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“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.”

— Morris West

Motivation is the reason one has for behaving a certain way.

It is very strange why the ball is not kicking up and turning sharply for the world famous Pakistani spinners as it was doing for Imran Tahir, the SA spin bowler?

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”

Nido Qubein (born 1948);
Businessman, motivational speaker, educator

When our umpires commit a mistake it’s a cheating and when Western umpires cheat, its a human error…. Ian Gould.. How can we ever forget your giving not out out to GC Smith, on a plumb LBW appeal, by Saeed Ajmal?

Missile shield for Pakistan….

If Turkey can get missile shield from China and India from Israel, why not Pakistan should also purchase a missile shield from China?

Today in the 2nd Test match at Dubai against South Africa, the Pakistani batsmen are not playing bad. Rather, they are on a harakiri mission.

Build the Right Team Behaviors

Even though most management systems focus on individual performance, it’s critical to reward and recognize your team collectively. As a team manager, support the right group behaviors by:
Encouraging collaboration. Talk about your people as a team, not as a set of individuals. Instead of talking about individuals’ contributions, praise the common behaviors that contribute to the team’s overall success.
Evaluating team performance. Every six months or so, take a close look at the group’s progress. Don’t mention individuals in this appraisal but focus on what the team has done—and can do—together.
Using rewards. If you are able, tie a portion of your organization’s discretionary compensation to team performance. If you don’t control the purse strings, try recognizing your team’s hard work in a public way—through a departmental email or even displaying their picture in a common space—or giving them exposure to senior leaders.

Adapted by HBR from “How to Reward Your Stellar Team,” by Amy Gallo.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Dale Carnegie

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Dale Carnegie