Sholay’s Thakur, Veeru and Jai –The perfect mentor and founding team

I literally stumbled upon this article/blog by Gautam Sinha. So can call it "Read-by-Chance". The author is creative enough to look beyond the regular stuff which Bollywood wants to show. Looking beyond the obvious, that too in a once flop and then super-hit film calls for standing ovation. No wonder the author is a successful entrepreneur and charter member of "The Indus Entrepreneurs"

Two things Mr. Sinha highlights here are worth mentioning

1. Have a team which is close, dependable and believes in each other (kind of ready to die for each other ... "together they are enough to take on atleast 15-20 people!")

2. Finding an investor/mentor would be a walk on tight rope, but its worth taking the walk. Once you find the  right investor/mentor you can do wonders (bring Gabbar Singh to justice as shown in Sholay :P)

I enjoyed this read, hope you too. The link to the blog is below

Sholay’s Thakur, Veeru and Jai –The perfect mentor and founding team

The Discipline of Listening

Just read the 'The Discipline of Listening' authored by Ram Charan on HBR Blog Network. I actually liked the view point, the common non-listening symptoms and the way those can be overcome.

"The Listening Deficit" as the author terms the "lack of listening discipline" is common across the hierarchy. I say this on the basis of my exposure and experience with people of different ranks and different organizations. We tend to assume things as and when they fall on our ears and try build our own castles (thinking we are improvising it). I too have the same problem.

Of the solutions mentioned I feel the first one 'Pan the Nuggets' can be implemented. For the other solutions, those might sound easy to implement but in reality it will require a lot of patience, discipline and conscious effort to absorb, to reflect them through out behaviour. I hope this article helps you as it has helped me to find the ways to overcome the listening deficit. Here's the link. Happy reading

The Discipline of Listening by Ram Charan

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