Thursday 13 August 2015

“Why do People Play Safe When they Become More Successful?” ―Professor M.S.Rao







“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” ―Steve Jobs


It is often observed that majority of the successful people play safe when they become more successful. In fact, people expect more from such successful people. Unfortunately, the successful play very safe. In fact, the reverse must be true.  Let us explore the reasons in this post.  

Generally people are scared of various things such as fear of failure, criticism, old age, poverty, ill health, and death to name a few. As a result, they fail to explore and experiment.  Mostly it is the fear of failure and criticism that prevent people from taking risks and exploring new avenues. When we look at many inventions, they are the outcome of successive failures. The inventors failed many times and learned lessons. They identified what did not work and changed their strategies to achieve positive outcomes ultimately. If Edison didn’t risk, we wouldn’t have had electric bulb. If Graham Bell didn’t risk, we wouldn’t have had telephone. If Col Sanders didn’t risk, we wouldn’t have seen KFC. Similarly, there are several turnaround leaders who turned around ailing global organizations successfully.  For example, if Alan Mulally didn’t risk, Ford wouldn’t have been turned around. If Carlos Ghosn didn’t risk, Renault-Nissan wouldn’t have been turned around. If Lou Gerstner didn’t risk, IBM wouldn’t have been turned around. If Steve Jobs were not brought back to the board, the Apple wouldn’t have been turned around. It is obvious from these inspiring leaders that it is essential to take risk in life.  We cannot expect all of our experiments to be successful as most of them would fail. But we must learn lessons from failures to explore and experiment unchartered paths to become trailblazers. Remember, life is worth living if it has challenges.

Let us look at some of the other reasons why successful people play safe rather than exploring new territories. Basically these successful people don’t want to lose what they have. When people don’t have anything, they can go to any extent to take risks as they have nothing to lose. On the other hand, when people have everything they are more careful in taking risks. Secondly, the expectations of the stakeholders have gone up globally. People want more for less. They want better than what they have. Hence, it is tough to rise up to the expectations and aspirations of the people. Thirdly, some of the high achievers have lots of internal insecurities which they don’t reveal. These unfounded insecurities prevent them from exploring new territories.

The takeaways from this article is successful people must not worry too much about what they have achieved. They must explore and experiment constantly to achieve greater success. They must reinvent constantly to rise up to the expectations of all stakeholders. They must learn, unlearn and relearn to stay head of times to stand out as great achievers to inspire the world.


“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” ―Steve Jobs




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Professor M.S.Rao, India
Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants India
Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World in 2013
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Tuesday 11 August 2015

“Why is the Indian Media so Negative When there are Positive Aspects to Emphasize? ―A. P. J. Abdul Kalam” ―Professor M.S.Rao





“Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?”  ―A. P. J. Abdul Kalam


No nation can survive when its citizens are cynic. No nation can progress when its people look more of negative aspects rather than positive aspects. No democracy can survive when its press emphasizes on negativity. Unfortunately Indian press highlights more of negative news than the positive news resulting in readers focusing on negative aspects and developing negative thinking. Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam highlighted the importance of media and implored Indian media to focus on positive aspects and progress rather than on negative aspects.

Presently people are easily carried away by negativity rather than positivity. With the advent of technology and social media, information gets spread quickly. People don’t find time to verify the information. They assume to be accurate. Some people enjoy negative information than the positive information. Unfortunately, the information is spread on social media without verification. In fact, social media is a double-edged sword and it can be used either for good or bad. It can be used for constructive or destructive activities.

Due to the cutthroat competition in television channels and print media, the press often bombards the information without verification to create sensationalism.  Minor things are flared up. At times innocent people get incited on insignificant issues. Some of the journalists of regional and local newspapers don’t have proper education. They don’t emphasize on ethics and etiquette. They publish the information without verification. It does no good for Indian democracy. India is the largest democracy in the world. Democracy stands on four pillars – Judiciary (Supreme Court, High Court & Other Judicial centers), Legislature (Parliament & State Assemblies, etc), Executive (Government), and Press (Newspaper, Internet, Blogs & whatever which expresses people’s aspirations). No pillar must be weakened to ensure the success of democracy.

It is time Indian media highlighted positive aspects to inspire people to dream and achieve big. It must focus on progress and mould public opinion to nation’s development. It must play an instrumental role to ensure healthy dissent, discussion and dialogue for the prosperity of our nation.  

Indians constantly look for inspirational leaders to dream and achieve big. Most of the Indians follow Swami Vivekananda and admire A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.  To conclude, India needs more than one million Kalams to inspire more than one billion Indians.


“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” ―Malcolm X




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Professor M.S.Rao, India
Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants India
Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World in 2013
Vision 2030 Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBCO-gWmTRk
Twitter: @professormsrao  
Blog: http://professormsrao.blogspot.com
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Global Top Gurus 30: http://www.globalgurus.org/leadership/upcoming.php
21 Success Sutras for Leaders: Top 10 Leadership Books of the Year (San Diego University) Amazon URL: http://www.amazon.com/21-Success-Sutras-Leaders-ebook/dp/B00AK98ELI




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Monday 10 August 2015

“Build Positive Attitude in Indian Students to Groom them as Global Leaders” ―Professor M.S.Rao








“Like me or Hate me, Both are in my favor, If you like me I am in your Heart, If you hate me I am in you mind.” ―Swami Vivekananda


Research shows that 70% students lose their interest when they reach the 4th year of engineering; 20% students sustain their interest; and only 10% students fare better when compared with their performance in Intermediate (10+2 standard) that is a two years education Indian students pursue before joining any degree courses. That means majority of engineering students lose their interest in education. It is shocking to read this research report.  Why does it happen? All students are basically good and want to grow in their careers. They want to make their parents proud and nations great. Unfortunately, these fresh students are surrounded by a few senior students with a negative attitude. These senior students pollute their minds of the freshers. Teenage is a very sensitive stage where students become either good or bad. It all depends on the kind of connections and friend circles they make in colleges. Additionally, people tend to listen to negative things more than positive things. The solution lies in building a positive attitude in Indian students to enable them to grow as successful students and healthy citizens. Here are some steps to build positive attitude in Indian students:
Set your goals. When you have goals, you use your time and energy productively. There will be no room for negativity as you are busy with your goals. Goals remove negative thoughts from your mind and replace them with positive thoughts. They energize your mind and build hopes thus fueling your dreams.
Surround with positive people. When you surround with positive people, you create positive vibrations. You look at the world with a positive frame of mind. Research shows that we get around 55000 thoughts in a day and most of them are negative. When you get any negative thoughts, your friends will correct you because you are in a positive ambience. This is the power of having positive circle.
Participate in games and sports. Games and sports build your personality physically and mentally. They help you improve emotional intelligence and acquire soft skills. They help you grow as a leader.
Balance your curricular and extracurricular activities. Your curricular activities help you acquire domain knowledge while extracurricular activities help you develop your other physical and mental faculties. Precisely, curricular activities improve your hard skills while the extracurricular activities improve your soft skills. A judicious blend of both hard and soft skills is essential to become a well-rounded personality.
Take part in nonprofits. Students must learn to contribute to society in the teenage itself. They must develop the heart of a servant leader to make a difference to the world. It helps them become responsible citizens. It improves their mindset to become duty-oriented, not rights-oriented. Additionally, it helps them build connections beyond educational institutions thus adding value to their personalities and enhancing their career prospects.  
Look at the door that is opened. People often look at the door that is closed thus developing cynicism. You must change your mindset hereafter to look at the door that is opened, not the closed one. It helps you look at the solutions for several problems in life. Life is all about possibilities when you look at with optimism.


An Ideal Student

Students must understand that brain is a hardware while mind is a software. They must ensure that virus doesn’t go to their softwares. They must check negative thoughts and allow only positive thoughts to improve their academic performance. An ideal student must visit college regularly, attend classes punctually, listen to educators attentively, make notes properly, discuss with friends constantly and clarify doubts with educators enthusiastically.  


Conclusion

Parents must visit educational institutions regularly to find out the performance of their children. It averts bunking of classes and alerts students to concentrate on academic performance. Educational institutions must emphasize on ethics and character education; and educators must become role models to students. Educators must treat all students equally and fairly. There must not be any preferential treatment to some students in the classroom. Students must have an open mind and constantly explore the opportunities.  They must be resourceful and work with what they have, and from where they are without inventing any excuses for their lapses. To conclude, there must be a coordinated approach between educators, students, parents and educational institutions to build positive attitude to inspire students to dream and achieve big in their lives.


“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success - that is the way great spiritual giants are produced." ―Swami Vivekananda



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Life is great!

Professor M.S.Rao, India
Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants India
Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World in 2013
Vision 2030 Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBCO-gWmTRk
Twitter: @professormsrao  
Blog: http://professormsrao.blogspot.com
Blog: http://professormsraoguru.blogspot.com
Global Top Gurus 30: http://www.globalgurus.org/leadership/upcoming.php
21 Success Sutras for Leaders: Top 10 Leadership Books of the Year (San Diego University) Amazon URL: http://www.amazon.com/21-Success-Sutras-Leaders-ebook/dp/B00AK98ELI




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