INDIA’S BEST CEOs
Here is what I wrote to BUSINESS TODAY on reading its cover story on CEOs:
Dear Sir,
This refers to your Special Issue (BT Dec 21 2014) on “India’s Best CEOs”. Let’s say Cheers to the celebration of India’s corporate leadership!! Your eminent panel of selectors has done full justice to the final rankings based on parameters and selection criteria. It is indeed a great source of inspiration for the new breed of Gen Next leaders and CEOs to be.
However, quite a few of your readers like me, will agree that merely statistics and figures of performance like profitability, capital efficiency, top line growth, return on equity etc. alone, do not truly reflect the success of a CEO. There are many personal qualities of leadership that shape the destiny of an enterprise.
According to Joey Tamer, a widely-acclaimed strategic consultant to technology and media CEOs, U.S. and worldwide, following are the ten characteristics of a successful CEO: 1.Domain Expertise (technology or other) 2.Leadership & Personal Power 3.Financial Savvy 4.Ability to pitch and close 5.Honor 6.Realism 7.Perseverance 8.Patience 9.Perspective on the larger scheme of things and finally, 10.Courage to move forward, or stop, and to know when to do either one. She has done a lot of research on this topic which can be read about by visiting JoeyTamer.com.
Yes, today we need CEOs with the above qualities to take the country towards its onward march to become a super-power in the knowledge, experience and expertise domains in times to come.
Kudos to entire BT Team once again for its continuous efforts to bring to its readers such good articles highlighting our power-packed CEOs. May their tribe increase!
J S BROCA, New Delhi

HELLO 2015 BYE 2014
Author: Jatinder Pal Singh Broca Dec 31HELLO 2015 BYE 2014
2014 is at its tail end. It would be a good time to go through your annual goals. Prioritize them and work on those that are lagging. Today, let me share one of my favorite Zen lessons story with you:
Be the Boss
A horse suddenly came galloping quickly down the road. It seemed as though the man had somewhere important to go.
Another man, who was standing alongside the road, shouted, “Where are you going?” and the man on the horse replied, “I don’t know! Ask the horse!”
This is a short Zen story with a powerful meaning behind it. Here, the horse is a symbol of our habits. We usually live at the mercy of our old habits which have been established not by our intentional actions, but by our surroundings and mindless activity.
The horse pulls us, makes us run here and there and hurries us everywhere and we do not even know why. If we took a break every time and again to ask ourselves why exactly we’re running around so much, sometimes we may have an answer, but many times its not a good one. We’re just used to it. That’s the way we live.
HAPPY 2015