Inspired from these Words

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. While there's life still living and breathing, there will always be hope..........!
 
Don't worry about your fears but concentrate on your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.

The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up...........!
 
Good Morning! Another bright and beautiful Saturday is here for all of us to enjoy! I hope and pray all of you have had a great start to your weekend. Take care and be safe in all that you do.

God bless you and all your loved ones! Enjoy your weekend and rest and relax to rejuvenate yourselves for the week ahead. Remember to exercise and eat right and make the choice to live the healthy lifestyle.


Rajesh Gubbala

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Gods Word ---- Made to Make a Difference

Made to Make a Difference

Somewhere in the midst of it all, it hit you. You realized that these days are more than ice cream trips, homework, and pimples. This is called life. And this one is yours. You've been given your life. No one else has your version.

Live in the right way, serve God, have faith, love, patience, and gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith, grabbing hold of the life that continues forever. You were called to have that life when you confessed the good confession before many witnesses.
I Timothy 6:11-12

We are created by a great God to do great works. He invites us to outlive our lives, not just in heaven, but here on earth.

God has not given us what we deserve. He has drenched his world in grace. It has no end. It knows no limits. It empowers this life and enables us to live the next.

Here's a salute to a long life: goodness that outlives the grave, love that outlasts the final breath.

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

Rajesh Gubbala

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Different Styles Of Leadership

A very good article on different styles of leadership, go thru this mail and check in which style do u suit.

Popular Leadership Styles – A Glossary
The leadership theories and styles discussed so far are based on research. However, many more terms are used to describe approaches to leadership, even if these don't fit within a particular theoretical system. It's worth understanding these!

1. Autocratic leadership

Autocratic leadership is an extreme form of transactional leadership, where leaders have absolute power over their workers or team. Staff and team members have little opportunity to make suggestions, even if these would be in the team's or the organization's best interest.

Most people tend to resent being treated like this. Therefore, autocratic leadership usually leads to high levels of absenteeism and staff turnover. For some routine and unskilled jobs, the style can remain effective because the advantages of control may outweigh the disadvantages.

2. Bureaucratic leadership

Bureaucratic leaders work "by the book." They follow rules rigorously, and ensure that their staff follows procedures precisely. This is a very appropriate style for work involving serious safety risks (such as working with machinery, with toxic substances, or at dangerous heights) or where large sums of money are involved (such as handling cash).

3. Charismatic leadership

A charismatic leadership style can seem similar to transformational leadership, because these leaders inspire lots of enthusiasm in their teams and are very energetic in driving others forward. However, charismatic leaders can tend to believe more in themselves than in their teams, and this creates a risk that a project, or even an entire organization, might collapse if the leader leaves. In the eyes of the followers, success is directly connected to the presence of the charismatic leader. As such, charismatic leadership carries great responsibility, and it needs a long-term commitment from the leader.

4. Democratic leadership or participative leadership

Although democratic leaders make the final decisions, they invite other members of the team to contribute to the decision-making process. This not only increases job satisfaction by involving team members, but it also helps to develop people's skills. Team members feel in control of their own destiny, so they're motivated to work hard by more than just a financial reward.

Because participation takes time, this approach can take more time, but often the end result is better. The approach can be most suitable when working as a team is essential, and when quality is more important than speed to market or productivity.

5. Laissez-faire leadership

This French phrase means "leave it be," and it's used to describe leaders who leave their team members to work on their own. It can be effective if the leader monitors what's being achieved and communicates this back to the team regularly. Most often, laissez-faire leadership is effective when individual team members are very experienced and skilled self-starters. Unfortunately, this type of leadership can also occur when managers don't apply sufficient control.

6. People-oriented leadership or relations-oriented leadership

This is the opposite of task-oriented leadership. With people-oriented leadership, leaders are totally focused on organizing, supporting, and developing the people in their teams. It's a participative style, and it tends to encourage good teamwork and creative collaboration.

In practice, most leaders use both task-oriented and people-oriented styles of leadership.

7. Servant leadership

This term, created by Robert Greenleaf in the 1970s, describes a leader who is often not formally recognized as such. When someone, at any level within an organization, leads simply by meeting the needs of the team, he or she is described as a "servant leader."

In many ways, servant leadership is a form of democratic leadership, because the whole team tends to be involved in decision making.

Supporters of the servant leadership model suggest that it's an important way to move ahead in a world where values are increasingly important, and where servant leaders achieve power on the basis of their values and ideals. Others believe that in competitive leadership situations, people who practice servant leadership can find themselves left behind by leaders using other leadership styles.

8. Task-Oriented leadership

Highly task-oriented leaders focus only on getting the job done, and they can be quite autocratic. They actively define the work and the roles required, put structures in place, plan, organize, and monitor. However, because task-oriented leaders don't tend to think much about the well-being of their teams, this approach can suffer many of the flaws of autocratic leadership, with difficulties in motivating and retaining staff.

9. Transactional leadership

This style of leadership starts with the idea that team members agree to obey their leader totally when they accept a job. The "transaction" is usually the organization paying the team members in return for their effort and compliance. The leader has a right to "punish" team members if their work doesn't meet the pre-determined standard.

Team members can do little to improve their job satisfaction under transactional leadership. The leader could give team members some control of their income/reward by using incentives that encourage even higher standards or greater productivity. Alternatively, a transactional leader could practice "management by exception" – rather than rewarding better work, the leader could take corrective action if the required standards are not met.

Transactional leadership is really a type of management, not a true leadership style, because the focus is on short-term tasks. It has serious limitations for knowledge-based or creative work.

10. Transformational leadership

As we discussed earlier, people with this leadership style are true leaders who inspire their teams constantly with a shared vision of the future. While this leader's enthusiasm is often passed onto the team, he or she can need to be supported by "detail people." That's why, in many organizations, both transactional and transformational leadership are needed. The transactional leaders (or managers) ensure that routine work is done reliably, while the transformational leaders look after initiatives that add value.

Rajesh Gubbala

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Indian Money In Swiss Bank

Latest update after Swiss Bank has agreed to disclose the funds&.

Our Indians' Money - 70, 00,000 Crores Rupees In Swiss Bank

1) Yes, 70 lakhs crores rupees of India are lying in Switzerland
banks. This is the highest amount lying outside any country, from
amongst 180 countries of the world, as if India is the champion of
Black Money.

2) Swiss Government has officially written to Indian Government that
they are willing to inform the details of holders of 70 lakh crore
rupees in their Banks, if Indian Government officially asks them.

3) On 22-5-08, this news has already been published in The Times of
India and other Newspapers based on Swiss Government's official letter
to Indian Government.

4) But the Indian Government has not sent any official enquiry to
Switzerland for details of money which has been sent outside India
between 1947 to 2008.. The opposition party is also equally not
interested in doing so because most of the amount is owned by
politicians and it is every Indian's money.

5) This money belongs to our country. From these funds we can repay 13
times of our country's foreign debt. The interest alone can take care
of the Center s yearly budget. People need not pay any taxes and we
can pay Rs. 1 lakh to each of 45 crore poor families.

6) Let us imagine, if Swiss Bank is holding Rs. 70 lakh Crores, then
how much money is lying in other 69 Banks? How much they have deprived
the Indian people? Just think, if the Account holder dies, the bank
becomes the owner of the funds in his account.

7) Are these people totally ignorant about the philosophy of Karma?
What will this ill-gotten wealth do to them and their families when
they own/use such money, generated out of corruption and
exploitation?

8) Indian people have read and have known about these facts. But the
helpless people have neither time nor inclination to do anything in
the matter. This is like "a new freedom struggle" and we will have to
fight this.

9) This money is the result of our sweat and blood.. The wealth
generated and earned after putting in lots of mental and physical
efforts by Indian people must be brought back to our country.

10) As a service to our motherland and your contribution to this
struggle,please circulate at least 10 copies of this note amongst your
friends and relatives and convert it into a mass movement.

Rajesh Gubbala

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Hi friends,A must read for every one to know our strengths and weakness,  i have attached the worksheet as well, plz give a try its a worth analysis, let me know if u have any trouble in understanding this.  
SWOT Analysis is a powerful technique for understanding your Strengths and Weaknesses, and for looking at the Opportunities and Threats you face
Making the Most of Your Talents and Opportunities.
You are most likely to succeed in life if you use your talents to their fullest extent. Similarly, you'll suffer fewer problems if you know what your weaknesses are, and if you manage these weaknesses so that they don't matter in the work you do.So how you go about identifying these strengths and weaknesses, and analyzing the opportunities and threats that flow from them? SWOT Analysis is a useful technique that helps you do this.

What makes SWOT especially powerful is that, with a little thought, it can help you uncover opportunities that you would not otherwise have spotted. And by understanding your weaknesses, you can manage and eliminate threats that might otherwise hurt your ability to move forward.

If you look at yourself using the SWOT framework, you can start to separate yourself from your peers, and further develop the specialized talents and abilities you need to advance your career.

How to Use the Tool
Strengths• What advantages do you have that others don't have (for example, skills, certifications, education, or connections)?• What do you do better than anyone else?• What personal resources can you access?• What do other people (and your boss, in particular) see as your strengths?• Which of your achievements are you most proud of?• What values do you believe in that others fail to exhibit?• Are you part of a network that no one else is involved in? If so, what connections do you have with influential people?Consider this from your own perspective, and from the point of view of the people around you. And don't be modest or shy – be as objective as you can.And if you have any difficulty with this, write down a list of your personal characteristics. Some of these will hopefully be strengths!• Weaknesses• What tasks do you usually avoid because you don't feel confident doing them?• What will the people around you see as your weaknesses?• Are you completely confident in your education and skills training? If not, where are you weakest?• What are your negative work habits (for example, are you often late, are you disorganized, do you have a short temper, or are you poor at handling stress?• Do you have personality traits that hold you back in your field? For instance, if you have to conduct meetings on a regular basis, a fear of public speaking would be a major weakness.Again, consider this from a personal/internal perspective and an external perspective. Do other people see weaknesses that you don't see? Do co-workers consistently outperform you in key areas? Be realistic – it's best to face any unpleasant truths as soon as possible.• Opportunities• What new technology can help you? Or can you get help from others or from people via the Internet?• Is your industry growing? If so, how can you take advantage of the current market?• Do you have a network of strategic contacts to help you, or offer good advice?• What trends (management or otherwise) do you see in your company, and how can you take advantage of them?• Are any of your competitors failing to do something important? If so, can you take advantage of their mistakes?• Is there a need in your company or industry that no one is filling?• Do your customers or vendors complain about something in your company? If so, could you create an opportunity by offering a solution?You might find useful opportunities in the following:• Networking events, educational classes, or conferences.• A colleague going on an extended leave. Could you take on some of this person's projects to gain experience?• A new role or project that forces you to learn new skills, like public speaking or international relations.• A company expansion or acquisition. Do you have specific skills (like a second language) that could help with the process?Also, importantly, look at your strengths, and ask yourself whether these open up any opportunities – and look at your weaknesses, and ask yourself whether you could open up opportunities by eliminating those weaknesses.

• Threats

• What obstacles do you currently face at work?

• Are any of your colleagues competing with you for projects or roles?

• Is your job (or the demand for the things you do) changing?

Does changing technology threaten your position?

• Could any of your weaknesses lead to threats?

Performing this analysis will often provide key information – it can point out what needs to be done and put problems into perspective. A Personal

SWOT Example

What would a personal SWOT assessment look like? Review this SWOT analysis for Carol, an advertising manager.

• Strengths

• I'm very creative. I often impressing clients with a new perspective on their brands.• I communicate well with my clients and team.

• I have the ability to ask key questions to find just the right marketing angle.• I'm completely committed to the success of a client's brand.

• Weaknesses

• I have a strong, compulsive need to do things quickly and remove them from my "to do" list, and sometimes the quality of my work suffers as a result.

• This same need to get things done also causes me stress when I have too many tasks.

• I get nervous when presenting ideas to clients, and this fear of public speaking often takes the passion out of my presentations.

• Opportunities• One of our major competitors has developed a reputation for treating their smaller clients poorly.

• I'm attending a major marketing conference next month. This will allow for strategic networking, and also offer some great training seminars.

• Our art director will go on maternity leave soon. Covering her duties while she's away would be a great career development opportunity for me.

• Threats• Simon, one of my colleagues, is a much stronger speaker than I am, and he's competing with me for the art director position.

• Due to recent staff shortages, I'm often overworked, and this negatively impacts my creativity.

• The current economic climate has resulted in slow growth for the marketing industry.

Many firms have laid off staff members, and our company is considering further cutbacks.

As a result of performing this analysis, Carol takes the bold step of approaching her colleague Simon about the art director's maternity leave.

Carol proposes that both she and Simon cover the job's duties, working together and each using his or her strengths. To her surprise, Simon likes the idea.

He knows he presents very well, but he admits that he's usually impressed by Carol's creative ideas, which he feels are far better than most of his.

By working as a team, they have a chance to make their smaller clients feel even better about the service they're getting. This takes advantage of their competitor's weakness in this area.

Key Points

A SWOT matrix is a framework for analyzing your strengths and weaknesses as well as the opportunities and threats that you face. This helps you focus on your strengths, minimize your weaknesses, and take the greatest possible advantage of opportunities available to you

Rajesh Gubbala

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Rajesh Gubbala

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