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As the Olympics wind up, I find myself reflecting back especially on Shaun White’s amazing performance. When he won his well-deserved half-pipe gold in Vancouver under a blizzard of media coverage, even a sober academic like me was jumping up and down, watching the excitement on television. It strikes me now that the business and academic communities can learn powerful lessons from this young Olympian.

In Shaun, a restless spirit that seeks to create its own destiny, not by settling for “good enough,” but by being the best ever.

Let’s examine the management lessons:

Ambition. Successful organizations sometimes become complacent, and, over time, they decay. Remember Polaroid? Shaun didn’t rest on his laurels after he won the gold. He set himself a nearly impossible goal — a perfect score — similar to JFK’s ambition to put a “man on the moon.” When White didn’t have to, he tried a double McTwist 1260. Why is a huge ambition important? Because the thought of climbing a mountain lifts us up in a way the idea of scaling a molehill does not. Does your organization have a huge ambition?

Passion. Obviously, Shaun loves what he does. When you love your work, excellence isn’t an afterthought, it is the only thought. Is your organization passionate about its purpose?

Results. Shaun’s obsession is based on results. He invests the time to create new moves that set a new standard. Does your organization focus on results and doing what it takes to create them?

Innovation. Shaun is an entrepreneur and innovator par excellence. He constantly pushes the boundary and invents new tricks. For him, innovation isn’t a luxury, it’s a way of life. Is innovation part of your organization’s DNA?

Talent. At an early age, Shaun’s talent was recognized by one of his sponsors. He turned pro at 13, before the Olympics even had a snowboarding event. Does your organization pursue talent, attract it and nurture it?

Humility. Even while soaring high on achievement and adulation, Shaun has kept himself grounded, surrounded by family and close friends. The more humble you are, the more you know what you don’t know; you seek to learn. Is yours a learning organization?

Mind-set. This is as important as ability. Shaun exemplifies this, as evidenced in his recent backstage interview on Oprah:

“I wish I could say it was really intense training but it’s a lot of mental preparation. A lot of my sport has to do with mentally being ready to do these tricks and convincing yourself it’s okay.”

Does your organization have the right mind-set for excellence?

America didn’t achieve greatness by tucking in its shirttails or by taking the safe road. This nation wasn’t built by bean counters, insurance companies, or financial institutions. It was built through an unquenchable thirst for innovation. Sure, we praise Steve Jobs and the lads at Google, but we need more of them.

Where are the Shaun Whites to tackle health care or the green challenge?

Politicians and business leaders, it’s your turn. Where you will be in 2020?

A Passion Leads to Excellence based on Latest Block Buster Movie 3 Idiots

Dr. Shailesh Thaker – A Seminar on Learning a lesson from 3 Idiots Movie for Professors, Teachers, Students and Professionals at HL College Campus, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad – 380009.

Next Session coming soon at AMA

Dr. Shailesh Thaker takes the pride to launch Stress Management / Mind Management workshop in January 2010 in Mauritius. This will be a great opportunity for business leaders to de-stress their life and develop brain.

Dr. Shailesh Thaker, renowned management guru and management thinker, is launching stress management / mind management workshop in January 2010. The seminar will be organised by event partner Multievent Group, at Le Meridien, Ile Maurice, Pointe-aux-Piments in Mauritius.

This unique seminar on mind management / stress management is greatly beneficial for business managers, executives, directors and professionals to de-stress life and help great balance in both professional and personal life. The workshop helps understand the central role of human mind in helping an individual perform more effectively.

A study states that people have the capacity to succeed but most of them only uses a very small portion of brain. In an age when creativity and time are the key commodities, learning to use the brain is the skill. Only if people can learn faster and more effectively they will be able to thrive.

And skills to develop brain is taught in this workshop. The workshop emphasises on brain development, creativity, skills to use maximum amount of brain and help professionals grow. This workshop helps understand the centre role of our minds in helping us perform effectively.

Dr. Thaker is the world-renowned management thinker and motivational speaker on organisational behaviour and development. He is the CLO of Knowledge Inc. a highly reputed training firm, which always helps organisations to achieve international benchmark. Dr. Thaker as a management guru is always in demand as a keynote speaker, business coach and training guru for the management and training conferences.

This mind management programme is just for two days that gives maximum exposure to the factors of stress levels and tools to handle them. This workshop trains managers, executives, professionals to work out special stress reliving skills. This workshop also provides great benefits. It will help control temper, develops tremendous power of suggestion, and increases confident level, increases efficiency at work place as well as personal life.

With the collaboration of Multievents, Dr. Thaker brings this unique and effective workshop with stress management tools and help brain development at its optimum level. People are rushing for registration, as the seats are limited.

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Management Thinker Dr. Shailesh Thaker takes the pride to launch Stress Management / Mind Management workshop in January 2010 in Mauritius. This will be a great opportunity for business leaders to de-stress their life and develop brain.

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Can you recall DR. A.P.J KALAM’s first mission of “Pruthiv” missile to make India independent in the area of self defense? Can you recall seeing the first Apollo moon-landing?

Both are magnificent accomplishments and the achievement is unparallel.

We all need mission in the life. Then only we can find ourselves engaged in totality. When our 100 percent starts coming out, we feel that we are unleashing our potentiality. We first need focus, and then the dream, the vision, the strategy, and the action plan are unfolded.

You cannot predict what will be the fruit of your mission. Achievement of mission is also unexpected in any hour of the day.

In case of our “Pruthiv” missile we came to know about our strength and our competency. In case of moon, we came to know how it looks from the moon. We knew before that how the earth looks from the moon.

Flying space shuttle Rakesh Sharma, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi asked him, “How India does look from the space and the answer was “Saara jaha se aacha Hindustan hamara….”

We all are learners; we learned that envisioning the big picture of the life, which help us in developing the plan, the team, the strategy and the goals and much more….

Anthony Robbins define mission properly “A sense of purpose that lures you in to your future. It enlightens your principles, your energy, your values and your goals.”

When you start living with your mission you start living with joy, satisfaction, pleasure and fun. Trust me you will forget your most of the daily routines also. Your eyes will be on the mission only.

Michelangelo said, “They do it day after day, and they thoroughly enjoy it, you can too.”

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The complete world is running after happiness without understanding happiness. How to be happy that lesson is not taught in schools/colleges. We are not aware of happiness nor have we tried to understand deeply, what is happiness? If happiness is just lying in money only then why small children of laborers and people who all are living under poverty line are found to be full of joy, laughing heartily and living the life to its fullest. If happiness is lying in money then why has monk sold his Ferrari?

Is Happiness a monetary success? Is it only a physical world?

Money cannot make you happy. Money can create comfort level for you. A very high level of comfort and luxury can be managed by money but money cannot make you happy.

Money is not the final destination, of course, one o f the key factors to reach to the final destination of happiness.

But, what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. We should never direct ourselves towards happiness because happiness is never a final destination.

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Thousands of waitlisted would-be MBAs who may not get the chance to go to their dream B-school might want to draw inspiration from the following group of CEOs. They do not have any graduate degrees, or even any undergraduate degrees— and some of them have never even attended college.

Of course, not having a degree didn’t stop them from being a big name on campus. You’ll find Alfred Taubman’s name at Brown, Harvard, the University of Michigan, and Lawrence Technological University; at least one building on each campus bears his name, although the retail magnate and philanthropist never finished college. Read on to learn who else made it into corporate top spots without the benefit of a bachelor’s degree.

1. Dennis Albaugh

Chairman, Albaugh

Type of Business: Pesticides

Education: Associate’s degree from Des Moines Area Community College

Fun fact: He has a collection of more than 100 classic Chevrolets

2. Paul Allen

Founder and Chairman, Vulcan

Type of Business: Media, Telecommunications

Education: Dropped out of Washington State College after two years

Fun fact: He persuaded Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard. They later founded Microsoft (MSFT) together.

3. Richard Branson

CEO, Virgin Group

Type of Business: Travel, Radio, TV, Music, Venture capital

Education: No college degree

Fun fact: He became an entrepreneur just at an age of 16 with the creation of Student magazine.

4. Maverick Carter

CEO, LRMR Innovative Marketing & Branding

Type of Business: Marketing

Education: 3.5 years of college at Western Michigan University and University of Akron combined.

Quote: “Don’t be afraid if you see an opportunity to go and give it shot. You can finish school later; it’s always there.”

5. John Paul DeJoria

CEO, John Paul Mitchell Systems

Type of Business: Hair-care products

Education: No college

Fun fact: He started out selling greeting cards at age 9.

6. Michael Dell

Founder, Chairman, and CEO Dell (DELL)

Type of Business: Computers

Education: Attended University of Texas, Austin; but did not finish.

Quote: “When I started our company, it was very much an idea outside of the conventional wisdom, and if there were people telling me that it wasn’t going to work, I wasn’t really listening to them.”

7. Felix Dennis

Founder and Chairman, Alpha Media Group, formerly Dennis Publishing

Type of Business: Publishing (Maxim, The Week)

Education: No college degree

Fun fact: He wrote a biography and published a magazine about Bruce Lee; sales surged when the martial arts star died suddenly in 1973.

8. Barry Diller

Chairman and CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI)

Type of Business: Media

Education: Dropped out of UCLA after three weeks

Fun fact: He started his career working in the mail room of the William Morris Agency.

9. Bill Gates

Co-chair and Trustee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Chairman, Microsoft (MSFT)

Type of Business: Philanthropy, Software.

Education: Dropped out of Harvard

Fun fact: As a school boy, he created a program that allowed people to play tic-tac-toe on the computer.

10. Mukesh “Micky” Jagtiani

Chairman, Landmark International (Dubai)

Type of Business: Retailing

Education: No college degree

Fun fact: The billionaire mall developer flunked out of a London Accounting school as a teenager and worked as a taxi driver before becoming an entrepreneur.

11. Dean Kamen

Founder and Chairman, Segway

Type of Business: Motor vehicles

Education: Dropped out of Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Fun fact: Kamen founded FIRST, a robotics competition for high school students.

12. David Oreck

Founder, Oreck

Type of Business: Vacuum cleaners

Education: No college. At 17, enlisted in the army, and flew B-29 bombers during World War II

Quote: “Things are never as bad as they seem to the pessimist and never as good as they seem to the optimist.”

13. Amancio Ortega Gaona

President, Inditex Group

Type of Business: Fashion retailing (Zara, Kiddy Class, others). (A Coruna, Spain)

Education: No college

Fun fact: Often cited as the richest man in Spain, he reportedly has never given any media interviews

14. Phillip Ruffin

Owner, Treasure Island

Type of Business: Casinos

Education: Attended Washburn University for three years and Wichita State University but never got his degree.

Quote: “You get the most experience from the business of life.”

15. Alfred Taubman

Founder, Taubman Centers (TCO), Philanthropist

Type of Business: Shopping malls

Education: Attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor for three years but left to start a family and his career

Quote: “Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business. No one starts out as a generalist.”

16. Ty Warner

Founder, Ty, Inc.

Type of Business: Toys (stuffed animals)

Education: Dropped out of college to pursue a career in acting. Later founded Ty Inc.

Fun fact: The plush animals his company manufactured retailed for only $5 in the 1990s but Beanie Baby-mania drove prices up to $30 or more for the hard-to-get characters.

Leadership is showing wisdom. You can buy brain but you cannot buy wisdom. You may come across great skill or knowledge worker or talent master. But, if they are without wisdom, what will happen to Leadership???

I doubt for results!!!

World fails to create a university where wisdom is imparted. Wisdom is never a part of business school. Trust me, you must have crossed an entrepreneur, who is the first class industrialist and third class graduate.

Preparation and practice have impact in life. In music, 6 years old child does practice of 9 hours in a week. At the age of 14, they usually practice for 16 hours. This remains and continues up to the age of 23 years.

As per the research, at the age of 20, a musician has practised for 10,000 hours on one instrument. Comparatively, better musicians have practised for 6000 hours as per the weekly practising hours on one instrument.

These practices and preparations make them class-one musician.

Bill Gates has invested nearly 1,575 hours after computer programming for his initial assignment of Washington University working at mainframe centre.

His goal was to practice for 10,000 hours.Famous musical group Bits have played music for 8 hours up to three years in the Hamburg city without looking to the profit centre of the group.

Ustad Bismillah Khan has played flute for 8hours in Varanasi (UP) for just Rs.4 per day. He was receiving only Rs.4 for performance in those days. But, he had not stopped himself. He has performed for 60 years in his life, became the most melodious musician of the world and was awarded Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award.

Cartoonist R K Laxman is creating cartoons from the last 57 years in print media. Few years back, he was honoured with Padmashree award by the Government of India.

Dr. APJ Kalam has worked for 32 years to achieve his mission of life and he made the nation self-dependent in the area of security and technology.

Melody singer Lata Mangeshkar is singing from the last 60 years in the film industry of India.

Masters always practice and prepare thoroughly for their next performance. His mind and eyes are always involved in homework and willingness to learn new things. Most of them are involved in learning new things, value addition and update themselves.

Achievers are deeply involved in their Rihaas, practise and homework. They have attitude to learn and unlearn. They believe in up gradation and innovation in their respective fields. They accept new ideas meet new challenges.

Their main goal is clear and they work everyday to achieve their goal. They practise, practise and practise till they succeed. Practise, prepare and plan is the mantra of their lives.

This is commonly found in Bill Gates, APJ Abdul Kalam, Ustad Bismallah Khan, R K Laxman, Lata Mangaeshkar, musical maestros and musicians. All are from the different fields and different talents but all have same mantra for the life.

Olivia Wilde has landed the first position on maxim magazine’s annual hot 100 woman list for the year 2009.Editor Joe Levy says; “she has been the sexiest woman on the television since she heated up “THE OC”. She is smart, she is beautiful and she had dual citizenship of USA and Ireland.

She is following the principle of STAND TALL. Where ever you are but stand tall.

Dr.M D Madhususdan  , a noted Indian wildlife biologist has won the Whitley Award , considered the “Green Oscar” in recognition of his work to reduce human-wildlife conflict in India. Madhusudan is working along with his team and making his position in the country ,irrespective of what is happening around  him.

He is standing tall .

Leadership is standing tall with pride .

Samuel Beckett said, “Fail, Fail again, Fail better.” Failure is never an end but quitting for lifetime is a permanent failure. Failure is not your failure but it is a feedback to your efforts and you have not received the result which was planned.

Your expectations have been proved wrong, not you.

Average failure hardly produces excellent lessons. Master lessons are produce by excellent failure. Average success hardly creates impact in the life and society.

Failure develops tolerate and built up strong mind, nearly complete mind. Mentor, most of the time, demonstrates a complete mind.

Failure makes you stronger from within. Ability to face today in any uneven condition should be at the optimum level. Failure creates ground nut reality and that vision helps you in leading for tomorrow.

Failure has little value but not rising up again after failure, I mean permanent failure is really miserable and pity fool. SAD BUT TRUE.

Can I have advantage from failure? Can I reward for master failure? Reward your excellent failure so you can become stronger and learn lessons for tomorrow. Failure directs you with vision for better tomorrow. Failure can be celebrated because it has given you lessons and refined you for excellent tomorrow. Isn’t great!!!!

As New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg aptly put it: “In business, you reward people for taking risks. When it doesn’t work out you promote them—because they were willing to try new things. If people tell me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to try a different mountain.”

FAILING PERMANENTLY IS A REAL DISASTER.