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Success tips from world's top management guru
January 15, 2009
Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of the global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/ anywhere in the world, you have the obligation to do something productive which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy.
You cannot solve the world's problems in a small company. The goal is not to say that we are going to do it anyway, with or without money. It's a nice, brave thing to say, but very soon you'll be running out of cash.
The negative side of a small company is that there are no dampers. Just because you can make a change quickly, the temptation is to act. Speed is nice to have, but going faster to hell is not how I want to run a company. I want somebody to keep pushing the organisation. I also want somebody to say, 'Let's be thoughtful about getting this done right.'
It is the bamboo that bends in heavy winds that has another day to live. The trees that don't bend get uprooted.
If you do precisely what you're supposed to do, and you're boxed in, then you're going to do that very well. But if pressed to do things that aren't in your normal job description, the challenge can push you to a new level of achievement.
Image: Infosys makes it a point to hire global interns. Photograph: Rediff Archives
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