Monday, March 15, 2010

World Consumer Rights Day

Today, the Consumer Rights day is being celebrating all over the world. The theme of this year Consumer Rights day is 'Our Money Our Rights' is very strong as it shows that the consumer has a right to spend his money according to his own will.
In Pakistan, the consumer is left at the mercy of shopkeepers and manufacturers. If some consumers demand something according to his right, he faces numerous hurdles.

Many of the difficulties which consumers experience arise from the lack of understanding and knowledge of how to behave as consumers. The only practical solution to the problem is to educate consumers about their duties and rights.
Many of educated people even don't know that consumer courts are established in every big cities of Pakistan. If consumer has some complaint about the shopkeeper about his/her goods/services, the only thing he/she should do is to file his/her case on plain paper and submit it to the court. There is no fee for this.

Leaders are always at the front.

As a Leader/Manager you are expected to lead from the front. And it’s very much true about your arrival or departure time in the office. One can afford slip ups during normal working days. But if you and your team have planned to work on an off day then IT’S ABSOLUTELY vital that you are there with your team. Your team will forgive you for occasional late arrivals and early departures but even the most loyal team will not forgive you if you come late or go early on off days working in the office. Trust me it will put your team off. They will feel like they have been betrayed even though they don’t discuss this publicly or among their peers but deep inside their hearts and minds it will stay like a bomb waiting for the right conditions to explode.

Job Satisfaction: How much

People often talk about job satisfaction. There seems to be another job/position somewhere else in this world which is better than the one you are currently working with and if you manage to get hold onto that job, another job/position pops up and you find yourself in the very same situation. It seems like a never ending cycle searching for job satisfaction.

How to avoid this…. well one needs to consider that every job is satisfying provided you think like that. Every job has problems and probably there is no job in this world which is problem free. The problem category might vary but problems never vanish. So one needs to be optimistic about the way a person approaches his/her job.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

PM Dinner with CJ

Finally the drama is over. The PM gate-crashed the dinner party of CJ on Tuesday evening, and their cordial huddle did away with the stupid obstinacy hitherto displayed by the Govt.The govt. reeling from the popular legitimacy for its illegitimate stance, finally realized that if it didn't swallow its own pride, then the snowballing crisis might well end up consuming it. Finally the govt. stepped back from its disastrous precipice just in time.