One of my friends on ORKUT sent me
theses amazing things ..so wanted to share with you all ...
"When we think of business careers, we assume that great leaders develop and rise to the top in a hierarchical progression. Modern organizational life exists to celebrate success and deny failure - no one ever notes a significant setback or mistake on their resumé. But the fact is, successful careers are not successful continuously. There are ups and downs, twists and turns, detours and digressions, some triggered by professional events and some by personal ones. And even though it may be embarrassing or painful to discuss how they stumbled, an overwhelming majority of leaders privately admit that that's when they learned the most."-
Extract from Adversity: What Makes a Leader the Most, By David L. DotlichDavid L. Dotlich is President of the Mercer Delta Executive Learning Center (formerly CDR International), a consulting firm that specializes in executive development. He is the co-author (James L. Noel, Norman Walker) of Leadership Passages: The Personal and Professional Transitions that Make or Break a Leader (Jossey-Bass, 2004). This extract is from the article which is based on the book.
This is my Personal Favourite...
LIFE IS SERIOUS; one has to give one’s mind and one’s heart to it, completely; one cannot play with it. There are so many problems; there is so much confusion in the world; there is the corruption of society and the various religious and political divisions and contradictions. There is great injustice, sorrow and poverty—not only the poverty outside but the poverty inside. Any serious man, fairly intelligent and not just sentimentally emotional, seeing all this, sees the necessity of change.Change is either a complete psychological revolution in the nature of the whole human being, or it is a mere attempt at the reformation of the social structure. The real crisis in the life of man, you and I, is whether such a complete psychological revolution can be brought about, independent of nationality and of all religious division.
-Extract from the book Beyond Violence by Jiddu Krishnamurti- Jiddu Krishnamurti was undoubtedly one of the greatest philosophical minds of the 20th century. His entire adult life was spent giving passionate discourses on the myriad ways the human mind turns to self-delusion in its never-ending search for psychological fulfillment. Krishnamurti died in 1986.
Definately when ever i'll get time wirite about him... and iam sure u'll love him..
the way i started....
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