What Employers Want But

Business Schools Don’t

Teach

-Yasmin D’Souza & Amitabh Singh

Life’s Never…Just a Piece of Cake!
• Route to success in the workplace and at home is related to
‘time management’
• ‘First Things first’- essence of choices one have to make
• It’s important to learn delegating or deleting of what is not
important.
• One cannot manage time, unless one has learned how to
manage oneself.
Six Elements to Making a Success of
Yourself
• Common sense
• Hard work
• Intuition/Gut instinct
• Confidence
• Clear thinking
• Developing foresight
Gaining Confidence
• C –Courage and Conviction
• O –Ownership
• N –Nobleness of character
• F -Flexibility
• I - Innovativeness and Integrity
• D –Diversity and Drive
• E – Energy
• N –Neutral
• C – Clarity and Creativity
• E -Enthusiasm
High Achievers and Twisted Thinking
Here are a few questions, see how you are fare with them
• Can you win your first Oscar at eighty?
• Can you become prime minister at seventy-one?
• Can you become prime minister at twenty-four?
• Can you have a play produced when you are ninety-four?
• Can you publish your first composition at seven years of age?
• Can you start painting at eighty years and complete fifteen hundred
paintings in your lifetime? How about painting 375 of these after you
are one hundred years old?
• Can you make $1 million at ninety-three years of age?
• Can you direct movies at the age of seventy-six?
• George Bums won his first Oscar at eighty.
• Golda Meir was seventy-one when she became the prime minister of Israel.
• William Pitt was only twenty-four when Great Britain called on him to
become prime minister.
• George Bernard Shaw, when he was ninety-four, had a new play produced.
• Mozart published his first composition at seven years of age.
• Grandma Moses didn’t start painting until she was eighty years old. She
completed fifteen hundred paintings in her lifetime, 375 of these after her
one-hundredth birthday.
• John D. Rockefeller was making $1 million at ninety-three years of age.
• Charlie Chaplin was still directing movies at seventy-six.

These achievements all stemmed from people believing in themselves and

not being discouraged. They thought with a positive attitude.