Professor M. S. Rao’s Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders

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Saturday 29 February 2020

How do You Turn an Enemy into a Friend? ― Share if You Care!

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” ―Abraham Lincoln

The title of this blog appears impossible right! Abraham Lincoln is my inspiration since my childhood. It is a coincidence that I also encountered several failures in my life since childhood. Additionally, I have been struggling since my childhood for my survival and success. I am optimistic that one day will be my day when I will be remembered for my contributions globally. When I was reading a book recently, I came across Lincoln’s quote of destroying enemies. So, to experiment, I phoned one of my friends who became my enemy for the last 5 years. We stopped our communication due to some reasons. Initially, he was not receptive to my telephone call. I called him many times to talk to him over the phone. Finally, he attended my telephone call. I began recalling our childhood where we studied and traveled together for more than four decades. He was slightly moved with our childhood memories and opened up gradually. I dedicated a book to him in the past but I never informed him about it. I wanted to gift the book to him at an appropriate time. I decided to blog on this topic to enable the readers to take away something.

Tools to Convert Enemies into Friends

If there is any miscommunication, talk straight to clear it. Identify if anybody involved in the miscommunication. Clear everything when you want to build the bridges. To maintain healthy relations, always verify the facts before jumping into conclusions. If you feel that you have made a mistake, apologize sincerely. We, humans, are emotional animals and get carried away by emotions rather than logic. So, check your emotions, think logically where things went wrong to connect with enemies. Remember that emotions can be used for both positive and negative things. Here are some tools to convert your enemies into friends. Don’t talk about the unpleasant past. Emphasize recalling positive aspects of life. Remind the past highlighting the sweet memories. The best way to visit the past is to talk to your friends about your past pleasant life. Be a giver. Don’t expect anything from your friends. Talk about their parents and the present challenges. Remind how life has transformed quickly. Bond with him. Talk about the rapid changes in society and the value system that has changed. Remind how the technology connected people although people live in long distant areas. Emphasize commonalities, ignore differences. Express your gratitude. Be thankful for the great things done to you. Look at the door that is opened, not the closed one.

Conclusion

Remember that the past cannot be brought back and the future cannot be predicted. So, learn to live in the present. Enjoy the journey of your life. Nobody knows what happens next. Life is a gift. You can never travel the same path twice. So, convert your enemies into friends by forgetting the unpleasant past and forgiving the mistakes. Remember that we all make mistakes in life. Nobody is perfect. To conclude, make your life great by converting your enemies into friends.

Reference

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Life is great!

Professor M.S. Rao

Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, India

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Saturday 22 February 2020

“Strategic thinking can be improved by various means including reflecting, connecting the dots, leveraging your whole brain, empathizing and making decisions with your head, heart, gut, and intuition.” —Professor M.S. Rao

“Strategic thinking can be improved by various means including reflecting, connecting the dots, leveraging your whole brain, empathizing and making decisions with your head, heart, gut, and intuition.” —Professor M.S. Rao

Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders

Read my ‘Vision 2030 One Million Global Leaders’ URL: http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.in/2014/12/professor-m-s-raos-vision-2030-one_31.html

“Things You Don’t Know about Professor M. S. Rao” http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.com/2015/10/things-you-dont-know-about-professor-m.html

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“Strategic thinkers change their tools and tactics from time to time to avoid being checkmated by others and stay ahead of the race.” —Professor M.S. Rao

Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders

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“To become a successful strategic thinker, you must dream bigger, think bigger, see the big picture, and understand the tactics.” —Professor M.S. Rao

Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders

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“Most battles are won by the brain, not by brute force. The strategy is connected with the brain while the tactics are connected with brawn.” —Professor M.S. Rao

Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders

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“Be bullish in your life but be prepared for bearish times.” —Professor M.S. Rao

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“The strategy is a long-term blueprint which is fixed while tactics are flexible and change as per the challenge and prevailing scenario.” —Professor M.S. Rao

Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders

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“To act in multiple films is to enter into many characters and lead many lives.” —Professor M.S. Rao

Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders

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“Only actors are gifted with entering into many lives because they involve in each character in their film career.” —Professor M.S. Rao

Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders

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“Why should I be afraid of a molehill when I have become a mountain after crossing all obstacles, insults, and struggles in my life.” —Professor M.S. Rao

Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders

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“God has created us equally with a relationship which is bigger than the blood relationship.” —Professor M.S. Rao

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Sunday 16 February 2020

Free Chapter―Professor M.S. Rao’s Upcoming Book “Strategy and Business: Tools and Tactics for CEOs to Build the Organizations of the Future”

Dear friends,

I am excited to share with you that I am authoring a book on strategic leadership and it is tentatively titled, “Strategy and Business: Tools and Tactics for CEOs to Build the Organizations of the Future.” Here are the details about the book with a free chapter. I would appreciate if you could share your thoughts about this book on social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

About The Book

“All the men can see the tactics I use to conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which great victory is evolved.” —Sun Tzu

This book outlines the author’s four decades of diversified experiences including the Indian Air Force, teaching, training, research, and consultancy. It outlines the strategy, business, decision-making, disruption, innovation, resilience, and time management. It is a short course on strategic leadership. You can easily toss the book into a briefcase or purse and read here and there as time allows. It is a quick reference guide for all learners, leaders, entrepreneurs, and chief executives.

1 – Introduction

“The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.” —Michael Porter

The strategy is the area that fascinates me ever since I joined the Indian Air Force. I am passionate about this area but never authored an exclusive book on it. I decided to author a book on strategy and business to reach out to leaders at all levels especially CEOs. Welcome to Strategy: Tools and Tactics for CEOs to Build the Organizations of the Future.

This book offers innovative tools and techniques for CEOs to make smarter and wiser decisions. It illustrates with the inspiring examples of successful entrepreneurs including Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Mark Zuckerberg. It interlinks decision-making and risk-taking. It explains decision-making from Daniel Kahneman’s perspective. It explains decision-making at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels. It draws a blueprint to make better decisions. It outlines a strategy for CEOs to make smarter and wiser decisions. It unveils the power of intuition with striking stories of Fred Smith, Michael Eisner, George Soros, and Robert Pittman. It advises the blending head, heart, and gut to make smarter decisions. It implores to explore situational decision-making to ensure organizational excellence and effectiveness.

This book prepares CEOs in the age of disruption and offers innovative tools and techniques to ensure organizational excellence and effectiveness. It explains industrial revolutions. It differentiates between disruption and innovation. It outlines factors leading to disruption. It illustrates with examples of iconic companies including Nokia, Kodak, Blockbuster, and Xerox. It enlightens that some of the notable industries including education, computer, banking, publishing, and print media ended up due to disruption. It reminds that disruption has impacted all sectors, industries, organizations, individuals and their careers.

This book offers innovative tools and techniques to build resilient organizations globally. It explains resilience and outlines the characteristics of resilient leaders. It draws a blueprint to build resilience. It outlines a blueprint to embrace change effectively. It illustrates with inspiring examples of resilient leaders including Jack Welch, Alan Mulally, Lou Gerstner, and Carleton (Carly) S. Fiorina. It explains overcoming volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. It implores to convert threats into opportunities. It enlightens that resilience is the key differentiator between successful people and unsuccessful people.

This book helps CEOs understand the capabilities and mechanisms that they need to adopt today to build successful organizations in the future. It illustrates with examples of global companies including Blockbuster, Nokia, Kodak, and Sears that failed to embrace change while Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook that succeeded in reinventing. It draws a blueprint for CEOs to build organizations in the future. It unveils that the traditional models of development are no longer adequate and unfolds strategies to build the organizations of the future. It advises integrated efforts from all stakeholders including the organization, employees, human resources, and chief executives to reinvent and build organizations of the future.

This book offers timeless tools for chief executives to manage their time effectively. It illustrates with examples of Bill Gates and Richard Branson who use their time judiciously and Jeff Immelt and Jeff Bezos who use their travel time productively. It accounts for switching costs and implores to harness technology to manage time. It reminds us that the richest people in the earth are the poorest in their personal time and the poorest people on the earth are the richest in their personal time. It cautions that if you waste one second, you wasted one second of your life. It enlightens that the biggest gift you can give to others is time, not money.

This book discusses leadership branding and draws a blueprint to build your personal brand globally. It defines personal branding and leadership branding and unveils the ten-fold process of personal branding. It explains leadership branding with examples of Wal-Mart, P&G, McKinsey, Apple, and PepsiCo. It suggests harnessing social media to build your personal brand successfully. It advises breaking the content into pieces and sharing them on different social media platforms by contextualizing and customizing as per the expectations of your audiences whenever you deliver keynotes and participate in podcasts and interviews. It reminds you that build your personal brand requires passion, patience, and persistence. It implores to adopt ABCDE of branding. It concludes to draw a long-term strategy by researching yourself, identifying your unique aspects, shortlisting your greatest strengths, and creating a niche area to stand out from others.

Note: Here is the link to purchase my bestselling book ‘21 Success Sutras for CEOs: How Global CEOs Overcome Leadership Challenges in Turbulent Times to Build Good to Great Organizations’ http://www.amazon.com/21-Success-Sutras-Ceos-Rao/dp/162865290X

Life is great!

Professor M.S. Rao

Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, India

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/M.-S.-Rao/e/B00MB63BKM

Vision 2030: https://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professormsrao

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See the Light in You: https://www.amazon.com/See-Light-You-Spiritual-Mindfulness/dp/1949003132

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Tuesday 11 February 2020

“Strategy is the process of preparing for the future by scanning the internal and external environment and weighing the strengths and weaknesses of competitors and creating the future.” —Professor M.S. Rao

“Strategic thinkers see the big picture and scan the environment, weigh the pros and cons before making decisions to create the future.” —Professor M.S. Rao

“No power on the earth can prevent the talent from coming to the top.” —Professor M.S. Rao

“The situational decision-making is the process of making smarter and wiser decisions by blending your head, heart, gut, and intuition based on the environment, prevailing situation, availability of the resources, and time.” —Professor M.S. Rao

“Nobody can teach you the art and craft of teaching. Teaching is a passion that comes from within.” —Professor M.S. Rao

“Although spending leisure time is the main thing, tourists must understand and respect local traditions and cultures.” —Professor M.S. Rao

“Spiritual tourism is to travel to find purpose and meaning to your life. In a nutshell, it connects your body, mind, and soul. Spiritual tourism is not connected with any specific religion.” —Professor M.S. Rao

“Traveling helps you discover yourself. It helps you to be open-minded, offers a break to your routine life, and provides patience. It relieves stress and unwinds your mind. You will discover your strengths and weaknesses.” —Professor M.S. Rao

Thursday 6 February 2020

Strategy and Leadership: Tools and Tactics for CEOs to Build the Organiz...

Tuesday 4 February 2020

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Sunday 2 February 2020

“The leaders like Abraham Lincoln who failed frequently in the initial stage used more of head and heart while the leaders like Jeff Bezos who achieved success one after another use more of their intuition and gut during decision-making.” —Professor M.S. Rao

“The leaders like Abraham Lincoln who failed frequently in the initial stage used more of head and heart while the leaders like Jeff Bezos who achieved success one after another use more of their intuition and gut during decision-making.” —Professor M.S. Rao

Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders

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