"Go Kiss the world" is a book written by subrato Bagchi.... I came to know about this book from one of my friends( Monish the Great). This book is filled with the experience of Mr.Subrato . Words of wisdom keeps flowing all along the book. I have captured the points that I felt really good...
1.What happens when you are continuously displaced ... You explore everything around you, develop curiosity - new lands , customs,food, and ways of doing things begin to draw you in. You learn to survive on the strength of who you are, just for this day, today. You build ingenuity in order to survive. You trust strangers and, hence, strangers trust you. You build intuitive capability to sniff trouble- which can tell when to leave a bar. You become an interesting person, because you have lot of stories to tell. Finally you learn to move on.
2. Subrato's mother is blind. During a discussion she comes up with the following views: " Shabdha(Sound) is bhrama(life)". Sensing that Subrato was unable to comprehend with her views, she knocked the surface of the dinning table,twice gently and asked, where did the sound emanate from ? Was it just my hand ? No, it was the table replying to the knock. If I were to knock on any other surface, the sound will be very different , varied each time, It is the way the seemingly inanimate world speaks to you. There is a brhama in every ting. As long as you are willing to knock ,even the inanimate will respond.Each time without fail.Animate and inanimate are disctintions born of perceptions. In reality everything is living.
3. There are inevitable times in every life when we all must step on a thorn. As I step on the thorn if I have tendency to blame the thorn the pain has a tendency to linger;Sometimes the pain expands as time passes.What we can do is to learn from the pain and move on.
4. "If you want a guy to do a first-class job,give him a first-class ticket". I look at organisations and their obsession with making life better for folks at the top at the expense of the smaller folks who actually matter.
5. As a child you are ready to receive materials, gifts, words of advice, guidance from all. As we get on with the concrete business of life, we lose our capacity of receive from people. The capacity to receive asks for humility. Humility makes the mind an empty vessel that can receive. The capacity to receive expands where there is the willingness to give back-only when we return what we receive, and we are blessed to receive even more.
5. Most people we meet do not have a special reason to remember us, nor are they interested in what we have to say or what we actually do. We live in a world of information overload and attention deficiency. People we meet are often looking at us but thinking about somethings else. Given that, it is important that in every situation one has to be not well prepared but razor-sharp to create instant engagement.Be it a job interview, presentation or a meeting, we all have a very short window to make the right impression, and unfortunately most of us miss it. The question on Diego Garcia had given me that short window to make my mark.It is what I call the Diego Garcia moment of my life. If you want to know about Diego Garcia,read the book ;)
6. Our lives are like rivers- the source seldom reveals the confluences.Does a river fret over the long journey and about its end just as it is about to spurt? It simply doest not do that, caring instead to flow, to begin its journey , and on it ways build a beneficial relationship with anyone who comes in contact with her. I feel this is the best on in the book.
7. A salesperson learns to take rejections as a way of life .Sometimes a customer can be downright abusive.Yet ,good salespeople learn that the real meaning of a 'No' is 'Not now'. A proud salesperson is always the product of a great company.If you can get under the hood and determine whether a salesperson has genuine respect for this company, be assured that the organization is good and worth doing business with. - I think this applies all walks of our life.
8. We all have some talent in us- be it singing, writing, painting or sculpting.If we nurture and cherish it, it makes our life fuller. Yet so many of us choose the uni-dimensionality of a work life, always citing lack of time to pursuer a hobby.If we make a small commitment towards keeping our talents alive, one day it becomes a beautiful gift, which nourishes us, makes our lives complete. - I think this applies greatly to all our software people, where we are very committed to make our life unidirectional ... Lets try to break it of ...
9. One interesting discussion between Premji and Subrato: "My job is to push you till you find your own limit.When you do,you have to push back. I do not have the road map. You have to create one on your own.The most successful US presidents are the those who knew what they wanted to do and how to do about it within the first ninety days in office. This fact applies to all senior-level jobs as well. If you cannot do what you want to achieve within the first ninety days, you are probably never going to get anything done.
There is lot more this book speaks about ... lot about business,principles, how MindTree was formed and most importantly talks lot about people who were around him. It was interesting to read how these persons form middle class families made in big.
Really a great read....
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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