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“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens.

If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy.

If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time.

If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.”

— Andy Rooney

“Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.”

—John Wesley (1703-1791)
Theologian

Inventory Your Team’s Knowledge When Starting a New Project

Team leaders often don’t fully tap into the knowledge team members bring with them. This is, in large part, because the most confident, outgoing people get the most airtime, while the real experts take a backseat and have limited impact. But a brief intervention can change this dynamic. When starting on a new project, encourage team members to first discuss the relevant knowledge they each bring to the table. By opening the floor for reflection, you can lead the group in assessing members’ knowledge and discussing its relevance to the task at hand. And your team will be less likely to defer to those with the most confidence, and more likely to combine their expertise to devise strategies for solving the problems. The process may sound simple, but it can help you bring out the best in your team.

Adapted from “ Bring Out the Best in Your Team” by Bryan L. Bonner and Alexander R. Bolinger.

Why not consumer friendly actions in Pakistan as well?

From January 2015, life-saving drugs to show govt-fixed rates in bold red

A TOI news report…
Sushmi Dey,TNN | Nov 17, 2014, 04.14 AM IST

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils…

~Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

~Plato

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

~Plato

Socrates didn’t write books; he just liked to ask probing and sometimes humiliating questions, which gave rise to the famous Socratic Method of Teaching.

This street-corner philosopher made a career of deflating pompous windbags.

Any other person ACCUSED these days of corrupting the youth???

Socrates: Athens’ street-corner philosopher

Socrates was the big-city philosopher in ancient Athens.

Accused and convicted of corrupting the youth, his only real crime was embarrassing and irritating a number of important people.

His punishment was death.

Famous quote: “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

The Republic – By Plato

Quote “A city whose future rulers are the least eager to rule will necessarily be the best governed and freest from strife, and the one with opposite rulers the worst.” Book 7, pg. 181, line 520d