Study Hard and Change the World

One of the nice things being in IIM B is - as a part of Forum for Industry Interaction activities, we get to hear from eminent personalities. Last week we (PGP-1) heard about the Changing Paradigm from Kris Gopalakrishnan. Today we interacted with James Abraham about 'Building for future'. James Abraham is MD and Partner - Boston Consulting Group, India. In his speech, he talked about the experiences he had when he was working in North America, Europe and now in India with different private sector corporates and Public sector majors. He put across his idea in 10 things learnt, experience which he found the most important.



1. Find a passion. Passion will drive you to your way desired for happiness and success
2. Be less insecure and be more humble
3. Learn from failure, they teach better than success
4. Do not always run behind where the crowd is running, they might go wrong
5. There is always somebody is better off than you and somebody is worse off than you
6. Overestimate things possible for today and underestimate things possible for tomorrow
7. Sell yourself. Be salesman, saleswoman
8. [missed this item, I will update it sometime later whenever I will recollect ;-)]
9. People remember only three (3) things
10. Study hard and change the world.

Though it is true that James has delivered an impressive speech, his won experiences with people he mate, industries he worked, different geography he lived in marked the session entirely with his won identity but I find that moreover now people tend to deli ever things at academic institution, the way Steve Jobs had delivered at Harvard. Hats off to Steve Jobs. He really do stand at a very high level with his incredible battle with life, people stood against him, etc.

One thing I have found common with the exec. level of people at various organization - they are very humble. They listen to the almost everything that the any concerned individual (poor mortals - somebody like me) standing in front. Mostly because they are aware that the vision in their mind can be transferred/ made understood to the other peoples, subordinates only when they are clear with about idea/vision. -

I know that this is something globe stuff that I tried putting here. SO refraining myself from doing same, I am terminating this post with little note ;-)

With this forum, I know we will have opportunities to know about the great people from all over globe, interact with them, hear their experiences, their utmost values, passions, expectations from us i.e. the generation sitting next to them.