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There is often a considerable gap between the aspirations that many college graduates harbor and the way they go about achieving their goals. While education and technical expertise are often ignore and that defines the difference between an average and a successful career. Dr. Raghu Korrapati has taken it upon himself to identify this 'soft' element and painstakingly elaborated upon its numerous facets. The result is this path - breaking book, which highlights the soft skills that every young graduate and professional needs to possess to reach the pinnacle of professional success. Moreover, this book will also serve to refresh and revitalize these essential skills in the seasoned professional. The 108 pearls of wisdom presented here have been drawn from sources as eclectic and diverse as Greek, Indian, Buddhist philosophies, modern day management theory, and psychology.

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Publié par	Diamond Books
Date de parution	10 septembre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798128819680
Langue	English

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108
PEARLS OF WISDOM
FOR EVERY COLLEGE STUDENT

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108 Pearls of wisdom
By - Dr. Raghu Korrapati
Inspiration
I have been interacting with professionals and students all around the globe for several years. While almost all of them have a guiding principle in life, not many are able to effectively articulate these. I hope this book will help them identify with a few of these tenets and implement them to achieve success in both their professional and personal lives.
Preface to the Second Edition
It is with considerable pleasure that I am writing the second edition to this book. It has been almost a year since the first edition of ‘108 Pearls of Wisdom’ was launched and I have received such tremendous response from students and professionals worldwide that it has left no doubt in my mind about going forward with this enhanced edition. It is indeed gratifying to know that so many people not only agree with what you have to say, but implement it with fervor in their lives. The excitement that I felt when I started receiving feedback for the book remains undiminished today as I receive e-mails from students from places as diverse as a bustling metropolis in the US to small districts in northern and southern India. It is to cater to the diversity of my audience that the book is now also available in regional Indian languages, namely Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu.
However, all of this also tells me that my endeavor to impart whatever I have learnt in my decades of experience as an educator, academician, mentor, and leader is ‘work in progress.’ This is certainly also true about the book. While we have mostly received accolades, there has been some good advice on how to make it better. Accordingly, we have gone forth and enhanced the second edition in some ways. While the content largely remains the same, errors have been rectified, the language has been modified in certain places for greater clarity, and some insights about the book have been incorporated. The result is something that I sincerely hope will make you happier as a reader. The measure of our success in doing so will certainly be your feedback!

Preface
The Indian economic powerhouse is rising to take its position in the fiercely competitive global market. As a nation, our degree-ready college graduates face ever-increasing challenges. The most important of these is a gap between the industry’s expectations of their skill set and what the they actually possess. The hundreds of thousands of students that Indian colleges and institutions churn out continue to fall short of the employment bar extended by industry. Why?
India’s present position has been possible due to its robust human- power status — its young demographic profile, and its youthful and energetic workforce that is ready to face the global competition head on. Unfortunately, the good news stops there.
Despite the highly talented workforce, the number of employ-able graduates is relatively very low. The findings of the NASSCOM-McKinsey Report 2005 indicate that although more than 3 million students graduate from Indian colleges annually, a very small percentage of this population is actually job-ready.
Only around 25% of the technical graduates and about 15% of general graduates are judged to be suitable for employment.
It is also important to note that the companies who hire them still have to spend a large amount of time and effort in training these graduates to make them employable. A significant part of this training focuses on what are known as ‘soft skills’.
This book is an attempt to enlighten students about these soft skills, why they are important, and why not having them can make them an ‘also ran’ rather than a winner in the long race for a successful career.
Soft skills make a massive difference both to one’s personality. People who acquire these are viewed to be more sophisticated, cultured, reformed, and are overwhelmingly measured to be more successful in every walk of life.
In 1990 the Secretary of the United States Department of Labor created the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). This ground-breaking commission comprised of a team of 30 business, school, union and parental representatives. SCANS’ goal was to examine the demands of the future workplace, and they eventually developed a list of skills “that high-performance workplaces require and that high- performance schools should produce.” They identified five basic competencies that define an effective worker:
Resource Management (allocating, time, money, materials and staff) Interpersonal (working on teams, teaching others, serving customers, leading, negotiating, and working well with people from culturally diverse backgrounds)
Information Management, (acquiring and evaluating data, organizing and maintaining files, interpreting and communicating, and using computers to process information.) Systems (understanding social, organizational, and technological systems, monitoring and correcting performance, and designing or improving systems)
Technology (selecting equipment and tools, applying technology to specific tasks, and maintaining and troubleshooting technologies)
Formed in 2002, ‘The Partnership for 21 st Century Skills’ is an organization in the United States that advocates for 21” -century readiness for every student and for the education system of the United States of America in general. The founding members of this organization were the U.S. Department of Education, AOL Time Warner Foundation, Apple Computer Inc., Cable in the Classroom, Cisco Systems, Inc., Dell Computer Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, National Education Association, and SAP. This has snowballed into a much bigger initiative, with dozens of large corporations worldwide recognizing its importance and joining the initiative. To help practitioners integrate skills into the teaching of core academic subjects, the Partnership has developed a unified, collective vision for learning known as the Framework for 21 st Century Learning. This Frame-work describes the skills, knowledge and expertise students must master to succeed in work and life; it is a blend of content.
Globally, core Subjects are very well addressed with the existing school and college curriculums. For the Information Technology skills, there are abundant technical institutions worldwide that can help aspiring students gain expertise in the area. However, it is interesting to note here the global recognition of Life and Career Skills as well as Learning and Innovation skills, besides the IT and Core Subjects.
This book is an attempt to address these two key areas that are not currently being handled in a mature form across educational institutions worldwide. To this end, the book encompasses a collection of 108 thoughts, virtues, people qualities and human skills that comprise the much broader realm of Soft Skills. Some of these overlap and some of these are exclusive of each other. All things being equal, people excelling in these areas will emerge as winners in most spheres of life.
Another question that might occur to you is - why 108? You’ll discover that the number 108 turns out to have spiritual significance. It is considered revered and sacred in many Eastern religions and traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. Hindu deities have 108 names; recital of these names, often accompanied by the counting of a 108-beaded Mala (stringed prayer beads), is considered sacred and often done during religious ceremonies. According to Ayurveda, there are 108 pressure points in the body, where consciousness and flesh intersect to give life to the living being. In Tibetan Buddhism, it is believed that there are 108 sins. And in Japan, at the end of the year, a bell is chimed 108 times in Buddhist temples to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new one. Each ring represents one of 108 earthly temptations a person must overcome to achieve nirvana. Interestingly, the distance between the Earth and Moon is 108 times the diameter of the Moon and the distance between the Earth and Sun is 108 times the diameter of the Sun. There are 54 letters in the Sanskrit alphabet. Each has masculine and feminine versions, Shiva and Shakti, totaling to 108. In Jainism, 108 is the sum of the combined virtues of five categories of the holy ones, including 12, 8, 36, 25, and 27 virtues, respectively. And we could just go on.

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I hope that the wisdom in the book will serve as a step-by-step guide to self-discovery and unleashing the best in you; you will eventually be able to differentiate yourself from the crowd that surrounds you and catapult yourself to greater heights of personal and professional success.
Foreword

The key to success of an individual or a team lies not only in acquiring the best of skills and knowledge, but also an attitude to make the best use of the available capabilities as also to acquire new knowledge and new capabilities. In this quest the underlying principle is the intense urge and zeal with which an individual is to be adorned. Above all, the capability to communicate with the fellow colleagues, superiors as well as to communicate with the masses at large determines one’s success of leaving behind permanent footprints which create everlasting impressions on the minds of the people.
India with its rich cultural heritage and its vast reservoir of wisdom contained in the scriptures right from the early Vedas, Upnishads, Purans, Epics such as Ramayana and highly compressed yet legible capsules of wisdom contained in the famous Bhagwat Gita. All demonstrate the sincerity of purpose with which the Jnana, the Knowledge