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Life Lessons for the Young Professional A book by Subroto Bagchi Caravan Edition No 436 dated 23 September 2008 Featuring Excerpts from: Caravan is the Voluntary eSharing Community of BHEL Bhopal With 780 Members from across the globe Started Sep 2000 - now entered 9th Year of sustained connectedness Paintings Courtesy www.harryandhelen.sulekha.com 12 slides

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’Go, kiss the world’ - The Book ’Go, kiss the world’ were Subroto Bagchi’s blind mother’s last words to him. These words became the guiding principle of his life. Subroto Bagchi grew up amidst what he calls the ‘material simplicity’ of rural and small-town Orissa, imbibing from his family a sense of contentment, constant wonder, connectedness to a larger whole and learning from unusual sources. From humble beginnings, he went on to achieve extraordinary professional success, eventually co-founding MindTree , one of India’s most admired software services companies. Through personal anecdotes and simple words of wisdom, Subroto Bagchi brings to the young professional lessons in working and living, energizing ordinary people to lead extraordinary lives. Go Kiss the World will be an inspiration to ‘young India’, and to those who come from small-town India, urging them to recognize and develop their inner strengths, thereby helping them realize their own, unique potential. Above Text Courtesy : http://www.mindtree.com/subrotobagchi/the-book/ Caravan 436

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The Prologue In the making of the young professional “To be someone“ is a familiar phase. In this making there are many ups and downs during which one realizes the dissonance between the romance of youth and the reality of the workplace. At the source of a river, we have no idea of the path it will take to reach its confluence. Young professionals are anxious about picking the right job, and the right company, thus over-planning their careers. The usual refrain is: How will this job help me in my career? But who on earth truly knows? In their anxiety to carve the perfect path, chanting ‘What will I be, what will I be?’ they overlook the importance of the smallest of jobs and forget that in our early lives, the job in itself is immaterial. What is material is the work ethic we build. Your first, the second, and even perhaps the third job will not build or define your career; the respect, patience, affection and gratitude with which you treat them will. Extracts chosen by HR Puri Extracts from “Go Kiss the World – Life Lessons for the Young Professional” by Subroto Bagchi (2008. Penguin Books) Caravan 436

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Displacement and Progress Quite often displacement is the key to progress. Water in a pool is stagnant; only when it flows is it energized. The entire universe is in constant motion; even a moment of motionlessness is inconceivable in the cosmic state of things. Many professionals shudder at the thought of physical displacement, yet crave rapid mobility and growth in their careers. When you’re continuously displaced, you make friends easily. You have low expectations from the unfamiliar; hence you’re more pleasantly surprised than frustrated when faced with life’s many ups and downs. You explore everything around you and develop curiosity. You learn to survive on the strength of who you are, just for this day, today. You build ingenuity in order to survive. You become an interesting person, because you have lots of stories to tell. Finally, you learn to move on. Of Adversity and Faith Our vision is not always a function of our capability to see, it is our willingness to open up our inner eye to the limitless universe that lights up the path of our existence. Grace under Pressure In life we cannot avoid pain. What we can do is learn from the pain (instead of focusing on ‘Why Me?”) and move on. Caravan 436

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The Power of Mentoring Learning gives us knowledge but it is good mentoring that gives us the ability to relate it to the real world; it helps us learn life skills and moulds our attitude. The self-confidence that mentoring can generate is huge. The principles of mentoring a child and a budding professional are not different. It all begins with the magical sensation of someone reaching out and whispering into your ears, “Yes, you can!” This is when dreams are created, and bridges built, to reach beyond the realm of the possible. I count my blessings for the early-life influences of my family on me. In many ways we are all surrounded by such people all the time – sometimes they are siblings, sometimes friends, teachers and co-workers. As we get on with the concrete busyness of life, we lose our capacity to receive from people. The capacity to receive asks for humility. Humility makes the mind an empty vessel that then can receive. The capacity to receive expands when there is the willingness to give back – only when we return what we receive, are we blessed to receive even more. Caravan 436

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Building Memorability It is important to create memorability (by being well prepared and razor sharp) in your first meeting with anyone – to create instant engagement. The Future of Desire and the Future of Fate Most men take more out of life than they give to it. A few give more to life than they take out of it. The world runs because of such men. Our lives are like the rivers – the source seldom reveals the confluence. Does a river fret over the long journey and about its end just as it is about to spurt? It simply does not do that, caring instead to flow, to begin its journey, and on its way builds a beneficial relationship with anyone who comes in contact with her. Caravan 436

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Killer, Get Killed Life sometimes deals you a blank cheque. However, it pays to defer its encashment. In the path of Jupiter “In some ways I was to leave DCM behind and in many ways I would carry it forward.” When we are faced with seemingly unfamiliar situations in life and make choices that seem to come from nowhere, in reality, they stem from memories of the future. Recommend a perusal of the book to partake of the rich personal anecdotal sharing by the author. ~HR Puri, Editor, Caravan Caravan 436

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13 key lessons that make up who I am : S Bagchi Posted on Thursday, June 26th, 2008 o It is all in the Mind, if you think you can, you can o Your power to receive is more important than someone’s power to give o To get, first you must give o Connect with people – finally, leadership is all about people o Life is a constant negotiation – never feel surprised with the need for it o The overachiever is always on a slippery slope – one must always carry the ski-poles of humility as you negotiate your success o One must build respect the marginal person in life – the small folks are more important than the big ones o Passion is what passion does – life is not about the armchair revolutionary o In your profession and in life, resilience is more important than brilliance o The key to your happiness is not money o One must learn to look beyond oneself, my pain is as large as my inability to see the pain on the face of the guy next to me o We must learn to forgive ourselves and forgive others as we grow up o Self-doubt is a good thing – all over-achievers will go through it sometime or the other Courtesy : http://www.mindtree.com/subrotobagchi/ Caravan 436

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The other day, I was listening to Gopal Srinivasan of TVS Group at a seminar in Chennai by Pegasus, the outbound learning organization. Gopal is a powerful speaker and he was outlining a few key directions for organization builders in the next decade. One of the things he pointed out was the phenomenal rise of the middle-class in the world as a powerful economic force. He said by 2020, 2 billion people in the world will be part of a great new consumptive force. They will join the middle-class. Its impact on society, culture, education, business and politics would be beyond what we can imagine. In the book Go Kiss the World, I have addressed myself to the young Indian professional because I believe that for the first time in the history of India, it is the professional of India who is defining the image of India, what it means to be an Indian. The rise of a global middle-class intersects this phenomenon. Gopal’s thoughts reinforce my belief that Go Kiss the World has indeed been well timed. Meanwhile, keep spreading the word, keep writing in. Without you, what is the meaning of my existence? Go, Kiss the World.. ~Subrato Baghchi Posted on 15 th July 2008 Caravan 436

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Executing a great vision (September 19, 2005 issue of Businessworld) The gap between the best and the average people in any organisation is constant. The trick is to improve the performance of the best – Subrato Bagchi Great vision must take people along with it. The greater the ability to carry people with you, the greater the chances of success for the vision. But, at times, while executing a vision, some people have to be left behind. However great the power of persuasive thinking, there are always the naysayers as well as people who indulge in 'subversive compliance'. The latter say "yes, yes, yes" to you, and go back to do the exact opposite. Leaders must have comfort dealing with them. The important thing is to realise that we should not waste time trying to carry everyone with us. As Peter Drucker would say, do not waste time feeding the problem. Feed the opportunity. You will be surprised how often this message is lost on leaders. A classic story that drives home the message is that of the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra. For years, it was performing below par. A new conductor came and, within a short time, it became world-class. Drucker asked him the recipe of his success. The conductor said he always focused on the few people at the top. According to him, the gap between the best people and the average in any organisation is constant. The trick is to improve the performance of the best - the rest automatically move up. Great vision always reserves room for providence and lends itself to the power of emergence. If you have thought through how to execute the vision in fullest detail, you probably do not know that you do not know. Great vision is an apparition of the future - not the future itself. We must be open and flexible to changes as we go along. Apart from that, great vision must have inherent risks and real possibility of failure. There is nothing called a risk-free future. While we embrace the risks and sometimes begin a voyage to discover India, we end up discovering the United States of America instead! That is quite acceptable. Sometimes, on the path of a great vision, we see reasons every single day to be deeply unhappy. That is perfectly normal. Yet, it is not reason enough to question the vision itself. (contd) 1/2 Caravan 436

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Executing a great vision (contd) 2/2 As we come to a close on this subject, I want to share with you my last thoughts. Great vision has no place for cynicism. Search the whole world and you cannot show me a cynical visionary. Let me share something from my personal life here to drive the point home. My mother came from a poor family with many children. As the last born of her widowed mother, she was dependent on the meagre earnings of her two brothers. Her family was naturally relieved when she was married off. What she did not know was that the man she married suffered from periodic bouts of schizophrenia. Either my father's family suppressed the fact, or they did not know about it. Even today, many people think that a good marriage settles down people who suffer from mental illnesses. After delivering her third child, my mother realised what the problem was. The door to her past was closed. In the 1930s, in small town India, there was nothing a woman could do. She took charge of the situation. She went on to accept my father's condition and supported, loved and respected him for what he was. She never complained of her fate. In the years that followed, she became the Rock of Gibraltar in the family. Despite her state, she had a great vision that her sons would grow up as confident, capable men of great character. When the first of the five joined the IAS in 1966, she was in her fifties and everyone thought her vision had come true. Just at that time, due to corneal ulcer, she became completely blind in both her eyes. She lived without sight for three more decades. But during each day of her blindness, she woke up cheerful, was fully engaged with the world around her and always asked us to do our best. From her, I learnt that even when you lose your sight, there is no need to give up your vision. Cynicism does not ever deliver the world. Caravan 436

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