Divide between successful & less successful, strong & weak would keep widening, unless….

A successful person moves from strength to strength, opportunities chase him (no gender bias) and his accomplishments and material gains increase multifold! A strong performer would always be a front runner. So, success multiplies for a successful person. On the other hand, success gets divided for a less successful person; he is generally laden with problems, left behind and the returns from identical efforts made by him dwindle!! If you look around, you would find this story repeating time and again world over. It is also driving divide between successful and non-successful, performer and non-performer, rich and poor to increase continuously.

Reason for such a contrasting performance is very clear – when you do it right, you are bound to get success, results, prosperity and greater strength! On the other hands, when you do it wrong, you are bound to be left as a loser, weaker or poorer. Majority of people do it partly right and partly wrong. If net sum is positive, person moves forward; but slowly and if it is negative, he would go backwards. Many tend to attribute successes and setbacks to stroke of luck or nature/god’s reward or retribution; but that is a poor excuse.

However, there is a major consequence of above – growing inequality between the 2 sections of people. History shows that it is this high inequality in families, communities, companies, countries and at international level, which is always a bone of contention, cause of several conflicts and social revolutions!

Recently published and New York Times best-selling book of French economist Thomas Piketty – “Capital in Twenty-First Century” has taken the debate on inequality by storm in USA. Book essentially focuses on gap between rich and poor, which is larger than ever before. This is a reality. Several reasons are being assigned to such inequality and suggestions being advanced like levying of wealth tax, lowering taxes on labor, socialistic model of governance etc. It is doubtful that any of these can ever address such a problem. On the other hand, such measures would lead to other sets of problems including inefficiency, corruption or loss of entrepreneurship!

So, what is the remedy?

Reorient purpose of aids and charities to uplift competence of individuals

Globally, individuals, institutions, corporations and country governments spend huge sums to help underprivileged or weaker section of people. Aids or charities given to such people are more to provide them missing means with no focus to uplift their competency levels. In the process, such aids or charities function like crutches, without which these people have difficulty to survive. Many among them might have talents, which actually get leashed by such assistance.

Therefore, there is dire need to reorient the purpose of spending such sums. Main objective should be to educate and engage them. Make them gainfully occupied, self-reliant and unleash their hidden talent. Hold them accountable to demonstrate results from such assistance.

Making true sense of Entrepreneurship and Leadership!

Our popular understanding of entrepreneurship or leadership is very parochial and outdated. It is all about securing success but not about sustaining it! It glorifies monopoly, kills competition and breeds autocracy!

Further, most lack sound knowledge why leaders and legends eventually languish; why setbacks invariably follow successes; why children of a brilliant entrepreneur are seldom equally or more brilliant! It is obvious that we are missing something very important!

Therefore, it is imperative that an entrepreneur or leader understands and puts unflinching faith on following:

  1. Your differentiators have to be:
    Not wealth but wisdom
    Not money but merits
    Not means but morals
  2. Your strength lies is your ability to create contemporaries!
    If you don’t or can’t create contemporaries, you would only create adversaries!!
    Many leaders fear that having contemporaries mean losing relevance; it is actually rewarding.
  3. If your success can’t inspire others to succeed, it is superfluous.
  4. What you share only solidifies what you have.
  5. If you preach what you practice, then it perpetuates what you possess!
  6. If you would ignore inequality, it would only invite instability.
  7. You excel, when you help others to emulate you.
  8. What you get during your journey, give back to source in one or another form.
  9. Monopoly is a malady, you must save yourself from.
  10. Competition only promotes your qualitative performance and competitiveness.
  11. Judge your performance not merely by no. of times you got success; but also by no. of people you helped them to be equally successful.

So, it is time to redefine your leadership and entrepreneurship; junk the old defunct definitions. You would then revolutionize your profession, organization you serve and society you live in! This would also completely dilute the issue of ever widening inequality between doers and non-doers, performers and non-performers, rich and poor!!

Comments

8 responses to “Divide between successful & less successful, strong & weak would keep widening, unless….”

  1. Vikrant Deshmukh Avatar
    Vikrant Deshmukh

    Excellent write up. Compels one to think out of the box.

    1. Murli Avatar

      I highly appreciate your feedback and valuable view!

  2. Rao Saka Avatar
    Rao Saka

    Very well said. Thank you. Rao

    1. Murli Avatar

      I can’t thank you enough for your valuable view!

  3. Rudra Avatar
    Rudra

    Yes, I think it again comes-down to that ‘State of mind’ thing. When you’re winning everything, you have the momentum with you and you keep on progressing with that frame of mind and exactly vice-versa when you start losing. Momentum is the key I guess in whatever thing you do, which differentiates strong and weak and hence keeps widening the gap…

    Very thoughtful read… the last (11th) point is cherry on the top! 🙂

    Cheers…

    1. Murli Avatar

      Many thanks for your thoughtful views!

      Your ideas have helped trigger my additional thoughts. As I had mentioned once earlier, yes state of mind means most but it is too general for most to understand. State of mind has many shades. A positive mind alone may not mean any of 11 points; yet you can feel that you are positive!

      I am not sure whether to call it momentum. Momentum could take you either way – up or down, forward or backward. That’s why a winner often becomes a loser in ultimate run. What matters is the direction or sign (+/-) of your efforts!

  4. Murli Lohia Avatar
    Murli Lohia

    From: subhash deshpande [mailto:dsubhashsg@gmail.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 12:05 PM

    To: Murli Lohia

    Subject: RE:Divide between successful & less successful….

    Divide between successful & less successful, strong & weak would keep widening, unless…. 6th June 2014.

    Dear Murlisir,

    Your views & guidance on this topic is very helpful & invaluable! Really sometimes people lose the spark to keep moving ahead due to some of the circumstances but the spark in mind should be like continuous carbon arc to motivate apart from all the cross winds !
    Sometimes inadequate efforts or winding up approach makes many targets incomplete or futile! Keeping a single loop hole initially can result into inflated Black hole at the end hours!!
    Many times people also develop phobia about the Time lag or delay developed in the mid period of targets (Because of the unexpected time consumption due to any reason) & there is a strong inertia to restart the task again! So here again torque of 1 st gear is required to be back on the track.
    Also I think there is a Focus switching tendency of confused & underperforming people which comes from the feeling of lagging behind other successful people or friends .It’s not so that they don’t have potentials but don’t find the right course to the destination.
    Your highlighted guidelines are truly to be kept on any time pop able stack pointers to recall and as an evaluator for decision makings.

    P S: Please kindly guide for any misleading thoughts or misunderstandings.

    Sincere Thanks & Regards

    Subhash Deshpande

    1. Murli Avatar

      Many thanks for your thoughtful views and analysis!

      Reasons assigned by you for some people lagging behind or not being able to perform up to the expectations are very valid. Lack of focus on what one is doing is very damaging. All of these reasons mean doing it wrong as opposed to one who is doing it right and becoming more and more successful.

      The focal point of the post is on how to sustain the success, which is possible when all or maximum of 11 points listed are followed; otherwise net result would follow the text book rule of what goes up comes down.

      I really appreciate your interest and highly intellectual thinking!

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