A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field.
While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him.
As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was. The dung was actually thawing him out!
He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate.
Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.
Morals of the story:
(1) Not everyone who craps on you is your enemy.
(2) Not everyone who gets you out of crap is your friend.
(3) And when you’re in deep do do, it’s best to keep your mouth shut!
“Your gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face “. —–E. Roosevelt
“None will improve your lot if ou yourself do not”.————-Bertolt
) Think ahead. Establish policies before you need them. Doing so helps avert crises and awkward situations, and helps solve problems before they arise.
2) Determine what policies you need. Some you’ll want early in your business include a mission statement, as well as compensation, performance evaluation and employee policies.
3) Get input from key employees, as well as from members of your advisory board, your board of directors, and/or your professional advisors and consultants.
4) Communicate policies to everyone in your business.
5) Review policies on a regular basis—once a year, for example—and revise them as necessary.
How do you create this kind of a culture of appreciation?
1) Avoid awards that set people apart from each other, such as programs for the top sales person. Only one person can win this award, so only few will try. It also separates winners from losers. Instead have employees aim at beating their own sales from the previous month;
2) let employees set their own goals, help them understand how it helps the team and company, and acknowledge their contribution;
3) encourage employees to acknowledge others daily. Set up an informal network, like a newsletter or bulletin board where people can brag about their colleagues;
4) give employees the opportunity during meetings to talk about what they accomplished that week. In other words, let them brag about themselves;
5) recognize people for their strengths on more than specific projects or achievements. How does each individual’s strength contribute to the team as a whole?
6) make every employee aware of other’s strengths and give them a chance to learn from one another;
7) continually recognize the achievements of the group as a whole. Savor the feeling of achievement;
reinforce the value of the work itself. How employees function contributes to the community and their customers;
9) celebrate the vision of where the company is going and how the group, made up of the individuals in it, is helping get there;
10) design incentives to award departments as a whole, where everyone is awarded for the group’s accomplishments
Self knowledge and goals: In order to manage your time successfully, having an awareness of what your goals are will assist you in prioritizing your activities. Developing and maintaining a personal, flexible schedule: Time management provides you with the opportunity to create a schedule that works for you, not for others. This personal attention gives you the flexibility to include the things that are most important to you.
Once Akbar, the king heard from Birbal, his minister, that money is supreme for all over and a needy person can do anything for money. The kind didn’t aggreed and asked him to search for such a person. Birbal bring a man who was very poor and was aggreed to do any given task for money. The king asked the poor man to spend a cold night in the cold water pond. The man accept the order and completed the task successfully.
Next day he went to Akbar’s court to receive his money. The king asked him that how he managed to spend such cold night in water. The man told to the king that he saw a lamp post at some distance of the pond and he kept his attention on the heat of the lamp. In this way he spent the night. The king denied to give him reward saying that he sought the help of lamp for passing night.
Next day Birbal didn’t came to the court of the king. Somebody told Akbar that Birbal would come after eating Khichri (a salty dish of rice). After 3-4 hour when Birbal didn’t come the king decided to go his home. He found Birbal sitting near burning twigs with utensil filled with khichri very high from the fire.
Akabar told that how he could get the dish cooked when it is hanging at such a height. Then Birbal said “If a man can get heat from the distance of a small lamp then it is very easy getting the dish cooked. It doesn’t matter what is the distance between fire and utensil.” The king realized his mistake and gave reward to the man.
Moral: If you want to say something, that is difficult to express in words, the presentation is the best way to tell the same.
The manager is a position to handle all types of works directly or indirectly. The role also includes not only keeping control over subrdinates but help in performing job and completing any given task effectively without an error.
If there is a job that cannot be performed without the help or without indulging manager himself, he/she should not step backward, instead he/she must come forward and take initiative in this regard. While performing any job if any error occurs he/she must admit it bravely and should not look for any excuse to give. In this way the manager can set an example for others not only performing job efficiently but to build a trust among his/her employees.
You may be smarter than anyone, but you are not smarter than everyone. Seek input from the group, and LISTEN to it. You will be surprized at what you can learn.
An offer of an immediate unilateral ceasefire in the north by the beleaguered Tamil Tigers on Sunday was rejected by the Sri Lankan Government. The Media Centre for National Security in Colombo called the ceasefire announcement a gimmick.
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New Delhi, April 22
In a grim reminder of the violence during the first phase of Lok Sabha polls, Naxalites today, on the eve of the second round of voting tomorrow, tried to unleash a wave of terror in the states they are active in by hijacking a train carrying nearly 700 passengers in Jharkhand’s Latehar district, bombing a BDO’s office and killing a driver after setting ablaze several trucks in Bihar.
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