I recently got to meet a few people from the higher levels of management, working with various organizations. It was a part of a meet that I had, just to work on my book and instincts
I had a few questions to them, which came out with amazing and inspiring answers that were mesmerizing and not just convincing, but very pleasing to hear and good to be employed in any work, making it simple for the newbie’s and the experienced to make work simpler in the industry
Here are a few questions and answers,
1) Why is that everyone feels work is pressure?
The answer was very impressive, “There is no work without any pressure, the advantage of being in the corporate, as the word suggests, Corporate directly deals with co-operation and team work, if we can work out things without letting ego and mutual differences to take part in work, we don’t have any pressure. Not that we don’t feel the pressure, even we do, and that’s just because we as humans, tend to rely more on ego and less focused at the work we execute
2) Ego! How do you define it, when it said to cause problems what is the best ground rule that can be employed to get rid of it?
Ego is a fear, that doesn’t let us go away from our feelings; it just stays there in mind just to prove a point that at any given time we respect ourselves more than anyone else or anything else. It’s necessary to have ego for the self-improvement, no ground rule can guide a person’s ego, because those rules are the ones which can be mended & bended just the way we want. When we see ourselves as a personality we need to have an ego to justify our mistakes, not just that we need to have ego also to ensure that no one again feels the need to point out our mistake. If we tend to decline the support received towards our development, we lose a lot of learning, directly leading to a negativity in our thoughts that reflects even in our attitude.
3) What is the best attitude to be successful in the corporate?
There is nothing that makes you a great winner ; or there is nothing that can be called as the best way to be successful in corporate, for being a part of a corporate you need to have an attitude, the one which can best describe you based on your mood. As far as I feel attitude is just like the way we wear our clothes, based on the situation and occasion. We need to know what to have and when, the only ground rule to be successful is by matching the emotions and thoughts of a person so as to make people to think in the required direction, and retain the focus back to work and personal life, for any success that you feel is what you deserve, you need to know that, personal life and your family plays a vital role.
The day you wake up fresh after a peaceful sleep or a pleasant family sit out, or even the soothing words of your spouse/friends whom you are emotionally attached to, or even doing a task that fascinates you a lot just before you sleep ; wakes you up with an bundle of energy that keeps you fresh at work. This brings in positivity in you, driving you towards doing the best, and thereby resulting in success.
4) What is success in your words, Is success or hunger to succeed important?
Well, anything that helps in a positive progress in any aspect of life is something that I look at success, for instance when I was young, my parents had no idea on what I would be, gradually I grew and today I sit in a position where I can define things, this is not my success, this is the success of my parents who educated me and enabled me to grow this high up the ladder. I grew up the ladder, met the need of the situation, slogged and struggled for my growth, my family, my kids were a part of this reality of my life, yet this is a part of success to me, it brings joy every time I think about my past, and when I see the future, my child and my brain child when both stand tall in front of me without my support, that is when I can say I am successful.
Hunger is a word that can be interpreted in several ways, I believe that positive hunger makes a character and a negative, breaks it. Yet both are important, negative hunger can break your egos, prove that you are meant to make mistakes and there is one at the top who is a master of all. Positive hunger shrinks the vision between the success and the way you look at it.
5) As a young entrepreneur what was your vision?? Did you imagine 30 years down the line you will see a day where in you can say yes I did it??
I always believed in reality; for instance 22 years back when I was offered a price to sell my company when we were in a huge crisis, I knew it’s just an odd day of my life, yes that was the toughest year of my life. But now, when I take a look at the past 20 years, the company that had offered me a price is now mine, the people who criticized my decision and joined different companies are again my own employees, not that they turned up to me, when I grew, but I brought those companies so that I could eliminate those levels of competitions, I am happy that I eliminated a few, and I happy that people thought just the way I did, they came up with new competitions that keep me young at heart and make me work the same way everyone else do.
6) What is the difference you see in the employees these days when compared to that of the past?
Previously, employers were treated as god’s, now things have changed and it’s the other way around, the thought that persisted previously was that, I pay if he works for my expectation, nowadays we pay not just for the fact, that an employee is hired but also to ensure that the offers of the other companies look null to the ones employed by us. That’s a part of employee retention and its necessary as the availability of skills and workmanship is lower when compare to the past. We pay not just for the services rendered to us, but also for the loyalty shown towards the company and the respect to the job.
7) Anything that you feel is left undone, yet could be completed over a long term due to various inhibiting factors?
I would say India as a country to progress, needs to have a change in most of the systems, at times we find there are no links between one department to another, despite all work for a centralized monitoring bodies. Corruption , invariably an inhibitor for the growth, I agree that corruption persists till the moment we corrupt people, however the reasons for us to corrupt people is for the fact that, its been driven from the day of independence, Industrial revolutions that people work for us only when there is a sense of favor to them, not to blame any in the past nor in the future yes, if we overcome corruption I feel the growth can be at least 2 to 3 % higher every month, the taxes paid for which cannot just benefit an individual, but the entire country. The only thing that has made a mark in the Indian industrial growth other than the progress is corruption, and we are a part of it either directly or indirectly.
8) Politics your view?
Politics is not just blaming one party or another for the unfinished work, it’s the attitude that builds a person and lets him grow from a visionary to a statesman, we have seen a lot of them, I respect them. It needs to be understood that, politics is not a business, is the most crucial, critical job in the country, as it’s not just about people management or resource management , but the rightful utilization of the same. We lack people who can work solely for the betterment of a country and its progress, we need more of them, youth need to consider this job as a crucial job and join hands in building a better India, as it’s their property which has been ruled over and over again, just to seek the benefits and not the real progress being made for providing the right resources. When we look at the man power in India, only 35% of it is being used in the right directions rest are just jobless, they live and the numbers continue to grow every year. A lot needs to be done to harness this energy than anything else today.
9) Your view on globalization?
Globalization is a process which is necessary and I am very positive towards it, with a few differences.
Globalization needs to be a process of benefitting our country first than the other, if the result of globalization is negative in growth prospect for a common man, there is no point in calling it Globalization. A country which was considered to be strong in Agricultural practices and varieties of produces that had driven people towards it, today imports the same goods that were specialties of India from other countries, not denying the fact that there is a lot of progress in other aspects of life, and we are recognized for being a part of that change, yes there has been a lot of exploitation in the name of globalization, and is still going on. No more comments on the same, as we are our own culprits.
10) Lastly, what is the word which we can replace aggression with when it comes to being successful in all the endeavors of life?
Replace the word aggression with Assertiveness, the word persistence with diplomacy, the word hard work by smart work. Things will change, Change is a rule of nature and I expect the youth of the world to bring in changes in all aspects of life, because it’s you fellow men who inhibit the planet for the next few decades and pass it on securely and safely to the upcoming generations.
