Loud Thinking

5 Twitter messages of public interest..!

@nayyarahmad: @CMShehbaz @MaryamNSharif @umarsaif

1. r v so backward in IT that Pres, PM offices & ministries & departments can’t maintain a Twitter account?

@nayyarahmad: @ArifAlvi @sherryrehman

2. Sir, the officially recorded figure for the last year was 869 which means on an average over two ladies killed/day.

@nayyarahmad: @KhawajaMAsif @imf_pakistan @WorldBank

3. A Watt saved is a Watt produced then why can’t we close our offices and markets at 6PM in Pakistan?

@nayyarahmad: @CMShehbaz @MaryamNSharif @betterpakistan

4. Extraordinary challenges demands extraordinary measures.

@nayyarahmad: @CMShehbaz @MaryamNSharif @betterpakistan @imf_pakistan

5. 1 Mega Watt production cost is about Rs.1billion imagine the savings/day of just 1000MW from 6PM onwards if offices and markets r strictly closed?

Then our rulers say no one in the world respects us..!

US Secretary of State John Kerry today called over telephone the Indian External Affairs minister and ……… The Prime Minister of Pakistan..!

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Time Is a Midsize Company’s Most Valuable Resource

While poor time management hurts any firm, it’s especially pernicious at midsize companies. These companies must move quickly to make up for smaller competitors’ agility, but they also need to tackle big projects to compete with larger firms. Time, not money, is the most important resource for midsized firms.
Honor deadlines from the top down. Project management is worthless if the CEO disrespects deadlines. Make missing deadlines unacceptable at every level. Promote your best time-managers, and make the consequences of missing deadlines clear.
Ruthlessly cut projects until only critical ones remain. When a company tries to do too much with too few resources, projects inevitably end up late, mediocre, or unfinished.
Be transparent about a project’s status. In midsize companies, core projects affect every department since the business isn’t big. Leaders must keep team members informed about advances and setbacks, including missed deadlines, to assess the project’s overall progress.

Adapted by HBR from “ Midsize Companies Must Prioritize Ruthlessly” by Robert Sher.

My Twitter message to Ms MN Sharif

@nayyarahmad: @MaryamNSharif like India there should be statutory National Commission for Women in Pakistan, which is doing a yeoman’s job there.

Wake up ICC..!
Is it part of a grand match fixing going on in England?

In the 2nd ODI England got out for just 99 runs vs Sri Lanka.

In the 3rd ODI SL got out for just 67 runs in 24 overs which was overhauled by the England’s team in 12.1 overs.

This SL low score in an ODI is not even a score of a T20 match..!

This series looks a fishy affair to the whole world except the ICC.

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.”

Rachel Carson (1907-1964); Marine Biologist, Author

Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan failed getting into his varsity basketball team during sophomore year because he was clumsy and was only 5 feet 11 inches tall.
High school and college sports performances are what NBA recruiters look into when scouting for talent, but Jordan had failed right from the start.
So, he locked himself up in his room to cry.
But he tried out again the next year and got into the junior varsity team.
He practiced the game every day and grew taller by a few more inches until he honed his skills to an unbelievable level. Years later, he became the NBA’s most famous MVP and the greatest basketball player of all time.

Lucille Ball

Lucille was booted out of New York’s John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts for being too scared to perform. After that, she kept going back and forth New York as a fashion model and actress, getting fired from at least two stage productions.
She went to Hollywood, got a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but her best efforts got her only in B-movies.
Eventually, she found her way into radio then television, a new entertainment medium back in the 1940s and 1950s.
She and her husband Desi Arnaz launched the “I Love Lucy” show on CBS, which went on to become one of the longest-running TV shows in history, and making her a famous comedienne.

Steven Spielberg

As a dyslexic young man, Spielberg’s application to the University of Southern California’s School of Theater, Film, and Television was rejected thrice.
He went to California State University in Long Beach instead, but ended up dropping out of it anyway.
His directorial debut was “Sugarland Express”—praised by critics, but a box office failure.
Nevertheless, Spielberg forged ahead and was given the chance to film big-budgeted hits such as “Jaws,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “ET,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and “Jurassic Park.”
But the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Sciences snubbed him for years, and avoided giving him the Best Director award until 1993, when he made “Schindler’s List.”
From then on, he was recognized as an A-list Hollywood director and a major artistic force in film history.