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Leadership Coach, Corporate Trainer - Answered on Mar 16, 2023

Dr Radhakrishnan Pillai is the director of the Chanakya International Institute of Leadership Studies, University of Mumbai.
He holds a PhD in leadership from the University of Mumbai and has 25 years of industry and academic experience training and mentoring future leaders and PhD aspirants.
Dr Pillai is an expert on Chanakya's Arthashastra, an accomplished TEDx speaker and has written 17 books on Chanakya including the bestselling Corporate Chanakya.... more
Asked by Anonymous - Mar 16, 2023Hindi
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Arrogance is a man's greatest enemy. According to Chanakya how can one ask for help from a teammate who is too arrogant to share his wisdom or knowledge with the team? Especially if s/he is an important team member?

Ans: In that case ask your question indirectly to the team mate and learn from him / her. For example if the team mate is good in finance and you have a financial challenge. Ask "What should a person do facing financial challenge?" (Don't say I have a financial challenge - you may not get the right advice). Indirectly method works....
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Dear Sir / Madam I am an event manager by profession. I mostly take care of seminars and other corporate events. I have a set of clients and keep working with them through out the year. I am very sincere at my work and do some good work for my clients and non of my clients can afford to say that this guy is not a good one. I have a very good reputation amongst my clients but over the period of time things have become very unbearable. These people working in companies, some times they shift to good service, sometimes to low rates, some times to good relationship, sometimes to innovative ideas, sometimes to personal preferences, some time they look for a new vendor just because the existing one is an old one. More over they always have a tendency to put unnecessary pressure on vendor and want the vendor to cow down in front of them. Sir, I maintain all the issues in a balanced manner but can't tolerate rough behavior and being bullied by some one. In my business it is very difficult to get new clients. Today itself i lost a client because I had not tolerated his ill behavior. What pinches me the most is when people behave rough. It becomes unbearable when despite all the ingredients at work, people want to shift to new vendor only because I don't stand with folded hands and with YES SIR - YES SIR, OK SIR - OK SIR on my lips. Please guide how one who loves his self-respect and dignity should handle such situations.
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You win some, you lose some! That's life and you know it...

You seem to hold onto certain principles that are robbing you of good work. One can maintain their self-respect even by actually giving into certain demands from the clients provided it reflects well in your balance sheet.
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Am I being too rigid on my principles that it has begun to work against me?
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Emotional...how you feel attached to your business.

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Any advise us a function of both the above aspects. Unless one knows the current revenue numbers, growth potential of the business, competition and several such factors it's not possible to share any guidance.

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Sir im 36 yrs of age weighing 107 kgs and I regularly walk which helps in maintaining my weight but im unable to reduce belly fats. I walk approx 4 kms daily within 30 minutes .
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