Have you ever been seriously nagged or irked by your family members? How do you feel when someone hurls expletives at you in a crowded train for having accidentally stepped on his or her feet? If your boss screams at you for not completing the report on time, do you forgive your boss easily? Can you sleep peacefully when you …Read the Rest
Making Impossible Possible
“Impossible is a word found in the dictionary of fools,” declared the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. While most popular lifestyle leaders encourage their followers to believe in this maxim, albeit to achieve a purely materialistic pursuit, a spiritual leader has a different approach to life: “Achieving the possible, and accepting the impossible.” Let’s explore this principle deeply. Bookmark on Delicious …Read the Rest
Leadership and Character
Abraham Lincoln said, “The surest way to reveal one’s character is not through adversity but by giving them power.” Surely, human history is famished for leaders who displayed integrity even after rising to power and glory. Yes, the leaders who did are the one’s that keep history alive. Closer in time, among the rags-to-riches stories of today, I scour for …Read the Rest
Enthusiasm and Leadership
It was my first five minutes of my first day of graduation studies at the Indian Institute of Technology. As the professor entered, all the students stood up out of respect, following the social etiquette we had grown up with. “Sit down please. Not IIT style,” quipped the professor. We sat—never to stand again to greet another professor for the …Read the Rest
The power of one before the zero
I remember attending my daughter’s annual drama performance, which was very unique in the sense all the students of the school from the first standard to the tenth standard were performing, and they had spent months practicing for it. It was at a mammoth level with 1000 students performing in their colorful costumes on a larger-than-life stage with spectacular lighting …Read the Rest
Servant, Leader or Both?
Increasingly, leadership gurus graciously accept the close link between leadership and service. New books on leadership drag into spotlight corollaries of a previously ignored simple truth of life—that we can do the most good to ourselves by doing good to others. Back in 2005 when Radhanath Swami was invited by Cornell University to be the keynote speaker for a seminar …Read the Rest
Increasingly we see top leaders, CEO's falling from fame
due to some or the other transgressions they make. During the recent recession it was noted that as the US
government was bailing out banks and insurance companies, top CEO's of those very companies made millions in
insider tradings.