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Nokia CEO ended his speech saying this “we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost”.

 During the press conference to announce NOKIA being acquired by Microsoft, Nokia CEO ended his speech saying this “we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost”. Upon saying that, all his management team, himself included, teared sadly.

Nokia has been a respectable company. They didn’t do anything wrong in their business, however, the world changed too fast. Their opponents were too powerful.

They missed out on learning, they missed out on changing, and thus they lost the opportunity at hand to make it big. Not only did they miss the opportunity to earn big money, they lost their chance of survival.

The message of this story is, if you don’t change, you shall be removed from the competition.

It’s not wrong if you don’t want to learn new things. However, if your thoughts and mindset cannot catch up with time, you will be eliminated.

Conclusion:
1. The advantage you have yesterday, will be replaced by the trends of tomorrow. You don’t have to do anything wrong, as long as your competitors catch the wave and do it RIGHT, you can lose out and fail.

Teenage Son- A novice father's blog #1

Teenage Son..A novice father's blog
Opinion 1.

Teens are very uncommunicative with their parents, and fathers are poor in verbal communication. It is therefore not surprising that trying to talk with a teenage boy can be very challenging. There is, however, both art and science involved in successful communication.

Assertion and rejection is a common response by a teenager. Worst outcome is teenagers aversion to parents making the environment hostile for talking about his day to day psychological turmoil, a new entrant in his developing psyche.  Best antidote to this gigantic drift in behavior is developing his receptivity towards you. Telling him to be receptive is a detrimental approach and the beginning of the end. Beware, imposed thoughts and advises shall lead teenager to a fight or a flight. Essentially a father should realise that he has to be a lot good listener than an efficient lecturer. Being a good ear gives him a sense of welcoming environment.

Few good ways of communication can be walk and talk, avoid kneejerk advises, considering absurd looking ideas before rejection and adopting many other ways of communication which leads your ego as an experience father to dismay but can be a big boost to sons confidence. First objective is to make him so comfortable that he starts sharing his weird thinking on which you feel annoyed or laught at . And mind you, the moment you analyse his thinking you find it absurd and distracted, but never forget that his thought is afresh and budding like a plants shoot while yours is a generation old and is like a stiff stem.

Openness to hearing and inciting him to reach to a conclusion based on his own thoughts and theory should be the objective where you act only as a guide is the first goal to achieve. Then there is lot more to come.

Dr Vikesh Agrawal