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 !!

Just chill

When someone is doing something or is about to do something, in a way we don’t want it to be done and when we are not able to accept it, we become angry.

However, when someone is doing something or is about to do something, in a way we don’t want it to be done – and we are able to accept it – We remain tolerant.

When someone has something which we don’t have, or someone is able to produce the results which we are not able to produce – and we are not able to accept it – we become jealous.


When someone has something which we don’t have or someone is able to produce the results which we are not able to produce and we are able to accept it we get inspired.


When Someone is present in our thoughts, but if not physically present and we are not able to accept it – We say ‘I am missing you’.


When someone is present in our thoughts, but not physically present – and we are able to accept it – We say ‘I am thinking of you’.


Then emotional equation is quite simple.


Something + Acceptance = Positive Emotion
Something + Non Acceptance = Negative Emotion


So, it is not ‘Something’ or ‘someone’ who is making us feel positive or negative, but it is our ‘acceptance’ or ‘non acceptance’ of something or someone, which is making us feel positive or negative.


It isn’t the world but the quality of our response to the world (acceptance or non acceptance) that determines the quality of our emotions.


Next time we feel disturbed with a negative emotion, instead of asking who or what is disturbing us, we will examine who or what we are resisting (not accepting) that is causing this disturbance in us. We will replace resistance (non acceptance) with acceptance, and the negative emotion will turn into a positive one.

Emotional management begins by stopping to blame that ‘something’ or ‘someone’ and starting to take the responsibility to respond to life with ‘acceptance’.

Thanks shiva.shankar for sharing this.