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29 Leadership Secrets
Jack Welch built a career out of fighting waste. The book 29 Leadership Secrets from
Jack Welch follows in Welch's footsteps, boiling the legendary CEO's leadership
successes down to 29 strategies that made GE the world's most competitive
company-and Welch the world's most successful and admired CEO. It is today's
ultimate fast-paced, no-nonsense handbook on the ways of Jack Welch. It taps into the
heart of Welch's courage, innovation, and leadership success by examining simple
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Bureaucracy.
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Honesty is good for the company.
It is good for the customer.
It is good for the employees.
It is just good business.
Azim Premji.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts...
perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
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Executive Detachment
Mahatma Gandhi was once asked by a western journalist, "Can you give me the
secret of your life in three words?" Gandhi, you know, could never pass up a
challenge. "Three words?" he replied. "Of course: 'Renounce and enjoy!'"
If you really want to enjoy life, he meant, renounce all the personal demands you
make on it. The Buddha, who almost never talked about himself, once admitted
quietly,"I am the happiest of mortals. There is no one happier than I am."
This is the joy for which every one of us is born. Not tuppenny-ha'penny pleasures,
not tinsel delights or costume jewellery, but a jewel that is beyond price: the jewel
hidden in the very depths of our hearts.
Detachment not only releases joy; it is also the secret of health. It is the best
medical insurance in the world, and not only because it can keep us free from
physical habits that sap our vitality. Detachment is a longevity skill. Freedom from
compulsive emotional entanglements is the best insurance against stress. More
than that, by opening a window onto a fuller,loftier view of life than that dictated by
self-interest, detachment brings a sense of purpose. Without a reason for living,
the human being withers and dies inside.
However paradoxical it may sound, it is detachment that enables us to give
ourselves wholeheartedly to worthwhile work without ever getting depressed,
despondent, or burned out - right into the last days of our lives.
Most people who work hard, yapping like a poodle at their heels. Detachment
gives us the capacity to concentrate completely while on the job and to drop it
completely when we walk out the door. A detached executive is a reliable
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Do you resent doing what you are doing? It may be your job, or you may have
agreed to do something and are doing it, but part of you resents and resists it. Are
you carrying unspoken resentment toward a person close to you? Do you realise
that the energy you thus emanate is so harmful in its effects that you are in fact
contaminating yourself ? Have a good look inside. Is there even the slightest trace
of resentment, unwillingness? If there is, observe it on both the mental and the
emotional levels. What thoughts is your mind creating around this situation? Then
look at the emotion, which is the body's reaction to those thoughts. Feel the
emotion. Does it feel pleasant or unpleasant? Is it an energy that you would
choose to have inside you? Do you have a choice?
Maybe you are being taken advantage of, maybe the activity you are engaged in is
tedious, maybe someone close to you is dishonest, irritating, or unconscious, but
all this is irrelevant. Whether your thoughts and emotions about this situation are
justified or not makes no difference. The fact is that you are resisting what is. You
are making the moment into an enemy. You are creating unhappiness, conflict
between the inner and the outer. Your unhappiness is polluting not only your own
inner being you but also the collective human psyche of which you are an
inseparable part. The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an
inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking
responsibility for their inner space.
Either stop doing what you are doing, speak to the person concerned and express
fully what you feel, or drop the negativity that your mind has created around the
situation and that serves no purpose whatsoever except to strengthen a false sense
of self. Recognising its futility is important. Negativity is never the optimum way
of dealing with any situation. In fact, in most cases it keeps you stuck in it,
blocking real change. Anything that is done with negative energy will become
contaminated by it and in time give rise to more pain, more unhappiness. Further,
any negative inner state is contagious: Unhappiness spreads more easily than a
disease. Through the law of resonance, it triggers and feeds latent negativity in
others, unless they are immune that is, highly conscious.
Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for
your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet. As
within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to
create outer pollution.
Ever wonder why some of the most successful people still seem unhappy?
According to us, they have it all: looks, fame and fortune. Whenever we strive for
something and reach it, there's a duality of elation and dejection. It is over, we do
what is to be done next and the quest starts all over again. Somehow, the end
result usually seems to be more exciting on the way there than when it is reached.
..contd..
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Value of a Smile
A smile cost nothing, but gives much. It enriches those who receive,
without making poorer those who give.
It takes but a
moment, but the
memory
of
it
sometimes
lasts
forever.
None is so rich or
mighty that he can
get along without it,
and none is so poor
but that he can be
made rich by it.
A smile creates
happiness in the
home, fosters good
will in business, and
is the countersign of
friendship.
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::Editorial Committee::
Chairman
Mr. Jayen Mehta, GNFC Ltd.
Members
Mr. Mukesh Mehta, Heubach Colour,
Ms. Sheela Mistry, Insight Associates,
Mr. G M Patel, Mr. G.B. Trivedi
and Mr. R V Revar, GNFC Ltd.
ePanorama Advisory committee
Mr. R P Vyas -President,
Mr.Kamlesh Udani -Past President,
Mr.Ashok Panjwani -Vice President,
Mr.K A Shah -Vice President
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