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(Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam at Wharton India Economic forum, Philadelphia, March 22, 2008)


Question: Could you give an example, from your own experience, of how leaders should manage failure?

Kalam: Let me tell you about my experience. In 1973 I became the project director of India's satellite launch vehicle program, commonly called the SLV-3. Our goal was to put India's "Rohini" satellite into orbit by 1980. I was given funds and human resources -- but was told clearly that by 1980 we had to launch the satellite into space. Thousands of people worked together in scientific and technical teams towards that goal.
By 1979 -- I think the month was August -- we thought we were ready. As the project director, I went to the control center for the launch. At four minutes before the satellite launch, the computer began to go through the checklist of items that needed to be checked. One minute later, the computer program put the launch on hold; the display showed that some control components were not in order. My experts -- I had four or five of them with me -- told me not to worry; they had done their calculations and there was enough reserve fuel. So I bypassed the computer, switched to manual mode, and launched the rocket. In the first stage, everything worked fine. In the second stage, a problem developed. Instead of the satellite going into orbit, the whole rocket system plunged into the Bay of Bengal. It was a big failure.
That day, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, Prof. Satish Dhawan, had called a press conference. The launch was at 7:00 am, and the press conference -- where journalists from around the world were present -- was at 7:45 am at ISRO's satellite launch range in Sriharikota [in Andhra Pradesh in southern India]. Prof. Dhawan, the leader of the organization, conducted the press conference himself. He took responsibility for the failure -- he said that the team had worked very hard, but that it needed more technological support. He assured the media that in another year, the team would definitely succeed. Now, I was the project director, and it was my failure, but instead, he took responsibility for the failure as chairman of the organization.
The next year, in July 1980, we tried again to launch the satellite -- and this time we succeeded. The whole nation was jubilant. Again, there was a press conference. Prof. Dhawan called me aside and told me, "You conduct the press conference today.

"I learned a very important lesson that day. When failure occurred, the leader of the organization owned that failure. When success came, he gave it to his team. The best management lesson I have learned did not come to me from reading a book; it came from that experience.


Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
 

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(Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam at Wharton India Economic forum, Philadelphia, March 22, 2008)


Question: Could you give an example, from your own experience, of how leaders should manage failure?


"I learned a very important lesson that day. When failure occurred, the leader of the organization owned that failure. When success came, he gave it to his team. The best management lesson I have learned did not come to me from reading a book; it came from that experience.


Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
Awesome Lakhvinder.
 

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Too good Lakhvinder. Our beloved ex-president was a role model (i should say "is").
 

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He should have been re - elected................ :(
 

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lakhvinder.kaur said:
(Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam at Wharton India Economic forum, Philadelphia, March 22, 2008)


Question: Could you give an example, from your own experience, of how leaders should manage failure?

Kalam: Let me tell you about my experience. In 1973 I became the project director of India's satellite launch vehicle program, commonly called the SLV-3. Our goal was to put India's "Rohini" satellite into orbit by 1980. I was given funds and human resources -- but was told clearly that by 1980 we had to launch the satellite into space. Thousands of people worked together in scientific and technical teams towards that goal.
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That day, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, Prof. Satish Dhawan, had called a press conference. The launch was at 7:00 am, and the press conference -- where journalists from around the world were present -- was at 7:45 am at ISRO's satellite launch range in Sriharikota [in Andhra Pradesh in southern India]. Prof. Dhawan, the leader of the organization, conducted the press conference himself. He took responsibility for the failure -- he said that the team had worked very hard, but that it needed more technological support. He assured the media that in another year, the team would definitely succeed. Now, I was the project director, and it was my failure, but instead, he took responsibility for the failure as chairman of the organization.
The next year, in July 1980, we tried again to launch the satellite -- and this time we succeeded. The whole nation was jubilant. Again, there was a press conference. Prof. Dhawan called me aside and told me, "You conduct the press conference today.

"I learned a very important lesson that day. When failure occurred, the leader of the organization owned that failure. When success came, he gave it to his team. The best management lesson I have learned did not come to me from reading a book; it came from that experience.


Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Very nice indeed.. I hope that there would be a lot more leader like him.. It would make the world a better place to live in
 

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Logical & Legal

After having failed his exam in "Logistics and Organization", a student goes and confronts his lecturer about it.

Student: "Sir, do you really understand anything about the subject?"

Professor: "Surely I must. Otherwise I would not be a professor!"

Student: "Great, well then I would like to ask you a question.

If you can give me the correct answer, I will accept my mark as is and go. If you however do not know the answer, I want you give me an "A" for the exam. "

Professor: "Okay, it's a deal. So what is the question?"

Student: "What is legal, but not logical, logical, but not legal, and neither logical, nor legal?"

Even after some long and hard consideration, the professor cannot give the student an answer, and therefore changes his exam mark into an "A", as agreed.

Afterwards, the professor calls on his best student and asks him the same question.

He immediately answers: "Sir, you are 63 years old and married to a 35 year old woman, which is legal, but not logical. Your wife has a 25 year old lover, which is logical, but not legal. The fact that you have given your wife's lover an "A", although he really should have failed, is neither legal, nor logical."
 

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Today's teenagers -

Father passing by his teenage daughter's bedroom was astonished to see the bed was nicely made and everything was neat and tidy.

Then he saw an envelope propped up prominently on the centre of the pillow.
It was addressed "Dad". With the worst premonition, he opened the envelope and read the letter with trembling hands:-


Dear Dad,

It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm writing you, but I'm leaving home. I had to elope with my new boyfriend Julian because I wanted to avoid a scene with Mom and you.


I've been finding real passion with Julian and he is so nice to me. I know when you meet him you'll like him too - even with all his piercing, tattoos, and motorcycle clothes. But it's not only the passion Dad, I'm pregnant and Julian said that he wants me to have the kid and that we can be very happy together.


Even though Julian is much older than me (anyway, 42 isn't so old these days is it? ), and has no money, really these things shouldn't stand in the way of our relationship, don't you agree?


Julian has a great CD collection; he already owns a trailer in the woods and has a stack of firewood for the whole winter. It's true he has other girlfriends as well but I know he'll be faithful to me in his own way. He wants to have many more children with me and that's now one of my dreams too.


Julian taught me that marijuana doesn't really hurt anyone and he'll be growing it for us and we'll trade it with our friends for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want. In the meantime, we'll pray that science will find a cure for AIDS so Julian can get better; he sure deserves it!!


Don't worry Dad, I'm 15 years old now and I know how to take care of myself. Someday I'm sure we'll be back to visit so you can get to know your grandchildren.


Your loving daughter,
Rosie.



At the bottom of the page were the letters " PTO".

Hands still trembling, her father turned the sheet, and read:







PS:

Dad, none of the above is true. I'm over at the neighbour's house. I just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than my report card that's in my desk centre drawer. Please sign it and call when it is safe for me to come home.


I love you!

Your loving daughter,
Rosie
 

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Today's teenagers -

Father passing by his teenage daughter's bedroom was astonished to see the bed was nicely made and everything was neat and tidy.
Dad, none of the above is true. I'm over at the neighbour's house. I just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than my report card that's in my desk centre drawer. Please sign it and call when it is safe for me to come home.


I love you!

Your loving daughter,
Rosie
Ha ha … good one!! :D :D :D
 

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Hi all

Just wanted to share with u guys. As u know common wealth games are being held in New Delhi. I went to see the opening ceremony yesterday..The 60 thousand people sitting around me , and I have just one thing to say... Its amazing just Awesome... Full of warmth and vibrancy.
Everything was just superb , outstanding..... was cheering for my countrymen like anything
was feeling so proud to b an Indian...
congrats to all my fellow Indians....


JAI HIND !!!
 

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lakhvinder.kaur said:
Hi all

Just wanted to share with u guys. As u know common wealth games are being held in New Delhi. I went to see the opening ceremony yesterday..The 60 thousand people sitting around me , and I have just one thing to say... Its amazing just Awesome... Full of warmth and vibrancy.
Everything was just superb , outstanding..... was cheering for my countrymen like anything
was feeling so proud to b an Indian...
congrats to all my fellow Indians....


JAI HIND !!!
Thanx Ma'am, for that update. Yes, today's Toronto Star also gave rave reviews on the opening ceremony. And that definitely fills us with pride.

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Lessons of Life, once more...
"Remember, Growing Older is Mandatory, but Growing Up is Optional"


The first day of college our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being.

"Hi handsome" she said. "My name is Rose and I'm eighty-seven.

"Why are you in college at such an young, innocent age?" I asked. She replied jokingly, "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids..."

"No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to take-on this challenge at her age.

"I always dreamt of having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me.

After class we walked to the student union building and shared a milkshake, I chocolate - she sugar free vanilla. We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and talk the way. I was mesmerized listening to this "time machine" - as she shared her wisdom & experiences with me.

Over the days, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends, wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she revelled in the attention bestowed upon her. She was living-it-up!

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I'll never forget what she spoke / taught us there...

She was introduced and escorted to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her 3 x 5 prompt cards on the floor. A little embarrassed, she leaned into the microphone and simply said, "I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order, so let me just tell you what I know."

As we smiled she cleared her throat and began, "We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy and achieving success. 1)You have to laugh and find humour every day. 2)You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it! 3)There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen & stay in bed one whole year without doing one productive thing - you will yet turn twenty years. If I am eighty-seven & stay in bed for a year and do nothing - I will still turn eighty-eight. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. 4)Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what they did, but rather for things they didn't or couldn't. The only people who fear death are those with regrets."

While closing her speech she challenged each of us to study well but also spearhead our dreams. To have little objectives and live them out in our daily lives. And to be happy with the decisions we took. At the year's end Rose finished her college degree - the education she had begun all so many years ago.

One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral, in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

I can still remember the last words of her that speech...
"We make a 'Living by what we get', We make a 'Life out of what we give'. God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY - BUT GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL."

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Canada is second on the medals table. Makes me proud to be a Canadian PR and a future Canadian. Hopefully we can thrash Australia and UK. India and South Africa are no match for great Canada.
 

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Russell Peters
Canadian Stand-Up Comedian


Check out this sample video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw6CrUtKKtY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Russell Peters is a Canadian stand-up comic and actor. Raised in Brampton, of Indian descent, Peters began performing in Toronto in 1989 and has been nominated for four Gemini Awards. He has since also performed in the US, UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Denmark, South Africa, New Zealand, Sweden, India, UAE, Lebanon etc.

In Canada, Peters became the first comedian to sell out Toronto's Air Canada Centre, with more than 30,000 tickets sold nationally over the two-day sales period. In Sydney, Peters had a record breaking audience of 13,880, making the event the largest stand-up comedy show in Australian history.

Between June 2008 and June 2009, Peters earned $10 million, making him one of the highest-paid comedians during that twelve-month period.

Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Peters
 

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qorax said:
Lessons of Life, once more...
"Remember, Growing Older is Mandatory, but Growing Up is Optional"



I can still remember the last words of her that speech...
"We make a 'Living by what we get', We make a 'Life out of what we give'. God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY - BUT GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL."

Qorax
I Really liked it.. Thanks for sharing.