Become an Effective Manager

I recently completed a seminar "Foundation Training for Managers" we tackled ideas on how to become an effective manager or a leader......I can't help but take down some nifty notes that might be helpful with some of you guys! you can actually use this not only in running a team or business but also in your decisions in everyday lives.....

1. Title and Authority can be given but the willingness of others to follow must be earned.

2. Authoritarian management no longer works because people are too well informed and have many other choices. Under authoritarian management the best people will leave, poor performers will sabotage and mediocre performers will stop thinking and just follow the rules even if the rules are getting poor results.

3. As a manager/leader your job is: To provide the VISION of where the organization is going and why. To GET WORK DONE THROUGH OTHERS and to REMOVE OBSTACLES so people can perform at the highest level possible.

4. 80% of all problems are system problems not people problems.

5. Give people a vision, empower them to fulfill it and with guidance they will.

6. A commitment to ongoing training for yourself and your employees is one of the most cost-effective high productivity tools at your disposal.

7. People resist what they do not help to create.

8. People are very smart. They will always figure out your agenda because your actions speak louder than your words.

9. You get more of what you put your attention on. Be careful of setting up unintended negative rewards.

10. Effective DELEGATION is a learned skill not one you were born with.

11. Excellent communication skills are vital. Listening with the intention to truly understand is one of your most powerful communication tools.

12. Give up all assumptions about what people do or do not know, will or will not do, should know or do, etc. Assumptions almost always get poor, if not disastrous, results.

Always remember! Integrity + Quality + Teamwork = SUCCESS!

I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear FUR

What do Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, and J.Crew have in common?

They all refuse to use or sell fur. Many top designers and retailers have stopped using and selling fur for good as a result of constant pressure from PETA and our members.

Every day, PETA members fight hard for the animals who are maimed and killed for their fur. Together, we have made real changes in the fashion world and have spared millions of animals from torturous lives and grisly deaths. But there's so much more to do—and so many more animals need our help right now.

In the fur industry, dogs, cats, raccoons, rabbits, and many other animals are commonly skinned alive, crushed to death, and painfully electrocuted.

As I'm sure you know, PETA will do anything—including take our clothes off—to get media coverage and the public's attention in an effort to stop this cruelty. For more than 25 years, celebrities, PETA members, and other concerned animal advocates have joined us in the fight against fur. Many have even shed their clothes to announce to the world that they'd rather go naked than wear fur.

Activists of all ages and stars such as animal rights superhero Pamela Anderson, as well as many other celebrities, have taken a stand for animals by posing in PETA's "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" ads. Recently supermodel Janice Dickinson and 30 other models made news when they hit the streets of Hollywood stripped down to their undies and holding signs with the message that wearing fur is heartless and cruel. You can see the photos here.

PETA's groundbreaking and head-turning anti-fur ads are seen on taxi tops, buses, and billboards all around the world thanks to your support.

To see our latest celebrity anti-fur ads, click here.

We have helped millions of people realize that there is nothing fashionable about fur. And we have helped win some critical victories for animals, including the following:

• Major retailers like J.Crew, Ann Taylor, J. Jill, Forever 21, Wet Seal, and many others no longer use or sell fur.
  
• More than 10,000 compassionate people around the world have surrendered their fur coats to PETA. We use the coats as bedding for rescued animals and in library and school displays. We also donate them for use as clothing for the homeless and refugees in war-torn Afghanistan.
  
• More than 100,000 people have signed our pledge this year to go fur-free. If you haven't already signed the pledge, please do so today.

I hope that I can count on your continued support as we enter the fall and winter fashion seasons. I want every designer and retail store to know that PETA will not stop campaigning until the day that animals are no longer slaughtered in the name of fashion. Please make as generous a donation as you can today.

Britney Spears VMA 2007 Performance

It's pretty lame this performance of her comeback single "Gimme More" last 2007 MTV Video Music Awards....

Everyone made nasty comments about her live performance during the said night... I think people was just used with how Britney performs on stage (snakes, lesbian kissing and so on) before. People expected too much knowing that its gonna be a comeback performance for Britney.

Why pick on Britney? there are lots of performers out there who really sucks on stage...I'm not a fan of Britney but I think people are exaggerating things too much don't you think?

I posted the video of the performance.....you decide.

Family Day

I made a family visit yesterday, it was my cousin's B-day (Gabby) as usual I'm the cake sponsor....again....The "Magic sing" never fails to heat up the fun as my tita belts out her signature Carpenter songs....We discussed a lot of things as well....My lola sat down to talk about my plans in going back to Australia and of course with her signature payo...."anak finish your studies! dahil wala kang mararating kung hindi ka makakapagtapos...." I told her my plans and she completely agreed, we all know that it's gonna be hard for me to go back in Australia alone but they believe na kaya ko naman makapagsurvive daw....I miss my family so much.... I miss playing around with my cousins. I miss mocking my tito and tita's haaaaaayyyyy I miss my old life......They visited my place and good thing walang pang ookray na naganap! hehe....Bad thing is hindi ako nag appear sa badminton game namin ni Eric....I was hostaged by tita so most probably the ending is a token of irritation from Eric...hehehe...Peace!
Im having a new buddy! Im so excited! A Dachshund puppy...Dachshund puppies are really smart daw....hmmm I wonder what Im gonna call him?.....I'm thinking "Edison" or something very human para buddy ang dating talaga... Ill be posting the pictures as soon as I have him....yey! yey!

Bambi Butchers

While the horrifying abuse of animals in factory farms and slaughterhouses is one of the most atrocious displays of cruelty these days, I just about lost it when I saw a new video that some PETA investigators passed along. You can actually see deer being pulled around by the ears, suffering as the door is slammed on their head, and slowly bleeding to death. Honestly, it's sickening.

Venison (a.k.a. deer flesh) that is served up in fancy restaurants often comes from deer "farms" where animals are raised and later slaughtered in a pretty ugly process! It sort of makes me glad that I don't eat any animals' flesh.

The message is pretty simple. If you buy venison, you are supporting cruelty to animals. It's really that simple. Put any label (kosher, free range, organic, etc) you want on it, but at the end of the day, how could any compassionate person eat the body of a tortured animal for no good reason?

Act now by sending a letter to the owner of Musicon Farm, where this video was taken, and demand that he immediately enact welfare changes! Better yet, tell him to shut down this operation all together!

FHM Sexiext Women of 2007

FHM'S GREATEST!!! ASTIG ANG BEAUTY NG MGA ATENG 'TO....



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I Love my BFF

Today is my Best Friend's Birthday! As usual I'm the cake sponsor! Ill have to say that I'm so blessed to have a bestfriend like him, I mean he's the only one that can tolerate my unexplainable behavior! hehe. Even though the world rebel against me i know Ill always have him fight by my side..... I love my best friend.... (",)

Unfortunately I wasn't able to enjoy the party (and the food of course!)I think my dentist is torturing me...(help!) Well, hopefully by next year I can have this annoying metal removed from my teeth...flashing pearly smile! here I come! (wishing)

Sleeping Beauties Part 2

When Duty Calls.....

The Sleeping Beauty of the Month:

LSS of the Week

Anticipating Down Under

One day I woke up and felt the anticipation of going back to Australia, I dnt know what came in my mind but I guess I realized that I just turned 21 and things must be put up in good places while Im still capable of doing it. Going back to Australia will be the biggest decision Ill ever
make in my life (well...so far)

*I have to save money (and I mean a BIG ammount of money)

What's in store for me in Australia? a succesful future? or a one big failure? for me I don't really care what's gonna happen, I grew tired of living a "moronic" life here in the Philippines (for crying out loud! I dont wanna take calls forever!) I want a new life. I want to start again... fix
myself up and work on my future. Even though it means I have to leave my family and friends....Well:

"life is full of sacrifices if you want something to happen, you really have to give up something to achieve it"

It's not that I don't belive that there is no future here in the Philipines, we gotta remember that wherever part of the earth we are, we are still the one who controls our future, I mean we can work in a multi-million company in the states or something but still end up becoming a big loser, Im leaving this place because I know that by doing this Ill be able to move on, restart, it's like being born again!... hehe.

Australia is my second home so it's not gonna be hard for me, I know ill be able to finish up my studies there and live a normal life just like what I do here in the Philippines.

Im a big boy now....and I am fully decided, Australia Im coming back...for good.