Quought for the day #38 – Professor Srikumar S. Rao
By Rajesh Setty on Fri 02 Feb 2007, 10:52 PM - 2 Comments
Professor Srikumar. S. Rao is the Louis and Johanna Vorzimer Professor of Marketing at the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. His course – Creativity and Personal Mastery – is one of the highest rated courses at Columbia Business School and has been written up in major media including the New York Times, Fortune and Business Week.
Dr. Rao has also served as a marketing advisor to the national board of MENSA. He is interested in programs for gifted children and the development of special instructional materials for them. His other interests include tennis, squash, karate, table tennis and chess; Eastern philosophy and meditation; and Wodehouse, science fiction and creative writing.
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Dr. Rao’s Quought for the Day is:
If you learnt that, owing to unfavorable business conditions, your salary would be cut in half how would you react? Would you scramble to adjust your finances so you could continue? Or would you immediately look elsewhere?
If the latter, you are wasting your life. Think about it.
Related Links:
1. Book: Are you ready to succeed?
2. Companion website: Are you ready to succeed?
Note:
Quought = Question that provokes thought. Questions are important. Thinking is important. Questions that make you think are very important!
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Anonymous on February 3rd, 2007
I know what the Professor means here, and in theory, I agree with him. But there are two exceptions that come to mind. 1) When what you do the rest of the time you’re NOT working brings your life its deepest meaning (volunteering, painting, writing poetry, spending time with your children) and you like your job a lot, though you can live without it BUT you cannot support your large family at half the salary. 2) You can find an almost identical job that pays what you make now at a different company or organization that you could grow to believe in as much as your current company or organization. Anyway, I want to take a course with any professor who puts forth this quought – that’s the kind of person I want to learn from!