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Manage Your Time Without Stepping on Any Toes

Advice for better time management typically includes saying no to meeting invites or checking email less often. But actions like these might adversely affect your colleagues. So before starting a new productivity regimen, get input from your coworkers and experiment with different techniques to see what might work for everyone. If your approach is going to infringe on someone else’s work, ask how you can make it up to him. You also need to make clear what you’re doing and why. If you want to decline meeting invites, share your reasoning: you’re working on a big initiative or other members of your team are attending. And because changing how you work can be disruptive, time your new approach wisely — not during a sensitive crunch period.

Adapted by HBR from “ Manage Your Time Without Annoying Your Coworkers” by Amy Gallo.

PMLN, after realising their gross blunder of issuing the notification, to call the army in Islamabad, now must be pinning their hopes on the judiciary, to nullify their orders, so that they are bailed out of this mother of all mistakes..!

@nayyarahmad: Actually, no one would have noticed the SAVE GAZA band on English cricketer Moeen Ali’s wrist, but for the med… http://t.co/wCk5WXLyts

Actually, no one would have noticed the SAVE GAZA band on English cricketer Moeen Ali’s wrist, but for the media and even more for the subsequent ICC ban news, which served more than the purpose for which Moeen Ali used this SAVE GAZA band.

The Israeli’s and their supporters must now be scratching their head..!

PTI may call off August 14 march: MQM

If wishes were horses beggars (MQM) would ride..!

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

—Mark Twain (1835-1910)
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist

Overcome Your Fear of Conflict

Many of us try to avoid confrontation. Instead of addressing issues directly, we try to be “nice” and then later vent about the frustration eating away at us. This can take a significant toll on our health and self-esteem — and on our work relationships and reputation. Next time you notice yourself shying away from conflict, focus on the business needs and speak objectively. For example, if you have a coworker who always interrupts you in meetings, explain the need to present a unified front: “In the last meeting, I noticed we were interacting in a way that may be throwing off the team. It’s important to appear united. Can we determine our roles in advance or establish cues for when it’s time to pass the baton?” People avoid conflict because they assume that it has to be aggressive or disrespectful. It doesn’t — if you remain approachable, non-judgmental, and calm.

Adapted by HBR from “ Get Over Your Fear of Conflict” by Amy Jen Su.

@nayyarahmad: This is a totally different Imran Khan we are seeing these days. A man with nerves of steel having unflinching… http://t.co/aekYFRqylv

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Philosopher, Scientist, Author

“Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands — and then eat just one of the pieces.”

— Judith Viorst