Factors which determine our attitude:

1- environment
2- experience
3- education

1- Environment: such as home, school, work, media, cultural background, religious background, tradition and beliefs, social environment, political environment.
2- Experience:
Our behavior changes according to our experiences with people and events in our life. If we have a positive experience with a person, our attitude towards him becomes positive. If we have a negative experience with a person, our attitude towards him becomes negative too.
3- Education:
Both formal and informal education affects our attitude. It is useless if we are drowned in information because we have to have knowledge and wisdom besides as well. Education ought to teach us not only to make a living but also how to live.

Seven Qualities of a Leader

To be truly successful in your life, your career, your community or in any area, you need to develop the qualities of a leader. First and foremost, you will need to be able lead yourself to success. Furthermore, true success often requires you to lead other people as well. Here are 7 personal development tips - the qualities of successful leaders.

There are 7 important qualities of a leader that you should know about, assimilate and practice every day in your life. You may already recognise some of them in your self - that's a good start. Be assured, we all have the makings of a leader in us. You just need to build on that base to incorporate more of the qualities of a leader a bit at a time.

As you get closer to the qualities of a true leader you will find that you begin to act like a leader and people behave as if you are leader. Leaders are the people who have the greatest rewards in all walks of life. Whether in business, or in society or in the community.

Seven qualities of a leader
1- Integrity. Integrity means that you are true to yourself and your ideas. You are someone you can trust and someone other people can trust. This is possibly the most important quality. You should always strive to do things that you are proud to explain to anyone.
2- Understand the area you want to be a leader in. You simply won't have a thorough grasp of the area you are trying to be a leader in. This applies to any walk of life - business, community, spiritual... All leaders have a good grasp of the basics and the key details.
This is not to say that you have to know everything there is to know - that is the job of the specialist, but you need to be able to talk to specialists and contribute some guidance to their work.
3- Consistency. When you are trying to lead people, you will rapidly loose the trust of your followers if you constantly change your mind and your direction. They will feel uncertain about their future and eventually you will loose them. This applies to yourself as well. If you are constantly changing direction, you will end up running round in circles and going nowhere.
4- Ability to admit your mistakes. One of the greatest cause of failure is not being willing to admit your mistakes. If you lie to yourself, you are fooling no one but yourself. You must be able to face up to your mistakes otherwise you will miss tremendous opportunities to learn from your mistakes and accelerate your success.
5- Willingness to listen. You can never know all the answers, you must be able to deal with contradictions and leverage the vast pool of knowledge that is around you.
6- Decisiveness. Great leaders make decisions and they make them quickly. Even if they are wrong, you'll learn more by taking action than by not taking the decision. You can always make another decision based on your learning.
7- Self Belief. If you don't believe in your self... no one will! You will face a lot of setbacks and obstacles. You need to believe in yourself and your ability to solve the problems and achieve your dreams. If you believe in yourself you will display an burning passion for your idea that will motivate others to follow you.

Some Thoughts

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
We are born with a brain concealed in a skull that no matter how poor we are, we're still rich, for no one can steal what our brain contains.
We are born to have two ears, one on the left, and one on the right so we can hear both sides, collect both the compliments and criticisms, to understand which are right.
We are born with two eyes in front so that we must not always look behind, but see what lies ahead beyond ourselves.
People need to understand that children with special needs don't have an illness, so there is no cure & it's not contagious. They only want what we all want, to be accepted.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
We should not spend all our time asking why a particular person doesn't like us. Rather, should enjoy happiness that a thousand others do love us.
Don't be ashamed if you don't know something... what's embarrassing is that you cannot do anything... by all means knowledge can be obtained thru learning..
There is no such thing as destruction... you just changed something in a different form...
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
A human being must have an occupation, so he or she will not become a nuisance to the world.

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What Are Your Major Weaknesses?

You must be prepared to answer this trick question. If you answer the question as it is asked, you could easily damage your chances of getting the job. By trying to throw you off guard, the employer can see how you might react in similar tough situations on the job. I have often asked this question to groups of job seekers, and I usually get one of two types of responses. The first response goes like this:
"I really don't have any major weaknesses." That response is untrue and evasive. The other type of response I usually get is an honest one like this:

"Well, I am really disorganized. I suppose I should do better at that, but my life has just been too hectic, what with the bankruptcy and embezzlement charges and all."

Although this type of response might get an A for honesty, it gets an F for interview technique.
What's needed here is an honest, undamaging response followed by a brief, positive presentation to counter the negative. The best approach is to present a weakness in a way that does not harm-and could help-your ability to do a good job. Here are some examples:

Sample Answer #1
"Well, I have been accused by coworkers of being too involved in my work. I usually come in a little early to organize my day and stay late to get a project done on time."

Sample Answer #2
"I need to learn to be more patient. I often do things myself just because I know I can do them faster and better than someone else. This trait has not let me be as good at delegating tasks as I want to be. But I am working on it. I'm now spending more time showing others how to do the things I want done and that has helped. They often do better than I expect because I am clear about explaining what I want and how I want it done."

These responses could both be expanded with the Prove-It Technique, but they successfully use the Three-Step Process in answering a problem question, as outlined in chapter 1. In both cases, the answers responded to the question as it was asked, but they did so in a way that presented the weakness as a positive.

"What Sort of Pay Do YouExpect to Receive?"
If you are unprepared for this question, any response you give is likely to damage your ability to get a job offer. The employer wants you to name a number that can be compared to a figure the company has in mind. Suppose that the employer is looking to pay someone $36,000 a year. If you say you were hoping for $40,000, you will probably be eliminated from consideration. The employer will be afraid that, if you took the job, you may not stay. If you say you would take $29,000, you will make it nearly impossible to negotiate for a higher salary if you are offered the job. Or the employer might decide that your skills are worth less than what the job requires.

This question is designed to help the employer either eliminate you from consideration or save money at your expense. You could get lucky and name the salary the employer had in mind, but the stakes are too high for me to recommend that approach.
Employers often use discussions of pay in an initial interview to screen people out. Because you aren't likely to get a firm job offer in a first interview, your objective should be to create a positive impression and not be rejected. If the topic of pay does come up, avoid getting nailed down. Here are some things you could say:

"Are you making me a job offer?" (A bit corny, yes, but you just might be surprised at the result.)
"What salary range do you pay for positions with similar requirements?"
"I'm very interested in the position, and my salary would be negotiable."
"Tell me what you have in mind for the salary range."
"I prefer to hear more about the position before I can come up with a solid number."
Put off discussion of pay until you are sure it's the real thing and not just part of a screening process. See chapter 8 for more information on how to talk money when the time is right.

How do you prioritize your work?

Prioritizing is not easy. You must determine what needs to be done and how much time you have to do it in. Normally you should not make your schedule so tight that you won't have time for setbacks or research. Make a list of things to do: you should start with the most important and time sensitive issues. On your list you should list the due date of your projects. Always give yourself at least 2 days before, if possible. If your projects are daily then give yourself at least 1 to 2 hours deadline before the due date or time. If you can color code your list such as (Red) urgent, must do right away, (Blue) projects with deadlines within a weeks time (Purple) daily jobs that can be done at any time. Cross off things as you finish them and add as needed. Keep this in your computer but also print a copy and keep it somewhere where you can see it.

How do you reduce manpower if there are 16000 employees in an organization?

Reducing Manpower
Three primary methods, layoffs, atrition or early retirement bonuses. Unfortunately, layoffs end up causing more problems than they are worth. People tend to start looking for jobs when they see their co-workers get laid-off. Attrition just allows people to leave without hiring someone else to fill the spot. Necessary positions are re-filled from within the company.

Attrition and early retirement take a little longer, but give the employees much more confidence in the company, and end up with valuable employees staying.

Increase management to staff ratios:

Increase employee to employer ratio:
In an organization of 16,000 employees, there will be many levels of management with in the organization. If the organization were to assign lower level employees to any one manager, they would then be able to reduce employee numbers. This is where middle management has its problems during recessions etc.

For e.g. (NB: unrealistic and oversimplifying):
If a company has 128 employees to manage and each manager in the organization has 2 people under them, the organization diagram will look like this: 1 > 2 > 4 > 8 > 16 > 32 > 64 > 128. This means that there is 8 tiers in the organization, and most importantly, 126 managers looking after 128 workers.

As opposed to having a structure where each manager looks after 4 people, again with 128 workers, the structure will look like so: 1 > 4 > 16 > 64 > 128. In this case, there is only 5 tiers, and only 84 managers looking after 128 workers.

This difference of 42 managers is a huge reduction in the workforce. As seen, to do this the organization must demand more from management, which could be done through a number of ways like training or higher wages. But in doing so, the manpower required in an organization will be greatly diminished, especially the larger an organization is, i.e. 16,000 employees.

How long does it take to earn a bachelor's degree in business?

It should take 4 years if it's from a reputable university. There are many other programs that are less but 4 is best.