Recently I read a report about what business leaders can learn from history of capitalism and governance. From Taj Mahal to Time Warner and went on to suggest how when Ego became important and it led to the fall of empires.
The Ego of creating monument of taj led to down fall of Shah Jahan , that Pope 2 commisioned St. Peter Cathedral as his tomb leading to his fall from grace, few more interesting examples and finally concluding with our own Mr. Mallya.. the kinfisher towers on his ancestral land and his larger than ligfe image , parties, yatches and bankrupt airlines etc.
Well.. very well indeed!! It was a great read and the point was driven home quite smartly that let the good business sence or at leat common sence be the drivers of your deciosns/ actions and let not your Ego be your driver. But it got me thinking.. with so much of data points out there you can just go out and prove anything.I mean you’ll get many examples of how a particular way of being / thinking/ acting leads to a particular response. Why? Coz youre looking only for say a dozen examples from a billion stories that can prove the point and given the powerful Google search its not that hard really!!!
Frankly this was a good article with a more common sense approach but the point remains that you can always get multiple examples to prove any point you have to write an article and a book.. I mean the world is flat, the economics is freaky, the poker is silly and beyond.
So what am I after.. well almost every other piece of work, read books, that comments that we started with a hypothesis did a detailed survey of the market and confirmed the hypothesis… Why don’t we have enough books where authors say well I started with a hypothesis , got no where with it, tried another hypothesis which in fact failed miserably but along the way by meeting and connecting ppl and ideas I got this insight.. that life is simple and beautiful and you enjoy more when you judge less, you are happy when you follow your passion, you succeed more often when you’re having fun in what you do, you get more when you share more and when you love things around you, they seem to love you back !!!
The Ego of creating monument of taj led to down fall of Shah Jahan , that Pope 2 commisioned St. Peter Cathedral as his tomb leading to his fall from grace, few more interesting examples and finally concluding with our own Mr. Mallya.. the kinfisher towers on his ancestral land and his larger than ligfe image , parties, yatches and bankrupt airlines etc.
Well.. very well indeed!! It was a great read and the point was driven home quite smartly that let the good business sence or at leat common sence be the drivers of your deciosns/ actions and let not your Ego be your driver. But it got me thinking.. with so much of data points out there you can just go out and prove anything.I mean you’ll get many examples of how a particular way of being / thinking/ acting leads to a particular response. Why? Coz youre looking only for say a dozen examples from a billion stories that can prove the point and given the powerful Google search its not that hard really!!!
Frankly this was a good article with a more common sense approach but the point remains that you can always get multiple examples to prove any point you have to write an article and a book.. I mean the world is flat, the economics is freaky, the poker is silly and beyond.
So what am I after.. well almost every other piece of work, read books, that comments that we started with a hypothesis did a detailed survey of the market and confirmed the hypothesis… Why don’t we have enough books where authors say well I started with a hypothesis , got no where with it, tried another hypothesis which in fact failed miserably but along the way by meeting and connecting ppl and ideas I got this insight.. that life is simple and beautiful and you enjoy more when you judge less, you are happy when you follow your passion, you succeed more often when you’re having fun in what you do, you get more when you share more and when you love things around you, they seem to love you back !!!
