The leaders are born not made…
This is always said and has been proven wrong by many of the
great leaders. The leadership quality is the effect of the environment in which
the child is grown. The common observation that a boy from marvadi or gujrati
family thinks of starting a business and is most of times he is successful.
This is interpreted as the business is in the blood of the marvadi n gujrathi.
A south Indian is always proved to be good person in any technical field may it
be IT or any engineering field. They are considered to be born with great
intellect. A person born in the family of an artist is brought up in the
environment where there is great appreciation for the art and everything
related to art is around the child and the thinking and liking of the child
starts growing around art.
Why people are afraid to accept the change? Every person in
world has quality to excel in something but the tragedy is that very few are
able to explore the opportunities and find that “SOMETHING”. Dhirubhai Ambani,
the businessman whose example is almost every time given in inspirational book/
video/ lecture for establishing his empire from being the son of a school
teacher in s small village of Gujarat. It is really inspirational that a son of
teacher, who worked for son Oil Company in turkey, come to India
and starts his business with textile
industry. There is in fact no relation between these professions/
industries but what worked for dhirubhai was his ability to learn and this was the
attitude, he acquired during his brought-up in family of a teacher. When
dhirubhai started his business the regulation over were very less and most
importantly nobody else was ready to start the business since it was newly
independent India. The mentality of the people born during the period British
rule hardly gave anybody even Idea to do so. Apart from this he had learnt the
business processes in turkey by observing the businessmen there, which gave him
the upper edge over the local old businessmen in independent India.
Thus, the overall view tell us that it’s just the ability of
dhirubhai to explore new areas and the situation gave him the clean track to
speed-up his way to success. Metaphorically it can be said that, he explored
the way to find the right parts of puzzle and the situation and luck made it
look like all parts of the jigsaw puzzle were close enough.
The situation of the middle class, mainly leaving in small
town or villages is that they do not try to explore the ways so to find the
area where they can find all related parts of puzzle together. They stick to
the few parts they found and proudly say “one in hand is better than to in the
bush”.
The mentality of the middle class from small town, don’t let
them think beyond few profound career opportunities in the world that can be
cashed upon. Any student passing is 10+2 from science is bound to go for
engineering or medical and if not possible then pharma /science. If the student
from pharma graduation wants to join a advertising industry or (better quote
more familiar example) a student from engineering background wants to make
career in finance field/banking is called foolish by our extremely talented
RANCHO. What if the student is from small town and actually don’t even know
what should be done to enter the specific industry? What if the guy has family
pressure (obviously, because of small town mentality and lack of awareness)
joins an engineering degree and then wants to do something he likes. Not even industry takes risk to give such
person a chance to prove his metal in that field. Why don’t we think beyond??
An electrical engineer from one of the most reputed American
university can give his best by the silent physical comedy by becoming Mr.
BEAN.
The mentality remains the same; the mechanical engineer opts
for operations management only because he has great chance to get selected by
the company because of his educational background and not because he wants to
learn operations management.
To end with the note that every student should be able to
explore the regimes in order to find the right parts of puzzle already close
enough to join. The risk taking ability should be there, may it be a calculated
risk or intuitive risk.
Simply do not limit yourself. Or you will limit your
success!!!
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