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May 10, 2018
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Prohibition

I was reading the US Constitution and just 27 amendments have happened during the last 200 years.

One of the Amendments 18, in the year 1919 caught my attention. It reads:

“Making, selling and transporting alcohol within the United States, as well as importing and exporting alcohol to and from the United States and its territories, will be forbidden”.

It was implemented for 14 years and repealed in 1933.

I was surprised that a western country like America did it despite the cold weather. ‘Dry’, the Group linked it to human development and religious values.

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May 10, 2018
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If you can dream it, you can do it.

Girls from government schools can do it too!

Poorna is the youngest girl to climb the Everest at the age of 13 years and 10 months. She did this feat in 2014. It’s unimaginable to even think about such a feat.

Now, Rahul Bose had made a movie on Poorna – a must watch!

There is a story of the Secretary of Social Welfare, Praveen Kumar who believed in education and Poorna. His single act helped inspiring thousands of school students in Andhra Pradesh.

You may like to watch the movie. It’s like Dangal but not made by Aamir Khan.

Take a look at this video on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/fw_4Fbu

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May 10, 2018
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My diary – Problem solving |7th April, 2018

  1. Thinking process is an outcome of the type of problems you are solving.
  2. Design Thinking is about better understand the problem with the customer at the center and observe patterns and connecting the dots. It helps in finding new solutions with an open mind and group thinking.
  3. Visualisation or dreaming is about changing the landscape of problem solving i.e. moving out of the forest and creating a structured landscape.
  4. Frameworks help accelerate problem solving.
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Futuristic Social Innovation
May 10, 2018
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Mission Samriddhi – connecting socially purposeful organisations, employees and crowd funding

The first programme was launched for building leadership at a rural level by holistic education on farming, industry and value addition by Agrindus led by an ex-IIT professor Dr Karunakaran at Wardha. The model was established after 2 batches of smart farmers by Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Wardha and Mission Samriddhi and now it’s time to bring in sustainability.

38 associates of Intellect participated in the first day itself. Thanks to each one of them for spread the word through their networks and raising the funds for creating next generation educational institutions.

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May 10, 2018
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We are planning a Bhumi Pujan on 18th March, Sunday for ADK Jain Hospital at Khekra.

The planned hospital will be a 100-bed facility for performing up to 100 surgeries per day in phase
1. The building is spread over 41 thousand sqft over 4 floors.

This hospital will pick up patients from up to 80 to 100 km radius covering a population of over 3 million people with the mission of eradicating Preventable Blindness.

It was a dream of Bauji to have a high performing global family with roots of compassion and empathy that connected with the roots of our origin i.e. Khekra, Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh.

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Humanist Relationships
May 10, 2018
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Celebrate 2017

Before welcoming and creating a new agenda for 2018, let’s celebrate 2017 by understanding some key moments of
A. Fun
B. Achievements
C. Opportunities of learning – experiences of failures
D. Deepening current relationships and new relationships.
E. Conflicts – resolved and unresolved difference of opinions, perspectives and expectations.
F. Decisions – born out of ‘comfort zone’
G. People who you helped or encouraged to move towards realising their potential.

You can make your own personal PowerPoint presentation with the above key moments for slides as a starting point. This can be a personal record book with pictures included in it as well.

In case you do have a little more time, open the link for an annual review.

Your personal Annual Review of 2017

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May 10, 2018
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The power of together

I observed that various NGOs are doing selfless work in the development of our society. They are doing this work with very frugal money. Many of them are very creative in using this money for the highest impact.

Most of the time, they are alone. We in the industry have exclusive industry bodies like FICCI, CII, MMA, Nasscom, TIE etc., which provide us with networking platforms for learning best practices from each other as well the opportunities to influence government policies.

I want to know if any such platforms exist for positively impacting NGOs.

Or

Is there an opportunity to create an all India platform on the lines of industry platforms like Confederation of Social Impact Organisations (CSIO) with chapters at district levels in India?

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Life Skills Mentor
May 10, 2018
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Article on Hiware Bazar

Mr. Popat Rao has created a demonstration on Swaraj village. He is working with the community since 1986. Today, there are just 3 families below the poverty line in the village.

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May 10, 2018
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My Diary – conflict resolution vsl Legal resolution

During Mission Samriddhi’s Summit 6 at Wardha, I met Shubha from Banwasi Sewa Ashram at Sonbhadra district, UP. They are working in that tribal area among 400 villages since 1967.

I learnt

  1. That for several years, there have been no legal cases from these villages being filed in the court. In case a few cases do reach the court, they are withdrawn and settled within the village.
  2. Since legal cases are a major ‘time, money and energy’ wasters of our society. Their response was very innocent and wise.
    A. Most of the conflicts in the villages start from very small differences.
    B. Villages need a few trustable, selfless people with the ability to listen.
    C. Most of the time ‘the person who is wrong, knows it in his heart’ about his wrong. He can’t hide that wrong within his own set of people. What he needs is a ‘listening’.
    D. Banwasi Sewa Ashram’s experience says that once the ‘Panch’ – respected group of villagers within or outside the village (different from elected representatives) listens to both sides, the conflict resolution becomes much simpler. Both parties can select their Panch who they believe will be fair like the arbitrator system.

To solve large cases in the legal system, shall we start a dialogue on building competency of conflict resolution at the source?

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