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Are You Ready for Executive Coaching?

Until you decide to commit to changing the way you lead wholeheartedly, no coach can help. Before you put your faith (and a huge financial commitment) in a coach, be sure you’re prepared to get the most out of it:
Decide if you want a cheerleader or a coach. Many coaches know that they can build lucrative client bases by acting like Little League coaches: Everything evokes a “good job!” But automatic praise is useless. An ethical coach doesn’t bring pom-poms to meetings with clients, so hire carefully to meet your needs.
Remember that a critique is not a personal attack. It’s easy to feel stung by constructive feedback, but no competent coach would gratuitously put you down. Accept that any and all advice from your coach is intended to be helpful, not hurtful—even if it smarts.

Adapted by HBR from “Get the Most Out of Executive Coaching,” by Steven Berglas.

Pakistan defeat comprehensively within 4 days, South Africa, the world number one ranking team, in the world of Test cricket.

Pakistan is #1

Pakistan Paindabad.

Pakistanis are a true sports loving people. Nothing unites the nation more than the news of an international level victory in any sporting arena. I am greatly surprised about the fact, that why our successive governments failed to channelise the energy of our youth, towards the various traditional and non traditional sports, to lure them away from the engulfing culture of drugs and related crimes.

If, we have to put the sports in Pakistan back on the right track, two basic things are necessary. Firstly, a vision and secondly, visionary leaders, to put Pakistan back on top, at the worlds’ sports map.

As far as, the vision is concerned, nothing ever said about sports can match the following quote of Mr. Nelson Mandela, “Sport has the power to change the world…it has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than government in breaking down racial barriers.”

Attention Mr. Ahsan Iqbal, who wants to outsource Pakistan’s Vision 2025 planning job to a foreign consultant.

Vision is the ability to think ahead with imagination or wisdom.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”

John Lubbock (1834-1913);
Biologist, politician

Whether Pakistan wins or lose the first Test against the South Africans, Azhar Ali has no place in the team for the 2nd Test.

Ahmad Shahzad must replace him, under all circumstances.

Pakistan cricket team chasing a target of 40 runs is playing like as if, the target is 400 runs..!

A real statesman like statement by the Indian National Security Advisor

Not talking to Pakistan hasn’t changed behaviour of our enemies: Menon

By Web DeskPublished: October 16, 2013

As talks between Pakistan and India remain suspended, Indian National Security Adviser (NSA) Shivshankar Menon critiqued his country’s policy of not talking to its Western neighbour, saying it has not changed the attitude of India’s enemies, Times of India reported on Wednesday.
“Our Pakistan policy still faces the dilemmas that Patel’s generation faced: of how to prevent the enemies of India from having their way. Patel’s answer was clear, as you saw from his Amritsar speech: fight your enemies at a time and place of your choosing but do not make innocents, the people, (or refugees in that specific case), victims of your policy.”
Menon’s statement, referring to Sardar Vallabhai Patel, was in response to Indian External Affairs minister Salman Khurshid’s comments over the weekend. Khurshid had said that there was no dialogue with Pakistan at the moment.
Menon further criticised some former diplomats who had urged prime minister Manmohan Singh not to meet with Nawaz Sharif in New York.
“When 40 self-styled experts and some political groups say do not talk to Pakistan until ideal conditions exist and all terrorism stops it betrays a lack of self-confidence. That is precisely what the terrorists and their sponsors in the Pakistani establishment want, for us not to talk to those in Pakistan who might differ from them.”
India’s NSA added that using the avenue of talks to punish Pakistan, has not yielded the desired results.
“Not talking does not change the behaviour of our enemies. In fact it hands them a success that only encourages them. At the very least talking to the saner elements in Pakistan could encourage them to stand for the right policies and could create confusion among our enemies,” he added.
Talking about Patel, Menon said Indians should build their internal strength to be able to deal with the world more ably.
“That was his [Sardar Vallabhai Patel] core message, which it was from strength that one had to negotiate, not just talk, about the issues. But at the same time, as his own example shows, he did not wait for ideal situations and conditions in order to engage.”

An Excerpt from Own Your Dreams by John C. Maxwell

If you are unsure of what your dream might be—either because you are afraid to dream or because you somehow lost your dream along the way—then start preparing yourself to receive your dream by doing five things to put yourself in the best possible position to receive a dream.

Once you do these five things, focus on discovering your dream. As you do, keep this in mind: ‘A dream is what you desire if anything and everything is possible.’

1. Mental Preparation: Read and study in areas of your greatest interest.
2. Experiential Preparation: Engage in activities in areas related to your interests.
3. Visual Preparation: Put up pictures of people and things that inspire you.
4. Hero Preparation: Read about and try to meet people you admire and who inspire you.
5. Physical preparation: Get your body in optimal shape to pursue your dream.

Don’t Put Off Tough Decisions

When it comes to organizational change, making big decisions is cognitively and emotionally taxing. But when team leaders fail to decide which old directions need to be sacrificed in service of the new direction, the tradeoff doesn’t magically disappear – it simply slides down the ladder. Trickle-down tradeoffs create two major problems for change efforts:
Team misalignment: When a team leader avoids the discomfort of deciding priorities, each team member has to decide what her priorities are – and it’s highly unlikely that everyone will independently arrive at the same conclusions.
Poor judgment: Making tradeoffs depletes our overall mental capacity. When your team has to spend a long morning making the tradeoffs that leaders haven’t, it easily leads to long afternoons of making poor choices for their customers, their workloads, and their budgets.

Adapted by HBR from “To Move Ahead You Have to Know What to Leave Behind,” by Nick Tasler.

Now the 1st cricket Test match between Pakistan and South Africa, currently being played at Dubai, is just an affair of 6 balls.