on 1 October, 2013..!

For the general public, it matters the least that who rules them, but what matters them the most, is how they are ruled.

In view of the foregoing, I forewarn the Pakistani ruling elite and all the public representatives, to beware of the day, when people will welcome any other system with open hands, which will not be so cruel and tyrannical, like the current decadent system of governance.

Moreover, the Honourable Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Sahab (Hope you remember the solemn commitment of your government on the floor of the house that no mini budget will be coming during the year) is again reminded that, as forewarned earlier, your honour should immediately shunt out those advisors, who are hell bent to ensure that Mian Nawaz Sharif be remembered in the history of the country, as the most hated, cruel and tyrannical ruler of Pakistan, who snatched even the last piece of the dry bread from not one or two persons, but crores (minimum 11 crores) of poor masses.