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Friday, 5 October 2012

“Can Attitude be Changed?” - Professor M.S.Rao

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." – Bland Tom

The former Southwest Airlines CEO, Herb Kelleher once said, “We can change skill levels through training, but we can’t change attitude.” It is not correct. In fact, attitude can be changed the way skills can be honed. To some extent, changing the aptitude or upgrading the aptitude levels of the individuals is more challenging task. However, changing the attitude, and building the attitude is an easier task as people change with the changing times. William James rightly remarked, "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

When we look at both talents and skills, talents are inborn as individuals acquire by birth while skills can be acquired over a period of time through observation, learning, experience, and practice to name a few. Here attitude is the way people perceive the situation or the people around them. It can be changed through teaching and training. When people set their goals they focus on their goals thus removing the negative thoughts they have. Research reveals that people get 60,000 thoughts on an average in a day and mostly they get negative thoughts. When they set goals they can remove the negative thoughts and replace with positive thoughts. In addition, there are a number of merits with goal setting. People stay focused as they set their goals. They will be able to mange their time effectively by finding out the time wasters as they have set goals for themselves. They can enhance their longevity and above all, they can provide meaning to their lives. Hence, setting goals is one of the means of changing one’s attitude and building a positive attitude.

There are several companies that emphasize on attitude while recruiting its talent. Google, Apple, Southwest, and The Four Seasons are some of the global companies fall in this category. They believe in the slogan, ‘hire for attitude and recruit for skill’. Hence, the job aspirants must understand this fact and build positive, right and strong attitude to grab the employment opportunities, and to succeed in their professional lives.

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.” - Thomas Carlyle

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Sunday, 30 September 2012

“Does MBTI Personality Style Change from Time to Time?” - Professor M.S.Rao

“I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.” - Stephen Covey

Recently I have conducted the MBTI test on myself for the second time in my life to find out my personality type as I have the habit of practicing the tests before I execute them on my students and participants. To my surprise, my personality style changed from ENTJ to ISFJ within a span of 5 years. I rechecked the questions and answers repeatedly to find out if I had made any mistakes. Answers were correct and, therefore, the results were also right. I explored this trigger further to benefit my students and participants. Let us discuss the basics of MBTI first.

An individual’s personality profile is identified along four dimensions as per The Myers-Briggs type Indicator (MBTI) such as orientation to life (Extroverted/Introverted); perception (Sensing/Intuitive); decision making (Thinking/Feeling); and attitude toward the outside world (Judgment/Perception). It provides total 16 personality types. There is nothing like right or wrong personality as people are different. As people change from time to time based on their knowledge levels, experience, environment, and age their personality styles, multiple intelligence categories and learning styles change.

Here is the precise report on ISFJ:

7 – 10 % of Americans belong to this category. People of this personality type are hard workers, detail-oriented, considerate of others’ feelings, friendly and warm to others, very conscientious, and down-to-earth. As there is always room for improvement, they must involve in study group from time to time; think about the information in an abstract form; strive to look at things more logically; and look at the entire situation before making a judgment.

I realized that I have changed from the dimensions of Extroverted to Introverted; and from Intuitive to Sensing keeping the dimensions of Thinking and Judgment intact within 5 years. When I shared my own case study with the participants they found it interesting and enjoyed.

"Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open." - Elmer G. Letterman

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Sunday, 16 September 2012

“It is an Honor to be Born as an Indian”- Professor M.S.Rao

“If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.” – Romain Rolland, French Nobel Laureate

Many centuries ago India was the leader across the world. We have the oldest civilization in the world. We taught to the world about religions. We taught to the world about tolerance. We taught to the world about universal brotherhood. We taught to the world the meaning of life. We taught to the world about Vedas, and we shared the greatest knowledge on the earth. We had one of the oldest universities in the earth – Nalanda. We were strong in several spheres. Ashoka was a global leader and excelled as an emperor who put India on the world map through his visionary leadership. But we lost everything to the West. Why did we lose it? It is due to lack of unity among us, and lack of visionary leaders among us.

We Indians waste a lot of time in resolving issues arising out of incompetence. We have stopped taking charge of situations. If there is an accident on the road, people will stop and watch. They will all wait for government officials to come forward and tell everybody what to do. What kind of a people are we? What kind of attitude do we Indians have? We need to have a shift in mindset, and change in attitude to make India as a great country in the world.

We Indians are great in Mathematics and Information Technology. We have the third largest technical manpower in the earth. We have the second largest population in the world which is a great asset for Indians. For the first time in history we have 400 million young people who are the backbone of India and who can make India a prosperous country and turn India to become a super power in the world.

Swami Vivekananda showed to the world that India is the mother of all religions in the world. The Indian land sheltered many religions and communities with a universal brotherhood. This land of India taught to the world about non-violence and peace. This land of India taught to the world that freedom can be acquired through peaceful means under the soft leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. This land taught to the world that all religions can live together peacefully under one roof with unity in diversity.

Why Mahatma Gandhi was never awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? He was considered above the Nobel Prize. There were 5 top leaders in the world who were followers of Mahatma Gandhi and received the Nobel Prize. They are Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama, Aung San Sui Kyi, and Barack Obama. In fact, there is no international prize that can measure the greatness of Mahatma Gandhi. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was above everything. That is why he was called Mahatma (super soul) Gandhi.

Take pride of being an Indian. Work hard. Work smart. Work wise to make India a prosperous country in the world. Do remember that it is an honor to be born as an Indian.

Jai Hind!

“We have been. . . thinking small. And if we look around us, countries like China have grown so much by thinking big. I would urge that we all, in the coming years, think big, think of doing things not in small increments, not in small deltas, but seemingly impossible things. But nothing is impossible if you really set out to do so. And we act boldly. Because it is this thinking big and acting boldly that will move India up in a manner different from where it is today.” – Ratan Tata

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