Tuesday 31 December 2013

“My Experience as a Chief Guest on Freshers’ Day” - Professor M.S.Rao



“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” - William James


Some of my students invited me to attend their freshers’ party. Students of some colleges conduct freshers’ party which is also known as interaction day wherein the senior students give party to junior students to get familiarized and get acquainted within the educational institutions in India.

Usually I don’t attend such parties as I am busy with my routine research and writing assignments. I decided to attend the party as students admire me and have insisted me to attend. Coincidentally, the principal of the educational institution is a very good friend of mine. Before the party was to start, the principle requested me to preside as the ‘Chief Guest’ for which I was unprepared. Secondly, he also advised me to leave a message to students on the eve of interaction day. These two things came to me as a sudden surprise. Hence, I presided as a Chief Guest, and also thought of delivering impromptu speech as I am passionate about students.

After the principal delivered the speech, I started to deliver my speech where I greeted students on the eve of interaction day and started with a story of a philosopher who was approached by two mischievous students. 

Two students wanted to test the philosopher, and also to prove him to be wrong. One of the students hid his hands with a bird and asked the philosopher, “People in the town say that you are a very wise man, and a great philosopher. Can you tell the bird I was folding in my hands is dead or alive?” The philosopher understood the intentions of the student and told him, “It is in your hands whether you want to keep the bird alive or dead. If I say that the bird is dead you will show the bird which is already alive to prove me wrong. If I say that the bird is alive you will show the bird as dead by killing it.” The students were surprised with the wisdom of the philosopher and apologized for their mischievous act. Similarly, in real life also, your future is in your hands. It is up to you whether you want to make your future bright or bleak.
                                             
I explained to them about the importance of attitude. In fact, attitude plays a crucial role during employment interview. The recruiters hire for attitude and train for skills. Hence, students must build positive, strong and right attitude to succeed in their lives. Remember, it is the attitude that determines your altitude of success.

I spoke with them about the importance of extracurricular activities. Some educational institutions emphasize too much on curricular activities ignoring extracurricular activities which is a retrograde step.  Curricular activities provide subjective knowledge while the extracurricular activities like planning, organizing, and coordinating interaction day equip students with leadership qualities, emotional intelligence, interpersonal skills and soft skills. Precisely, curricular activities equip students with hard skills such as subjective knowledge and technical competence while the extracurricular activities equip students with soft skills. The blend of both soft and hard skills is essential for personality development and career success.  Finally, I implored them to build leadership qualities which are very much essential to build a better and strong India.  

I was a memorable and unique experience to share my message to the ignited students on the eve of ‘Interaction Day’.


“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”- John F. Kennedy



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Monday 30 December 2013

“My Memorable Experience at the Ticket Booking Office – A Short Story” - Professor M.S.Rao



“Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


I did not enjoy my vacation with family for the last eight years as I was always busy with continuous learning and my vision to build one million students as global leaders. I mostly spend my time with students to shape and groom them as healthy citizens and global leaders.  I decided to go on tour to Rajasthan with my wife and two sons. I lived in Jodhpur which is in the State of Rajasthan in India from 1986 to 1991. I earned three degrees - MA, PGDBM and PGDCLL during this period and fast-tracked my career.  I earned my PGDCLL by studying in evening college in Jodhpur by working during the day time.  Throughout my life, I followed the concept of ‘earning and learning’. I also loved and married a woman of my choice, and started my first family life there. Hence, Jodhpur is the place I love very much apart from other places in Rajasthan where I travelled widely during the period including Jaisalmeer, Bikaner, Jaipur, Ajmer, Pali, Udaipur, Ranakpur and Abu Road to name a few.

My wife, two sons and I brainstormed for hours, and finally prepared a blueprint to visit the places in Rajasthan within nine days. I went to a local office to book tickets by a train.  A woman approximately 24 years of age was in the office. I could see her face only from the place where I stood. She was looking at the computer screen doing her work. I was unable to have the physical view of her computer screen and activities.  I told her the names of my wife, two sons and my name as Professor M.S.Rao to book the tickets to Jaisalmeer.  She asked me, “Are you Professor M.S.Rao?”  I said, “Yes. Kindly book the tickets to Jaisalmeer.”  She looked at my face with disbelief and started doing something with her computer screen which I was unable to see. I felt that she was taking more time to give tickets. I reminded her to give me tickets as I had other tasks to do. She said curtly, “Please wait. I am doing your task only.”  I waited for sometime by standing. She was busy with computer screen but not giving me tickets. I asked her assertively, “Why are you taking a lot of time to give me tickets?”  She changed her tone and replied politely, “Sir, I am doing your task only.” I waited for some more time. Finally, I got annoyed and enquired her, “How much time will you take to give me tickets? I have to go elsewhere. You are taking a lot of time. Are you giving me tickets or playing games in your computer?”  She shouted with ectacy, “I got you sir. You are Professor M.S.Rao! My guess is right!” She shouted as if she invented something in her life. Here face was filled with lots of excitement!  I was confused with her craziness. I asked her, “I don’t understand what you got me.”  She stood up and said with great respect, “When you said your name as Professor M.S.Rao I was checking in the Google whether you are the same ‘Professor M.S.Rao, Born for the Students’. When I was in college one year ago, I was regularly reading your blog containing posts on students, career, interview and leadership. I regularly read your posts and acquired immense knowledge. I also followed your interview questions that helped me grab employment offer. When I saw your face asking for tickets I was thinking that somewhere I saw your face. When you said your name as Professor M.S.Rao I was thinking about your blogs. In order to confirm whether you are the same person, I took a little longer time to check your blog containing your photo instead of giving you tickets. I apologize for the delay. But I am excited to meet you in person.” 

Initially I was annoyed with her delay but later I realized that she had acquired knowledge something from my blog. I was very much excited that my knowledge gets spread, and is useful to many. And I was more excited to hear it from an unknown person.

I congratulated her for getting the employment. I asked her to find out the ways to improve the posts in the blog as I believed two things in my life – continuous learning and constant feedback.  She felt that she was quite happy with my blog posts and said that she was my follower and many of her friends in the college read my blog posts.

She said, “I was under the impression that you live in New Delhi.”  Then I replied that I travel around widely to conduct training programs on leadership, and currently stay in the same city and locality. She was surprised, “I thought you might be a great personality with international travel, but you appear like a common man. You seem to believe in simplicity and humility!”  I said that I believe in simplicity, and I rarely reveal my identity to others and about my blogs with others. I love to associate with common people like a common man. I also added, “I am not a great personality. I rose from humble origins and I rarely forget my roots.  I want to die as a common man rather than as a great personality.”

She was excited with my conversation, and she not willing to leave me. She added that she gained lots of knowledge. She said that she would not charge the commission for booking the tickets. I told her to charge as they have overheads. She refused to take the commission for booking tickets. Finally, I requested her to take minimum commission. She took minimum charges and gave me tickets physically. I was a memorable day in my life as I was happy that my knowledge was useful to many people thus making a difference to the society.


"The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground."— Bishop Reynolds



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Saturday 7 December 2013

Publication of Manuscript in ‘UN Post’ Published my Mission to Build One Million Global Leaders “Volunteer to Make a Difference” – Professor M.S.Rao, International Leadership Guru and Author of 25 Books on Leadership



Dear leader, 

As you are aware that my lifetime goal is to build one million students as global leaders, the prestigious international publication – UN Post appreciated my five levels of execution to build global leaders URL: http://www.unpost.org/volunteer-make-difference/

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Wednesday 20 November 2013

“When a Boy Likes a Girl Everybody Knows in the College But When a Girl Likes a Boy ……” - Professor M.S.Rao


"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret." - Aphra Behn 


Recently four teenage girl students consulted me to clarify their queries on career. During the course of career counseling, the discussion went around the difference between men and women. I said, “Men are like mangoes while women are like apples”. One of the girls curiously asked me, ‘Why men are mangoes and women are apples?’  I said that men mature slowly while women mature quickly and women can understand various aspects much better than men as they are blessed with certain advantages by God such as multitasking, rapid thinking, assertiveness and emotional intelligence. And they are good at interpersonal skills, soft skills and empathize with others. While men are blessed with physical power women are blessed with mental power. After hearing my justification, she was very much excited with my ideas and burst into ecstasy and asked, “Sir, do you one thing?”
I immediately asked her, “How do I know what is there in your mind?”
She asserted, “When a boy loves a girl everybody knows in the college but when a girl loves a boy nobody knows it EXCEPT that girl!”
I agreed with her comment and I thought of writing an article and that’s why you are reading this post now

Usually men are attracted by women’s physical appearance and they often look at women’s beauty followed by her behavior. In contrast, women observe the voice modulation of men and look whether men are genuine or not. They look for intensity in voice, observe tone and tenor and look beyond the faces of men.  Above all, women look for sincerity and integrity among men apart from character. Most men exhibit their love to women by their excitement and it is quickly reflected through their body language and especially through their facial expressions. And everybody will come to know easily that the man loves a particular girl. Most boys don’t realize this and exhibit their love to the girls quickly in front of others. Most boys often disclose to their friends that they love a particular girl and it becomes a great talk in the college campus. However, women rarely express their love to others, and are conscious about others especially society and don’t reveal their minds easily. Of course, it depends on cultural aspects also. Especially in a country like India most of the girls don’t express their love openly due to various reasons including the fear of society, shyness, rejection or ridicule. It is because of these reasons most of the girls don’t disclose their love even to their best female friends.  

Hence, boys! Be careful when you love a girl. Remember that others are watching you keenly. Don’t get overexcited. Control your emotions. Don’t disclose your cards. Don’t put the girl you love in a tight spot in front of others by saying ‘I love you’.  Empathize with her and demonstrate your love as per the situation to win her heart and live in her heart forever.  

Dear girls! Understand the problems of boys whose maturity levels are slow. Talk to them. Open up yourself. Respect their excitement and feelings. Remember that to be loved is more important than loving boys who ignore you. Convey your love and reciprocate accordingly to build connectivity, compatibility and chemistry.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this article. And I dedicate this article to boys and girls who truly understand the feelings of ‘Love’ and respect “LOVE”.



“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”― Albert Einstein
“The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.” ― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock


Note: You will find more such interesting stories in my next book due to be published with a tentative title “Striking Stories on Love and Romance: Spread the Message of Love”.

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