Friday, August 24, 2007

SiliconIndia Leadership Summit



SiliconIndia: Professional Network for Global Indians is organizing a Leadership Summit, which I am sure is going to be an excellent platform for the leaders of today and tomorrow. Agenda seems to be very interesting as the CEO's of top technology companies are attending to give keynote speeches, involve in panel discussions and share their thoughts and experiences on leadership.

When:
August 31, 2007
8.00AM to 5.00PM

Where:
Taj Residency, Bangalore
41/3, Mahatma Gandhi Road
Bangalore 560 001
Karnataka, India

Register Here:
SiliconIndia Leadership Summit

Speakers Include:
Sharad Sharma, CEO, Yahoo! India R&D

Naresh Gupta, MD-Adobe Systems India & SVP, Adobe Systems India

Anil Gupta, Vice President, Sun India Engineering Center

Vijay Anand, Vice President, Oracle India

Dr. Albert Stritter, VP & Managing Director,Infineon Technologies India

Sanjeev Kumar, VP & Head, BEA Systems India R&D Center

Srini Raghavan, Managing Director, Bally Technologies India

Dr. Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra, Managing Director. Texas Instruments India

Alexius Collette, CEO, Philips Innovation Campus

Sanjay Singh, Managing Director, Akamai Technologies India

Makarand Teje,President & COO, AppLabs

SiliconIndia says that, this is a closed-door invite only Summit, which allows for free exchange of idea’s and experiences among the attendees. Leaders gather in a dynamic forum for lively conversations and penetrating questions about the business, technology, innovation, and opportunity.

An amazing opportunity to learn form the leaders and don't miss it.

Participate, Contribute, Enjoy and Learn to Lead...

With Love,
Anbusivam

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Leadership Means....

Hello Friends,

Welcome to Anbusivam’s blog page.

One of my friends asked me "oh..you are writing on Leadership? ok..What exactly do you mean by Leadership?".

I thought for a while and replied,

LEADERSHIP is

L - Love, love what you do, do what you love.

E - Enunciate, articulate your thoughts clearly.

A - Adore, have utmost esteem, love, and respect to everyone.

D - Dynamic, being highly active and energetic.

E - Empathise, understanding the people.

R - Respect, regard your team with honor and esteem.

S - Splendid, admirable in character.

H - Honest, honorable in principles, intentions, and actions.

I - Integrity, adhere to moral and ethical values.

P - Propelling, to drive forward towards greater goals.

Enjoy Leading....!!!

With Love,
Anbusivam

Friday, August 3, 2007

Human'Culture' Vs Agri'Culture'

Hello Friends,

Welcome to Anbusivam’s blog page.

Human'Culture' is essentially the interpersonal relationships, I am talking about. Relationship is the way we relate with people around at home, work place, club or community. We are always surrounded by people with varied interests, attitudes, behaviors, dreams and so on.

Yeah, I got the same question you’ve now. Why agriculture here? in the concrete jungles, where we live today. I am sure our younger generation either doesn’t know or never had a chance to understand the great wisdom of our age old farmers and their cultivation methods. By saying Human'Culture' equivalent to Agri'Culture' the point I want to make here is Personal Relation is almost equivalent to Cultivation. If one can understand the simple things to be followed in cultivating a crop and getting a good yield out of it then the same principles could be effectively used in our personal space as well for better relations.

After publishing my earlier post on Leadership = Gardening , I had been to an interior village in Tamilnadu to attend one of my cousins family function. Every time I go there I would say the amount of knowledge and wisdom I get is always in abundance. Yeah, it’s from an 80yrs old Granny nearby. The way she interacts with people is amazing and I’ve never seen such a person in our great corporate houses. Lessons one could learn from her can never be found in any best sellers or from great management gurus. It had come all the way from her 80yrs of lively experience in that small village. She could relate any personal relation with agriculture and cultivation. Here, I am posting few of my learning’s form our Granny’s wisdom.


Agri'Culture' : No quick fixing and short term corrective action will work.

Human'Culture : Quick fixing will actually worsen the situation in relationships.



Agri'Culture' : Cultivation is a pursuit and can’t be done in a weekend.

Human'Culture : Rebuilding relationships (marriage, Children, friendships etc) just can’t be done over a weekend.



Agri'Culture' : Procrastination in cultivation destroys the crop and yield.

Human'Culture : Procrastination in personal relations ends up in great emotional stress.



Agri'Culture' : Cultivation is based on Natural laws regardless of our awareness or obedience.


Human'Culture : Personal relations are based on emotional feelings regardless of the individual.


Once she asked, Can you go days without milking the cow, and then get out there in a weekend and milk like crazy? So also in our personal relations, there is no quick weekend fix as such. It should be a pursuit day in and day out.

In cultivation, one should prepare the ground well before the rains, put in the seeds on time, water it and weed it regularly, then naturally there is growth, development and yield. Same simple steps would work very well in our personal lives as well.

Let me know your comments and thoughts on this.

With Love,
Anbusivam