Empathy & Ethics: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders Maharana Pratap – A brave warrior, caring king and valiant leader Many leaders are competent, but few qualify as remarkable. If you want to join the ranks of the best of the best, make sure you also embody the qualities of empathy and ethics all the […]
Strategy: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders Part II: 477th Maharana Pratap Jayanti – Strategy It doesn’t matter how good your strategy is, if you suck at what you do, that strategy won’t take you very far. Hence, Maharana Udai Singh of Mewar came to conclusion that Chittor, in plains, was not a safe place […]
Part I: 477th Maharana Pratap Jayanti Courage is the quality that distinguishes great leaders from excellent managers. In this month of May we celebrate 477th birth anniversary of Maharana Pratap, who is a subject of respect and pride for the Indian diaspora, around the world as he has become a symbol of courage, patriotism, sacrifice […]
Heard of #Intellectual #Snobbery? Avoid being a #critic. “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” — Teddy Roosevelt Productive criticism is crucially important. #Intellectual #snobbery is not. It doesn’t take much to find fault in something. The real question is whether or not pointing it out positively changes anything. If […]
My father Inder Singh Mehta, born on 29th September 1910 at Udaipur, was almost 9 years old when my grandfather Nawal Singh Mehta was given in adoption – adoption was prevalent among Bachhawat Mehtas to maintain continuity of the clan for the purpose of succession and heir. It was a legitimate source of compensation for […]
How do I bring #balance in whatever I understand, desire and do, to be truly successful? Don’t let #tradition paralyse your #mind… #Challenge: Although my understanding of right and wrong is really good, I am not usually able to be or feel successful. This is because I notice a mismatch between what I know and […]
Permit me to give you just a little background. More than a half century ago an ordinary looking school boy selling tea earned fifty rupees a month. The other boys in his group earned ten. Swami Dayanand Saraswati, once challenged a group of his disciples. Here is what he said, “I want you to […]
Alekh Sangal.. you have a knack of making people, whom you love, CRY………..,. ………….,. …………….., ……………., …………………………., ………………., with JOY….! Read on what he has written… : “It has to be one of the finest and most prestigious weekends I have ever had. To be an integral part of the realisation of 1 Man’s Vision, his […]
There is a cause for an effect and an effect for a cause. The aggregate of your desires leads you to its effect. Therefore it is all important that you scrutinise and realise what type of desires you entertain moment to moment. You must try and avoid all negative desires. Make an earnest attempt to […]
“Deserve only and you need not desire” “If you really deserve, objects reach you on their own accord. The law is unfailing. It never happens that you richly deserve something and you are denied it. It is a misconception. It you fail to achieve your objective, remember that you do not deserve it. Something has […]