LOUD The
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“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.� Albert Einstein
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The golden rule is that
there are no golden rules.
” George Bernard Shaw
(Dreams don’t come with rules. Neither does this journal. It is just a toolkit that we hope you find helpful.)
What to expect Section 1: LOUD and Leading Self About LOUD, passion and our 'Leading Self' journey at Godrej. And why this is so close to our hearts.
Section 2: Know Yourself Let’s start with you. Dig deeper. Find out what makes you, ‘you’.
Section 3: Develop Yourself Never stop looking for new ways to learn.
Section 4: Express Yourself Live out your dreams. Make them real. Here’s how to, in 5 steps.
Section 5: Your big dreams We share some of our favourite stories and hopefully, inspire you to dream BIG!
You can live out your dream!
Caution
You're going to have to work for it.
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Section 1 About LOUD, passion and our 'Leading Self' journey at Godrej
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Godrej LOUD is about you living out your dream and us finding passionate people How does it work? Simple. All you need to do is share your big dream with us. You could win 1.5 lakh rupees and a pre placement summer offer!
So, who are we looking for?
Passionate people
Why? Because we believe that if you are truly passionate about something, then you will potentially bring that passion to your work. And to Godrej.
Growth Delight Innovation Passionate Godrejites Passionate people LOUD
John Gardner said, “We are designed for the climb, not for taking our ease, either in the valley or at the summit.” My 3 dreams are to:
#1 Be on top of Everest #2 Change education opportunities for 1 million girls #3 Make Godrej an ‘Antevasin’ – Nisaba Godrej *Antevasin: To live in a state of constant learning, to embrace the new, to stay within parameters but cross all boundaries, to flex every mind muscle.
We are convinced that only when we are able to unleash the unique and powerful potential of all Godrejites, will we be able to realise our exciting and ambitious growth aspirations as a Group.
Watch ‘Why Godrej?’ A poem by Nadir Godrej
This journey for each of us starts with what we call
‘Leading Self’
Leading Self is about becoming the best that you can be and expressing yourself in a way most meaningful to you. It has 3 interconnected blocks.
Know Yourself
Develop Yourself
Express Yourself
Over to you
(We hope you find this journal helpful, as you start out on your exploration.)
yourself KNOW
Section 2 Let's start with you. Dig deeper. Find out what makes you, 'you'.
Mirror, mirror on the wall Fill out this space right here with the things that you love most
Scribble, doodle, stick pictures, write a poem
Share what makes you,
‘you’
Shailesh Deshpande Head, Talent and Leadership Development at Godrej
My passion: My deep interest in Psychology was why I opted for a career in HR. While I enjoyed my work, I always had a nagging regret that it wasn’t close enough to my ‘core’ – my desire to develop deep expertise in Psychology. There was even a phase when I left my job to pursue a PhD in Psychology in the US. But I realised that I didn’t enjoy work that was only theoretical. So, I moved back to HR. Godrej: I joined in a generalist HR role. When I attended a ‘Personal Leadership’ workshop here by Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa of Columbia Business School, I thought that this was the kind of work I could possibly explore. So, I designed my own workshop and piloted it. This opened up a whole new area of work. With incredible support from Godrej, I started to lead Talent and Leadership Development. Today: I get to design solutions by studying Psychology and Leadership – work that is as close to my core as possible. The regret has completely vanished. Though I must confess that now once in a while I have sleepless nights thinking about whether my team and I will be able to do justice to the exciting work that lies ahead of us!
To be inspired... Books The Power of Full Engagement - Tony Schwartz Now, Discover Your Strengths - Markus Buckingham The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt The How of Happiness - Sonja Lyubomirsky The War of Art - Steven Pressfield Turning pro - Steven Pressfield Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl Change Anything - Joseph Grenny Ignore Everybody - Hugh MacLeod Flourish - Martin Seligman Authentic Happiness - Martin Seligman The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Movies Jiro Dreams of Sushi The World’s Fastest Indian The Shawshank Redemption Forrest Gump Gandhi Good Will Hunting The Lion King Kung Fu Panda
Websites www.gapingvoid.com www.brainpickings.org www.farnamstreetblog.com www.viacharacter.org www.theenergyproject.com Psychometric Tests www.careeranchorsonline.com www.gallupstrengthscenter.com www.viacharacter.org
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Be yourself.
No one can say you’re doing it wrong.
” Snoopy, The Peanuts
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Section 3 Never stop looking for new ways to learn
yourself
" Sheer perseverance to the point of madness" Charlie Chaplin
(on what it takes to get a good idea)
The Circus is based on a man on a tightrope running into successive unplanned obstacles during his act. Chaplin spent several months training on the tightrope to perfect this. When shooting for it, he did over seven hundred takes to perfect the act. This scene went on to become a Hollywood classic. Watch the movie, if you haven’t! There is no substitute for hard work, so stop looking for the shortcuts. To borrow from Malcolm Gladwell, it takes 10,000 hours to reach perfection!
Teach yourself to learn
“ I'm still learning � Michelangelo, age 87 (So, keep looking for people and experiences to learn from)
Sometimes,
you need to see yourself through someone else’s eyes. So, ask a really close friend (not someone you have met in the last 2 weeks) to fill this out.
What do you need to start doing?
What should you stop doing?
What are you currently doing, that you should continue?
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The day you think there is no improvement to be made is a sad one for any player.
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Lionel Messi
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Section 4 Live out your dreams. Make them real.
press yourself
FIVE STEPS to living out your dream
1
Start somewhere and then iterate
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Go on, ask for help if you need to
3
Be flexible: everything will almost always not go according to plan 4
Add value. Show value.
5
Be prepared for the magic
In 1897, Ardeshir Godrej, founder of the Godrej Group, learnt the first lesson of success: failure. Not one, but two of his businesses went bust. Then, he set up a lock company and what followed is the stuff of legends. Today, over 600 million Indians use a Godrej product on a daily basis. His perseverance is our inspiration.
Mark Kahn Founding Partner at Omnivore Partners
My dream: Seeing India become an agricultural superpower (via exports and food processing) in my lifetime My story: I joined Godrej Agrovet in 2008 as the Executive Vice President (Strategy & Business Development). In 2010, I proposed that Godrej help launch India's first venture capital fund focused on breakthrough technologies for food and agriculture. Omnivore Partners did our first venture deal (Skymet) in August 2011 and successfully raised INR 260 crore from outside investors including SBI, LIC, NABARD, and SIDBI. Today, Omnivore has eleven agriculture and food technology startups in its portfolio.
Visit the Omnivore website
“ You musn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. ” Inception
BIG what are your
DREAMS ? Section 5 We share some of our favourite stories and hopefully, inspire you to dream BIG!
Watch Amanpreet's story
Amanpreet Kalra IIFT, Delhi
My Dream: A painting holiday in Spain Me: I was the crazy kid in school who took painting lessons as an extracurricular activity for 8 years in a row!
How I lived out my dream: I chose a five-day structured painting holiday in Marbella, Spain. From live sketches, acrylics and learning different strokes to interpreting art with my painting group – the experience was exhilarating! My summer project: I worked on the launch of Godrej aer – Musk After Smoke. I spent time understanding how the air care category worked, interviewed target consumers and worked on the social media strategy, launch collaterals and ground activations. Today, at Godrej: After an exciting Gurukul stint, I am now working in Chandigarh as the Area Sales Manager for Punjab.
Ali Akber Kapadia NITIE, Mumbai
My Dream: Installing a water tank in village Rui, Madhya Pradesh, to enable easy access to drinking water Why? I had visited Rui when I was in school and seen how much the villagers had to struggle for drinking water. Children bunked schools and travelled very far by foot to fetch water every day. How I lived out my dream: I chalked out a detailed plan keeping the time and budget in mind. We finalised the tube-well location and after a lot of pleading and bargaining with the contractor, the work finally began! My summer project: I worked on a real time project with the Darling business in Africa, travelled over ten thousand kilometres, learnt about hair extensions, met some incredibly talented people and got to share my ideas with the GCPL Leadership Team. Today, at Godrej: In just 12 months, I have worked in multiple geographies in Africa and India across functions like sales, strategic sourcing, procurement and planning.
Watch Ali's story
Our dream for Vikhroli
by Pirojsha Godrej, MD & CEO, Godrej Properties Vikhroli has been integral to the history of the Godrej Group. In the 1940s, my great grandfather Pirojsha Godrej dreamed of creating a modern and forward-looking industrial township. This was realised in a series of world-class manufacturing units that crafted hundreds of quality products. For the first time in India and as one of a handful of global examples, Vikhroli offered an environment where the workers building Godrej products could flourish and develop themselves. Housing, schooling and healthcare for all along with a well-planned and naturally beautiful location ensured that Vikhroli offered all Godrejites a unique and progressive environment. It is now time for the next phase of this vision. It is time to build on the present and enrich the future. We will do this by developing Vikhroli into a progressive and integrated mini-city with a quality of design, planning and execution that has largely been missing from modern India’s urban life. Our dream is big and we have started on the first small steps towards it. Our first phase of development, The Trees, has the recently completed headquarters for the Godrej Group, Godrej One, and will also offer worldclass residential, hospitality, retail, and cultural facilities to its residents. We understand that great buildings alone do not make a great destination. In the midst of a thriving urban metropolis, Vikhroli offers a natural oasis with mangroves thriving across 2,000 acres - nearly three times the size of
Vikhroli in the 1940s
New York’s famed Central Park - ensuring a lasting and deep connection to nature. We are totally committed to building on the natural beauty of the site, so Vikhroli testifies that urban life and natural beauty can exist in perfect harmony. Three quarters of a century ago, it was important to our predecessors to build a progressive social environment to accompany the modern industrial development they had planned at Vikhroli. Similarly, creating a social fabric for a new age to go along the physical form is of paramount importance to us. Clockwise from Left: GODREJ ONE; The Imagine Studio; Trees Master Plan
Watch the making of the Imagine Studio
Parmesh Shahani Head, Godrej India Culture Lab
“ We are changing the model of what it means to be a company. Through @IndiaCultureLab we are trying to imagine Godrej as an open source company. We cross pollinate arts, politics, fashion, economics, design, performance and more! We have this dream called #VivaVikhroli through which our Godrej campus and Vikhroli at large will become the most exciting urban place in India.�
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