Tuesday 27 January 2015

Leverage India’s Demographic Dividend to Grow India as an Economic Super Power in the World
















"There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission—a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment he finds greatness. It is his finest hour."  - Winston Churchill


With the US President, Barack Obama’s visit to India to grace as a guest for Republic Day celebrations 2015, the world is watching keenly and closely about the India’s growing power globally.  India and Indians were ignored until recently. But with Barack Obama’s visit as the guest for Republic Day, the spotlight turned on India. He is the first US President to visit India twice and is the first US President to be guest for India’s Republic Day celebrations.

Presently India has several strategic strengths and advantages. It is time for us to recognize our strengths and leverage them to grow India as an economic super power in future. Here are some of the India’s strengths:

India is the largest democracy in the world with the youngest population. We have the largest speaking English speaking population in the world. We produce goods and services at low-cost without compromising quality. We sent low-cost Mangalyaan to Mars successfully. Our Indians are excelling globally in all spheres including Information Technology by offering low-cost services. In fact, they are the brain behind the success of many global companies. We have a maximum number of management thinkers globally doing their best for global good.  Most of the prestigious business schools in the world have Indian faculty members and three intellectuals are leading as Deans for three top business schools. Our Indians are spread across the world bringing laurels to our country.

Research shows that by 2022, the average Indian’s age would be 29, compared to 37 for China and the US, and 45 for Western Europe.  And India will have young population in the first half of the 21st century.  We must enhance employability skills among the Indian youth to enable them to grab employment opportunities. Otherwise, this demographic dividend will become an uncontrollable demographic disaster.

India must produce skilled manpower to meet the future requirements. Present Indian education system is not up to the expectations of the students as it is theory-oriented. It doesn’t emphasize on practical education. Hence, there is an urgent need to focus on developing skills among the Indian students and youth. Globally the Baby Boomers are retiring and there is a looming leadership vacuum. Hence, the young talent must be inculcated with leadership skills and abilities to groom them as leaders to accept roles and responsibilities. They must be kept in the leadership pipeline ready to encounter global challenges. These young leaders not only help India grow globally but also help other nations grow to build a better global society. Indians are adaptable and can go to any part of the world to work to build vibrant economies. They will make a huge difference to the global society.

Since we have the advantage of demographic dividend and we must know how to leverage it. If we ignore it, we lose this great opportunity as this demographic dividend will become a demographic disaster due to more number of old people living in India after 30 years.  Hence, Indian citizens and youth must leverage this advantage by working very hard to take India to great heights. Additionally, we are blessed with natural resources and we must know how to exploit them. We have plenty of other opportunities presently.  We must know how to grab them to make India as a strong country. We must cultivate a positive attitude and enhance our commitment levels to contribute our best to make India as an economic super power in the world. Remember, 21st century belongs to Asia and especially for India. India is a nation of aspirations. India is a nation of hopes. India is a nation of dreams. Hence, let us strive hard to accomplish our dreams build a strong nation.  Jai Hind!


"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill




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Sunday 25 January 2015

Professor M. S. Rao’s Message to Indians on India’s Republic Day 2015 - India of my Dreams












Dear brothers and sisters of India,

Today we celebrate India’s 65th Republic Day. As a citizen of this great country, it is a great honor to share my thoughts to fellow citizens. Today is the day we must take stock of what we have achieved and yet to achieve to take India forward aggressively as an economic super power in the world.

There are innumerable challenges ahead for our country. There is an urgent need for the Indian youth to build skills and abilities to enhance their employability skills. Globally the baby boomers are retiring and there is an urgent need to build the Indian youth as leaders to fill the gap arising out of their retirement. It enables the Indian youth to undertake leadership roles and responsibilities to lead our nation. It also helps build next generation leaders. There is growing urbanization and there is an urgent need to build homes to the homeless in India. There is also an urgent need to check corruption which has become a cancer to our society. Some of the people are not ethical and most of the money goes into the private coffers of politicians.

India is a land of unity in diversity. To succeed as a nation, we must support secularism. Let us not get carried away by narrow politicians who divide our society in the name of region, religion, language, caste and community. Let us promote fraternity to bring oneness in all of us. Let us be proud that we are Indians first and Indians last.

We need reforms in infrastructure to have a strong infrastructure to enable us to have a strong superstructure. We must understand the fact that whatever has been tried and tested and was successful in the past might not be successful in the future. Hence, we must explore innovative technological tools and techniques to build a strong India.  Additionally, it is essential for us to have good neighborly relations to ensure peace and prosperity.

Indian intellectuals must not be part of the problem. In contrast, they must be part of the solution to overcome the leadership challenges. All stakeholders including intellectuals, educators, government, NGOs and industry must collaborate and work hard earnestly to build a strong India. We must enhance employability skills in Indian students and encourage entrepreneurship in Indian youth. More entrepreneurs mean more opportunities resulting in rapid economic growth. 

India has the potential for consumer consumption and has the ability to deliver the services and products at low cost effectively without compromising the quality. For instance, we have sent the low cost Mangalyan to Mars and demonstrated to the world about our capability and ability to spend the amount less than producing a Hollywood film.

India is blessed with several strategic advantages and strengths. India is gifted with both natural resources and human resources. It is time we realized the importance of human resources dominated by young population and utilized them for nation building. Here are some more strengths of India which no other nation in the world has presently:
  • We are proud to say that India is the largest democracy in the world.
  • We are proud to say that India has the largest speaking English population in the world.
  • We are proud to say that India is a hope for billions of people in the world.  There are a number of people who came to India and made India as their home.  It is the melting pot. India is noted for cultural richness and diversity. 
  • We are proud to say that India has the oldest civilization and with the youngest population in the world.

We are strong in mathematics. We are strong in Information Technology. We invented zero. Albert Einstein once remarked, “We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”  We teach yoga to the world. We are proud to say that the only nation in the world which is widely watched presently is India. Therefore, we must be proud of being Indians. Without your support, our nation would not have come to this level. Therefore, I speak with conviction that we are going to lead this world.

We have achieved independence with lots of struggles and sacrifices by our forefathers. We must work hard to preserve our hard won freedom to ensure that we take India in a right direction at a fast pace. Let us present India in a positive perspective. Let us work hard to elevate India’s image globally. The world is changing rapidly with changes in technology. We must work hard to keep pace with the world to avail the existing global opportunities to lead India as a global super power.

India is a nation of hopes! India is a nation of aspirations! India is a nation of expectations! Remember, 21st century belongs to India and Indians. India will grow as a power and Indians will grow globally in all spheres spreading India’s greatness. We are blessed with several inherent strengths. We must explore and utilize our strengths to build a strong and vibrant India. Let us look at the door that is opened. Be responsible. Be accountable. Be duty-oriented. Make a difference in the lives of others. Lead India. Lead the world! God bless India.  Jai Hind!


“If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.”  -  Romain Rolland, Roman Scholar

“India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.” - Mark Twain


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Professor M.S.Rao’s Message to Indians on Republic Day 2015

Thursday 22 January 2015

Dear Students, Grow as Global Leaders to Encounter Leadership Challenges and Bridge the Global Leadership Deficit – Professor M.S.Rao





“The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.” – Albert Einstein.


Recently I was interviewed by an eminent newspaper about my Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders URL: http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.in/2014/12/professor-m-s-raos-vision-2030-one_31.html  I was asked how I got the idea to create this vision and the need to train only students as global leaders by 2030.

I served in Indian Air Force due to love towards my nation and passion for uniform. I served for some years and acquired several qualifications including DME, BSc, MA, PGDCLL, PGDBM, and MBA. After I left Indian Air Force, I pursued research and earned my PhD in Soft Skills in 2011.  I led a painful life both in defence and civil as I was born into a poor family and encountered innumerable challenges in my personal, professional and social life. While serving in Indian Air Force I acquired knowledge on leadership as military makes the best leaders due to the kind of tough training soldiers receive and the kind of unique challenges they encounter both during war and peace. Hence, I developed passion for leadership. While in Indian Air Force, I did not like the way things were happening in India where we find unscrupulous politicians dividing society in the name of region, religion, caste, and communities. Additionally, lots of money goes into the private coffers of politicians rather than reaching to the poor people in India. I was very much disturbed with the conditions in the Indian society. In fact, corruption has become a cancer to the Indian society. Hence, I thought of training leaders with a global mindset so that they can develop the nation, promote fraternity and work for global peace and prosperity.

After leaving the service, I entered into teaching profession as educational institutions are the ideal places to shape students and equip them with leadership skills and abilities. Second, I focused on students as they are in teenage and they can be molded easily as leaders the way military takes the young people and grooms them as soldiers and leaders. I started getting overwhelming support from students as they were inspired during my teaching and training programs in educational institutions. Students loved me and crowned me with a title, ‘Professor M.S.Rao is Born for the Students’ URL: http://professormsrao.blogspot.com.

As a leadership researcher, I do a lot of research on various leadership styles and how leadership can be used for the benefit of global society. I coined a new leadership perspective ‘Soft Leadership’ which is drawing international attention URL: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17087126. This new perspective can be applied both to companies and countries to bring prosperity.  During my research I came to know that there is a looming leadership challenge globally due the retirement of Baby Boomers (old people) and the Gen Y (young people) are not geared up with global leadership challenges due to lack of effective leadership development training programs. That means when the experienced aged leaders exit from service there is an alarming leadership vacuum globally as the young inexperienced people are not ready in the leadership pipeline to take up the leadership roles and responsibilities. Although it is a threat globally, I viewed it as an opportunity. I decided to train students as global leaders to enable them to grow with leadership skills and abilities. So far, I have taught and trained more than 25,000 people. I started taking the support of social media to articulate my vision and I regularly post articles and videos URL: http://www.youtube.com/user/profmsr7 in my social media accounts to share my knowledge. Since I belong to Gen X (middle age) I can become the link between the Baby Boomers (old people) and the Gen Y (young people) to bridge this global leadership deficit. I considered my age and experience in military and academia, and above all, my interest in leadership and my passion for students an opportunity to serve students to groom them as global leaders.  Hence, I pray to God to give me health, knowledge, wisdom, strength and lifespan to build one million students as global leaders by 2030.

The interviewer asked me another question whether it is possible for a one man like me to accomplish my vision. I replied that Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela started as an individual but they made a huge difference to the society. Remember, one man can make the difference to the world. That is YOU.


“What the future holds for us depends on what we hold for the future.” –William E. Holler



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Vision 2030 Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBCO-gWmTRk
Twitter: @professormsrao  
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