Mahatma Gandhi

“There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

No man in the historical backdrop of humankind has had an impact like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi did on human thought, standards and conduct. He was the most persuasive pioneer of the Indian opportunity battle heading numerous fights against the British Colonial guideline which inevitably proved to be fruitful with the freedom of India in 1947. Gandhi, was a pioneer who was made well known by his convictions and his routines, he engendered the utilization of peacefulness and satyagraha as a method for challenge. His strategies motivated an era of pioneer world over including illuminators, for example, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther ruler Jr. The father of India, Mahatma Gandhi, will dependably be recognized as one of the best pioneers ever motivating and persuading humankind for eras to come.

Extraordinary

What Gandhi accomplished in his life was a marvel. He existed in the hearts of a large number of Indians and was regarded by all. He laid incredible attention on banishing untouchability, advertising Hindu-Muslim solidarity, pushing writing proficiency and in the improvement of an extraordinary country —India. He moved the individuals with his earnestness and tribute. At his command, they were primed to set out their lives for the opportunity of the nation from remote forces. His name exists on. Considerably after such a long time, his standards, devotion and mission keep on inspiring the nation.

 

Motivating

The primary motivation behind why individuals are roused by Gandhiji is his reasoning of peacefulness. He utilized peacefulness to free India from British. His way of dressing demonstrates to us his unwillingness to utilize outside items. He generally advised the individuals to do their work on their own without relying upon others. He attempted to kill the underhandedness existing around then — untouchability. These are the reasons why I am enlivened by Gandhiji. Despite the fact that he is not with us today, his extraordinary platitudes and doings will continue rousing numerous individual.

 

Unprecedented will

Gandhiji has demonstrated to us generally accepted methods to live by setting a case. He was a standard man with an exceptional will to carry on with his life as indicated by the standards of truth and peacefulness. What he lectured he initially rehearsed.

 

Individuals emulated Mahatma Gandhi and regarded him on the grounds that:

- He headed a basic life

- He was caring to others

- He generally talked reality

- He battled the British and provided for us flexibility

 

Demonstrating by doing

Mahatma Gandhi's life itself is a reading material. He never asked anybody to do anything, yet demonstrated to everybody industry standards to do it. He is likewise a genuine good example for the new era since he was himself a perfect sample for all that he talked and taught. He moves in light of the fact that his life still shows the most excellent picture of adoration, peace, trustworthiness and truth.

In the right way

Look for reality and it will set you free. This was the standard of Gandhiji. The motivation behind why individuals emulated him is on account of every single activity of his was level headed and gainful to the normal man. Today we, Indians, as well as the entire world attempt to take after his reasoning.

Managing Intercultural communication

How to Manage Verbal Intercultural Communication Effectively

The global nature of today's business environment requires a whole new set of communication skills for effective intercultural business communication. Ineffective intercultural communication can cost companies money and cause hard feelings among staff but a few simple techniques can fine-tune communication skills for the global audience

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Assess the language knowledge of your audience, if possible, and plan accordingly. People who don't speak the language will obviously need interpreters.

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Use simple words and avoid jargon as much as possible. Big words require more translation and usually involve a complex sentence structure, which can confuse non-native speakers. Intercultural communication is about being understood so keep it simple.

 

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Repeat key concepts using different words to allow for different levels of vocabulary knowledge and increased comprehension. The first time something is said, non-native speakers translate it; the second time, they verify their translation is correct; the third time, they actually internalize the message. This is not to say that you should repeat things ad nauseam but you should attempt to work in multiple reviews of important information.

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Create visual aids for presentations and include text emphasizing the main idea. Communication is enhanced when you use a variety of methods to reach an audience. Text and pictures give non-native speakers another way to absorb the message beyond listening. If possible, give audience members copies of the visual aids so they can make notes and follow along.

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Be clear and specific. Don't assume. Assign tasks or projects to specific individuals along with due dates. Productive intercultural business communication avoids ambiguity.

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Speak slowly and enunciate. Remember, your audience has to translate everything you say, which means they will always lag a few seconds behind; thus, good intercultural business communication allows for a translation time delay.

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Check with the audience frequently to be sure there are no questions and that everyone is following the message. Encourage questions or an upraised hand when clarification is needed.

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Follow up all verbal communication with written confirmation. This is especially true for action items. Putting things in writing allows non-native speakers to sit down with a language dictionary and digest information at their own pace. It also avoids confusion about who is responsible for what or what needs to be done as the next step.

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Open meetings with a greeting in the participants' native language. Showing respect for someone's culture predisposes them to be open to your message. Effective intercultural communication establishes a tone of respect and uses culture as a bridge to build positive working relationships.

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Know what is considered rude and polite in other cultures. For example, presenting business cards with both hands and a shallow bow is considered polite in Asian cultures. This is obviously a great contrast to Americans, who sometimes even casually scoot business cards down the conference table to avoid getting up.

 

please have look at the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSt_op3fQck  :)

Long Walk To Freedom - "Lessons From Nelson Mandela Leadership "

As the world celebrates the life and legacy of former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Nelson Mandela, we in the business community should take a moment to consider three powerful lessons we can distill from his leadership that are relevant for leaders at every level, particularly those young people who currently populate our business schools, who aspire to lead well and create lasting value in the world.

Leadership is behavioural, not positional
Though he only served as South Africa’s president for five years, Nelson Mandela is a classic case study of how one can lead without formal authority. Over the 27 years he was imprisoned, he exerted influence. Over his five-year presidency, he exerted influence. In the decade and a half following his retirement from politics, Mandela’s influence grew as a global humanitarian and philanthropist. Admittedly, his influence was enlarged by virtue of the presidency, but positions and titles don’t define great leaders, great leaders define and leverage the power of their positions to have a positive impact.

The capacity to integrate, motivate, and mobilize others to bring a common aspiration to life is what leadership is all about, not holding positions of formal authority. This simple truth gives hope to the up-and-coming millennial generation that leadership isn’t an activity relegated to the seemingly distant c-suite; good can be done at every stage of one’s career. It can serve to reignite the passion of the mid-career professional – somebody is watching, learning from, and emulating your example, regardless of who recognizes (or ignores) your contributions. At the same time, Mandela’s example also gives renewed purpose to the well-seasoned senior executive that retirement is nothing to be afraid of. There is unique purpose and meaning in every season of one’s life – embrace each season and lead where you are.

Choose collaboration over retaliation
It has been said that in the face of danger, people instinctively respond with “fight or flight.” Similarly, in the face of conflict, many leaders in organizations develop an almost instinctive default response – they choose to either collaborate or retaliate. No doubt, retaliating against one’s opponents can be a gratifying primal reaction, but in the increasingly networked global marketplace, it is a short-sighted, losing strategy. Alienating potential partners hamstrings collective progress. Retaliation deepens divides; collaboration heals them. Retaliation perpetuates ignorance; collaboration promotes learning and progress. The instinct to collaborate is a hallmark of effective 21st century leadership; it is an instinct with which Mandela operated.
Mandela honed his collaborative instinct before becoming South Africa’s first black president, assembling a multiracial, mixed-gendered leadership team to combat apartheid as head of the African National Congress. Like most great leaders, Mandela knew how to listen and leverage the insights of others. He also understood the power of courageously choosing to forgive those who have wronged you and humbly seeking reconciliation with those you (and your organization) have wronged. Research and experience show that the collaboration instinct changes nations, revolutionizes markets, enhances organizations, and ultimately enriches lives.

Never give up on seemingly impossible ideals
Was a South Africa free of apartheid impossible or an aspiration worthy of one’s commitment? Mandela is widely quoted as saying that “it always seems impossible until it’s done.”  His perseverance in the face of inhumane persecution shows us that the seemingly impossible will remain impossible if men and women of purpose fail to summon the courage to do what’s right.

In our own organizations are seemingly impossible aspirations discounted as unrealistic and naïve? Accomplishing anything worth talking about or remembering will involve opposition and setback, which is why big ideas die in organizations every day.
Cultivating an organization that stands for and embodies grand ideals is worth fighting for. Growing a team that does the right thing when nobody is watching is worth fighting for. Let’s be truthful, the mundane realities of every-day organizational leadership can dull the hunger for the grand aspirations that can motivate breakthrough innovations that transform sectors and societies. But if Mandela teaches us anything, it’s to commit our lives and our practice of leadership to pushing for the seemingly impossible.
Business school equips managers to have the right strategies, frameworks, tactics, and tools. But far too many leave b-school thinking that leadership is about a title and a corner office instead of the daily practice of catalysing good. Still too many lack the courage to fight for what’s right when met with personal inconvenience. If President Mandela’s memorial service was any indication, the greatness of your leadership will be measured not in dollars and cents, but in lives impacted for good. Mandela created lasting value; so must we.

 

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ9KlXCkb2s
please have a look at his speech after he became president on 10.May.1996

"The Charamastic Legend-Benazir Bhutto"

"LEADERS ARE BORN NOT MADE"

Benazir Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim country. She was Pakistan’s hope for true democracy, she had determination and vision to succeed and effects of her personality can easily be seen in her government term. Pakistan advanced very rapidly in very short time. However, conditions in Pakistan were not easy. Even though Benazir succeeded many, she had to deal with the great opposition that came from past and even now it continues.
Benazir Bhutto was born in Karachi, on 21 June 1953. In the age of 16, she left Pakistan to study at Harvard’s Radcliffe College. After completing her study at Radcliffe, she studied at Oxford University and graduated in 1977. After graduating from Oxford, she came back to her homeland, where her father, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, was recently elected as the prime minister. However, military detained the power and Ali Bhutto was imprisoned. In 1979, General Zia-ul Haq’s military government executed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto( father).
During military coup, Benazir was arrested many times and captivated for three years. After her imprisonment, she was allowed to leave the country and she went to live in London. She found an underground resistance to military dictatorship according to the Achievement web site. When her brother died in 1985, she returned to Pakistan to bury her brother, but again got arrested for anarchistic conventions. After her release, she returned to London. In the following months, martial law was dismissed at the end of the year, and Benazir returned to Pakistan safely. Achievement web site points out that Benazir joined anti-Zia protests and called resignation of Zia Ul-Haq. In 1988, free elections were held and as co-chairwoman of Pakistan People’s Party, she became Prime Minister at the age of 35 and she was the first woman to work as a prime minister in an Islamic country.
Despite all, in two years, as stated in website Achievement, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismissed Bhutto from office because of the charges of corruptions. Although Benazir Bhutto was terminated from the office, she was re-elected as Prime Minister in 1993. While in her duty, she brought electricity to countryside and constructed many schools all over the country. She dealt with starvation, housing and health care and worked to modernize Pakistan.
However, Bhutto was dismissed from office by President Leghari of Pakistan, being accused of poor management and corruption. After forcible transfer from the office, Bhutto’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari was arrested, re-election campaign for Bhutto failed, and the military established the downfall of the next government of Nawaz Sharif. Benazir Bhutto had to leave the country for once again and she went to London to live in exile as the Achievement web site points out.
In 2007, despite the threat of Islamic extremists and the hostile government, Benazir decided to return to her homeland. She was welcomed with crowds, however her convoy was attacked. Although the attack failed on Bhutto, over hundreds of people died in the attack. In the elections in 2008, PPP (Pakistan People’s Party) chose Benazir Bhutto for elections, to be a prime minister candidate. However, in an election campaign in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, she was attacked again and unfortunately she was not lucky this time as before, this suicide attack has ended Benazir’s painful life.
In the book Benazir, l’envers du voile, Laurence Gourret states that President Leghari who dismissed Bhutto from the office expressed that the guiltiest person was Benazir’s husband (Gourret, 203); she and her husband together, consumed the resources of country, got richer every day and she was trying to overcome the Islamic Law. In the same book, it is argued that Zulfiqar Ali had chosen her as his successor in politics when she was only a teen (Gourret, 39).

 She is just a place holder for his father and her leadership is not adequate for Pakistan. These main points of opposition in Pakistan may be considered exaggerated and untrue. However, she faced great problems in her leadership period and she could not handle many problems; she should have been able to deal with her problems; instead of running away from the country in 1996. Also, Benazir Bhutto knew the situation better than everyone else and maybe she could have reconsidered being pregnant at that time, for the good of the country. As mentioned in the previous parts, her pregnancy caused opposition to act against her government.

Additionally, trying to get and win elections for the third time can be considered as a failure. Because, when she decided to leave Pakistan, she should have abandoned her political career there. She had great opposition from Al-Qaeda and mullahs, and they had threatened her for to not come back to country again. 11 years had passed and obviously nothing had changed; she was still not wanted by opposition. It would be better for anyone new to be elected from PPP as stated before in the De-democratization part; someone younger and who did not create hatred against himself/herself. Shortly, returning to Pakistan after 11 years was clearly a mistake, but a sign of true vision and determination to accomplish things she believes.    

    Although all the accusations and mistakes stated, she did great things to her country, in the means of improvement; she opened many schools, brought technology, gave many rights back to women and made roads. She may not be a great leader, but she is definitely a good one. She had very strong determination as it can be seen his life and her decisions. Also she had vision, she knew that Pakistan must advance, she brought many technologies and provided many opportunities to her people, which any military coup before her could not. Considering the political turbulence in Pakistan and the strict rules of Islamic government before her, what she has at least “tried” to accomplish can also be accepted as a success in itself.
 
Her heroic struggle to establish democratic institutions will continue to be cherished by the Pakistani people. It is even more astounding how a woman could have so much effect on Pakistan’s political, cultural, and social life in an extremely conservative male-dominated society. You need courage to stand up for your convictions, boldness to tackle enormous political and economic problems head-on, and fearlessness to answer your unreasonable and rapid critics.

 

'Awakening of the Manadate"

Here comes the" Modi Lehar ", All that started a year back reached its final destination today to the most prestigious and powerful position of Prime Minister of the country. The man we defined above is none other than the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

He has become the nation’s darling by virtue of his qualities and splendid achievements. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is also a great administrator and an equally great orator. He possesses all the qualities a true leader and a man of the masses needs to possess. He is a man with a vision and innovation. He is able to recognise merit and talent. He is not narrow-minded and is a selfless man. He induces those who work with him to respect the cardinal principles of governance so that the people feel that they are an integral part of the system.

He is honest to the core. He has no personal axe to grind and remains aloof from his relatives. He has a good old and compassionate mother, but he doesn’t live with her, not because he doesn’t want to, but because he has many things to do for his State, his society and his nation. At the same time, he takes complete care of his mother like an obedient, caring and indebted son.

 

What Made Him Win:

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  Social Media :Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Youtube, Tumblr, Pinterest, Flickr, Ipad/Iphone/Android applications you name it and Narendra Modi is there! On Twitter, Modi has 3.97 million followers, a swooping 8 digit number, which hardly any politician has ever achieved. The website created for him; www.narendramodi.in is enticing as it provides eye-catching facts and graphics. The most interesting part is that you can actually hear Narendra Modi's rallies in your own native language 

• TV/Newspaper Advertisements:
  Who doesn’t know about catchy phrase “Ab ki bar, Modi Sarkaar”? we have heard it about a million times now, playing between almost all our favourite TV shows. The newspapers will suddenly start to look different as no more will a page long advertisement of Modi will be flashing in our eyes. And with all these attempts of propaganda, modi has in fact stolen the limelight of every other national news reported.
  It seems that the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate has left no stone unturned, no propaganda medium unexploited. We are just a day away from finding out whether all this effort will pay off. In this Lok Sabha elections time period, Modi has made many followers and many critics too, but one cannot deny the enticing flavour of propaganda that he has brought in this election season.  
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  A political twist to the scandalous Koffee with Karan, the Chai pe Charcha was another medium used to propagate the Modi views. Modi conducted discussions with people at a tea stall through satellite, DTH, Internet and mobile. This was yet another promising and innovative campaign making the most of his roots as a chaiwallah. 

 

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  Bharatiya Janata Party carried out the usual election rallies with a professional twist. event management companies, advertisement firms were all brought in to make the campaigns more creative and impactful. They were organised like a corporate event with the party employing all the tools to reach out to the voters.  He is known to have held 437 rallies, 5827 events, covering almost 3 lakh kilometres.  
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  Keeping up with the technology, Modi started a new trend; '3D Hologram Rallies'. According to their website this allows him to hold a 100 rallies simultaneously. He appeared in his holographic avatar in over a 1000 rallies. The innovative efforts being made to attract voters, stirred an excitement amongst the masses. 

• The strong point of this strategy is that it gets Modi national coverage. If he attacks Sonia Gandhi's trips abroad and Robert Vadra's cozy deals and Pakistan's terrorism, he is assured some space on the front pages of newspapers across India, not just Gujarat. And he is also assured valuable time on the news channels, which is denied to chief ministers who purely talk about local things, for instance Shivraj Chauhan. His skill in packaging this material is such that it is inevitably entertaining and interesting, ensuring continued coverage. The other strength of this strategy is that other leaders from Gujarat, say the Congress state leaders, are crowded out and have to fight for media space to talk about their issues.

Mr. Modi speaks genuinely from his heart. Unlike many other pretentious Indian politicians, the sincerity in NaMo's speeches is rather evident from his affirmative body language with his face always being in a relaxed state. Some entrepreneurs and American firms have praised NaMo for his honest and transparent governance. Gujarat is flourishing economically since many policies were implemented in cooperation with American companies.  Mr Modi has consistently tried to innovate during his governance in Gujarat. The building of Mahatma Mandir and development of  'Dholera IR' are some brilliant examples of it. Moreover, he also ideated the hi-tech 3D extravaganza campaign in 2012. It drew great flak from the opposition (for the huge costs involved), but, well it proves that NaMo is constantly willing to transform the conventional.

As a leader it is extremely significant to take notice of your team members' opinions and also be accessible to everyone. Modi is very expressive on social media and his streams are updated very frequently. He makes it a point to talk on all issues concerning India and celebrate days of national importance. No wonder he has a whooping a number of 6.4millions fans on Facebook and over 2.8 million twitter followers. He is amongst the few to have conducted Google hangouts for connecting with more and more people. And, he also boasts the Narendra Modi android mobile application. NaMo gives you a chance to connect with him on the go - anyplace, anytime.

 

Lets See what he will deliver as "The Leader Of The Nation":)