Lunch with Chairman Sir on 30th May, 2010

Chairman Sir took us to lunch in IIC on 30th May 2010, before leaving the office.

It was an awesome day. Wanted to hear lot many things from Sir and got the chance. He said in the starting “Jain u r a smart boy, but I couldn’t give u enough time”; I said I learnt a lot under his leadership. He said that he was just being frank.

Everyone was quite and only Chairman Sir was speaking. No one had anything to share, it was slightly weird.

I had loads of things to ask and say but wasn’t speaking may be out of utter respect. I was looking at Chairman Sir with a smile; he knew what was going through my mind, n he asked me “Yes Jain”.

I asked him Sir what are your hobbies, he smiled n said ”I don’t have many hobbies but I like reading, going for a walk n listening music”.

Then I asked him “Sir u r our role model, how do u maintain personal/professional life at such a high stature”.

He started laughing n said, for this I might not be your role model.

He said incase your work is demanding, you can devote more time to Office at the cost of family time. But make sure you don’t spill office work at home. Family would understand if you can’t give them time, but whatever few mins you give, should be relaxed and should be 100% for the family.

He also said normally ppl are good. Or have potential for becoming good. Work with the ppl who are good, transform thos ppl who have the potential for becoming good.
And there is set of people who won’t improve, remove that chunk of ppl, don’t try to improve them.

He said whatever articles you gave I have saved them and kept it at home. Chairman Sir had made my day; I couldn’t get an honor more than that.

Then we gave him a farewell gift, he said “Singhal, (Corp Affair head) u know wht type of person I am, still, u shouldn’t have done this, I am in embarrassing situation, neither can I refuse nor can I accept, instead of this u should have given me a letter, I would have framed it”. And then we moved for office, lunch was done.

In office I went to him and gave the letter that I had written, he read the letter and said thanks. His PS was there he asked him again where is the bunch of articles which Jain used to give; PS said I have sent it to your home. He said I didn’t find it, PS said it’s there. He said OK. It was a great feeling that those articles meant something for him.

Then finally he said whatever ideas you have in mind keep implementing, don’t worry abt the circumstances, keep moving forward and also keep away from cynics. These are the Golden words, and I’ll always remember them Sir.

15th May, 2010

Got NOC for Canada, US and Dubai, let’s see how things turn up. There r loads of positive things to cheer up today.
What a coincidence last time when idea came n blogged, it was 15th April :)