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

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

According to Mr. Soota, three entities - the head, the heart, and the mind - should all be considered while making personal decisions in life.

He then went on to talk about the importance of living up to one's potential in areas such as caring, learning, sharing and helping other people. He talked about caring as being not about softness but about fairness, and about bringing joy into the lives of people around you.

Going on to the issue of learning, he talked about how the vast amounts of information readily available today were ensuring that the onus of learning was shifting onto the individual, thus, creating a situation where individuals were having to take the responsibility of their own self-development. He also said that sharing, rather than diminishing, would actually enhance gains. According to him, it was not about "dividing the pie, but increasing the size of the pie".

Mr. Soota concluded by saying that the future would invariably be determined by circumstances outside our control, but our decisions and our determination to see it through would definitely have a huge impact on the nature of the experience.

The speech was thought-provoking, and as a result, there were a number of questions from the student community which Mr. Soota (along with Mr. Rajeev Kaul) answered patiently and comprehensively.

A speech that the audience will certainly remember and look back on, from an unforgettable speaker, made this Foundation Day a day to remember.

Concluded.

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

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