Life is short, world is small

In business and competitive world, backstabbing, back biting, scheming, talking behind one 's back, politics are unfortunate realities.

But life is short and world is small. You never know when you need help from someone and how long this life lasts!

Is it worth burning bridges and holding grudges?

In the long run, you might see the current disturbances as mere blips in bigger scheme of things.

Forgive and forget - for your own mental peace at least!

Be nice to people no matter what they are or how critical they are to you right now.

Share without expecting something in return always!

Pass on your learnings to others so they start ahead and not go through the evolution!

Be a net giver rather than a taker!!!

Jumping the hoops

As MOOC (massive open online courses) get popular and world gets more integrated thanks to internet, the traditional steps of learning process get blurred.

With global best practices and learnings become available much easier than ever, opportunities to jump the hoops covering multiple steps at once become available.

If the learning includes leveraging others ' experiences instead of academic approaches alone, you can learn two or three steps at a time and move ahead.

Let's take an example : suppose you want to open restaurant. In the traditional route, you may want to work in a restaurant and experience things first hand and then decide to start small. In the connected world, what if you are able to connect with other  restaurateurs and learn from their experiences as well?

You can jump multiple steps in your evolution as a restaurateur and start much ahead. 

Can you apply this to your area of interest?

Emotions in Business life

I have heard of a story ( apparently true) that a famous builder in Mumbai India hired an American as part of procurement which all of us are sure is an extremely critical function in a real estate firm.

This American then found a supplier from Pakistan who could export cement to India at a landing price that is half of the local produce!!!!

Can you imagine an Indian doing this? What gives? Emotion taking over in business decision making.

What an Indian would consider unpatriotic an American finds a simple clear business decision.

Leaving out the countries above, the point to glean is the aspect of emotion clouding or decision making.

Some times a fresh neutral perspective is most needed!!