Decoding Success

Delivered  a 40 mt talk on decoding success at the Knowledge Community, Chennai. Focussed on three major themes:

1.  Accepting the world is interconnected – and illustrated this with a railway ticket booking example!

2. Being mindful of the world around us is paramount to our success. Watch out for externalities (including 100 USD burgers!) and technology disruptions (like skype) which may render your job unsustainable/ obselete

3. Focus on the whole thing – like the buddha advices us to see the miracle in the flower blossom

Along the way, touched upon some insights from leaders, how designis driving success today and so on.

Do take a look at; http://chennaistream.com/kcc/ and click on Decoding Success (28th edition). There are quite a few other videos too and KCC videos are awesome – so do have some fun watching…

Some links you may like to follow through on:

The $100 burger (and there’s a more enlightening one on the $200 burger too!)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13764242

http://www.5min.com/Video/Raj-Patel-on-Why-a-Hamburger-Should-Cost-200-516906298

Bill Gates in the gates Foundation Annual Letter

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annual-letter/2011/Pages/introduction.aspx

On Christian fabre (the saint and the fashion ceo!)  –

http://www.christianfabre.com/who-we-are.html

http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/06/07/stories/2008060751691200.htm

and finally – a wonderful non-traditional commentary to the Heart Sutra (with several read in between the lines stuff!) reviewed at amazon and on this very site..

http://www.amazon.com/Arrow-Heart-Commentary-Sutra/dp/1425133770/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312831669&sr=1-2

http://nmsubra.com/2012/05/06/buddha-pournima-celebrating-the-day-of-the-buddha/