Three Success Lessons From A Successful Indian CEO
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At a recent speaking assignment at a company's annual day, I got a chance to listen to the inspiring speech of Ghanshyam Dholakia, the managing director (MD) of the Dholakia shared an advice with his employees to succeed in life. "To succeed in any job, profession, business or in life, you need to ask yourself the following three questions," he said.
1) Do you do your job without being reminded?
If you need reminders and follow-ups to complete a task, you will find it difficult to achieve something really worthwhile in your life. Taking responsibility of a task is a characteristic of dependable people. If you need reminders to do something, you reduce the speed of the team of which you are part of. A team or an organisation can grow only if all the members take up their share of responsibilities, and perform the tasks on their own.
Being able to complete tasks on your own requires constant self-motivation. And this
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2) Do you do exactly what you said you will do?
If you cut corners, if you always leave a task before its completion, if you over-promise and under-deliver, you are reducing your
3) Do you do it when you said you will do it?
Your relationship with keeping your time reveals a lot about you. When someone meets you for the first time, they believe your words completely. They presume you will do all that you said you will do. This belief remains till you perform your first task with them. If you fail to arrive on time or get late on your first promised action, the credibility of your words crashes down. Your punctuality about keeping your time will determine your dependability. People form opinions about you based on your performance on time front. If you are late in fulfilling your various commitments, your word starts losing its impact.
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Your trait about punctuality starts when you arrive at your office everyday. For instance, if the time to reach your office is at 9 am with 15 minutes’ grace time, there will be three types of people in the company:
a) Those who always arrive at work before 9 am
b) Those who arrive after 9 but before 9:15 am
c) Those who always arrive late after 9:15 am
Everyday these later-comers give some or the other excuse for being late. These lame excuses are meaningless, except that those who fall under this category prove only one thing that they are not dependable. They can’t keep their word. These people will not get any responsible assignments, if there is alternative. Their chances of success will always remain limited. Also, it is not only at work that the credibility of these late-comers is weak. Such people fail miserably in keeping up to their commitments in all areas of life, at work, at home or in the society. Arriving late or not doing anything on time is their common trait.
So, ask the above three question to yourself. If answers to all these questions are 'yes', you are on the path to success. If not, you have some work to do.
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This is a really useful and 'workable' advice from a man heading an organisation of more than 8,000 motivated employees.
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About the author: This article has been contributed by Sanjay Shah.
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