Loud Thinking

Archive for December, 2014

“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”

—William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
Author, Educator, Motivational Speaker

Have a Strategy for Speaking to a Small Audience

Presentations don’t always involve standing in front of an audience. Many meetings and pitches involve fewer than 10 people in a room where everyone stays seated while someone talks through a slide deck. But even when you’re sitting down, you need to be conscious of how you can deliver your best. You want to work from the same printed deck (with the same page numbers) as the audience. Make it easy for people to follow what you’re saying by guiding them to each page and using highlights or sticky notes to emphasize important sections. Don’t just read from your notes; make it conversational. You can stand for the formal portion of the pitch and then sit to field questions. And it helps to bring an item that everyone can look at together. For example, rather than printing a small map on each deck, unfold a large map for everyone to gather around.

Adapted from “How to Present to a Small Audience” by JD Schramm.

Whither sanctity of the parliament?

Mr. Ishaq Dar, you owe an explanation to the nation that despite your promised statement on the floor of the house, at the time of budget debate that your government will not burden the people with any mini budget, during the financial year, why you have imposed additional 5% GST on the petroleum products, to be effective from 1st January 2015?

“Perhaps the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.”

—Rachel Naomi Remen

WARID’s 4G Scam?

No sir, it is a useless experience. After getting my 4G sim I was informed via an SMS that my area is covered under 4G.
However, the fact is that my area is NOT covered and I am still on 2G. Very lousy technology of WARID.
What should I do? Sue them for this scam?

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— Jung

Cricket…Cricket and Cricket..!

1. How to win the ODI World Cup-2015? Proposals sent to the PCB in Sept.14 confined to the dust bin..!http://t.co/tfZeNe6lOq

2. A clarion call to the Prime Minister and Patron in Chief of the PCB..http://t.co/L6gUnZ9Prg

3. Why the chief selector is larger than life for the PCB..? Honourable Prime Minister and the Patron.. http://t.co/i9B8goXuQt”

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”

—Bernard Meltzer (1916-1998)
Radio Talk Show Host

Why the chief selector is larger than life for the PCB..?. http://t.co/bvsuFNtBRo”

Why the chief selector is larger than life for the PCB..? Honourable Prime Minister and the Patron.. http://t.co/bvsuFNtBRo”