Jab We Met

This is one movie which I see when I am down and feel like quiting. The energy which the Shahid gets from Kareena helps my mind come out of my blocking spots.

A lot of time things do go bad and we feel frustrated. We feel the world has come crashing on us. The right thing to do is swift action to remove the elements which drag you down.
One should burn and blush the things after learning the requisite lessons from the things which are draining one out of their energy. This learning can be applied on the personal as well as professional level.

Sometimes thinking like a kid without any prejudices and like a clean slate helps you have a perspective which you have not noticed till then. When things get too complicated to handle throw off all conventions and get back to basics.

Quotes

Life mein jo kuch aap sahi mein chahte aapko wahi milta hai [ In your life you only get what you really want]

Accha Accha sochoge to Accha Achha hi Hoga [If you think good and about good things , good things will happen]

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge

This is the movie with the record of being screened for the longest time at a cinema hall in India.  This is a movie I have been watching since my childhood and learning new things every time I see it.. I will here enlist the most touching two lessons in this post …

Lesson 1

Shahrukh Khan after completing his education wants to go on a Europe trip but doesn’t have guts to ask his dad for it because he had failed in the exams.  This was not something to be motivated off but Anupam  Kher’s response and logic behind it was the most interesting part.

Anupam Kher says to Shahrukh Khan that he may go and enjoy his trip and join office later. He tell him that if he has lived his youth then he should go and live his father’s share of youth because he never lived it. He worked all through his youth  to create the business empire. He couldn’t enjoy  those days. But he wanted his son to enjoy those days.

The power of forgiveness and saving enough for future was what made the father’s gesture so compassionate.

Lesson 2

On being advised to elope with the heroine Kajol, shahrukh  gives the following logic given by his mother to him.

In our life several times we have to chose between two roads , one which is correct and other which is not so correct. The correct one is torturous and painful. The not so correct is easy. But in the end the one who takes the tough path is one  who becomes successful.

I found this as the simplest translation of Corporate Boardroom Ethics…

Omkara

Situation: Organizational change involving superseding of some key employees.

Actors: Team leader, expected successor by general perception , unexpected but final successor
Objective: Ensure Smooth Transition

Learnings

The decisions taken by the authorities must take into account fair and fearless opinion of all the stakeholders. It is not possible to please very one all the time. However those who are not pleased, their reasons of unhappiness and possible consequences and repercussions must be thought about beforehand.

Leadership: A leader must not assume his team members to think like him/her.
There are situations that for the good for the organization some decisions like promoting a person lower in rank to supersede a long serving senior have to be taken. In such a scenario the leader must explain the whole scenario to the member who is being superseded. The act of explaining this is not easy to undertake and neither it is easy for the affected person to digest.

Some common issues which can happen :
1) Affected person is unable to understand why or what they can’t do what the supposed junior is believed to be able to do.
2) Insecurity or fear of being sidelined and feeling of the road ends here
3) Grievance that they never got the chance to prove themselves.

Of whatever little understandign I have I beleive following steps must be taken by the leader to ensure smooth transition. Transitions are inevitable in any organization which aspires to survive and be successful . and sometimes need to be rough when an entirely new direction is to be acquired.

1) Leader should try to place themselves in the shoes of the affected parties and see what possible could be felt
2) Seek peer review of possible affects from the peer of concerned people