Good is the enemy of Great !!

This is the key reason , why we have so less that becomes Great !!

Think ....

We do not Great Schools , why ?

Because ,,,we have good schools ...

We do no have Great Government , Why ?

We have good government .

We do not have Great Innovators ...Why ?

We have a lot of good of them ...

In our country , it is just so easy to settle for a good life .Because it is always very easy to think about ourselves .... In Business , as well , we have huge number of good companies , but very less Great industries like ... Infosys , Tata , Vedanta , Maruti . Good to Great is a human , social and business problem . This travel needs some attributes .Those who knowingly , unknowingly , conscientiously  follow these ... they became Great !!

First and foremost ... The Search ... The search of something ...some target , some problem , some identification ...anything ... Consider Vivekananda ,Shivaji , Michel Dell , Steve Jobs ...they were going ahead , searching ...In a team , in the industry ... imp is managing change , motivating people .They keep the process simple but the target is revolutionary .

Greatness is largely a matter of Conscious choice !!Concept of Leader can be thought in a new way . You must have control on your own thoughts , actions and extending to a larger part of society or a team by adapting  personal humility , professional will , selection of human resources , build to last attitude . One author has termed one very interesting concept  - Time less Physics .... timeless principles of Good to Great !! These will only prevail in life  .

( Ref  - Good to Great  by Jim Collins )

  

Mindset ...The Only thing matters in Life !!

In sports , there are no of stories to inspire ... But ...Karoly Takacs is unbelievable !! He was a Sergent in the Hungarian Army in 1938 and country's top pistol shooter at the age of 28 - favorite to win Gold in 1940 Olympics . Unfortunately .. In a disaster - a hand grenade explosion happened in his Right - Shooting Hand , also lost a limb .And then ...Inspiring journey started ....

Instead of focusing on what he had lost , he chose to focus on what he still had . In person's life ...Most Imp is Mental Strength and Mindset of a Winner . His mission was to train and transform a left hand into World's Best Shooting Hand !! Karoly spent 2 months in hospital and then went to unknown place , began practice to shoot with left hand . Karoly stayed FOCUSED .

One year later - Karoly resurfaced at the national shooting championship in Hungary and He Won !! What Karoly did in this testing year ... he avoided two categories of people , first - those keep ridiculing you from dreaming big !! and second those only give sympathy !!Karoly was about to head for next Olympics and again big Obstacle came .This time , second world war . This canceled 2 Olympics game . It was very tough to sustain motivation for 8 long years . In 1948 - London Olympics - Result - Gold goes to Karoly Takacs ,with his left hand !! Entire world saluted and offered a warm send off ... But something different was going in Karoly's mind . Not happy with one Gold . 1952 ...Helsinki Olympics . Who won Gold ? No Surprise ... Karoly Takacs .

When such incidences happen in our lives , we should think of Karoly and think like Karoly . A Goal will only help us to channelize the mind and body . This story is not about hand , it is about the mind !! Winning is attitude , not skills .Skills can be acquired , Karoly demonstrated . Important is Mindset ...... Winner's Mindset !!

Career in Product Engineering services

If we see the types of Industries in our country , there are quite few Industries which are dominant in campus placements . Major share goes to IT services and then IT Product . Both product and services IT covers around 60 % fresher job market . Remaining  40 %  - composition  includes Core , Manufacturing / engineering , Telecom  and Consulting  . Now in Indian market , there is another entity coming up  , which is  - Product Engineering Services or Original Design Manufactures . These type of industries are available in all domains . For e.g. In Telecom  ... It ca be composition of Embedded Hardware + Software + Product testing . These industries have Managed Services -Dev-ops  and Cloud .

There tremendous product ranges in this segment  like  ...

1. Interactive Security Camera .
2. Conference Hall Solutions .
3. Block-chain based  Secured Phone .
4. Smart Wi Fi  plug .
5. Remotely Controlled Video Door Bell .

These industries cover following steps in manufacturing .

Hardware Design , Software Design , Testing and QA , Mechanical Design , Prototype and Manufacturing ... to Reality .

Fresh engineering graduates should explore this new avenue . In engineering or Auto indutries , we have OEM ....Original Equipment Manufactures and Auto ancillary industries . Similarly in consumer market , now a days  ..... these ODM play an imp role .

Let Them Go ...... at age 14,16 and 18 .

Dear Friends , Parents and students ,

From more than a decade , I am involved in the field of training , campus placements , soft skills and other personality development  initiatives at different forums . During conferences , workshops and discussions with Tech and HR officers of various industries , few observations are coming up about this new student generation .It is the subject of debate , whether they are true , not true , partially true and also about responsibility .. Students , teachers , parents , friends  ...?

Let us see the observations ....

1. No passion about the career . No planning ...
2. Doing graduation , just for sake of doing it .
3. No faith on academics and teaching learning process .
4. Creativity has gone down . No innovation in projects .
5. Emotionally unstable ... at the same time lack of conscientiousness .
6   Responsible-less behavior . More individualists , No team work .

Now while addressing these 6 parameters  , a lot of brain storming happened in one of the conferences and finally we decided to give one power solution to address most the these issues . Surprisingly , the fact came out was more for Parents and teachers and of course for students themselves . The Power solution was .... It is the duty of all of us to Expose new generation to outside world at 3 different  stages of youth , at the age of 14 , 16 and 18 .

Do not put your ward in a cage ,an over protected atmosphere , let him go , travel and see the world with his own eyes , motivate him to go to different camps .. allow him to go to small treks .Ask him to do small hobby internship after class X , tell him to earn some money with moral methods , let him go to all parts of society , let him go to slums through some social ventures , let him go see the telescope , war memorials , let free flow him to see the farm fields , ask him to take ST bus and go to some drought prone area and do some help work .....

In fact these steps are well written in our Indian culture in many old books , by different philanthropists , Saints and psychologists .... We have totally forgotten this in our city culture , nuclear families  and we are people who keep complaining about  lack of skills , innovation and passion .

How passion and skills will be developed , unless they see the world , see the inequalities , see the challenges to even survive .... Todays generation has tremendous amount of talent , skills and energy . We are lagging to channelize and expand it gradually , progressively ....

Can we think ....?

Thanks ,