THE GREATNESS

GUIDE

By Robin Sharma

PRELUDE

The Greatness Guide is a powerful book

written by Robin Sharma after his nest selling
book The monk who sold his Ferrari
This book focuses on inspiring all to get world
class in both professional as well as personal
life and also cautions about what may hinder
this process.
This presentation contains only a few chapters
of the book, the remaining will be presented in
another session.

NOTHING FAILS LIKE

SUCCESS
When Toyota took over from General Motors as the world largest
producer of motor vehicles in 2007 it was largely thanks to a reputation
for durability that had been forged over decades. Toyota's brand
values have little to do with excitement or driving pleasure and
everything to do with the comforting knowledge that this car will get
you from A to B with a minimum of fuss and bother.
Now of course, Toyota has been forced to recall millions of cars after
problems with braking, floor mats and acceleration pedals.
Product recalls happen all the time, in the auto industry and elsewhere.
They are almost always embarrassing because they reveal shortcomings in research and development that have failed to be ironed out
before the product has reached full-scale production. When you make
as many cars as Toyota do it's inevitable that any model recall is
bound to be huge and Toyota's 8.54M puts it into a league of it's own.

This 8.54 M is the more than the number of cars Toyota

sold this entire year.

NOTHING FAILS LIKE

SUCCESS

The reasons?????

American conspiracy?
Complacency of Toyota?
Pushing too hard to bench lead?
Over ambitiousness to grow compromising on
basics?
Any other????????

YOUR DAYS DEFINE YOUR

LIFE
As you live your hours, you create your
years. As you live yours days you craft your
life
People who lived their hours and days and crafted
their life
Larry page & Sergi Brin
Mark Zuckerberg
Steve Jobs
Richard Branson
Ajay Bhatt
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson

THE REAL RISK LIES IN RISKLESS

LIVING

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence Tom

Peters
The best companies have failed more than average ones
The most successful people have failed more than the
average ones
20 years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didnt do the than ones you did
Mark Twain
So go ahead take a risk live your dream

Remember you cant win a game that you dont play..

MAKE YOUR POSITIVE REFERENCE

POINTS
Like.
Lance Armstrong for his persistence
Richard Branson for living a full out life
Nelson Mandela for courage and humanitarianism
Mother Theresa for unconditional love and care
Abdul Kalam for his passion

Please see this video for some more reference

points. Its amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJMbk9dtpdY

WE ARE AFRAID TO BE
OURSELVES
To thine own self be true Shakespeare
There is no point in being successful and sad,
makes no sense. Yes reach for the mountain top
but enjoy the climb as well. Life wasnt meant to
be an ordeal, it was meant to be celebration. So
have big-time fun as you chase and catch your
most cherished dreams
Do you agree?

LISTEN TWICE AS MUCH AS YOU

SPEAK
Thats the reason god gave us 2 ears and one
mouth Arun (Just kidding)

Most peoples idea of listening is waiting un till the

other person has finished speaking before
answering. And the sad fact is while one person is
talking, most of us are already rehearsing our
replies.

Never talk when you can nod

LEARN TO SAY NO

Applies to me the most.

Every time you say yes to something that is

unimportant, you say no to something that is
important
Sure some people around you will not be happy
but would you rather live a life according to the
approval of others or your own??

BURN YOUR BOATS

A famed explorer called Hernando Cortes landed on the
shores of Mexico in 1519 with an intention of conquering
Spain. Faced with uphill battle, an aggressive enemy,
brutal diseases and outnumbered Cortes called one of
his lieutenant back to the beach and gave only one
instruction
BURN OUR BOATS
How fully will you show up at work and in life? If retreat
just wasnt an option how hard would you work and
how would you dare and how loud would you live if
your boats were burning that failure just wasnt a
possibility? Thats how diamonds are formed real as well
as remarkable human diamonds

CULTURE IS KING
One of the most sustainable competitive advantages will be
developing a Culture of leadership or Laddership
5 ways of doing it:
1. Rituals

2.

Having unique rituals like team huddles, company parties which are
more like the cult in the culture

Celebration

3.

You get what you celebrate

Conversation

4.

Talk into peoples heart during weekly meetings, conference etc

Training

5.

Sharpen the blade of your axe regularly

Story telling

Great companies have culture where great stories are told, how the
company started, vision of the leader, etc

TO BE CONTINUED.

THANK YOU