Over the past three decades, the 59-year-old management Professor Anil
Gupta has been giving voice to thousands of unsung innovators across
India and other parts of the world. He emphasizes on innovations that
improve our ordinary life and believes that the most innovative and
powerful ideas for fighting the adversity and poverty don’t come from
the giant corporate research labs but from the strong desire to deal
with them with courage and positive attitude. To initiate his idea, he
began the Honey Bee Network
and started visiting the whole country, sometimes on foot with
colleagues, in search of the struggle of common people. The journey that
he started in mid 80s still continues and he’s come across a vast range
of innovations and thousands of grassroot innovators. Through the Honey
Bee Network, he’s revealed approximately 25,000 revolutionary
inventions – the bicycle-mounted crop sprayer, A device for climbing
coconut trees, water walking shoes to walk or skate across a lake, a
micro-windmill battery charger, electric paintbrush that never needs to
be dipped in a paint can, a hoe powered by a bicycle and many more
to deal with the hassles of daily lives. Over the years, he has been
successfully promoting the inventions that aim at agricultural reform.
Some of such inexpensive but impactful inventions include a makeshift
seat to let coconut harvesters rest high up in trees, a more dynamic
strain of peppers, a hollow spear to make a hole in a field and drops in
seeds.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Inspire Olympic-Size Team Spirit in Your Employees
I have a ton of respect for Olympians, no matter what their sport of
choice. It's a lot of hard work that you mostly do because you're
passionate about it, and you do it for your team and your country.
Growing up I had the opportunity to be a lifeguard at a local YMCA.
It was a great gig because I got to save lives, but I was also able to
coach our swim team. It was an eye-opening experience for me as a
16-year-old, because we also got to compete against other teams and win
medals. Some of my proudest moments included getting a 7-year-old boy to
dive off of the dock, a 10-year-old girl to perfect her kick, and a
14-year-old girl to get her butterfly stroke down. And by the end of my
time with them, they all pushed themselves to do a really great job not
only for themselves, but mainly for the success of the team. Two years
in a row, we won gold!
Watching this year's Olympics, I see this familiar team-oriented
behavior. Even though the U.S. women's gymnastics team captain didn't
make the all-around, she was there in support of her teammates. And how
amazing was it to watch the men's swimming relay, where the team rallied
to get Michael Phelps yet another medal to become the most decorated
champion of all time?
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