Monday, November 5, 2012

Sports to Managerial skills, a talk by Harsha Bhogle and Anita Bhogle


Harsha Bhogle, the renowned Indian cricket commentator, has also grown to be a presenter, writer and motivational speaker. Recently, Harsha and his wife Anita Bhogle have written a book on management named, “The Winning Way”. Anita says that almost seventy percent of the book is her contribution. Today they were the chief guests in an annual management festival of SJM-SOM, IIT Bombay. An entertainer, entrepreneur, a person with sense of humor and finally an author, who connected the small ventures and thoughts of cricket with managerial skills in his lecture today. Bhogle and Bhogle say that there are direct connections between sports and management. It is mandatory to have good managerial skills to be a good leader.

They shared many personal experiences and told all the possible ways to grasp the proper opportunity comes in life and how to succeed with managerial skills. They picked up many examples, such as Rahul Dravid, Sachin and a few more cricketers and said to explore yourself who you are and how you can play in your own way as a team player and achieve the overall success.

Even though they are from different fields, Harsha and Anita spoke the similar thoughts. They think that positive attitude is the key of success, which comes from humility. Sometimes it comes on its own way, but we have to recognize and catch up with time. The same ball may come in various ways for various players. Genius can read it easily, that is their inherent property. They say not to fear of being failure, otherwise how one can discover of his quality. Try and make mistakes and you will learn and again try then you will reach your destination. Otherwise repeat the same and you will be a good leader, a repetition of the Swamiji’s novel quote. The more you fear there is a propensity of more failure. It was almost about the practical experience they gathered in their life. They tried to make people relate to sports and through that help gain insight for management.

“The Winning Way” has not been read by me, I will try to convey the message soon.

Author: Chandan Das

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