Loud Thinking December 01, 2014 at 02:41PM
Rebuild a Work Relationship That’s Gone Sour
If you haven’t been getting along with someone at work, there are ways you can repair the relationship. First, ask yourself what’s happening so you know what needs work. Are you having trouble communicating? Are you failing to see eye-to-eye on things? Give up being right, and resist your tendency to analyze every detail of what’s happened in your relationship. That’s not productive. Instead, look forward and reflect on what you want from the relationship. Try to see the other person’s perspective. When you’re ready to approach him, make it on neutral ground. Go out for lunch or coffee, rather than asking to meet at one of your desks. Don’t debate what went wrong or who is at fault. Focus on the bigger picture or a common goal you share. But don’t expect the relationship to change overnight; it takes time to reestablish trust and reciprocity.
Adapted from “Fixing a Work Relationship Gone Sour” by Amy Gallo.
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win”.
For all intents and purposes (barring any miracle) it seems that New Zealand may well be on course of a very well deserved and well earned victory in the 3rd and last Test match vs Pakistan.
And for the Pakistani team, it looked like they were outplayed by the NZ players in every department of the game.
However, the wicket keeping and fielding of the team, rather than showing any improvement, has depicted further decline of the standards.
As such, if we have to show any worthwhile performance in the coming ODI World Cup, the board and team management must revamp the whole process of fielding training drills and strategy.
Else, we should not forget that our cricket team performed so badly in the last Champions Trophy that it got the last possible position in the tournament.
We should never forget that plans never fail. Actually, we fail to plan.
Team management and players must be told that “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win”.
Loud Thinking November 30, 2014 at 11:01AM
The way PMLN is playing the game of deceit and denial, it seems that they know they have lost the game, set and match and that PMLN has been clean bowled, lock stock and barrel, by the IK’s in-swinger.
While they (PMLN) were claiming that their Havelian JALSA addressed by the PM, was a big success and throughout the country, canals of honey and milk were flowing in their golden era of government, then why the government is so nervous and afraid about the support of the masses, to the clarion call of Imran Khan that bus terminals have been sealed to stop people going to Islamabad, the transmissions of ARY TV channel is being shut down and use of Helicam banned to restrict free and fair flow of news and information to the general public and PTI workers being detained to create maximum hurdles in the gatherings of 30th November at D Chowk?
All these and other repressive measure are a proof in it self that at least MENTALLY, the government has lost the match vs the PTI + the masses of Pakistan, by a wide margin of an innings and at least 400 runs.
A proposal to the ICC to control fatalities in the glorious game of cricket..!
ICC must consider reducing the hardness of the cricket ball as fatalities and serious injuries are increasing almost on daily basis in this glorious game named cricket..!
Israeli umpire killed after ball strikes him in the face
JERUSALEM Sat Nov 29, 2014 10:42pm IST
(Reuters) – An umpire standing in a cricket match in the Israeli city of Ashdod was killed after being struck by a ball on Saturday, Israeli police said.
Police said the 60-year-old umpire, who was not named, was taken to hospital in the nearby town of Ashkelon in critical condition where he died of his injuries.
One of the players who witnessed the incident told the Nana10 website that the umpire, standing at the bowler’s end, was struck by the ball in his face after it ricocheted off the stumps from a shot that came straight back down the pitch.
The death came two days after Australian batsman Phillip Hughes died in hospital after being struck by a ball during a domestic first-class match in Sydney.
Cricket is not a major sport in Israel but Ashdod is one of the main centres for the sport where a large number of Jewish immigrants from India live.
(Reporting by Ori Lewis, editing by Ed Osmond)

