This document discusses qualities of top achievers and what drives success or failure. It examines several historical figures like Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, and Muhammad and their leadership principles and lasting legacies. Top achievers are said to have clarity of vision, take risks, execute relentlessly, and work with others. Complacency, lack of teamwork, and excuses can lead to failure. The document recommends cultivating thoughts, attitude, faith, perseverance and making a difference to overcome challenges.
5. A world of contrasts
That speaks to us in the language of
signs – readable only by those who can
see.
“There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
7. A world of contrasts
That speaks to us in the language of
signs – readable only by those who can
see.
“There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods7
8. 3 billion live on less than $2.5 per day.
Tonight more than 1 billion children will go to bed hungry.
22,000 children die everyday due to poverty
On this planet 805 million people do not have enough
food to eat.
More than 750 million of them lack adequate access to
clean drinking water.
Basic Necessities
What is a basic necessity?8
10. Source : Planning Commission Report, 200810
Set up vocational training in every school
11. In 1998, the UN estimated that it would take $40 billion
annually to offer basic education, clean water and
sanitation, reproductive health, and basic health and
nutrition to every person in every developing country.
That would be about $58 billion today.
What will it take?
Compared to $ 1.406 Trillion on weapons11
12. The World Food Programme says, “The poor are
hungry and their hunger traps them in poverty.”
Hunger is the #1 cause of death in the world, killing
more than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis
combined.
Hunger kills
Believe it or not12
13. Graduation Level
Muslims : 3.6%
12th Plan Target : 25% (All India)
National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities
Justice Ranganath Mishra (2004)
16. WWF’s (Worldwide Fund for Nature) Living
Planet Report – 2014, the number of wild animals
in the world has been halved during the last 40
years!
Our Dying Planet?
And that’s only the ones we counted16
23. Narayanan Krishnan was a top chef in a five-star
hotel, but gave it all up to feed the mentally ill
How many more such examples do you know?
How many more do we need?
25. Dasrath Manjhi took 22 years to chisel this passage to carve a short route from his village to
the hospital. His wife died because there was no passage and she had to travel 19 Km.
Courage comes in many forms
26. Is it progress when 75% of the population is short of
food and water?
Why is it necessary to have legislation and incentives
to do what we know we must?
What more evidence do we need to see the criticality
of ethical, compassionate, principled leadership?
Social Responsibility?
Because one day we will be held accountable
27.
28. When plunder becomes a way of life for a
group of people living together in society,
they create for themselves in the course of
time, a legal system that authorizes it and a
moral code that glorifies it.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Four Horsemen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU
37. Strict meritocracy without exception
Intense physical training & toughness
Extensive intelligence about opposition
Speed of communication & Response
Doing the unexpected – creativity
Sheer ruthlessness
Leadership Principles
Short term focus
41. Clarity about core philosophy
Willingness to live by his values
Ability to take diverse people along
Toughness and resilience which inspired others
Not allowing adversity to poison his thinking
Magnanimity & Forgiveness to win over opposition
Leadership Principles
Long term focus
44. “If greatness of purpose, smallness of
means, and astonishing results are the
three criteria of a human genius, who could
dare compare any great man in history with
Muhammad?”
Alphonse de Lamartine,
French poet, writer, politician
45. Living his message
Putting himself on the line
Goal comes first – before personal preferences
Magnanimity and forgiveness
Leadership Principles
A global mission with global concern
46. What remains today?
1.5 billion people across
nations, nationalities, races
and geographies who love
him and believe in him and
accept his message
Even if they have to die because
of that
47. What is his legacy?
Qur’an and Sunnah – Tawheed & Aakhira
Forgiveness of Allah to be reflected in forgiveness on earth
Charity as an act of worship
Egalitarianism – brotherhood of mankind and faith (Not only Faith)
A legal system before which there is absolute equality between
Muslim and non-Muslim, rich and poor, powerful and powerless
Justice, Equality, Compassion, Charity
48. What is his legacy?
Complete equality in rights of people with no distinction between
Muslim and non-Muslim
Rights for women that they still don’t have in the so-called Free World
A Constitution (first such document in history) which guarantees
equal rights for everyone irrespective of faith
An unparalleled example of personal life as a guidance to all mankind
Human Rights, Non-discrimination, Personal Example
49. If you are serious about success
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50. “Your work is going to fill a large part of
your life, and the only way to be truly
satisfied is to do what you believe is great
work. And the only way to do great work is
to love what you do.”
~ Steve Jobs
Passion
51. “The dangers of life are infinite, and among
them is safety.”
~ Goethe
Risk Taking
52. “I attribute my success to this:
I never gave or took any excuse.”
~ Florence Nightingale
“Success is walking from failure to failure
with no loss of enthusiasm.”
~Winston Churchill
Execution
54. 1. Complacency
People who don’t learn from their history
are condemned to repeat it
Complacency demotes the unaware from risk
takers, to caretakers to undertakers. Staying
hungry is a persistent challenge for the
successful.
~ Dave Anderson
55. Look in the mirror for mistakes
Look out of the window to give credit
Your virtue is not enhanced by someone else’s weakness
There is not a single instance in history where someone
succeeded entirely on his own, without the help of anyone
2. Not working together
Disagree without being disagreeable
56. Stop blaming others for your situation
Analyze what went wrong and create a plan to avoid it
in the future.
Being objective, even hard, on yourself is the best way
to avoid repeating mistakes.
3. Excuses and blaming
Adversity comes to strengthen
57. 6 – tools to succeed
To face life’s challenges
64. “When you come to the end of the light of
all that you know and are about to step off
into the darkness of the unknown, faith is
knowing that one of two things will
happen. There will be something firm to
stand on or you will be taught how to fly.”
~ Barbara Winters
65.
66. It is the nature of the
extraordinary goal to
inspire extraordinary effort.