Preface
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank
Welcome to Success Can Be Yours. You must be wondering at another book on leadership. I have co-authored this book with my two sons to underscore life leadership from different perspectives.
The book begins with the phrase ‘everything is possible in this world’. This helps break mental barriers, which is the first step you must overcome in order to achieve anything and everything in the world. This book describes that it is not the size but the strength that counts through the amazing biblical story of David versus Goliath. It unveils the secrets for success, for pursuing your passion and setting your goals.
The book explains self-motivation, blending curricular and extracurricular activities, making friends, gelling with others and other aspects about life leadership. Continuous learning is the key to constant success in the current world. Bouncing back from failures with valuable lessons is an imperative for everyone. Life offers both problems and prospects, and we must learn to convert problems into prospects to stay ahead of others in this cut-throat competitive world. The book emphasizes on the need to overcome from information overload by reflecting on our thoughts constantly. It advises us to take care of health as health is more precious than wealth. It provides public speaking tips that enable readers to become good speakers. It emphasizes the need for effective communication and the need to blend both soft and hard skills judiciously for personal, professional and social success.
The chapter titled Learn Leadership discusses the challenges in leadership education. It reveals that nobody can become a crack shot unless they lose some ammunition. However, leadership education minimizes mistakes thus ensuring leadership effectiveness and success. The book outlines various leadership styles and theories. It studies the impact of various leadership styles in today’s world. It effectively differentiates between the Blake Mouton Grid and the Blanchard-Hershey’s situational leadership theory and their application. It relates the Big Five Factor (OCEAN) leadership theories and styles. It reveals that there is a huge scope in leadership research to unlock the hidden potential among people in order to make a difference in their lives.
The concluding chapter outlines the positive and negative attitude with examples of Obama and Osama. It unfolds tips to be happy in your life and explains the idea of life leadership. It reminds the reader that destiny is in your hands and concludes with a clarion call—Never Give Up.
Appendix A unveils Ben-Shahar’s Happiness model designed by my friend, Ben-Shahar, that strikes the balance between today and tomorrow and between pressure and pleasure. Appendix B explains Environmental Leadership shared by my friend, Arthur F. Carmazzi, who is recognized as the World’s Top Ten Leadership Gurus. It is a new direction to leadership.
We are confident that the book will make a difference in your life. And we pray that this resource will recharge you, challenge you and help you excel as a successful leader.
Professor M. S. Rao,
Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants India
M. Ganesh Sai
M. Ramakrishna Sayee