Bye Bye 2014 : Some key events and their lesson

Thanks 2014 for giving us 52 Weeks, 365 Days, 8760 Hours , 525600 Minutes………..You will always in our memory.

2014 is almost gone and added another page in the history books.  2014 has taught us many things and

some key events are as under :

-          Ebola virus epidemic in west Africa in Feb,2014 and it was a real threat to the world.  But we will able to survive.  Thanks to all doctors and Nurses , who really handled this deadly threat to the world.

-          In Feb,14 : Satya Nadella appointed as CEO of world largest software company – Microsoft and this shows that anybody who has the talent and caliber can reached upto the top most post of any corporate.

-          In March ,2014 – Malayasian Airlines Aircraft 370 disappeared and till date, there is no traces found of this flight.  This incident realized us that there are many things we have not done in this very high tech development.

-          On 16^th May,2014 – results of general election of India declared and BJP won a sweeping victory by taking 336 seats and Mr. Narendra Modi elected as Prime minister of India.   First Time in India, A party emerged as single largest party with clear majority after congress.   This shows the power of democracy and proved that one single leader can change the fortune of any party and nation.

-          In June-14- We have witnessed the emergence of ISIS in Iraq and this shows that still , there are some people who are not in the main stream of development and human kind.

-          July ,14 : 2014 FIFA world cup held successfully at Brazil and Germany won the world cup.  This shows that a developing country like Brazil can host a successful Football world cup and Brazil is not only the super power in world football.

-          In Sep,14 : Alibaba IPO has created the history and Jack Ma proved that if you have basics clear , you can run an e-commerce company without knowing much knowledge of IT.

-          In September, 14 – India successfully established its MANGANYAAN  to Mars orbit with a cost of Rs 450 Crore.  This proved that all Space projects are not too costly and success can be achieved in very low cost.

-          In December,14- USA and Cuba announces the resumption of their relation after many years. This incident shows that relations can be improved at any time.

-          Indo Pak duo of Kailash Satyarthi  and Malala Yusuf awarded the highest award of humanity and peace – Peace Noble prize.   This clearly established the fact that good work is always appreciated without borders.

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Is Gandhian’s Talisman relevant today ………….

When I was in school, we were used NCERT book and every NCERT book has a special page in which , the Gandhi’s talisman was printed and we used to read it many times.  But I was not so much aware about that what actually Mr. Gandhi wants to say by this talisman.  Years has been gone and yesterday, when my daughter brought a book and when I was flipping the pages of that book, I saw this talisman once again.  I read it again after many years.  I felt very good and I was gone into deep thinking.  Now, somewhere, I felt that I am able to understand the meaning and importance of this talisman.

"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test : Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?  Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."”

Try to read it many times as you can , you feel something is melting  inside you and you will start recalling some incidents of your life and feel it.  

Why I am illustrating this thought in this forum?  This is a big question.  But I feel, this talisman is strongly applicable in this corporate arena.  Think about it and you can feel the importance of this talisman.

This talisman can give you some guidelines to you whenever you are creating or implementing some policies or guidelines across the company and you have to think about the effect of policy to the lowest or bottom leveled employee of your company.  Although , I know, this is not very practical in today’s world but if you really want to make a company people centric and believe people are the best assets and every individual contribute a lot in the progress of the company then you realize the importance of this talisman.

My suggestion :  Read it once , think twice and take the best from it wherever you can.