Connecting with thoughts - My thoughts and Me

Recently I happened to watch Salman Khan's latest movie "Sultan" which packs a punch of management lessons worth learning. It's been quite sometime since Chak De India a movie with sports in backdrop touched chord with the masses. So here are few lessons that the movie brings to the fore: Don't rush into making decision / form opinion about people. When Akash Oberoi the promoter of mixed martial arts league and Fateh Singh, who goes on to coach Sultan, meet Sultan for the first time take him to be plumb, obese out of shape person who may not be able to survive the rigours of the sport till they see him in action. In process they teach us go beyond and look at strengths and potential rather than going by what is evident. Touch a chord with people by winning their hearts, finding what matters to them and they will climb Mount Everest for you.  While ending Sultan's story, his friend Govind gives this advice to Akash Oberoi for convincing S

In a mirage of Having found love That he always longed for He lived in illusions Of a realm owned Only in the fragile realities  Of a world called dreams

All that's left behind Are memories And dreams, desires unfulfilled Like an abyss Stretched into eternity Without a beginning or end With time seemingly standing still (Co-written with my friend Myrtle) 

It's time to not only learn from failure but also celebrate it. Thanks to the success of startup entrepreneurs and the experienced Venture Capitalists willing to risk failure while making their bets has made failure an interesting proposition. The startups (and entrepreneurs) have been upfront in acknowledging their failure and not having a clue about what exactly needed to be done before striking gold much to the cheer of it supporters. Everybody loves such stories of failures who went on to be successful. Eulogies are being written and plesantaries are being exchanged celebrating the inevitability of failure and importance of learning from it. There is no point denying that. However this just happens to be one side of failure. The brighter side if you may call it. There also happens to be another side of failure. The other side unfortunately is dark, ignored and unwanted. Nobody ever likes to own it. For failure here is an anathema. It's something to be feared and avo