Excellent Student

An excellent student achieves best academic results and manifests admirable character. She/he is personification of collective efforts of multiple individuals such as teachers, parents, educational managers and varied institutions such as educational institutions, social institutions, government bodies, and education board. The article is a rational-moral critique on Excellent Student / Excellent Learning Behavior.

Recent Article By Muhammad Ilyas Qadri

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Significance of Teamwork

Shaping An Excellent Team

At institutional level, an achievement is result of teamwork. An effective team is combination of synergetic strategies / tactics of institution. A synergic setting is innovatively woven environment of diverse individuals; it is competitive as well as cooperative. A competitive situation makes someone active or dynamic, while cooperative condition makes someone interactive and associative. It is dominantly responsibility of managers/entrepreneurs to design competitive-cooperative environ for team members. An enabling working environment is sustainable strength of well-performing institution. An institutional input thus plays an important role in making/shaping an excellent team.

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Effective Entrepreneurship - Essential Skills

Skill Profile of An Effective Entrepreneur 

Practically, an entrepreneur needs some professional skills, a few social skills, and handful personal skills. Firstly, an effective entrepreneur have clear understanding about needed professional skills, moreover, she/he has staunch desire for professional acumen. Secondly, life is interactive phenomenon. People interact during countless occasions of life. An interaction is either productive or non-productive. It is social intelligence or social skills of an entrepreneur that prepares for productive interactions. A productive interaction is win-win and stable.  Thirdly, a sizeable portion of day is spent on personal activities such as sleeping, chatting, and exercising. The leisure time relaxes and prepares for next round of professional or interactive life. It is noteworthy that proper application of personal skills avoids boredom, fatigue, lethargy, and regrets from personal life. The prominent personal skills are: subjective thinking, lateral thinking, collective brainstorming, driving vehicles, setting social links, repairing things, gardening, increasing physical strength & stamina, writing creatively, expressing feelings through art work, capturing memorable moments through photography, etc.. A stable combination of personal, social, and economic skills is inevitable repertoire of an effective entrepreneur. 

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Entrepreneurial Economics deals with entrepreneurship.Maximum Achievement Program (MAP) is designed for entrepreneurs. The ultimate target of program is to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of managers/entrepreneurs..The program shared and will share ideas on varied issues of entrepreneurial life. Thanks.

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Optimal Time management Part II

Now I am posting second and detailed part of my Optimal time management blog. I hope it will help.

Time-Task Duality (Divine Perspective)

Time has two dimensions inner or personal and outer or universal.
At personal level time is creative impulse of self-expression and linked with some memorable immaterial activities, while at universal level time is outcome of lunar/solar/celestial phenomena and linked with memorable material activities.
The creative urge of Omnipotent linked with memorable immaterial activities is Absolute Time, a solely divine attribute. The Absolute Time created its numerous counterparts, i.e., multiple relative times.
The matter-oriented time is relative or serial time, while the urge-oriented time is Absolute Time.
Man is vice-regent of Allah, the very basis of human life-pattern is existential- pattern of God. Allah accomplishes any task accommodating the time, both absolute and relative.
A divine-oriented approach towards time-task duality makes the mankind time-efficient and leads, ultimately, towards effective life-pattern.


Priority Setting

A priority setting should be based on two elements - importance and urgency – A task is composition of various mixtures of these elements. We can set priority list as follows:
Important & urgent (top priority)
Important & less urgent (second priority)
Less important & urgent (third priority)
Less important & less urgent (last priority)
The important activities are supportive for goal materialization, while urgent activities demand quick fixing. The urgent activities do not fulfill, normally, our goals, they fulfill, generally, the goals of others.
Wisdom is needed to define importance and urgency.


General Guidelines

The general guidelines for effective priority-setting are:
Pick the future possibilities against the past glories.
Focus on the opportunity rather than on problems.
Choose your own direction rather than climb on the bandwagon.
Aim high and better.


Prime Time

Parkinson’s Law states that work expands to fill the available time. That is, more time is spent on a specific job without considering the time duration of a job.
Time efficiency is spoiled by ignoring time-task duality.
In prime time evaluation, we assess and integrate the job and prime time – prime time is the time at which the person can produce best performance in his work..
It is important to note that coordination between work schedule and prime time enhances the productivity of an individual about 15 to 20 percent.
The assessment of prime time for staff and setting their activities to prime time will make them more efficient and productive. As a result, the whole system will produce


Prime Motive - Performance

An organization is created to materialize certain goals & objectives.
Any result-oriented effort towards multiple goals & objectives is effective, generally, for organizational development, so that, the prime motive behind countless efforts must be performance.
Moreover, for highest performance, it is important to utilize strengths not weaknesses.
The performance–oriented efforts are distorted due to countless reasons.
The Major time wasters in a system are Lack of Proper Delegation System, Overstaffed or Understaffed Environ, Non-incentive Reward Structure, Malfunctions in Information, Excessive Meetings or Large Size of Meeting Staff or Boundless Agenda of Meetings, & Miscommunication.


Developing Time Management Skills

Develop a logbook, formal or informal, to ascertain WHERE the time is going on?
Deciding the activity plan for important/urgent activities to assess WHAT tasks are worthy to tackle?
Evaluating Prime time to judge HOW much time is needed for different set of activities?
Finalizing the work-plan to know WHEN to execute an activity?
A work-plan is prepared on several bases, it is daily or weekly or monthly or yearly. It is noteworthy that the more time we spend on work planning; the less total time is required for the whole task.
Time-efficiency will improve with these practices, consequentially, the optimal time management expertise will be developed in someone’s life.

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Time Management

Hi,

I am back with a new blog. This time its about time management. This is common man's problem. This blog is divided into two parts. I will discuss various aspect of time management in this part.

Optimal Time Management

Optimal Time Management is setting and following a schedule of life activities in order to optimize the usage of limited available time 

Time-Task Duality

The time-task duality directs the individuals how tasks are linked, directly and indirectly, with multiple time durations.
The ultimate goal during some activity is to attain maximum return from each and every unit of time-spent.


Optimal Time Management-Key Issues

The key issues related to optimal time management, especially related to an effective manager, are:

1) Nomenclature of Life Activities;
2) Time-Task Duality (Divine Perspective);
3) Priority Setting;
4) Prime Time Selection;
5) Prime Motive - Performance;&
6) Developing Time Management Skills.

Life Activities-Interactive Specification

Life is temporally evolved and spatially settled phenomenon of cosmic economy.
Mankind is epitome of multiple life upshots.
An individual spends his/her time on various activities. We may group these activities into three categories – personal, social, and economical.


Life Activities-Temporal Specification

A classic time scheduling has three levels, weekly, monthly, and yearly.
A person complete some works on weekly basis, while some tasks are accomplished on monthly basis, and still some responsibilities are fulfilled on yearly basis.

Temporal intelligence guides someone towards wise specification of time-scheduling.

Stay tuned for second part. It's very important. I will discuss about priority setting and different management skills that can help to optimize time.

Managerial Courage Part II

          Developing Courage

          Human life is purposive phenomenon.

• Human purposes are countless.
• A purposeful life breeds multiple goals and objectives. Goals are ultimate targets of purposeful life; while objectives are steps necessary for specific goals. Goals make someone effective, while objectives make efficient. Goals are a few while objective are many.

• Courage is developed by conviction towards specific goals and objectives. 
  In addition, it is essential to live with competitive attitude in life otherwise courage will not be developed rather it may die.
  
  Courage & Entrepreneurship – Self Resistance

• The vital and essential characteristic of an entrepreneur is innovation. 
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  Innovation is to create/introduce something new during some entrepreneurial struggle. However, a novel or pioneering act may be a mutational change or may lead towards some failure. That is why; there is great pressure on entrepreneur from inside and outside.
  The inside/self pressure is managed by developing some personality traits such as positive mindset, determination, courage and confidence, while the outside/institutional pressure is managed through some effective institutional techniques.
  
  Courage & Entrepreneurship – Abandonment
  
  An important aspect of entrepreneurial / managerial courage is to retrieve back from wrong decisions. Let things are not going well and estimation has failed. There is need for abandonment to avoid wasted efforts. Abandonment is needed to save time, money, and efforts. It is not against managerial courage, rather it an act of moral courage.
  
  Human Courage (Divine Perspective)
  
  The very basis of human courage is Divine Courage.
  Human courage is outcome of faith/trust on the Supremacy and Omnipotence of Allah.
  Human beings are indispensably linked with each other and fortify or weaken one another. A humanistic or altruistic tendency is natural aspect of collective life that solidifies the human personality due to reciprocal phenomenon of interactive life. Consequently, human acts done for the betterment of humanity solidify the doers while inhuman acts weaken the doers.
  
  Egoistic Standpoint Vs Courage
  
  An act that does not qualify altruistic/divine basis is egoist not courageous. The Satan’s attitude towards Adam’s supremacy was egoist not courageous.
  Allah is Creator and Sustainer of everything. He is Omnipotent with no competitor. His commandments and actions are based on best attributes, free from any injustice. He demands worship from His creation because He fully qualify for such demands while the Satan was demanding a position, not suitable for him.
  The Satanic stand is not courage but an act of ego worship or egoistic standpoint.
  
  Entrepreneurship - a high profile responsibility
  
  Entrepreneurial struggle is, essentially, a value based struggle towards some ideals, both individual as well as institutional.
  It is material driven, humanistic based, and divine oriented.
  It provides sustenance to individuals, magnificence to society, and gives collective shape to Divine Ideals.
  Entrepreneurial struggle follows, strictly, the natural-patterns set and designed by Divine Scheme of Creation for His creatures.
  In nutshell, it is an act of vice–regency of God on some collective issues of life, a high profile responsibility.
  

This sums up My blog for Managerial Courage. I hope you liked it. Stay tuned for more blogs to come.

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