SET-Public
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Public speaking is my passion and in so far time could
allow, I have covered a varied range of topics on business,
technology and personality development in different countries
like India, USA, Canada, Malaysia and Kuwait. Some of
the well-received topics delivered are:
1.Confidence and Inspiration
2.Know What You Want &
How to get it?
3.First Things First.
4.Project Procurement Management
Confidence and Inspiration
“Success is never ending, failure is never final”
- Robert Schuller
Targeted at young graduates, the talk was delivered with
an objective to infuse ideas to inspire the self in thinking
big and staying high in spirits to achieve something closer
to the heart which when renamed spells goal.
Some excerpts:
“This exercise in searching the self to scale new
heights should prove to be the catalyst in building a
career to progress in their professional path. It’s
not a one-stop solution but a continuous process in progress
that’s very much recursive.
Its common knowledge that failure frustrates one’s
constitution by sowing seeds of self-doubt thereby eroding
the confidence. You may stumble and stumble and stumble
– and fall. You are not the only one and you will
not be the only one. Many were the victims that failures
devoured as prey. But will you lay fallen forever? How
soon can you come back from a slump? A lot of people take
a lot of time – the more the time, the more difficult
it becomes. Rise up as soon as you can – the sooner
the better!
How can we forget the lesson we learnt from Thomas Alva
Edison? Once when Edison was asked how did you feel failing
999 times before inventing the bulb, Edison curtly dismissed
the remark stating, ‘I didn’t fail but learnt
999 ways of how not to make a bulb’. Edison had
his way of acknowledging failures as a learning experience,
and refused to give up.
In an alternate scenario, when smitten by success, they
hit peak and fail to sustain the momentum – what
happens next? Complacency creeps in unnoticed slowly but
steadily corroding the confidence. Awaken your senses
and stay alert on the trail of success. You cannot afford
to rest on your laurels and when you have a long way to
go, rest can be best reserved for now to relax later in
life.”
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Know What You Want &
How to get it?
“Thought Expands”
– Deepak Chopra
The audience gathered was a mix of graduates, working
adults and business folks. And from those gathered how
many really know ‘what they want’. Deepak
Chopra states “Thought Expands”. He explains
the concept of thoughts and how it expands.
Some excerpts:
“If you know what you want, you can plan towards
your goal. If you don’t, you can’t plan. Knowing
is half done, what’s remaining is the other half.
A goal without a timeline is a dream. The first half is
a dream, while the other half is a plan to change the
dream to a reality.
We need to know how to ask what we want and find ways
in fulfilling the want.
Let me throw a puzzle:
There are 48 match sticks. I distribute into three uneven
heaps. Then I take as many sticks there are in heap 2
from heap 1 and put in heap 2, then I take as many sticks
there are in heap 3 from heap 2 and put in heap 3 and
repeat the exercise by taking out as many sticks there
are in heap 1 from heap 3 and putting in heap 1. Now all
the heaps have equal number of match sticks. The question
is how many match sticks were there in each of the heap
before the activity and after?
What’s’ the solution? The simplest way to
solve the puzzle is to work backwards.
In life, many a times if we know the goal, we need to
initiate plan to execute from the goal. To become a CEO,
you need to know what it takes to become a CEO. You need
to devise ways to measure areas where we can ‘create
an anxiety and interest’.”
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First Things First.
“Know
what has to be done when”
My address was largely based on explaining the concept
devised by Stephen covey’ on ‘important and
not important, urgent and not urgent’. The message
was about prioritization, and how prioritization when
applied to leaders can prove to be a key differentiator.
Some excerpts:
“Efficiency and effectiveness. They sound the same
but how then do you differentiate to draw the line?
Now pay attention. Doing the work right is efficiency,
Doing the right work is effectiveness. Just a shift in
the order of arrangement of words yet what an impact they
make. Every individual needs to be efficient in what they
do, but the differentiator lies in doing the right work.
‘Know what has to be done when’ - Prioritization
when applied properly provides the cutting-ledge to leadership.”
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Project Procurement Management
“Make or Buy”
This was a lecture on “Procurement management”
covering the salient features of delivered on the Talent
Transformation during my stint in Wipro.
Some excerpts:
“Make or Buy is one of the main techniques and that’s
also the buzzword in Procurement Planning tool and techniques.
First of all, its very important to decide whether we
need to procure (or) do we need to make that a product
which is associated to the final project which we are
executing.
There could be some situations where you need to make
even though there are constraints like you do not want
to share the intellectual property. If you have extra
resources that are in the free-pool, you want to utilize
those resources in which case you can decide on making
it inside the organization. It could be a situation where
there is no expertise available outside in which case
you will have to decide on making that product inside
the organization.
The other option is to buy. Do we go out and buy? There
are other alternatives: you could lease or buy, or, you
could rent or buy. For eg, if you need to use an operating
system for developing an application, it makes more business
to go out and buy to execute the project rather than making
one in the organization.
Same way, if you want to use a tool for testing and the
testing tool might cost you a million dollars and you
want to perform this testing for just 10 days and might
be available in the market on rent for just 1000 dollars
per day. So it makes more business sense for us to rent
it out, perform testing and give it back.
So, its important to trade-off between do we need to make
or buy or lease or take it on rent.”
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