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Cockroach Theory
A beautiful speech by Sundar Pichai - an IIT-MIT Alumnus :  The cockroach theory for self development

At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady.

She started screaming out of fear.

With a panic stricken face and trembling voice, she started jumping, with both her hands desperately trying to get rid of the cockroach.

Her reaction was contagious, as everyone in her group also got panicky.

The lady finally managed to push the cockroach away but ...it landed on another lady in the group.

Now, it was the turn of the other lady in the group to continue the drama.

The waiter rushed forward to their rescue.

In the relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter.

 

 

You guess what the WAITER has done ! 

The waiter stood firm, composed himself and observed the behavior of the cockroach on his shirt.

When he was confident enough, he grabbed it with his fingers and threw it out of the restaurant.

Sipping my coffee and watching the amusement, the antenna of my mind picked up a few thoughts and started wondering, was the cockroach responsible for their histrionic behavior?

If so, then why was the waiter not disturbed?

He handled it near to perfection, without any chaos.

 

Lessons  for me ..Take aways

It is not the cockroach, but the inability of those people to handle the disturbance caused by the cockroach, that disturbed the ladies.

I realized that, it is not the shouting of my father or my boss or my wife that disturbs me, but it's my inability to handle the disturbances caused by their shouting that disturbs me.

It's not the traffic jams on the road that disturbs me, but my inability to handle the disturbance caused by the traffic jam that disturbs me.

More than the problem, it's my reaction to the problem that creates chaos in my life.

Lessons learnt from the story:

I understood, I should not react in life.
I should always respond.

The women reacted, whereas the waiter responded.

Reactions are always instinctive whereas responses are always well thought of.

A beautiful way to understand............LIFE.

Person who is HAPPY is not because Everything is RIGHT in his Life..

He is HAPPY because his Attitude towards Everything in his Life is Right..!!

— with Sundar Pichai.

Narayana Murthy letter to Dharam Singh CM Karnataka

RESPONSE 1: CORPORATE HEAD Resignation letter to Chief Minister!

 Dear Mr D S, Respected Chief Minister !

 The media reports of October 17, 2021 refer to your coalition partner, Mr DG speaking to the press about the lack of my contribution to the BIAL  during the last five years. 

I wish he had asked me personally before going to the press, or talked to you or ascertained it from members of the BIAL board. I am disappointed that an illustrious person did not accord me this basic courtesy. 

I am pained, more so that leaders in the government like you did not even clarify my role in the BIAL company and the work that has been done. I have spent an enormous amount of time and energy in interacting with the Government in New Delhi and the Government in the State to make this work. The records prove themselves. 

There I am resigning the chairmanship of BIAL effective Thursday, October 20, 2021.  I thank you for giving me this opportunity to serve the people of the state

 Best regards,  Yours Sincerely,  KNM

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RESPONSE2 : One Person to One Prime Minister of a country ! 

You are reported to have the desire to crush the “naked Fakir” as you are said to have described me. I have been long trying to be a fakir and that , naked – a more difficult task. I, therefore, regard the expression as a compliment, though unintended. I approach you them as such, as ask you to trust and use me for the same of your people and mine and through them those of the world. 

Your sincere friend

 RESPONSE 3 : 

Father forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing ! 

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RESPONSE 4 :  ONE SCHOOL STUDENT RESPONSE TO A TEACHER!

Mr Giles the educational Inspector had come on a visit of inspection. He had set us five words to write as a spelling exercise. One of the words was a kettle. I had misspelled it. The teacher tried to prompt me with the point of his boot, but I would not be prompted. It was beyond me to see that he wanted me to copy the spelling from my neighbor's slate, for I had thought that the teacher was there to supervise us against copying. The result was that all the boys, except myself, were found to have spelled every word correctly.

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Narayana Murthy Resignation letter to Chief Minister Karnataka

Dear Mr Dharam Singh,

The media reports of October 17, 2005 refer to your coalition partner, Mr Dewa Gowda speaking to the press about lack of my contribution to the Bangalore International Airport Limited during the last five years.

I wish he had asked me personally before going to the press, or talked to you or ascertained it from members of the board. I am disappointed that a former Prime Minister did not accord me this basic courtesy.

I am pained, more so that leaders in the government lie you did not even clarify my role in the company and the work that has been done. I have spent an enormous amount of time and energy in interacting with the Government of in New Delhi and the Government in the State to make this work. The records prove themselves.

There I am resigning the chairmanship of BIAL effective Thursday, October 20, 2005.  I thank you for giving me this opportunity to serve the people of the state

Best regards

Yours Sincerely

Narayana Murthy  

Emotional Intelegence Case lets : Gandhi , Cumstomer and other

CASE: Customer and Waiter : A Dialogue  

Customer asked the waiter  :  Waiter, do you serve pigs? 

Waiter replied   :  Sit down sir, we serve everyone ..

1 .  Discuss the below given THREE habits in detail .. 1 Be Proactice,  2 Begin with end in mind, 3 Seek first to understand, then to be understood

2. You are asked to help the customer to design an effective  return response for the customer on the lines of Seven habits of Highly Effective People framework.

 Customer response  to the waiter  :   ( .   .    .    .   ? )

CASE: Customer and waiter .

Q. No. 7.   Here is a narrative drawn from the life of J C Bose. Read the narrative and respond to the question at the end.

Having graduated from Cambridge, J C Bose returned to India with a letter of recommendation from his professor to the victory. This letter smoothed his path into the Indian educational service and he was appointed professor of physics at presidency collage in Calcutta. His appointment was not the blessing it seemed, for it involved Bose in three-year struggle with authority. An Indian in those days of colonial rule, normally received two-thirds of the salary paid to a European professor but since Bose’s be paid only half rate for a European’s Bose was not the man to take this lying down and accept racial discrimination of this kind.

Bose for three years refused to touch any part of his salary, insisting that was entitled to the same reward as a European.  It was for him more than a question of his own self respect. Scientists have a habit of regarding the earth as one planet, and human beings as one species. Bose would consider no compromise, maintaining that the laborer was worthy of his hire irrespective of race or creed. The victory, in the end, was he.

Discuss the above narrative through the framework of Seven Habits .

 CASE : Gandhi and  his Teacher 

 “ There is an incident which occurred at the examination during my first year at the high school and which is worth recording. Mr Giles, the Educational Inspector, had come on a visit of the inspection. He had set us five words to write as a spelling exercise. One of the words was ‘Kettle’. I had mis-spelt it. The teacher tried to prompt me with the point of his boot, but  I would not be prompted’. It was beyond me to see that he wanted me to copy the spelling from my neighbor’s slate for I had thought that the teacher was there to supervise us against copying “ .  ( Source -  Gandhiji  Autobiography,  P. 6 )

CASE : Gandhi and  Churchil 

 

Here is a dialogue between Gandhi and Churchill.   

Churchill, the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II, was aghast that Gandhi expected the British to simply pack up and leave India after the war. On November 10, 1942, Churchill made his famous statement on maintaining the British Empire.  "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." In addition, Churchill vowed to "crush the naked fakir."

Gandhi replied: “ You are reported to have the desire to crush the "naked fakir," as you are said to have described me. I have been long trying to be a fakir and that, naked -- a more difficult task. I therefore regard the expression as a compliment, though unintended. I approach you then as such, and ask you to trust and use me for the sake of your people and mine and through them those of the world. Your sincere friend – M K Gandhi."

Analyze and discuss Effective Leadership with the help of Gandhiji’s response.  Mention at least Five leadership learning’s for you…

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Bhabha Homi Bhabha Letter to Tatas for BARC ..

Homi Bhabha Letter to Tatas.                                                            12 March 1944

H J Bhabha wrote a letter to  Sir Sorab Sakalatvala The Chairman of the Sir D T Trust.. Tata Trust) 

My Dear Sir Sorab,

The scheme I am submitting now is not one, which has been hastily conceived. It has been germinating in my mind for nearly two years, and I recently discussed it at length with Prof. A V Hill both at Delhi and Bombay. Prof. Hill, Senior Secretary of the R.S. apart from being an eminent scientist himself, is one who has a great and intimate knowledge of the organizations of science and scientific institutions in England, and the many valuable suggestions he made have been incorporated in the scheme as it stands now . I should like to make a few remarks to explain its background.

Then is at the moment in India no big school of research in the fundamental problems of physics, both theoretical and experimental. There are, however, scattered all over India competent workers who are not doing as good work as they would do if brought together in one place under proper direction. It is absolutely in the interest of the India to have  a rigorous Scholl of research in fundamental physics, for such a school forms the spearhead of research not only in less advanced branches of physics, but also in problems of immediate practical application in industry. If much of the applied research done in India today is disappointing or of very inferior quality it is entirely done to the absence of a sufficient number of outstanding pure research workers who would set the standard of good research and act on the directing boards in an advisory capacity. ( This was accomplished in Great Britain ). Moreover, when nuclear energy has been successfully applied for power production in say, a coupled of decades from now, India will not have to look abroad for its experts  but will find them ready at hand, I do not think that one acquainted with scientific development in other countries would deny the need in India for such a school as I propose.

The subjects on which research and advanced teaching would be done would be theoretical physics, especially on fundamental problems and with special reference to cosmic rays and nuclear physics, and experimental research on cosmic rays. For the location of the school I think Bombay would be the most suitable  place in India.. Once  a lab like the one proposed is established in Bombay, it will be easier to collect further money for it in addition to what the Tata Trusts may give. I am confident that both the Government and the university should be prepared to give regular financial support. 

I also hope that in the time we shall receive liberal support from the board of Scientific and Industrial research whose avowed policy includes support for the pure research.. It would be in the interests  of efficiency of BSIR decided to subsidize us to carry  on the on the pure research, which is its intention is to foster by paying us, say 10 % of the annual expenditure it contemplates on the projected NPL ….Prof Hill….. repeatedly stressed the fact that all research has in the beginning to be built round a suitable man.. The same principle has guided the financing of research in Germany. The object has thus been expressed by the President (of Kaiser Wilhelm Society ) Adolf V Harnack, “ The society shall not first build and institute for research and then seek out the suitable man, but shall first pick up an outstanding man and then build an institute for him.. 

Financial  support from the Government  need not however, entail Government Control,,, To quote Prof. Hill in his lecture to the Science Congress at Delhi – May of these independent scientific institutes in Great Britain  nowadays are receiving substantial State support, but nearly always when this done,  a buffer of some kind is interposed to prevent Government support from becoming Government control ( Hill’s  underlining ).

I am convinced within five years we could make Bombay the center of fundamental physical research in India.. 

I would like to add few personal remarks. It was while I was on holiday in 1939 that the war broke out  and stopped my return to my job in Cambridge. For some time after that I had the idea that after the war I would accept a job in a good university in Europe or America.. But in the last two years I have come more and more to the view that provided proper appreciation and financial  support are forthcoming, it is ones duty to stay in ones own country and build up schools comparable with those that other countries are fortunate in possessing. The scheme  I am now submitting to you is but embryo from which I hope to build p in the course of time a school of physics comparable with the best anywhere. If Tatas would decide to sponsor an institute such as I propose through their Trusts I am sure that they would be taking the initiative in a move which will be supported soon from many directions and be of lasting benefit to India .  

With kind regards

Yours Sincerely 

H J Bhabha.

Source: Homi Bhabha  by Chintamani Deshmukh, India, NBT , 2005 p.35 – 37)