Spiritual Quoetient

We had unique opportunity of being an audience for a discourse by Mr. Sudeep Basu last Thursday at our weekly rotary meeting. Many of us knew Sudeep and a lot of interest was generated during the day. We were really looking forward to listen to him.

We had very learned attendance form Rotarians , very serious and committed. Primarily, those Rotarians who are choosy and always looking for Value for Time.

Sudeep had a wonderful power point presentation and we were too happy internally as our latest acquisition of the LCD projector was being put to the best use.

Sudeep started with relevance of Spiritualism in the life of leaders in the corporate world. The definition and differentiation of various types of intelligence was truly educating. Everyone in the room started realizing where he stood and that being intelligent was not enough. Slowly it began to dawn as to what was missing. Sudeep kept on raising the quality of the contents by introducing a new concept, a new thought ,a new insight and a new experience almost every minute. One really felt as if we must not put a time limit for such sharing. We kept climbing the steps of intelligence or shall we say wisdom and new learning firmly holding Sudeep’s hand and he would not let us stay behind. He carried everyone in the room to higher level of knowledge and realization. What was truly inspiring was the energy in his speech and every word thereof, particularly when one is talking about such an involved and abstract subject. No one could ever have allowed any other thought to enter the mind so long he was talking. Having understood the fourth Quotient as SQ , everyone perhaps knew, we still have some work to do in life .Most of us have been trying hard to understand the third quotient and here was Sudeep telling us one more. But mind you, there was no frustration as everyone could see a new goal for self, albeit a stretched one and a beautiful one.

Sudeep did an amazing service to our club by covering so much in so little time, with full command on the language and the subject. We truly felt gifted and blessed.

What is a discourse if it does not leave you with questions and quest to know more. Sudeep was kind enough to answer them all and agreeing to be of help off line in spite of his tight schedule.

This day will truly make a difference in many of our lives!!!

RCBME would like to thank Rtn. Anil Bhot for submitting this report.

Oh God ! Why not me?

Our guest speaker, Dr. Ashok Sanghvi, is a distinguished management guru and Founder & Managing Director,Axiom Management Consultants Pvt.Ltd.,Mumbai.

We present below a summary of his speech delivered at Rotary Club of Bombay Mulund East, on 7th August, 2008.

Everybody wants to be a successful person. Mulesh Ambani and Narayan Murthy are the business leader who are emulated the most today. People are,in the process, trying to achieve their goals and are successful to varying extent.

The difference between a grand sucess and an ordinary success is networking.
Networking,as we know, is meaningful engagement with other persons, in an activity to achieve some goal.

Networking is of three kinds :

1. Operational - networking with people at your job; it's more or less given and not much can be done in choosing the partners here....however, trusting other partners at work plays important role in getting work done.
2. Personal - networking in a professional, social organisations like Rotary clubs, Toastmasters, and similar professional bodies. You need to devote a lot of time.
3. Strategic - very important, deliberate networking for use in the future...right now you may don't have a need but cultivating contacts that can be used in futue. Many big companies seen doing this like sending gifts to senior officers who are likely to be MDs or CEOs in next4 to 5 years; companies pay donations to political parties even if that party is not in power today.

He gave a six point program towards working on developing network for your future need :

# 1. Just do it - jot down all your contacts; how big is the list of your contacts? Bigger the better. Categorise all your contacts in to persons you talk or meet once in a week, once in a month, and once in a quarter. If you are not doing (calling up or meeting) you better start doing it now.

# 2. Change your mindset - do not have a preconceived mind;everybody has got strong points, highlight them and avoid critising.

# 3. Work from outside in - find out what others want,what are their needs. what they like.

# 4. Re-allocate your time - delegate much of your work that can be done by others.

# 5. Ask and you shall get - go and ask whatever you don't know, afterall you are not suppose to know everything from the universe ! People are ready to help you.

# 6. Stick to it - make a plan for 5 to 6 years; see what are your needs, whom would you require to work for you, take a proactive step to connect to him/her even if he/she is not needed now; that's a strategic planning.