Gavaskar, the batting legend, bowls over TechM & MSAT UK leadership team
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The UK leadership team of TechM and MSAT will remember Saturday the 14th July for a long time, with fond memories of one of the most engaging, inspiring and productive afternoons, with a celebrity.
The sales and delivery leadership team were engaged in a business review for the better part of the day and during the late afternoon/evening the leadership |
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teams of TechM & MSAT were treated to a motivational session by the inimitable Sunil Gavaskar, who happened to be in the UK for a short duration!
The cricketing maestro spent over 3 hours regaling the completely spell-bound audience with a narration of his experiences as a batsman and leader. What completely floored the audience was his extremely down-to-earth no-airs approach, and the very profound messages on managing ones professional life around determination, motivation, focus, temperament, leadership that he delivered with anecdotal examples and spontaneous, inimitable humour. The key messages he delivered, with very interesting cricketing stories were around a number of areas, the key takeaways being
Meritocracy: One needs to earn ones stripes, honours and recognition – there is no short cut to this.
Resilience: Playing at the highest level requires the ability to absorb injury, pain and recover. When the chips are down, the best solution is to stay “at the crease”, to tide over the crisis and to reflect upon everything one did in successful times, to find the right things to do
The 3 Ds: Determination, Dedication and Discipline need to be the cornerstone of everyone’s career
Talent versus attitude/temperament: At the highest level, it is temperament that separates the men from the boys
Poise and balance: Never let anyone get under your skin – you will be the loser
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The team is more important than the individual: Individual success cannot be relished when the team fails, but overall team success very easily masks the odd individual failure
Communicating hard decisions: When hard decisions are taken it is very important, in a team to communicate them in advance, to all “players” concerned.
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After his talk, the legend fended several questions: bouncers, beamers, yorkers, googlies, wrong ‘uns and doosras from the very participative audience, with the same poise, felicity and verve as we have known him to do during his playing days.
The last hour of the session was a lesson in humility – he signed over a hundred T-shirts, autographs, bats, books, caps and posed for over a hundred pictures with what seemed unlimited patience. |
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