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Competency

A thought came to my mind, thought of sharing it with you - In business or job, build competencies which are hard to build, because then they will be harder to compete, copy, match or excel. Serving people is one of them :)

Get Brilliant at Asking!

I am great at making commitments to myself but if it were not for my commitment buzzer, my wife Shweta, I would have missed at least a couple of them. so here I am visiting a shopping mall with my parents and brothers(who are visiting us) on the weekend and wife reminds me of my commitment to take them to a restaurant close which I love because of its innovative ambiance and its lovely food (I am a big foodie!) In one section of this restaurant there is this train coupe' which is the center attraction of this restaurant. The only glitch is that it serves only 4 people at a table. Now coming to this restaurant and not sitting in the coupe' on the same table with the whole family doesn't make sense. So what did I do? I went and asked the manager permission for all 6 of us to sit in the coupe’. I didn't push. I was polite. And I gave him the solution upfront so that he can think about it instead of thinking for the possible solution. And he agreed! But the brilliance

Talent Vs Skills

4 World Titles (3 Billiards and 1 Snooker) and 2 Asian Billiards Titles to his credit. –Pankaj Advani at the age of 23 Youngest woman ever to become a chess grandmaster which she achieved in 15 years, 1 month, 27 days – Koneru Humpy at the age of 21 Ever wondered what is common between the two apart from them being Indians and sports people. Yes, you guessed it right – They are young achievers, demonstrating to each one of us in this world that success sees no age. But guess what they have something more common than just being young achievers. They both have exceptionally extraordinarily talent and perhaps that’s the reason why there is only one Pankaj Advani and one Koneru Humpy in the world. Talent is something which you are born with while skills can be acquired by working on them over a period of time. So, how do we define a leader? Some one who inspires people around him/her; some one who is worth emulating. And that is why lea