Change or Perish

“Jack (Welch) was a great CEO, but he really controlled his world. Those days are over. I’m in the risk-management business. You’re not in the control business today, you’re in the risk-reward business.” - Jeff Immelt, CEO GE

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The accelerating impact of technology on the natural forces of market competition are taking the world by storm & the unconventional business model adopted by Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp of: get users, get them to use more of your product/service & then make money is difficult for traditional businesses to understand, says Uday Kotak. “As a banker, when I sleep at night, I worry about whether I’ll have a bank next morning, or will there be an Ali Bank or a Flipkart bank or some other bank doing  what we do.” he says.

Jeff Immelt & Kishore Biyani's no risk, no reward attitude of reinventing yourself is the way forward.

Be Your Own Judge

“If you want to get rid of being judged for being a man or a woman, Indian, or American, Brown or Caucasian, you need to to be your own judge and set your own benchmark. I have kept my head down and worked very hard. Eventually people get impressed by your dedication and calibre more than anything else.” - Actor Priyanka Chopra

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More often than not in India, Browns bow to the Whites out of a colonial hangover and women bow to men out of a cultural hangover. Stop comparing yourself with the rest and focus on excelling in whatever you do.

Being Relevant

“There are no small roles, only small actors,” said Boman Irani to fellow actor Sonam Kapoor. And that made her realise that she needs to make herself relevant in everything she does and to constantly prove her relevance.

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To evolve, to keep up with the times, give everything you do your 100% and being resilient, keeps you relevant.

Amitabh Bacchan was out in the filmdom wilderness when he decided to do television, which other film actors had up till then shunned as a comedown. And that became his platform for his bounce back into films.

What’s your take on making yourself relevant?

Defining Success

Naveen Jain is serial entrepreneur whose company Moon Express, is the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon. Talking about when customers don't come on board easily, he says, “...Your success is not about your bank balance, it is about how many lives you have touched.”

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One of the most critical task in today's materialistic times where the money god seems to have the largest following, is to define what success means to YOU personally. Here are 9 ways incredibly successful people define success.

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The 10/90 Leadership Rule

10% of leadership has to do with your DNA. 90% has to do with how you use the right combination of what you have, into behaviours to suit your work context.

A Leadership Coach can assist you in putting together your very own leadership recipe through creating awareness of your potential and modeling it for success.

Dealing With The Uncontrollable

There are some people who are fated to play second fiddle, - eg Shashi Kapoor to Big B, Ronaldo to Messi, & Djokovic to Federer, says sportswriter Akshay Sawai. Bonafide achievers all, but nevertheless not the public's first choice. Djokovic initially  hated the feeling & displayed his ire to the partisan crowds, having taken to yoga and meditation & eating goji berries, he now merely smiles at them.

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Life sometimes throws situations at us that we can neither fight, nor understand why they happen. To deal with such times, each of us has to arrive at his own mix of coping responses.