- The plants do not come to the gardener; the gardener must go to where the plants may be.
- Each plant has different needs at different times and the gardener must anticipate those and be proactive.
- However tall a mountain is, and however torrential the rain on it, it cannot hold water. To hold water, you need to make your mind a valley.
- I am not the purpose, I am the mode of conveyance; like a municipal water pipe, my job is to deliver the water and not quench my own thirst.
- Imagination is everything. If we can imagine a future, we can create it, if we can create that future, others will live in it. That is the essence of success.
Category Archives: Monthly Archives: April 2010
As Dhingra takes a pause in his narrative, I see in front of me a man who perceives his future as well as he can see his past. Three decades have since gone by and today, he oversees Orient Craft, … Continue reading
“If you were a painter, how should you price your painting?” CK Prahalad would thunder in his trademark, booming, voice to room full of software industry leaders. In the next moment, he was giving them a good bashing for not … Continue reading
In design, for example, there is usually a person or set of people for whom you are designing, and very often in a heterogeneous country like India, this person is quite different from yourself. It is all too easy to … Continue reading
It has been two long days for me, facilitating a group of decision makers of a national organization in Delhi. Now, finally, I am free and ready to step out of the hotel. My hosts have been kind to me; … Continue reading
He went on to work with ABN Amro Bank but realised that he wasn’t cut out to be a banker. He decided to do something else. An important breakthrough that would eventually lead him to become an entrepreneur came his … Continue reading