Fearless Leadership - Sri Sakti India Leadership Summit, CBE March 2012

Leadership Lessons An Entrepreneurs' Perspective

Vijay Anand, The Startup Centre

Challenge Everything. Even Everything We Say

The First Rule

About me

• Entrepreneur

• Started my first company at the age of 16. Three time founder.

• Founder of Proto.in, the Startup event

• Headed the Incubation Centre in IIT Madras for the past 6 years

• Founder of The Startup Centre

Life is complicated. Make it Simpler

Start with the Basics

The Voice of Your Soul

"It is appointed unto all man, to be born and to die ..."

Is that Seriously the Worst Case Scenario.

What really matters, is what you do in the meantime.

Leadership Are You Sure?

There is no guidebook. No how-to.

Is it your Dharma though?

Guttenberg

• One of the The Most Monumental inventors of our time

• Died penniless.

• For years the invention was credited to someone else.

Why do the most amazing people, follow the paths that they do?

Think Mother Teresa. Gutenberg.

If you could do something for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Whats a cause worth living for?

You cant lead, anyone, without knowing who you are.

The Starting Point

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert

Not everyone is a leader

... And that is okay.

The Mind of an Entrepreneur Artists and Entrepreneurs are similar

Learn to experiment. Live with decisions.

"Important to take things to logical end, than start."

My Father's Advice

Learn to communicate.

Learn to Listen. Learn to analyse. Learn to communicate.

Leaders without followers, are just nut-cases

The case for non-leaders

Be careful whom you admire. You become them

Learn from Plato. Aristotle and Socrates.

Leadership Still want to lead?

You are all Ugly Ducklings.

Some of us too.

The Ugly Duckling

• The Egg, born into a Duck's nest.

• Arrives late to the Party

• Does not fit in, into any of the others around

• The harder it tried, the harder it became to fit in

Trying to be a duck?

When you are really a swan?

Even a Swan Born into a Duck's Family, is still a Swan

No Matter what, Stay true to who you are.

Good luck.

Vijay AnandOn Twitter @vijayanands

Leadership Lessons An Entrepreneurs' Perspective

Vijay Anand, The Startup Centre