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I would like to end posting on communication but accidentally came across a quote which is worth mentioned.

You can’t compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills.

-John Wolfensohn-

What do you think? Do you agree with John?

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How to communicate according to Al-Quran

“O you who believe! Guard your duty to Allah, and speak words straight to the point”. (Surah al Ahzaab 33: 70)

While talking with people, don’t act smart or beat around the bush but come to the point and be straightforward in your expression. Use apt words and speak directly. Don’t play with words.

Also one should draw a clear line between being straightforward and being rude.

To read more go to

The Qur’anic Art of Effective Communication
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How we react depends on our emotions not intelligence.

In a meeting, my colleague was complaining about the amount of work that her department had to deal. Nevertheless, she did not make it crystal clear the source of the over work. Since we are from the same academy, I jumped to conclusions, thinking that she was complaining about my department. Based on the previous experience with her, I was a bit emotional and defended my department. I gave her a call after the meeting with the intention to confront her. And guess what I got. She was not pointing to my department but other department and I spoiled her plan. The past experience and emotions do influence our decisions and reactions. Luckily, there was no hard feeling. This is what I have to practise

Open my mind before I open my mouth

Each emotion offers a distinctive readiness to act; each points us in a direction that has worked well to handle the recurring challenges of human life. as these eternal situations were repeated and repeated over our revolutionary history, the survival value of our emotional repertoire was attested to by its becoming imprinted in our nerves as innate, automatic tendencies of the human heart.

intelligence can come to nothing when the emotions hold sway

(Daniel Goleman, 1995: 4)

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Hypocrisy

I watched a Chinese drama called Princess Weiyoung and there is something that I learnt from the drama. There are different types of people; genuinely kind and honest, crystal clear evil or dare devil and the third group is the cunning ones. Combating the crystal clear evil is way much better than the cunning ones. A cunning and sly person can appear as your friend, who is doing something for your own good but actually the evil intention is laid underneath which you won’t be able to see, just like the iceberg theory. Beware, guard yourself from falling into the hypocrite’s trap.

The Iceberg Theory for Presentation Content | Ethos3
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when things get out of your hands

Sometimes, trivial things, which are not worth your attention, can go out of your hands. People are just waiting to do things out of their selfishness. When this happens, how will you manage the situation?

If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.

-Ivan Nuru-

I believe this is the best thing for me to do at this point of time. Get them out of my mind.