Some are born into luxury and some...?
As I was watching this Josh Talk How an outsider broke into bollywood, what struck me are the parallels with management lessons.
While there are other interesting lessons and parallels from this talk to which I will revert shortly, I want to begin with management lessons from Anurag Kashayap's life-shaping experience as a film maker.
I will ask one of my forthcoming batches on managerial effectiveness training to watch this Josh Talk by Anurag Kashyap before we actually do the training session on managerial effectiveness.
The talk is inspirational too when at a particular point you remember the message from the the famous motivational father-son talk from Rocky Balboa and the stunning parallel with a life-realisation that Anurag talks about here - The world doesn't owe you anything.
You then also remember another famous movie that came in 2006 as well and this scene from that film - The Pursuit of Happyness.
My own life-learning has been that the sooner we can take out expectations of fairness, respect and courtesy from the world, easier would be our navigation through it.
If anything, from an expectations point of view, the world out there is brutal and the kind where success has many fatherly claimants and failure is an ostracised bastard.
You earn your expectations on your own merits and accord those very things to others first and with no expectation whatsoever of being understood, acknowledge, appreciated and reciprocated everyone.
The world doesn't work the other way around.
Nature and the world don't think they owe anything to any one of us.
Like Gandhiji said, Be the Change you want to see in the world.
Coming to another important parallel you find in this talk is seen in what the world famous management consulting firm Bain & Co. discovered.
Sharing it as briefly as possible here, there are quite a number of companies across the world whose cumulative stock market performance is 3.1 times higher than the S&P 500 index.
And one of the three reasons Bain & Co. found for this difference is that such companies have an "Insurgency Mindset" or what Anurag talks about Ram Gopal Varma and himself - a disruptive, iconoclastic mindset where you challenge the status quo in any set up and industry and the way things are done and turn it upside down and bring in a fresh wave that innovates, raises the bar and makes things accessible and democratic.
Like we all know and as Anurag in a way points out, some are born into luxury and consequently perpetuate insecurity, exclusivity, mediocrity and the like.
And some are born as Steve Jobs and Anurag Kashyap - the disruptors of status quo in the world - the harbingers of a new wave of experience - be it cinematic or otherwise. An experience that raises the bar of human existence and understanding once and for all times to come.
So, Think Different: Here's to the crazy ones:
And Anurag is one of them.
Saho.
Post script:
If the Think Different theme is to be remade about Indian film makers would the list would be very long to fit in the tight 1 minute speech span?
But I am sure it would certainly include people like Anurag Kashyap, Balachandra Menon, Rajkumar Hirani, Aamir Khan and more from the current generation. And I am sure there would be multiple such from each generation and for each language.
Who would be your nominees to that list from the current crop of Indian film makers?
Awaiting your answers.
While there are other interesting lessons and parallels from this talk to which I will revert shortly, I want to begin with management lessons from Anurag Kashayap's life-shaping experience as a film maker.
I will ask one of my forthcoming batches on managerial effectiveness training to watch this Josh Talk by Anurag Kashyap before we actually do the training session on managerial effectiveness.
The talk is inspirational too when at a particular point you remember the message from the the famous motivational father-son talk from Rocky Balboa and the stunning parallel with a life-realisation that Anurag talks about here - The world doesn't owe you anything.
You then also remember another famous movie that came in 2006 as well and this scene from that film - The Pursuit of Happyness.
My own life-learning has been that the sooner we can take out expectations of fairness, respect and courtesy from the world, easier would be our navigation through it.
If anything, from an expectations point of view, the world out there is brutal and the kind where success has many fatherly claimants and failure is an ostracised bastard.
You earn your expectations on your own merits and accord those very things to others first and with no expectation whatsoever of being understood, acknowledge, appreciated and reciprocated everyone.
The world doesn't work the other way around.
Nature and the world don't think they owe anything to any one of us.
Like Gandhiji said, Be the Change you want to see in the world.
Coming to another important parallel you find in this talk is seen in what the world famous management consulting firm Bain & Co. discovered.
Sharing it as briefly as possible here, there are quite a number of companies across the world whose cumulative stock market performance is 3.1 times higher than the S&P 500 index.
And one of the three reasons Bain & Co. found for this difference is that such companies have an "Insurgency Mindset" or what Anurag talks about Ram Gopal Varma and himself - a disruptive, iconoclastic mindset where you challenge the status quo in any set up and industry and the way things are done and turn it upside down and bring in a fresh wave that innovates, raises the bar and makes things accessible and democratic.
Like we all know and as Anurag in a way points out, some are born into luxury and consequently perpetuate insecurity, exclusivity, mediocrity and the like.
And some are born as Steve Jobs and Anurag Kashyap - the disruptors of status quo in the world - the harbingers of a new wave of experience - be it cinematic or otherwise. An experience that raises the bar of human existence and understanding once and for all times to come.
So, Think Different: Here's to the crazy ones:
And Anurag is one of them.
Saho.
Post script:
If the Think Different theme is to be remade about Indian film makers would the list would be very long to fit in the tight 1 minute speech span?
But I am sure it would certainly include people like Anurag Kashyap, Balachandra Menon, Rajkumar Hirani, Aamir Khan and more from the current generation. And I am sure there would be multiple such from each generation and for each language.
Who would be your nominees to that list from the current crop of Indian film makers?
Awaiting your answers.
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