Shriharsh Kaushik

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Falcons Story

Once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons from Arabia. They were peregrine falcons, the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. He gave the precious birds to his head falconer to be trained. Months passed and one day the head falconer informed the king that though one of the falcons was flying majestically, soaring high in the sky, the other bird had not moved from its branch since the day it had arrived. The king summoned healers and sorcerers from all the land to tend to the falcon, but no one could make the bird fly. He presented the task to the member of his court, but the next day, the king saw through the palace window that the bird had still not moved from its perch. Having tried everything else, the king thought to himself, "May be I need someone more familiar with the countryside to understand the nature of this problem." So he cried out to his court, "Go and get a farmer." In the morning, the king was thrilled to see the falcon soaring high above the palace gardens. He said to his court, "Bring me the doer of this miracle." The court quickly located the farmer, who came and stood before the king. The king asked him, "How did you make the falcon fly?" With head bowed, the farmer said to the king, " It was very easy, your highness. I simply cut the branch where the bird was sitting." Moral :- We are all made to fly - to realize our incredible potential as human beings. But instead of doing that, we sit on our branches, clinging to the things that are familiar to us. The possibilities are endless, but for most of us, they remain undiscovered. We conform to the familiar, the comfortable, the mundane. So for the most part, our lives are mediocre instead of exciting, thrilling and fulfilling. So let us learn to destroy the branch of fear we cling to and free ourselves to the glory of flight..

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Shiva

Visiting Shiva Shrines have been on my mind from 2007 its Vivek who took me to Amarnath

after this trip till 2011 was able to visit amarnath every year with many odds
the visit to kailash was the most mesmerising

Have been wanting to visit the 12 Jotirlingas, Managed many few waiting for the call...

1. Bhimashankar - the most frequently visited Jotirlianga

2. Rameshwaram - Visited in July 2012

3. Kedarnath - This was a unplanned visit in August 2009

4. Trambakeshwar - have visited sereval time, Visited along with family in April 2011

5. Kashivishwanath - Just before leaving ranbaxy visited in feb 2012

6. Sirsalem - AP - visited 2 time first visit in 2010 and 2nd Visit in September 2013 after getting business Role

7 Somanath - Visited in Feb 2012 on thistrip visites Dwarka & nageshwar too

8. Nageshwar - In Gujrat
Nageshvara - in Maharashtra - Aundya Nagnath
Jageshwar near Almora

9 Mahakaleshwar - Was fortunate to witness the Bhasma Aarti in Dec 2011 - Visited after conducting ADC

10. Omkareshwar - after the Bhasma Aarti when to visit Omkareshwar, the camera battery died this Picture was taken on the way

11. Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra & Baidyanath Jyotirlinga in Bhiar
12. Grishneshwar in Maharashtra and Ghushmeshwar in Rajashthan
Waiting to visiting these 4 temples

Managing Business

Way back in November 2004 Mr. Naik told me that i was a front end person doing a back end job and that i should aspire managing a Business.

It has taken almost a decade to realise that dream. from first september 2013 have got additional charge of managing HIVCare at Mylan.

Happy - Raring to go!

Met my team at hydrabad from 11to 13th September.

we restrured the team from 100 people to 70
will have 50 BMs, 14 RBMs, 3 SMs, 2 Brand Managers and one Marketing Head in my team

This will be the first time i will have such a large team

Monday, November 12, 2012

Session With Marshall Goldsmith

Good learning session with Marshall Gold Smith on 5th November 2012 at Hydrabad

some fantastic take home points

Marshall Goldsmith

• Success Delusion

o Remember that I am successful in spite of doing so many stupid things

o Four Key belief that help us become successful – prevent us from changing

 I have succeeded

 I can succeed

 I will Succeed

 I choose to succeed

o The Concept who have a more skewed self perception :

 Individual athletes, Sales people, Politicians, College professors, College dean, Investment bankers, FBI agents, Jesuits Priest, Pilots, Medical Doctors

• Transactional Flaws that leaders should avoid

o Winning too much

 Rao Gave 400Mill to charity but grumbled loose Rs 200/- . No one likes to loose

o Adding too much value

 Adding value may increases the impact but definitely decreases the ownership

o Telling the world how smart we are

 65% interpersonal communication is about “ how good I am or how bad others are “

o Passing Judgment

 Check with people if they want to bet on it – instead of passing your judgment

o Avoid using “ No” , “But” , “However” in your conversations

 Punish yourself if you use these works in your conversations

o Avoid speaking when angry

 “When I lose control the problem is within”

o Punishing the messenger

 “Say thank you more often”

o Avoid Favoritism

 The Dog example – we all love suck ups – avoid encouraging the suck up culture

• Feedforward instead of feedback

o Steps to feedforward

 Listen

 Think

 Respond

 Involve

 Change

o Action Plan for Feedforward

 Ask your partner what can I do to be a better partner

 Do this to all people who you care for and who matter

 Do this repeatedly

 Even if they give you suggestions that you may know or may not agree – say thank you

 “Problem is not in understanding it – problem is in executing it”

• Change

o Important Changes you can make

 Focus

 Make life simple

 Celebrate with people

 Accept what is

o How Can we change for better

 Feedback / Feedforward

 Apologizing

 Telling the world

 Listening

 Thanking

 Follow-up

• Decision making and power

o Decision in the world are made by people who have power to make them – make peace with that

o These decision may or may not be rational but are made by people who have the power

o Treat others as customers especially the ones who have the decision power

• PDQ computer case – late coming + big breakthrough ( Missed celebrating the big break )

o We get fixed on our goals and forget our mission. We tend to focus on task and lose relationship

o It’s not important what or how I say – its important how we make people feel.

o We convey lack of trust – and unknowingly doubt people and loose leadership.

• Cognitive dissonance - Roman Number watch activity

o The disconnect between what we believe and what we experience or see

o We see what we think and not what is there

• Active and passive questions

o If we ask passive questions we will get environment answers, but when you ask active questions you get right answers

o Active questions focus on what you can do to maximize a positive difference for yourself

o List 6-10 active questions and follow through on them in daily basis

 Did I do my best to …

• be happy

• find meaning

• be fully engaged

• build positive relationship

• set clear goals

• make progress towards goal achievement

o do something stupid every day

• Coaching

o Coaching lesson

 If they do not care - don’t waste your time

 If you don’t care – don’t waste your time

o Don’t make coaching your own Ego

o The most important factor for successful change is client – not the coach

o Best Coaching Advice – Achieve success

 As a person

 As a professional

o Great is the need of the student to learn; greater is the need of the teacher to teach.

o Rajat Example – Prof asked students to slap him for not doing their assignment.

• Employee engagement

o Focus on what the organization can do to engage you – not what can you do to engage yourself.