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A Perspective on India- Now is India's Time.

Embracing Adversity for Achievement

Can You Sleep When Wind Blows ?

Who moved my cheese.

Forgiveness

Listening
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A Perspective on India- Now is India's Time


(Mr. Scott Bayman, the outgoing chief of GE India)
We all know of China's rise and its incredible growth story. India's is still more a bet on the
future. However, a future that is coming into sharp focus. The World Economic Forum's
Global Competitiveness Index ranks India 43rd, well ahead of Brazil at 66, China at 54 and
Russia at 62. India is the only one of the four that improved its ranking. The other three
actually slipped.
Despite being much poorer than China, India has produced dozens of privately owned
excellent companies like Infosys, Ranbaxy, Tata Steel, Bharat Forge and Reliance. Huang
attributes this difference to the fact that India has a real and deep private sector.
Today companies move beyond their borders for
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Growth and Profitability


Access to markets,
Lower costs,
Higher quality,
Critical raw materials and components
And, to diversify their workforces.

Over the past four years, I have seen what I describe as four big events. First, the telecom
revolution. When I arrived, you never knew if you would have dial tone when you picked
up the receiver. If you had dial tone, there was a question of whether the connection would
be made to the number dialled. If connected, you never knew how long you would stay
connected. Today, Indian telecom approaches world-class standards. Cell phones are
common, even in villages where land lines still do not exist. Between 2000 and 2005, India
added about 18 million fixed phone lines and nearly 73 million mobile connections.
Teledensity grew more than three -fold to 11.5 percent; in urban areas to almost 35 percent.
Waiting lines for phone connections have ceased to exist. I describe telecom as the "poster
child" for privatisation and deregulation.
My second big event is the creation of a new class of consumers driven by the emergence
and growth of software, backroom processing, technology and financial services industries.
Employees in these industries are highly educated and relatively younger than the workers in
other industries. Today, this group earns a good wage and has a propensity to spend. And,
with the opening up of the economy, now has a wide choice of products and services to buy.
Today, you can have delivery in two or three days at very competitive prices. Color
televisions had to be purchased on the gray market, unavailable in quantity or variety.
Today, virtually every manufacturer sells the latest models of color televisions. Computers
and laptops attracted high duties and needed registered in one's passport to be taken in and
out of the country. The average age of a home buyer in Gurgaon, a suburb of Delhi, has
come down from 55 to 32. further evidence that this new class of consumer has real
purchasing power. The third big event is that Indian industrialists have gained
confidence that they can compete on the global stage. Indian industrialists no longer worry
about multinational companies; they are or want to be MNCs. They no longer talk of level
playing fields. They argue for open markets, free trade and view the globe as their
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marketplace. Indian companies now think globally. The total value of take-over deals by
Indian companies, which was less than $1 Billion in 2000, rose to $8 billion in 2006. January
2007 saw two mega deal - Hindalco / Novelis and Tata Steel / Corus. There have been 72
foreign take-overs by Indian companies, worth $24.4bn in the first four months of this year,
according to the advisory firm Grant Thornton. In the same period, there were 38 foreign
deals for Indian companies, worth $17bn. Indian companies possess the self-confidence to
believe, to know, they will be successful in global markets. They are confident they will
improve the performance of acquired companies. Whether it is Videocon or Suzlon, Tata
Tea or Bharat Forge, companies are talking of becoming one of the world's big two or three
in their business, if not number 1.
Across India, total exports are rising at an annual rate of 26 percent. The manufacturing
sector is growing at 10 plus percent annually, compared with 6 percent a year from 1991 to
2004. Special economic zones, the model that drove China's export-led industrialisation, are
beginning to spread in India.
The fourth big event is Civil Aviation. On my first domestic flight in India, I was 35
minutes early. Upon arriving at the tele-check-in counter, I was told quite rudely that I was
late. To which I responded, "I still have 5 minutes." The agent literally tossed the boarding
card across the counter, and said, "You're lucky." Because of his attitude, I thought the flight
was overbooked. In fact, it was only half-full. Today India has some of the best domestic
airlines in the world. Moreover, that government owned carrier I checked in for on my first
flight has significantly upgraded its service. Think, just think, what would have happened if
the government had not allowed private air carriers.
India is part of the changing world political and economic order. An Asian trading bloc is
developing driven by:
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The decline of Russian influence in India


China's emergence as an economic power
India's and China's improving relationship and growing trade
India's free trade agreements and discussions with Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia
India's initiatives for open sky agreements within the region

Here is something to think about.


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China, Japan, India and ASEAN providing the four pillars


Korea, Australia / NZ, and the rest of South Asia providing the four walls creating a
very powerful trading block.
India becoming the bridge to the Middle East and former Soviet States.

My vision includes an enhanced stature in the global community. Relationships with the
United States grow even stronger as both sides recognize that they are natural allies. China
and India find ways to compliment each other economically and learn to live with their
political differences. India plays a leadership role in helping combat the war on terrorism and
re-building Afghanistan and Iraq.
During a question and answer session at an India Today Forum, I stood up to respond to
similar examples of all that is wrong with India, to cries of "aint it awful", to allegations that
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the government has failed the country and India has no chance. I made a point that Indians
should stop beating themselves up so much.
Consider the following.
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India is the fifth largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in the world.


India is the second largest tractor manufacturer in the world.
Hero Honda Manufactures more motorcycles than anyone else in the world
Bharat Forge has the world's largest single-location forging facility, its clients include
Honda, Toyota and Volvo. all very demanding customers.
The GAP sources about $600 million and Hilfiger $100 million worth of apparel from
India Wal-Mart sources in excess of $1 Billion worth of goods from India. And, it
expects this to increase to $10 Billion in the next couple of years.
GE has grown from less than $100 million in local revenue to almost $3 billion with a
target of $8 billion by 2010.

As manufacturing continues to expand to serve both domestic and global customers, it will
create jobs. India's competency in high tech businesses also will create jobs. There are 170
biotechnology companies in India, involved in the development and manufacture of generic
drugs, whose business is growing exponentially. The Indian pharmaceutical industry at $6.5
billion and growing at 8-10% annually, is the fourth largest pharmaceutical industry in the
world, and is expected to be worth $12 billion by 2008. India's telecom infrastructure
provides the largest bandwidth capacity in the world, with well over 8.5 Terabits per second.
India is among six countries that launch satellites and do so even for Germany, Belgium,
South Korea, Singapore and EU countries.
India produces 200,000 engineering graduates and another 300,000 technically trained
graduates every year. Soon India will have the largest working population in the World.
Seven hundred million people out of 1.1 billion people are young. And, the young
population will continue till 2050.
In my 14 years, I learned one big lesson. India is a confusing and difficult place to quickly
enact change and make rapid progress. Consider:
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India is a 5,000 year old ancient civilization


It has 18 official languages; with 325 spoken languages and 1,652 dialects
There are 1.3 Billion people living in a land one-third the size of the US.
There are 5600 daily newspapers, 15,000 weeklies and 20,000 periodicals published in 21
languages with a combined circulation of 142 million. Moreover, as those of you who
read some of them know, each has a very strong bias on every issue.

India is the world's largest democracy with a parliamentary form of Government. That's the
good news. The bad news is; it makes taking tough decisions very difficult. However, I
would never ever trade it for the alternative. I argue the glass is half-full and filling; not
half-empty and running out.
( Courtesy: Ms. Sheela Mistry, Insight Associates)
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Embracing Adversity for Achievement


by Chris Widener
"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who
has overcome adversity." -- Lou Holtz
Success in life depends upon being strong people with clear goals and indomitable spirits.
Unfortunately most of us aren't born that way. We grow that way. And that growth can
either come from us entering willfully into situations that will cause us to grow, like
subscribing to this Ezine, or from the way we react when circumstances come upon us
without our consent. The latter is what we call adversity.
Most of us spend our lives trying to avoid adversity, and I guess that is just as well. We
shouldn't pursue adversity, but when she arrives, we should welcome her as a foe who,
through our interaction with her, will make us into better people. Every contact we have
with adversity gives us again the opportunity to grow personally and professionally and to
forge our character into one that will achieve much later on.
With that in mind, here are some thoughts on adversity, and how it can help you to succeed
in every area of your life and achieve your dreams.
Adversity brings out our resources. Horace said "Adversity reveals genius, prosperity
conceals it." When everything is going well, we coast. There isn't a lot of stress, and we
don't have to draw too much on the resources that reside within us. But when adversity
comes we begin to draw upon each and every resource that we have in order to conquer the
circumstances at hand. Adversity then, keeps us sharp. It keeps us using our personal
muscle, if you will. That is a good thing because we grow through the use of our resources.
Adversity brings us together with others. Sure a team can have their problems with each
other, but when they step on the court, when they experience the adversity of facing another
obstacle, they pull together. One for all and all for one, as they say. The next time you
experience adversity of some kind, keep your eyes open for how it can bring you together
with your family, your co-workers or your team. Then when you are through it, you will
find a bond that was created that wasn't there before.
Adversity makes us better people with stronger characters. Never underestimate the power
of adversity to shape us inwardly. How will courage, discipline and perseverance ever
flourish if we are never tested? After adversity, we come out stronger people and able then
to use our character and influence in an even greater way to lead those around us and to
improve their lives as well as our own.
Adversity makes life interesting. John Amatt said, "Without adversity, without change, life
is boring." How true. Have you noticed that while we are in the middle of adversity we only
long to get out of it, but we then spend a lifetime recounting it to anyone who will listen?
This is because it spices life up a little. Imagine how boring life would be if everything
always went well, when there was never a mountain to be climbed.

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Question - If you are in the middle of some adversity right now, what resources are you
drawing on? Who are you drawing closer to and working with? What part of your character
is being tested, and built up? What can you do to view this adversity as one who will be
better for it on the other side?

Remember the words of Napoleon Hill - "Every adversity, every failure, every
heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." Believe it, it is
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CAN YOU SLEEP WHEN WIND BLOWS ?


Years ago, a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly
advertised for hired hands. Most people were reluctant to work on farms along
the Atlantic. They dreaded the awful storms that raged across the Atlantic,
wreaking havoc on the buildings and crops. As the farmer interviewed applicants
for the job, he received A steady stream of refusals.
Finally, a short, thin man, well past middle age, approached the farmer. "Are you
a good farm hand?" the farmer asked him. "Well, I can sleep when the wind
blows," answered the little man.
Although puzzled by this answer, the farmer, desperate for help, Hired him. The
little man worked well around the farm, busy from dawn to dusk, and the farmer
felt satisfied with the man's work. Then one night the wind howled loudly in
from offshore. Jumping out of bed, the farmer grabbed a lantern and rushed next
door to the hired hand's sleeping quarters. He shook the little man and yelled,
"Get up! A storm is coming! Tie things down before they blow away!" The
little man rolled over in bed and said firmly, "No sir. I told you, I can sleep when
the wind blows."
Enraged by the response, the farmer was tempted to fire him on the spot. Instead,
he hurried outside to prepare for the storm. To his amazement, he discovered
that all of the haystacks had been covered with tarpaulins. The cows were in the
barn, the chickens were in the coops, and the doors were barred. The shutters
were tightly secured. Everything was tied down. Nothing could blow away. The
farmer then understood what his hired hand meant, so he returned to his bed to
also sleep while the wind blew.
When you're prepared, spiritually, mentally, and physically, you have nothing to
fear. Can you sleep when the wind blows through your life? The hired hand in
the story was able to sleep because he had secured the farm against the
storm.We secure ourselves against the storms of life by grounding ourselves in
the Word of God. We don't need to understand, we just need to hold His hand to
have peace in the middle of storms.
(Courtesy : Mr. Jiten Bhuta, Director, Jay Process,Mumbai)
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital


in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us
not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.
Sigmund Freud
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"Who moved my cheese"
Some Quotes and ponderable points
Crux of the Book by Dr. Spencer Johnson
Having cheese makes you happy. The more important your cheese is to you, the more you
want to hold on to it.
If you do not change, you become extinct.
What would you do if you weren't afraid ?
Smell the cheese often, so you know when it is getting old.
Movement in a new direction helps you find new cheese.
When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.
Imagining myself enjoying the new cheese even before I find it, leads me to it.
The quicker you let go of the old cheese, the sooner you find the new cheese.
It is safer to search in the maze than remain in a cheese-less situation.
Old beliefs do not lead you to a new cheese.
When you see that you can find and enjoy new cheese, you change course.
Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger changes that are to come.
Few axioms :

Change happens : They keep moving the cheese.

Anticipate change : Be prepared to see the cheese moved.


Monitor change : Smell the cheese often.
Adapt to change quickly : Let go of old cheese sooner the better.
Change : Move with the cheese.
Enjoy change : Savor the adventure and enjoy the taste of new cheese.
Be ready to change quickly again : Enjoy the new cheese, but it is not permanent.
They keep moving the cheese again and again : Find and enjoy every new cheese.
Cheese : What you want to have in life , what you cherish and enjoy the most.
Maze : Your surrounding / situation you are put in; where you look for what you want.
(Courtesy : Dr. M S Patel, GNFC Limited)
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Forgiveness
"The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong"
:Mahatma Gandhi:

Forgiveness.

It is astonishing that that wonderful word invokes a


negative imagery. Somehow forgiveness is something to be done by the great
people or God.
You are always encouraged to seek forgiveness rather than forgive. Let's
look at the dictionary definition of the word forgive:
1 a: to give up resentment of or claim to requital for <forgive an insult>
b: to grant relief from payment of <forgive a debt>
2 : to cease to feel resentment against (an offender)
(Source: www.m-w.com)
Please note the definition 2. It is all about feeling. It never ceases to amaze
me how the original meanings of words contain such profound wisdom.
Resentment leads to spitefulness and the two feed upon each other like
hungry wolves. What can be more satisfying than vengeance extracted when
the enemy is most vulnerable. Just like two fencers, the two opponents have a
go at each other alternatively. Finally, unlike in the sport, there are only
losers, no winners. We have all seen people carrying the burden of hate all
their life, as if it is a precious asset that they must safeguard and preserve at
all costs.
Being a firm Covey believer, I will look at the benefits of forgiveness in four
spheres of life:

Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual.


Emotional benefits: We live by emotions. Because of our attachment and
love, we care for our young and our family. We make value judgments, using
our emotions. However, there are "good" and "bad" emotions. Good
emotions are what are called the positive emotions such as love, happiness,
empathy etc. Bad emotions are the ones like anger, hatred and jealousy.
When I carry my resentment about an incident (such as someone insulted me
in front of others), I generate other "bad" emotions such as anger and hatred.
My behavior is perceptibly altered when I feel resentful about someone. This
can result in further squabbles and more resentment results.
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I begin to be anxious, nervous and irritable whenever I have to deal with that
person. We encounter people who are extremely capable otherwise, but have
a tough time working with others.
There are surveys that have indicated that people, who score low on EQ, tend
to be less effective than even those who have comparatively lower IQ but
higher EQ. Forgiveness provides a powerful tool to keep runaway emotions
in check and develop better interpersonal relations.
Physical benefits : Physical benefits are most obvious when the effects of
anger and other strong emotions on the heart are considered. Research has
shown that people who are content live a happier and longer life. Body
accumulates stress when negative emotions like anger, resentment and
jealousy build up. Hypertension, weakened immune system, ulcers, and old
age diseases like Alzheimer's are only some of the negative effects of stress.
They even have a term for acute afflictions that are caused by the emotions:
psychosomatic illnesses.
Mental benefits : It stands to reason that we all make mistakes one way or
the other. We frequently hurt people around us. These actions do result in
bad feelings and resentment against us. We do not want such feelings to be
carried forward for perpetuity.
We implicitly seek their forgiveness, even if we are not generous enough to
actually ask for it. However, when we do not forgive others, the hypocrisy of
the situation begins to bear upon our intellect. It erodes our courage and
moral authority.
Spiritual benefits : We are connected to other beings by virtue of a
common thread of humanity. I would like to believe that there is something
more common to all of us than the mere genes, brains and possessions. This
connectedness provides us a framework for human relationships.
As hatred only increases overall unhappiness in the humanity, it must be
obvious that as we give up resentment, we become more loving, we connect
with more people. When we renounce hatred, our spirit becomes free to act
on other more pressing needs of the other three dimensions: physical, mental
and emotional.

In conclusion, all four aspects of our being are benefited by


forgiveness. Like a muscle it can be built by practice: start
forgiving today in a small way. But most importantly, we must all
remember to forgive ourselves for being petty, jealous, angry or
depressed. After all we are capable of much more.
(Courtesy : Mr. Jiten Bhuta, Director, Jay Process,Mumbai)
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Listening
Listening is, in so many ways, the social equity of the world-class cultures
that evolve into world-class organizations. Listening makes people feel
special (and talent leaves organizations mainly because they didn't feel
special).
Listening shows respect. Listening allows you to gather the data that will
improve everything you do. I guess what I'm suggesting to you is that
brilliant performers are brilliant listeners.
Today, just for a day, make the decision to listen masterfully. Don't
interrupt. Don't rehearse your answer while the other person is speaking.
And don't dare check your e-mail or search for text messages while another
human being is sharing their words. Just listen. Just hear. Just be there for
that person.
Everyone has a voice. And we all crave to be heard. Just watch the great
things that unfold when you do.
ROBIN SHARMA
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Lowly men are never high, even when elevated.


High souls are never low, even when downtrodden.
Men of noble birth will never fall from three:
Virtuous conduct, truthfulness, and modesty.
Before decision resolve all doubts through consideration of these 5
Cost, means, time, place and the decision itself.

::Editorial Committee::
Chairman
Mr. Jayen Mehta, GNFC Ltd.
Members
Mr. Mukesh Mehta, Heubach Colour,
Ms. Sheela Mistry, Insight Associates,
Mr. G.M. Patel, GNFC Ltd.
Dr. M.S. Patel, GNFC Ltd.
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Mr.Kamlesh Udani - Past President,
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