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True-Beauty is a truly beautiful or pleasing thing or person.

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (born 1926);
Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, peace activist

3 Ways to Support a Growth Initiative

All too often senior leaders see managing today’s earnings as their main job and don’t spend enough time on the pursuit of long-term growth. It’s important for all executives to nurture “internal start-ups,” clusters within the organization that help deliver both earnings and growth. Here’s how:

Create the conditions.

Make earnings and growth equally important top priorities. Work to remove cultural impediments such as risk aversion and the notion that any kind of failure is bad.

Choose the right team leaders.

Assign your best, most experienced general managers to lead growth initiatives. They have the necessary internal networks and understand the company’s values and culture.

Fund the ventures.

Create funds for financing new ventures separate from the company’s annual budget process. Tie funding to milestones with realistic time frames.

Adapted by HBR from “Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative,” by Donald L. Laurie and J. Bruce Harreld.

Indian democracy and civilian rule is a facade, which means a superficial appearance or illusion of something.

Forget about any chances of genuine and lasting peace between India and Pakistan, till such time Indian Military establishment has a vice like grip, over Indian government and media.

They even didn’t spare the captain of Pakistan’s blind cricket team and offered poison as drink to Zeeshan Abbasi. Latest example is the vandalising of Pakistani art exhibition in Ahmedabad.

For Pakistan, it’s a sheer waste of time and energy, chasing the mirage of peace with India.

I predict no war – no peace situation will continue till eternity, between India and Pakistan.

Take it or leave it.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Honore de Balzac
French realist novelist (1799 – 1850)

“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; from discord find harmony; in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

— Albert Einstein

“Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.”

Chilon of Sparta –
Philosopher

Find Your Authentic Self

No one likes to work with someone who is a fake. For people to trust that you’re being genuine, they need to know where you stand. Here are two ways to be sure you’re being true to yourself and connecting with others:

Have a point of view.

Know your stances on major work issues and be open and willing to engage in conversations about them. To have leadership presence, others need and want to know where you stand — they don’t want to have to guess or be blindsided midstream.

Be transparent about your position.

Know the difference between navigating the political waters of your organization and actually becoming the politics itself. Get support for your initiatives but be clear about what you are doing, why you are doing it, and how you are doing it.

Adapted by HBR from “To Be Authentic, Look Beyond Yourself,” by Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins.

Explain Why You’re Making a Career Move

Your decision to shift careers is often hard to translate to others. People may question whether it’s too risky to leave your current company or if you’re really qualified to enter a new field. But you can address the skepticism of potential employers, colleagues, and others by doing these three things:

Connect the dots. Make it clear you’re not starting from scratch. Link the skills you used in your previous roles to what you’ll be doing in the future.

Tell a story. Create a coherent narrative of your career trajectory. People will understand more easily if they see the move as a logical extension of the past, rather than a rupture.

Focus on the value you bring to others. People sometimes view career transitions as a sign of narcissism or a midlife crisis. Don’t reinforce that by making it all about you. Instead, focus on the value you bring to the new position.

Adapted by HBR from “How to Explain Your Career Transition,” by Dorie Clark.

If You Want to Lead, Start Now

To become a leader, don’t wait for the fancy title or the corner office. Here are three things you can do now, even if someone else is calling the shots:

Demonstrate your potential.

Raise your hand for new initiatives, especially ones that might be visible to those outside your unit. Look for opportunities outside of work, too. You can sit on the board of a local nonprofit or organize a volunteers’ event in your community.

Support your boss in reaching her goals.

Find out what keeps your manager up at night and propose solutions to those problems.

Find role models.

Look for people who have the roles you want and study how they act, communicate, and dress. Identify behaviors that you can emulate while being true to yourself.

Adapted by HBR from “Act Like a Leader Before You Are One,” by Amy Gallo.