Nextr Generations

The must-haves for the next generation of leaders:

One of the things that concerns me a great deal is that business leaders are not trusted. B-schools have to accept some of that responsibility for looking for candidates who are not just smart analytically but are also people who have the right kind of character, the right values and the sense of purpose to make a difference. It's not about behaving like you're the smartest person in the room. Leaders should be able to bring about collective diversity which starts with the assumption that we're stronger because we're together and we're different. When people believe you care about them something amazing happens. Supportive ambition is really important............

BILL BOULDING DEAN, THE FUQUA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, DUKE UNIVERSITY

Leading Wisdom

Leading lights: The Hindu dated 8^th April, 2015

Some people look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that are not and ask why not?.....Robert Kennedy

In every work of genius we recognize our once rejected thoughts. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form….Watts Humprey

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people…LeoBurnett

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fall, you learn what doesn’t work and second the failure gives the opportunity to try a new approach…Roger Von Oech

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual…Arthur Koestler

The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn’t need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas…Abe Tannenbaum

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come ….Victor Hugo

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired….Nikow Kazantzakis

A man may die, nations may rise and fall but an idea lives on……John F Kennedy.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric…Bertrand Russell.

Life is trying things to see if they work…Ray Bradbury

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones…John Maynard Keynes.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have…..Maya Amgelou

The creative person wants to be a know it all. He wants to know about all kind of things – ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, and hog futures; because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It happens 6 minutes later or six month or 6 years. But he has faith that it will happen…..Carl Ally

Emotionally intelligent

Source: Economic times 13th April, 2015

Prioritise

The principle of Priority states:

1. you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and

2. you must do what is important first.....PrashantBhatnagar, Sapient India