As you might probably be knowing, Harsha Bhogle is a very popular Indian cricket commentator. He also hosts some sport based shows. It seems, he was an alumni of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and went back there to give a speech on How to Achieve Excellence. While I highly recommend that you listen to the whole speech (70 minutes totally – in two parts) linked to – in the previous line, I have compiled the important messages from that speech in this post so that people without much time can read it. I have given only some of the messages that he has outlined, but the speech contains a lot of examples to support the messages, and makes more sense.

“People don’t come to IIMA for starting salaries. They come here to build careers. Excellence is chasing the performance goals and letting the results to take care of itself. You perfect the process of performance and don’t allow the pressure of the result to choke your performance” Continue reading →