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Look Mr. Najam Sethi, what the BCCI Secretary Sanjay Patel has said about your so called “MOU turned into binding agreement straightaway”.

Wisden India quoted Secretary Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Sanjay Patel, as saying on Wednesday “the deals with Pakistan were not set in stone”.

Perhaps the genius PCB boss may be knowing that:

“You can fool some of the people for some of the time. You can also fool some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people, all the time”.

“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

—Aldous Huxley (1894-1963);
Novelist

“The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.”

— Shakti Gawain

“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Love yourself, respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what other people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.”

—Marcus Allen (born 1960);
American Football Player

Regroup from a Failing Project

People tend to obsess over sunk costs (all that time and money we’ve invested in something and can’t get back). When teams commit more resources to a clearly failing project, it’s even more of a problem. The more cohesive the group, the more likely they are to hang in there when it’s best to walk away. To get back on track, your team needs to look at its investments objectively, deciding what to scale back on and what to cut altogether. Make it easier to measure what does and doesn’t work by establishing clear organizational goals — and avoid sweeping, abstract language. Break each goal down into smaller subgoals, and then identify the actions required to reach each one. This will give your team a better sense of what’s achievable, and what’s a lost cause.

Adapted by HBR from “Get Your Team to Do What It Says It’s Going to Do” by Heidi Grant Halvorson.

The way referees are playing for the Brazilian team, there is a very little chance for any other team, to win the World Cup..!

A MAN dreams of a perfect WIFE, and the WOMAN dreams of a perfect HUSBAND, but THEY don’t realize that GOD created THEM to perfect ONE ANOTHER.

Love is not about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship. It’s not about how much love you have in the beginning, but how much love you build till the end.

A successful marriage is not when you can live in peace with your wife, but when you can’t live in peace without her.