Fragments of life through one person's eye

Once more a foreigner

2010-04-24T09:22:00.000+04:00

I wanna go home. And this desire, and longing is becoming so intense as the moments pass that it's leaving a burning hole in me. But...I can't be home. Home is thousand miles away from where I am, even then I'm not sure if it is my home any more. I left Dubai with a strong headedness so travelling and settling abroad. However, my fate missunderstood me and brought me to this place where I am right now.

My entire life I have been treated as an expat, a foreigner, at my home. It hurted to be called that because it made me realize that I didn't belong there. Now that I am in the country of my passport, I'm an outsider once more; not that it hurts as I don't belong from here.

Though now I am seriously starting to question exactly where is it in the world that I belong to? Where's my home?

Guess for now it suffices to say the answer is: NOWHERE!

Learning new language: German

2009-11-17T08:27:00.002+04:00

I've been having free-time at my hands lately and thank goodness broadband connection (which given my current situation is truly a good thing). Anyhow, for some time now, to be honest since the past 7 months, I’ve had been really interested in learning German. Why – because I fantasized of perhaps working for few months in Germany and visiting Demark, Austria, and Switzerland, where mostly people understood and spoke German, whilst there. Here’s a neat software for downloading called Before You Know It or BYTI which can give you a heads-start on grasping at least a few basics i.e. if you download free version of it.

A day’s achievement so far: know my days of the week and numbers in German. Target for today: learning the quick start list.

Guten Tag! Also-bis bald! (Good day! Bye for now!)

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2009-05-12T10:34:00.001+04:00

I know you are hurt I can’t make it stop
You ask me for a reason even if a drop
Your hands trembling, your feet are cold
Every tear flowing like a piece of gold
Your cheeks flushing with watery eyes you look
I wish to hold you tight without a doubt
An angle you are made with purest love
Know this my sweet, for I would give
All that it takes to write your fate again
To be your strength, to give you joy and grin
Through the darkest hour of night you’re passing
Know this my sweet, the dawn will soon be approaching

When you tell me!

2009-03-31T17:57:00.001+04:00

When you are telling me its alright,
dont be scared, it's alright.
Suddenly my fear is gone,
I feel myself high n strong,
I fly with no wings,
I have lost and yet I win,
...when you tell me its alright!

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2009-03-31T16:54:00.000+04:00

if you know how much I love you,
if you that I care just for you.
you're in my thoughts awake or sleep,
you're in my life near or far,
your resonating voice echoes,
your sweet smile is carried by the winds.

and if you know how much I love you,
you'd know your touch is what I long for,
your smell still lingers in the sheets,
your beauty still glows the room,
your teasing whispers,
and your soft caress,
your deep long kiss,
and your shining eyes,
make me miss you more everyday,
makes me fall in love all over again!

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2009-03-30T10:26:00.002+04:00

I am falling to pieces,
got no wings to fly away,
and all my hopes, and strengths are washed away,
there's nothing left to build from.
Leave me alone,
I don't need your piety,
I don't need your care,
even if my soul falls apart I will not despair.
Just leave me alone!

Transit!

2009-03-01T21:04:00.001+04:00

never experienced a transit flight
nor a wait or a delay
yet here i'm with my bags all packed and not knowing my way
is my life on wait?
or do i catch the next flight?
or will it be turning to a new destination?
my hearts a mess filled with hesitation
my love lost in the mist of betray
the guiding light is gone
along with moonlight and glow
my tears of pain wouldn't stop flow
I sit alone asking fate
where is my love?
where is my way?
who robbed my heart of glow?
.... & wondering when i'll be through this transit..!

...dream of a man who's mine

2009-03-01T21:02:00.001+04:00

If I could have a dream come true,
I would dream of a man who's mine all the way through,
he would hold me hand with no care of world,
he would treasure my smile like gold,
he would say he loves me because he does,
not for motive or lust,
he would steal my heart and keep with care,
never let it rust or break or tear,
if apart we would connect through love,
he would make me cry only because of joy,
or cry with me if i were sad.

And if i can't dream of a man who's mine,
I would only wish to find the one who's mine,
I wish if he had to leave he won't break my heart,
he won't show me dreams just to say they aren't true,
and he won't make me stop believing in love.

A day without you

2007-05-22T21:25:00.002+04:00

A day without you is like a century
A century without a drop of water
A century robbed of all laughter
Where the sun is never bright
Neither the stars seem to shine
Where there is neither color
Nor fragrance to make everything right

A day without you my love,
Is like a test so enduring
Like a heart cut and left for bleeding
Like pain with no end or beginning
Like tears dried on their wayA day without you is not a day.

I miss you much!

2007-05-22T21:14:00.001+04:00

The dark curtain has fallen again
The moon is shy, the twinkle going to hide
And in the darkness, I hear your whispers
I see your smile, I feel your touch
Like the dew drop sliding on the petal of rose
Or the wind blowing gently on the ocean course

Sweet dreams my love, I miss you much.

Don't stop me

2007-05-03T21:39:00.001+04:00

Give me all your tears,
Give me all the fears,
Give me all the pain of world
If that’s not all, then don’t stop.
Just let me go toward my dream
And it will be all that I need.

Forget me if you will
Hate me all that you want
Don’t even give me an ounce of love
Don’t even give me anther look
Please don’t stop me from my dream
Because that is all I got

If you want I will forget all pain
If you want I will never complain
But don’t stop my dream
Or my heart will scream

Through the thicks I survived
Through all vain I have lived by
On a pursuit I have been
With a hope and a grin
Now that I am so close
Why do you keep your heart close?
Midway a long road I am
Midway a long goal I am
So please don’t stop me
Because this is all I got!!

Just be true!

2007-04-28T20:03:00.001+04:00

If there’s a secret you, I hope it’s not true,

If you never loved me, I wish it’s not true!

It’s not true!!

Because your love makes me strong and bold,

Your touch lights up my very soul

Your kiss takes me to a magical place away
And if all that is just not true, I won’t know what to believe in next,
If that’s not true, then I am sure that it is true,
That there’s no love for me at all.

Here I am given all my love and self to you
Here I am wishing upon every wish for you
And here I am dreaming just of you
If you not true baby, then you are not true
And I don’t know now to believe in dreams again.

A fantasy I never thought I had in me,
A place away from reality I go with you.
And then you tell me that everything is true
Then you tell me that ever word of yours is true
I believe in you I believe in everyone else
I see your kindness, I see your sweetness
I’m amazed by your gentle heart.
Now if you not true, then you not true
Nor is everyone else in this world I know.

When I feel scared you hold my hands
When I would cry, you would hold me close,
When I would jump with joy, you would jump along
When the night would spread, and the storm alive,
You would whisper, ‘Honey, I’m with you’.
Now, if you not true, oh baby, if you not true,
I have only fear to fear, and lifetime of loneliness

If you not true baby! If you not true
I don’t know how to dry my tears away
I don’t know how to smile again
I don’t know how to live again
And I really don’t know what to say again.

Because … if you not true…
… my life will end again
You bought the joy, you bought the smile
You make me believe, you make me go,
You showed me the other end
You told me to be myself
Now every night I long for you
Now every night I love you more
Please baby just… be true!!!
Just be True!!

No clue

2007-03-28T14:43:00.000+04:00

My frustrations are not baseless
My expectations are not hopeless
The mystry is known by exploration
Even admission or declaration
The first ray of light originating life
The first wrong ending in crime

You say you know me
Like a rose stripped of its petals
Or a riddle void of clues
You say you understand me
Like the stanzas of the poets
And patterns of ocean
My word you know not
My light you forgot
And if thats not true
Why is there a mystry with no clue?

Misunderstood

2007-03-28T14:05:00.000+04:00

When life offers roses,
The thorns prick me
When life offers me sunshine
Darkness covers me
When life offer my joy
Tears fill my very soul
When life offers love
Betrayal befriends me
Take my pain just this once
Lend me a hand and a glance
Seriously misunderstood by life
And the essance of life

Things they don't teach you in the school of business

2007-03-06T15:01:00.005+04:00

Okay, my experience in the business world is limited and I may not be fully aware of things taught by all top-notch business schools around the world. So what I write here is purely from my own personal experience or lessons shared with me from my friends and people I have met during my work experience.

Lesson 1: Unclear roles - Live with it!
In a perfect world you would start your very first day at your very first job, with an Job Description already emailed to you and a exact plan of your first day and the months ahead. In this perfect world you would have a mentor at work or a boss who will always be there to help you and answer your questions. If ever you felt overwhelmed or lost or confused you would have someone to talk to. Guess what? Perfect world or workplaces are rare occurance. Don't be shocked if you have no clue of your role, or if no one seems to care if you are lost or you got a zillion questions swamping your mind. at the end, you have to act like a professional and live with it. The business world is competitive and if you dont catch up someone else will. a moment of doubt or a moment of panic from your side, and it will only take seconds for tables to turn. remember, you will be tested on major assignments or even a minor task like making a hotel reservation. and unlike unversity where to get to drop the worst quiz score, everything counts.

Lesson 2: Take the initiative
my very first assignment on my full-time job was to sort the bsuiness cards of my boss. my project list increased from my second month onwards. how? because i took the initiative. the trick with initiation is that you should keep your eyes, ears, and mind open all the time. if there is an opportunity that can benefit your department or the business functions, regardless of its size, seize it! make that recommendation to your boss, even if he rejects it. and take my word for it - of all the ideas or suggestions you put forward only 2-5% of them will be accepted. but the game doesn't end here. your boss might have an idea for a project but no specific action plan, take the first step and volunteer to devote your time to it, even if you are clueless. This shows your eagerness to learn, your professionalism, your determination to succeed, and lets not forget your initiaion. however, the last impression that this will leave on your boss mind is - "Hey I can depend on this person."

Lesson 3: Objectivity please!!!
I learnt this lesson the hard way. here's the lesson: never ever, and i mean ever times inifinity, show your emotions; always stay objective. a project may drain you physically and emotionally. Stay calm! you may end up tearing away all the hair on your head. Stay calm! you want to scream and talk your heart out to anyone. Stay calm! Why? because at the end of the day its only work. and take my word on this - your boss will tell you the exact same thing, "Its only work. nothing to get upset over." remember, this is also a test of your endurance. you are new at your job and your boss and the top management don't know you. they dont know if you have the ability and willingness to go that extra mile and live up to the responsibilities of senior positions. so in the end it is a test that you have to pass and go through. you cannot let your emotions control you. and if you ever feel this happening take a break: go for a walk, have a cup of coffee.

Lesson 4: Self-Reflection
The above brings us to the next lesson: Self Reflection. I am still trying to master this. But its a lesson a friend of mine shared with me. What he says is that you have to act like a professional at all time and with everyone regardless of their position or level in the organization. Every time you work on a project, make a presentation, write a report, talk to clients, are in a difficult situation, or merely talking to a colleague. Step back, think about what happened, what did you do right or wrong, and how could you have made the situation end in best possible way. This exercise will not only help you realize your strong points but also you weak areas. remember the idea is to be the best at your position and be the star of your department. and this exercise will help you achieve that.

Lesson 5: What is the purpose?
Every business communication starts with the purpose in mind. This is the most stressed on point and dont be surprised if your boss cuts you to ask you 'what is the purpose?'.

Lesson 6: Going beyond your area of expertise
I work in Human Resources Department. Big deal! When I meet with an Accountant, Cost Control Engineer, or anyone for that matter they would expect me to know exactly what their work process is and what their role/duties. Not knowing all these pieces of information would make it seem as if you are acting stupid on purpose. So a piece of advice: take time out and sit with people from other departments to know their department process and job role of their personnel. And again you have to take the initiation; no one gives you the information you want!

Lesson 7: Birds of feather always speak together

We have been taught at university that respect diversity and cherish it. However, in work life diversity is nothing more than groups the key to entering to which is language. From my personal experience in UAE, nearly all the Arabs will talk in Arabic when together even in a meeting without giving second thought for translation for non-Arabs. And complain as long and hard as you want; this is the part of working culture which they will neither acknowledge nor ever change.

Lesson 8: Thou shall always be a professional
I am not sure if this is true for other professional but from my experience as an HR Assistant I have had people asking me all sorts of questions to check if I have enough knowledge about various aspects of HR. they might have read of some terminology or best practice and want further explanation or they might simply stating their disbelief in its practicality. Bottom line: as a professional in your field you will be expected to know everything and be able to explain the same convincingly to others.

Lesson 9: Thou shall not make friends at work
Ever heard of office politics? This is how it starts; people trying to cross the line to become too friendly and get details about your personal life from you. Then they mix the facts from your personal and work life and start giving you their own opinions; all of which are then discussed with others when the topic of conversation is changed to you, and of course behind your back. Be friendly but never cross that fine line. You may be spending a major part of your life at work and in office with your office mates; but never cross that fine line because the world beyond that fine line is purely political and extremely dirty.

Lesson 10: Word of a manager is the last word

So you did all the hard work and at the end of the day you get no appreciation, simple “Thank-you” or “Well Done”, and worst your boss presents your work as his/her to their senior. What can you do? NOTHING. Even when your boss may be good for nothing and making you do everything. You can do NOTHING. Even when you boss is biased and always favors that one person; giving them the best appraisal, rewards and everything else in their power. You can still do NOTHING. Because the truth is that the word of your boss will always be given more importance than yours; even to the top management despite presenting them clear and convincing proofs.

Lesson 11: Your career is yours don’t trust anyone with it!
The HR Department of any company will you that they have a career, training & development plan for you; or if there isn’t one that they will be working on one for you. However, you have to be the judge of how true this really is. In an ideal company you really may have a wonderful career plan outlined for you and already receiving training of some kind or the other. But if you are not; then here’s the thing you have to take your career in your own hands at all time. Trust no one but yourself to enhance your career, to move from position A to B, to enroll in that training course that you always wanted and which will get you the promotion you deserve. Things don’t happen, you have to make them happen.

For now these are the few lessons that I can think of. Do feel free to share your comments, ideas, suggestions, advice and definitely lessons.

Tags: Things they don't teach you in business school Work Culture Business Lessons HR advice

My Struggle!

2006-12-21T23:29:00.000+04:00

Not a doll am I, nor a silent portrait
Is who I am the reason you don’t treat me great?
Your world a concern, your life a struggle
Your joy the focus, and a tussle.
Envy me not, disgust me not
Take pride if you have the gut
I am not a doll, nor a silent portrait
My gifts I explore, myself I toil
A world of my own I search
Because from yours I have been hush
You reason and question
You forbid and deny
A candle left alone,
With no light to glow.
It matters not, nor do I deny
Dream is the light, dream that always justify!

Tags: UAE poetry struggle

Book review: How to Succeed in your first job - Tips for New college Graduates

2006-11-24T18:36:00.000+04:00

Here is a book I read recently. I quiet agree with the authors and the 12-steps (listed below) that they propose in this book for anyone who is working on their very first job. They argue that succeeding in your job starts with first you, then your colleagues, then organization and then the job. But I believe that when you finally manage to get your first job, you already possess some elements of the 'right attitude'.

What is the purpose of your position? You need to start with first understanding the role of your position in your department and your organization. Have a look at the job description and job specification documents for your position. Understand why is each responsibility of your position important. Once you have a clear picture of your position and what does it fit in department and the organization, then you focus on other issues: like adjusting your expectations, understanding the organization culture, taking time to socialize with your colleagues, understanding the current proccesses of your department and the organization in general, taking the initiative, and understanding how your current position will help you achieve your future goals.

The 12-steps proposed by the authors:
Individual focus
Step 1: Adopt the right attitudes
Step 2: Adjust your expectations
Step 3: Master breaking-in skills

People Focus
Step 4: Manage the impressions you make
Step 5: Build effective relationships
Step 6: Become a good follower

Organization focus
Step 7: Understand your organization’s culture
Step 8: Adapt to the organizational system
Step 9: Understand your new-hire role

Work task focus
Step 10: Develop work smarts
Step 11: Master the tasks of your job
Step 12: Acquire the knowledge, skills, and abilities you need

Tags: HRM How to succeed in your first job - tips for new college graduates Elwood F. Holton Sharon S. Naquin Book Review

Living Everyday Without You!

2006-11-03T18:47:00.000+04:00

Saturdays are okay and wishful,
Sunday work starts and I become restless too,
Mondays and Tuesdays you keep running in my mind,
Wednesdays I try to be hopeful and say you are fine,
Thursday the heart’s search is on,
Friday it struggles and misses you and cries on,
….then Saturday comes and I am okay and wishful again,
But every second, of every minute, of every hour, of everyday, of every week….
I wish to be with you, and in my arms you forever remain.

Tags: jag saknar dig poetry I miss you Love

I miss you.......!

2006-10-01T20:44:00.000+04:00

When the sun is out I miss you,
When the rain starts to pour I miss you,
When the night is cold I miss you,
When I see a star I miss you.

When there is no one to talk to I miss you,
When there is no one to hold on to I miss you,
When I want to say I love you, I miss you
When I want to hug you, I miss you

I miss you at every passing hour
I miss you like a fading flower
I miss you and I miss you so bad
…all I want to do is hug you tight
And tell you…. now that I have you I am so glad!

Tags: I Miss you! Poem emotion

One Lie!

2006-08-17T23:38:00.000+04:00

Because of you, I feel piety for me,
Because of you, my heart weeps but my tears have dried,
Because of you, I don't believe,
in love, or hope, or destiny.

I gave you my heart, you ripped it off,
I gave you my sould, you crushed it all,
I gave you my dreams, you showed no care,
I gave you love, and you just lied.

Why say, "I love you"?
Why say, "I will stay forever"?
Why say, "you are my sunshine"?
... when you have no feelings for me at all.

You were my first love,
and I was so true,
Why betray me so harshly,
when all I did was give my life to you!

I live everyday, with an empty soul,
I hope for best, with no hope at all.
Now, I need some love in life,
But I cannot find trust or love in me!

See the damge you did to me,
see how you have runied my soul,
see hoe you have destroyed my life,
... just by your one lie!

Tags: One lie poem

A dream

2006-08-17T23:26:00.000+04:00

A dream to succeed,
A dream o end all grief,
A dream to be courageous,
A dream to be religious.

For all my dreams to come rue,
Need to believe all the way through,
Need to have heart as wide as an ocean,
So to forgive, taking love as a potion.
Need to smile through even and odd,
Need to be helpful when others won't.
The world is mine nor yours,
Its a station for us all.

A dream to reach my destiny,
A dream to love my honey.

Tags: A dream poem Nazia Moghul

I will not give up!

2006-08-08T19:48:00.000+04:00

Every second of every hour of every day,
Bits of happiness and hope fly away,
Like a well empty of drop of water,
I am hallow and robbed of my laughter,
My inner calm, my hope of love,
My strength, my ability to be tough,
My sprituality and my very soul,
Have left me all alone to attain my goal.

A friend I seek to listen me please
Without any judgement, thats what I need,
Don't feel sympathy nor sorry for me,
Just hear me speak, without feeling sad,
Because I may be empty and have no spirit,
But I will not let go my dreams and feel regret.
I will smile even if there is no happiness,
I will love even if there are no roses,
I will fight even if I have no chance,
I will be confident even if no one gives me a glance,
For my dream, I will live again,
For my dreams, I will hope again,
And for my dreams, I will change the fate,
Because without them, is neither me nor a fate!

On Becoming a Leader - Book Review

2006-07-07T22:24:00.000+04:00

*This book review was part of a team assignment for my MGT 303 course. Still a pretty good read.*

Background on the author:
Described as a management guru, Warren Bennis is a professor of business administration at the University of Southern California.

On Becoming a Leader was written by Bennis in the 1980’s and consists of “an important series of insights into the qualities which make for successful, long-lasting leadership abilities.” (The Midwest Book Review).

Why leaders are required?
Looking back at history, it can be noticed that people have always needed leaders who could guide them through adversities and create a vision for them that would enhance their current condition. However, history also tells us that not all leaders worked for the welfare of their people. Some may have their own self-interest set as the first priority. But whatever the situation might be, Bennis has found similar qualities among all the leaders. Some of these qualities are as follows:

· Relating well to others
· Motivating people and attracting [them]
· [Applying the] golden rule, “the leader treats people the way he likes to be treated”.
· [Showing] trust in others
· Vision, inspiration, empathy, and trustworthiness – are manifestations of a leader’s judgment and character
· Competence - a true sense of mastery of the task, level of human sensitivity, tact, compassion, and diplomacy.
· Ability not to give up.

“To master the competitive environment [Bennis said that] leaders must first understand the challenges of the 21st century. [The] second step is to change the culture [of the organization to adhere to the challenges]”.

Step 1: Understanding the Challenges:
“To become a true leader one must know the world as well as one knows oneself.”

Understanding the challenges involves two things. First, studying the environment or the changes taking place in the market the organization competes in, recognizing the opportunities and making the best use of these opportunities. Looking at the challenges of the 21st century, Bennis mentions 5 potential forces working [currently] on the world and on organizations:

· Technology
· Global interdependence
· Mergers and acquisitions
· Deregulations and regulations
· Demographics and values

Second, the leader must know and understand himself well. This is because “leaders are not born, but made, and usually self-made”. Bennis mentions 4 lessons that help a leader in knowing himself better:

· Lesson 1: “You are your own best teacher”
A leader knows his own strengths and weaknesses better. For him “learning is experienced as a personal transformation”; whereby he teaches himself the lessons of the life that cannot be passed on.

· Lesson 2: “Accept responsibility. Blame no one”
This lesson can be summarized in the words of John Wooden, “failure is not crime. Low aim is”.

· Lesson 3: “You can learn anything you want to learn”
Kaplan explained this when he said, “Unless you have the appetite to absorb new and potentially unsettling things, you don’t learn… part of it is temperament. It’s a kind of fearlessness and optimism and confidence, and you’re not afraid of failure.”learning from experience involves looking back into ones childhood and adolescence and understanding what happened to oneself then so as to make things happen now. It also involves looking at ones experiences that occurred in the present, taking risks with the knowledge that failure is as vital as it is inevitable, looking at the future as an opportunity to do all those things that one couldn’t do, and finally to use ones instincts and seize the opportunity that are offered by life.

Apart from understanding the challenges that the organization might face, a leader should also be involved in innovative learning; this is when the leader anticipates (that he is being active and imaginative rather than passive and habitual), he learns by listening to others, and he participates in shaping the events rather than being shaped by them.

Step 2: Changing the Culture:
For a leader to initiate change in the organization he needs to have strategic thinking; this requires a leader to have a vision of where he wants the organization to be. He then finds all possible ways to reach that vision by using the techniques of altering, connecting, comparing, and revising. Once he knows his options he selects the best one, alters it by looking at its positive and negative aspects, examines it objectively, and finally devises a plan with detailed tasks to be accomplished to make the vision come true.

For leaders to make changes in the organization, they have to undergo the following steps:
· Define the organization’s mission, so as to frame its activities and inform its work force.
· Create a flexible environment in which people are not only valued, but encouraged to develop to their full potential, and treated as equals rather than subordinates.
· Reshape the corporate culture so that creativity, autonomy, and continuous learning replace conformity, obedience and rote; and long-term growth, not short-term profits, is goal.
· Transform the organization from a rigid of autonomous units.
· Encourage innovation, experimentation and risk taking.
· [Constantly] anticipate future by reading the present.
· Make new connections within the organizations, and new relationships within the work force.
· Make new alliances outside the organization
· Constantly studying the organization from the outside as well as the inside.
· Identify and respond to new and unprecedented needs in the work force.
· Be proactive rather than reactive, comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty.

Way for companies to encourage and stimulate learning:
Bennis mentions 3 ways in which companies can stimulate learning of leadership skills in executives in their early career.

· Opportunity = empowerment
Bennis explains this as giving the opportunities to the executives to lead projects, practice their skills, and learn more through job rotation. However, these opportunities should be challenging for them. “The higher the stakes, more opportunity there are for learning – of course – the more opportunity there is for failure and mistakes. Failure and mistakes are a major source of vital experience.”

· Meaning = engagement
Bennis explains that companies should have clear mission statements so that its employees will know how their efforts will be rewarded.

· Learning = leading
Employees should not just be given the opportunities, tests and rewards to learn. Rather they should be motivated to learn to work as team and with other members of the organization.

“Universities…contribute…to make a dog obedient to you”:
Bennis mentions at the start of the book, “Schools or universities are better at training than educating. This is unfortunate since training does not contribute in making a leader but to make a dog obedient to you.”

At another place, Bennis criticizes universities for “producing throngs of narrow minded specialist who may be wizards at making money, but who are unfinished as people. These specialists have being thought how to do, but they have not learned how to be.”

However, we believe that Bennis does not justify when making these statements. A true leader recognizes the opportunities in the environment, creates a vision, develops a plan to make the vision come true and then translates the vision to the employees in a way they would understand it better. Universities undertake projects to make its students experience the work environment and work in groups. Students are made to think of ideas for these projects and then they work as a team to make their idea work. Bennis said, “True understanding comes from reflecting on your experience”. However, these projects are short term, thereby giving little time for the students to do reflective thinking while working on the project and exhibit their leadership skills to full extend in it. However, students do learn, to a certain degree, how to work in groups, delegate tasks among themselves, and to make the best use of the available skills (resources) on the team.

Conclusion:
In short, leaders recognize the changes taking place in their environments and take the incentive to make the change. The qualities of the leaders include that they manage the dream, they embrace, they encourage reflective backtalk, they encourage dissent, they posses the Nobel factors of optimism, faith and hope, they understand the Pygmalion effect in management, they have a certain “touch”, they see the long view, they understand stake holder symmetry, and they create strategic alliances and partnerships.

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True love!

2006-06-28T12:10:00.000+04:00

A feeling I feel of where you are,
Yet I dont know who you are.
A love I feel for you alone,
A dream I have with you alone,
An adventure we take every night,
Holding your hand I reach for the height,
Your smile takes my tears away,
And filles my heart with butterflies,
With you the night glows bright,
Since you are the moon by my side,
With you everyday is wonderful,
Since you bring the colors to fill my life,
I love you deep and love you a lot,
From the core of love itself comes my love for you.
Yet i dont know who you are!

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A Wait!

2006-06-28T12:02:00.000+04:00

A wait, long endless wait,
Between leaving and staying.
A life of freedom I want to live,
A flight from suffering I want to take.
Yet the heart aches for thier love,
And guilts over the leave.
Cry not my heart over love you have not,
I will love them regardless.
Despair not the wait,
I will be patient.
Donnot be scared of the uncertain,
I will still dream and hope.
True the wait is long,
True the wait is scary,
Yet wait I must for things to unfold.

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