Virtue 1 – Uttam Kshama (Supreme Forgiveness). Forgive and Forget.
Das Lakshan Parva is a Jain festival that marks the celebration of 10 Virtues over a period of 10 days.
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Aug 12, 2021
10th September 2021 is the beginning of a Jain festival called Das Lakshan Parva – a festival that marks 10 Virtues over a period of 10 days.
I used to visit the temple during these 10 days with my father and listen to a few lectures at the temple. The lectures would make me feel good but I could not draw any connection between them and my daily life. A few years ago, I was searching for a framework from Indian scriptures in relation to where deep knowledge has been made repeatable. I found the answer in Paryushan Parva, where Jains celebrate 10 principles of a high-performance life over 10 days when they are completely committed to learning.
In this series of audio podcasts, I will try to cover the 10 virtues similar to habits of effective leadership on a daily basis for the next 10 days.
Here is the first podcast about Das Lakshan Parva – https://lnkd.in/gWh7Xykk
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Aug 12, 2021
As we are celebrating Intellect Fest, a month-long celebration of our people, potential, passion, products, technologies and markets at Intellect, I have found myself wondering what the meaning of True Leadership is, and the following is an excerpt from my diary, on the purpose of a True Leadership Mind.
Each part of the body has a purpose; our legs are for mobility, eyes for seeing, ears for hearing, nose for smelling, lungs for breathing, heart for energy distribution, kidney for blood clean up, and liver for energy storage etc. But, what is the purpose of the mind?
It has many functions, but if we need to define the function of the human mind in less than 5 words, then it would be – to solve a problem. Our mind works as a problem solver, that solves problems one after the other with agility, from simple problems like what to eat, to problems that concern larger populations.
I realised that whenever Manju shared her problems with me, my mind was quick to suggest an immediate solution to the problem. Her purpose of sharing the problem was just to make me aware of what her mind was occupied with, but I would constantly perceive it as an opportunity to help her. With genuine care and intentions, this behaviour of giving unsolicited advice quite simply led to undesired conflicts.
I was watching the series ‘The Crown’, and I liked one of the Queen’s statements, where she said “Doing nothing is most difficult for an executive”. Our minds are hardwired to provide solutions 24*7, so trying to not come up with a solution when faced with a problem is not always easy.
In the journey of self-discovery and awareness, the key message is to stop thoughts, observe thoughts or spend time in shunya. Are these not similar to saying stop problem solving?
In the context of management, true leadership is about enabling teams to solve their problems. The problem that leaders must solve is to spot and choose the right problems for their teams to solve.
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Aug 12, 2021
Today is Teacher’s day. It’s a day when we celebrate ‘learning’ and catalysts for ‘my learning’. A teacher is the primary person responsible for learning.
Sometimes we miss the teachers from our peer community where we learn the most.
Besides this we need to celebrate the ‘lifelong student within me’ – curiosity.
A teacher is a student first.
Gratitude to all my teachers and peers with who I am continuing my learning journey!
#learning #teaching #education #students
Aug 12, 2021
Guru Purnima and Intellect Day are coinciding on the same day. The purpose of Intellect is to drive the culture of continuous learning and make a small difference to humanity by applying design thinking holistically.
For my global friends, Guru Purnima means ‘celebrating teachers’ in your life on a full moon day.
A teacher is anyone who has helped you grow in your thinking by igniting curiosity and inspiration.
I enjoy the company of this august group of learners/teachers at Intellect and my customers who provide me continuous energy, joy and fulfilment.
This inner energy and joy gets transferred to our customers where we help them work with the best-in-class FinTech solutions with the passionate leaders of intellect. In this journey of partnership, we mutually play the role of teachers, sometimes co-creating the experience of a customer’s customer. In today’s era it’s called ‘Digital’ but to us it’s joy and fulfilment for the end customer.
We transfer this joy to the young achievers of Ullas by inspiring them with a similar curiosity and joy of learning. This process has the power of Positive Virality.
Again, Happy Teacher’s and Intellect Day!
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Jun 12, 2021
I was studying Blue Origin technology which is completely different from Virgin Galactic of Richard Branson.
It’s like AC i.e. Alternating Currents vs. Direct Currents. The two technologies came into picture in 1880 – AC from Europe and DC from America around the same time.
Now, we have Spaceplane technology from Europe and Space rocket from US.
May 12, 2021
Building a government procurement ecommerce portal is much more complex than direct-to-consumer because each government buyer has a complex set of products with different requirements and different work flows.
Intellect is proud to participate in building the nation’s technological infrastructure based on Made in India Technologies. It was a sweet moment for us to win this deal against Amazon a few years back in a very professional evaluation by the government’s bidding system.
Congratulations to the GeM Team led by Talleen Kumar and Intellect’s team led by Vikas Misra, Debanjan Kumar, Hitesh K Arora, Manish Nahar and Krishna Rajaraman.
Thanks to Infibeam’s team of Vishal, Neeru and Vijay. Further celebrations go out to the team of over 300 engineers who are working non-stop to provide high quality service to over a million sellers and government buyers.
May 12, 2021
1. Thoughts is starting piece which helps drive towards choosing the direction or dream or goals.
2. The thoughts are continuously coming to all of us at very high speed.
3. When I wake up in the morning, I don’t control the origin of particular thought.
4. The speed of thought varies during the days, week and various situations. Say it varies from 30 KM per hour to 100 KM per hour based on situation.
5. The more the speed of thought, more energy is required thus faster blood flow and more glucose consumption. Continuous fast speed of thought can put a strain on human organs from blood pumping wear and tears to sugar management lines.
6. The Meditation is the process TO WATCH SPEEDOMETER OF SPEED OF THOUGHTS. Once you start watching the speed, the speed starts slowing down.
7. When we walk slow then we can observe lot of things around us while driving in car very few items are observable. Slowness of thought speed thus makes us better listener, observer and thus brings better empathy. These are the prerequisites of good design thinking and better outcome.
India Handmade Collective (IHMC) has a fascinating story of ‘connecting’ people. During a 2-hour virtual Design Thinking workshop session conducted recently, we had the opportunity to listen to 50 like-minded people who were involved in organic and handmade fabric. We were awed by the fact that they provide employment opportunities to farmers, spinners and weavers in the villages, connecting them with the right contacts and guiding them to upskill their talents.
For this process, they created a WhatsApp group and arrived at a common name for the collective by a pure consensus building process over a time of two weeks. They together decided the logo, the guidelines for working together in the group and then chose the right products for sale and the design for the online sales store.
I saw the power of purpose, driving the power of collectives.
It is just the beginning of the coming together of an institution. Let us wish them good luck!
#IndiaHandMadeCollective #ruralindia #ruralartisans
May 12, 2021
Scientific toys from trash: an amazing free educational site from IIT Kanpur where an innovative professor has simplified science through gaming but hands-on gaming. Do it to your toys and it can be great fun to explain the scientific fundamentals.
There are more than 500 toy procedures around more than 15 scientific topics.
Please enjoy making the toys if you have school going children.
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Hello, my name is Arun Jain. I am a design thinker living in Chennai, India. This is my blog, where I post my thoughts, technology trends and tips about the fintech world and many more.