Congratulations Anupam, for your excellent training program for BMS students at Jhunjhunwala College.

Feedback from students range from – You rock – to – Would like to work with you – .

Thank you young ladies and gentlemen for your positive feedback. Mindflex looks forward to a great future.

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Feedback from participants:

We had lectures of Uday Acharya Sir and Anupam Sir. It was real fun.

Seeking knowledge through these lectures.

Sir our class would like one more session with Anupam sir

to know more about Public Speaking and Presentations

and topics related to it.

Thank you

Trupti Helegaonkar

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Anupam Acharya is the Director of Mindflex and heads its Youth Empowerment Program. 

He is currently engaged in Management Studies at SIES College of Management. 

A versatile person with many interests, he excels in sports, cultural activities, 

debates, and public speaking. His interests range from rock music, football, 

short-film making, and public speaking. 

He is associated with The Dawn Club and Youth Unplugged 

for public speaking and personality development. 

He has successfully conducted Leadership and Communication programs 

for schools and colleges. 

He is a certified NLP (Neuro Lingustic Programming) practitioner.
He has studied Arthashastra Style of Management under Radhakrishnan

Pillai of Chanakya fame.
Mob: 9819911007

Change can happen from within the organization as with a new CEO or a union strike. Change can happen from without as in govt. regulations, war, new technology, or taxis off the road.

Changes affect the organization or the organism, hence changes should be defined with respect to the concerned entity. However changes affect the whole system of which the concerned entity is an essential part. Hence changes should also be defined with a wide angle lens to incorporate the environment and other entities in the picture.

Changes can be systemic or erratic. Systemic changes are dependent on multiple causes and affect the system gradually. Erratic changes are possibly the result of mistakes like genetic mutation or the result of human interference (read greed and fear) like at Enron or Satyam.

Classifications can be dangerous in systems because there is a very elastic line between classes or between causes. One thing that can be definitely said about systems is that they are unpredictable.

Organizational development need to deal with systems using a non-linear mathematical model whereby risk is insured and opportunities are encashed on an ongoing basis. Probably that is what stock markets are all about!!!

A person is more than his thoughts or actions. In fact, the person’s attitude behind the these is more significant than the thoughts or actions in themselves.

My teacher used to say : A person is not rich or poor according to how much he has. A person with only a dollar to spend is richer than the person with hundred that  he cannot afford to spend.

Transforming leadership involves helping people change from within. It is noble   to give a starving person  food; but it is nobler to help the person earn a living. A teacher, mentor, guide, coach, visionary, motivator, spiritual leader endeavours to bring about this transformation through belief in ‘people potential’ to reach excellence and greatness.

An organization has hands, legs, heart, head, and is networked just like any living organism. There can be structural hierarchy but there needs to be organic unity and quick response to feedback from all quarters. Just like the body signals its state of good health or otherwise through symptoms, the organization speaks volumes about its health, energy and morale.

Servant leadership is all about getting to know the pulse of the organization. It is about helping people to become their best so that the organization as a whole benefits. It is about implementing win win solutions and creating extraordinary people synergy.

An important aspect of leadership is setting guidelines and role specifications that are compatible with universal laws of relationships. These are very lucidly brought forth in Stephen Covey’s 7 habits. Ethical integrity is an essential feature of interpersonal relationships and accounts for high trust in team functioning. This trust is extended to customers, suppliers and all stake holders and is the brand value of the organization. Greater the trustworthiness of the organization, greater is its potential for sustainable long term growth.

The best part of sustainable leadership is that it sets up the system of creating leaders down the line. Leadership can be delegated when there is high trust in the organization. This in turn leaves the servant leader free to address issues of development and integration of the organization with the community at large in a holistic and organic way.

Leadership and Management are roles that have specific profiles with some amound of overlap. However a person filling up the role may be leadership material, managerial material, both, or neither.

The person with leadership material can take quick decisions, anticipate and welcome or avert change, plan strategy over the long term, and guide/inspire people from the front or from the boardroom. The person with managerial material looks into maintenance of the system and keeping it well oiled and preventing breakdowns.

The manager takes care of routines and leaves the more strategic decisions to the leader. The difference between the twio roles is comparable to renovation vs. reconstruction of an old building. Or to an architect vs. a contractor.

In actual practice, both roles converge, and a manager is expected to double up as a leader whenever needed. This is then the theory of situational leadership. In a crisis, everyone can be a leader.

Sanya Richards

Success is a habit to be cultivated; not an event to be accomplished.

A Winner can fail in an attempt, and a loser can sometimes reach his goal.

The Winner manages failures successfully, while the loser fails to capitalize on his luck.

Sustainable accomplishments and maintaining the success habit over the long term is the true measure of success.

The Winner eeps an eye on opportunities and hopes to capitalize on luck. A failure sees threats in every shadow and constantly depends on luck to pull him through.

The Winner welcomes risks and plans strategies for risk management. A loser avoids risks and ends up risking everything she has.

The Winner can fail occasionally but continues to stay successful. A loser may win occasionally but view it just as a flash in the pan.

The Winner wins because he thinks he can. The loser loses because he expects the loss.

The Winner works hard to be lucky. The loser depends on luck and does not recognize it when it comes his way.

The habit of success is the mark of a true champion.

Which is more important? IQ or EQ?

Which are more important? Hands or Legs? Brain or Brawn?

IQ and EQ are resources connected to the left and right hemispheres of our brain. Both can be developed by constant and conscious practice. The head and the heart represent IQ (thought) and EQ (feeling). They also may be represented by the eyes (perspective) and feet (motive power).

EQ and IQ are our abilities to meet challenges that we come across. We use practical logic to decide whether to travel during rush hour or vacation during off season. We use emotional reasoning to wipe the loved one’s tears rather than offer free advice..

Pure IQ or mere EQ is rarely sufficient to face the real world. In practice, it is a mix of both. If you plot EQ on the X axis and IQ on the Y axis, you can see where you stand and what you need. The greater the scores for both, the better your ability to handle workplace and relationship issues. Wisdom is the ability to decide where, when, how, and how much to use these intelligences to arrive at a satifactory solution.

How many ways do you know to hide an elephant?

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1. Hide an elephant = Skin the elephant
2. Hide an elephant = Switch off the lights
3. Hide an elephant = Paint everything black
4. Hide an elephant = Camoflague it
5. Hide an elephant = Turn everything into elephants
6. Hide an elephant = In its mother’s womb
7. Hide an elephant = Among other elephants
8. Hide an elephant = Give it a good hiding
9. Hide an elephant = Use an invisible cloak
10.Hide an elephant = Shut your eyes
11.Hide an elephant = Send it on a diet
12.Hide an elephant = Make it look hideous

Competition is a source of stress for most people, specially when winning becomes a life & death issue that fractures relationships and creates heartburn. 

Nice people finish last, right? Yes, but only when niceness is a substitute for action. The advice of the  sage to the poisonous snake is very relevant. Don’t bite, but don’t lose your hiss!

Competition can bring out the best in you as also the worst. It All depends on where you draw the line. Healthy competition can inspires you explore your potential and exploit it to the maximum. It whets your creative juices and primes you to break through your limits.

Competitors are benchmarks for you to rate yourself as you develop your strengths and identify weaknesses. I have learnt much from my colleagues in the profession and made them my gurus (like Ekalavya I should add). I give them due credit and also work with them wherever possible for mutual benefit. Trade associations and inerest groups are examples of cooperation.

In an organization, individuals and departments need to cooperate. But competition held in sportsmanship like spirit adds energy and zest to the process. The idea is for the best talents to be recognized and to be made role models for the rest of the organization. The process is a continuous one that helps throw up new ideas, talents, and energy for the changing times.

‘Recognize talent and learn from the best’ is a wonderful principle to live with.

Human evolution lies in studying, understanding, and applying the principles of nature to sustain its dynamic balance to recreate nature’s abundance in cities, villages, forests, and deserts. The fall out – a kitchen garden in every one’s backyard, and zero garbage! The alternative is unthinkable, wasteful, and destructive.

Beyond this, evolution will be personal, in terms of inner spiritual growth. We make our presence on earth to experience our human feelings and failings and learn valuable life lessons. Living fully means to live with awareness – living authentically, monitoring our carbon footprints, karmic footprints, and deepening our emotional and spiritual life.

We are here to learn from our experiences – that nothing lasts, and everything changes. Our security does not really lie in amassing fortunes, power, name and fame, for all these can be lost in an instant. These accomplishments are biproducts of living a purposeful life. These too are resources meant to be plowed back to the society that we live in and interact. We cannot take these with us beyond the grave – we leave everything behind. Everything including our bodies are recycled, and the only thing that accompanies us are the spiritual lessons learnt and the karmic debt incurred.

Vedanta goes one step further and suggests that even individuality is not absolute and is also recycled – the evolution being from dullness to activity and further towards harmony, peace, caring and letting go. The culmination in the discovery of the fact that we individuals are the manifestation in space-time of the eternal being that is beyond space-time.

The message of Vedanta is that change and reality are mutually exclusive – what changes cannot really ‘be’, and what ‘is’ cannot really change. To realise that all of creation is one with existence is to fulfil our human destiny. We are truely fulfilled when we see the ‘one self’ in all beings. Everything is the manifestation of the divine, and every person and object is sacred and auspicious. Oneness dispels fear and invokes love. What better destiny for a human being than letting go this baggage of insecurity, misery pain and death?