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THE SEVEN RUPEES

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  THE SEVEN RUPEES My Father, a highly decorated Army Veteran, is a founding member of the Armed Forces Veterans Association at Chennai. The members keep exchanging mails of relevance. One such mail titled “The Seven Rupees” caught my attention. It highlights the need to be a PERSON OF VALUE that is so important in today’s context. We have much to learn from the simplicity and honesty of our Nobel Laureate Scientist Prof. Subrahmanyan Chandrashekhar. The Nobel Laureate Prof C.V. Raman after retirement wished to open a Research Institute in Bangalore. So he gave an advertisement in the newspapers for recruiting three physicists. Lots of eager Scientists applied thinking that even if they were not selected, they would at least get an opportunity to meet the Nobel Laureate. In the preliminary selection, five candidates were selected & the final interview was to be taken by Prof. C V Raman himself. Three were selected out of the five. Next day Prof. Raman was taking a wal...
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  TRANSITIONING TO SECOND INNINGS The thoughts of Shri Narayan Murthy ,founder Infosys in the attached video are profound for Armed Forces Veterans transitioning to Corporate world. His two mantras need to followed in letter and spirit..."Set aside Ego while learning and Learning from others is for your own betterment." Another thought that came to my mind is the need to undertake a honest "self-introspection". I wrote about it as a reply to a post by one of our members. I said that a honest self introspection can be self-threatening. We may therefore delay it, defer it or deny it. For meeting the challenges of the corporate world, a honest SWOT is essential. Don't delay ,defer or deny it. I retire on 31 Dec after more than 31 years in Service. I intend to walk the talk ......"not making my Self Introspection...Self Threatening ! . An IIM Lucknow Professor advised our batch with a practical ,but profound thought..." As you unlearn to relearn...Have the...
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