Ignore Your Mother. Ignore Your Father...
On a memory lane, three incidents occurred to me this morning.
The 1st one.
I was seven. I don’t remember exactly how, but I had found my way outside the house into this second hand Ambassador that my Dad had just bought. It was being cleaned. I sat inside to pretend drive. I was having fun. Suddenly I spotted the key hanging from the ignition switch and started to turn. Cars back then obviously cranked and didn’t just start.
I could hear my Dad running down from the third floor, screaming, ‘stop, stop, stop, stop’... What did I do... Crank Crank. Crank. Crrrrrrrannnnnnnnkkkk.
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The Great Salespeople
Sachin Tendulkar in his recent press conference made a brilliant statement. He said that when you’re on top of your game then retiring at that moment is selfish because that is the time that you better be serving your nation.
I thought that was a gem. Its high standard stuff.
What standards have you set?
I am initiating a three-part series here for salespeople, for greatness in salespeople. If you are not in sales, you must read this for you are always in sales.
Here is the first one.
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Well, really there isn’t much of a choice. Is it?
There are of course dozens of books and theories written on the subject and more will be. I want to take an over-simplified look at this.
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Why are people sending me New Year Greetings, “the most sincere wishes from the bottom of my heart” and then asking me to buy their stuff in the same mail? The moment I read the sales pitch, the sincerity of their wishes was locked in my mind as being a cheap trick.
Get Over The Theories Of Management and Leadership that someone at Harvard wrote in ‘50’s and every other B-School (Abbreviation BS) derived their curriculum from it.
There are many times in life that we reach a chasm. We find ourselves at the edge. The edge separates itself from the other side with a gap. We know we want to be on the other side. We can see it. The other side is a picture. A picture of hope coloured majestically by an artist. The artist that resides in our mind. What does this other side represent for you? What dreams are these? What pictures are these?
It is middle of the night as am writing this. I was just reading an old book (Liberation Management, pages 612–614) on my shelf that had this chapter on luck. It just fired my imagination and I just had to put my adapted version of this down.
For those of us nicely settled down in life, this is what it really means:
Settle for the second best (or worse) in life? Don’t’ you dare try to be the best in life? And don’t you even dare to think of pursuing anything you associate passion with.