Mgmt lessions for young leaders

I found it pretty realistic.

B-schools rarely highlight the trickiest issue that a manager confronts - the delicate balance between work and life. Here's an interesting analogy. You are like a juggler, who has to keep five balls in the air.

Four balls are glass and the fifth is rubber. The glass balls are your family, health, friends and spirit. The rubber ball is your work. If a glass ball falls, it will crack beyond repair. If the rubber ball falls, it will bounce back, if not tomorrow, then in a few months.

Unfortunately, some young leaders are focusing so much on the rubber ball, they are dropping the glass balls. They do not understand the basic truth that if your glass balls are intact, you will do much better in your professional career.

Manoj Kohli is president, Bharti Airtel. He graduated from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi, in 1986

Good one

Thanks to Saurabh for sharing.


Now I know you are out of my imagination,
I can’t see you when I close my eyes
I can only see work not done, bills not paid,
My daughter crying as I reach home late

It’s not that you have disappeared
It’s just that you have taken a back seat in my thoughts
As priorities change, the relation also changes
from love to understanding from understanding to compromise

I would love to have a chat over a cup of coffee
Ask you how you’ve been, how life has treated you lately
But then my daughter’s homework is more important
I have to drop her to the dance class daily

Kitchen is the only escape where I can be myself
I cook and enjoy my culinary skills
Make a drink for self, enjoying it solo standing in
As that’s the only way I can chill

All of us have a different dinner schedule
Just like morning and afternoon
I end up having it alone
And of course the last one to munch on.

By the time I reach the bed you are in your dreamland
Waking you up is a crime big enough
I just lie down next to you thinking about next day’s work
Clothes to wash, dishes to clean, school fee…..and I doze off !!