Ashok Soota, Chairman-Mindtree Consulting, Delivers Lecture as XIMB Celebrates Foundation Day

Ashok Soota, Chairman-Mindtree Consulting, Delivers Lecture as XIMB Celebrates Foundation Day

There comes a day in everyone's life, when it is time to retrospect on past happenings, and at the same time, look into the future. For the students of XIMB, the Foundation Day on October 14th is such an occasion. This year, Mr. Ashok Soota, the Chairman of Mindtree Consulting, delivered the Foundation Day lecture and ensured that the occasion was memorable for one and all.

While introducing Mr. Soota, Fr. Abraham, the Director of XIMB, spoke of his impressive track record and rich experience starting with the Shriram Group of Industries in India in 1965, and going on until his present position in Mindtree today, and also elaborated on how he has successfully led all the companies he has been in.

Mr. Rajeev Kaul, the CEO of the Nicco Corporation Pvt. Ltd., then delivered a short speech on how India today is ideally positioned to realize her full potential.

The topic of this year's lecture was "Realizing Your Personal Potential". Mr. Soota started by saying that the realization of one's personal potential should be the most important task in anyone's life. His focus was not only on successful careers but also on the innumerable other factors that contribute towards the shaping of a personality.

According to him, success was the ability to set and meet achievable targets, and then continuously raise the bar. He also quoted the following inspiring saying by Sri Sri Ravishankar: "Stretching sound is music, stretching music is dance, stretching smile is laughter, stretching mind is meditation, stretching life is celebration."

He then went on to mention some of the reasons why managers fail. He identified six key reasons, as follows: -

Over-stretching or under stretching

Fear of failure, an inability to take appropriate risks

Complacency due to early success

Putting the "self" before the team

People tending to be either good managers or good leaders, when it was actually necessary to be both

A mis-match between the skills of the person and the requirements of the job

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Contributed by -
Priyadarshini Chidambaranathan,
Member, IlluminatiX,
Media & PR Cell of XIMB,
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

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