One of the panels featured Swati Ketkar, Executive Director at Harbinger Systems. Her topic was - 'Achieving Success: Turning Every Adversity into an Advantage'.
Excerpts from her talk -
- Adversity is often a leading indicator of calamity - don't deny it, accept it and plan to overcome it to avoid further trouble
- Adversity creates conditions that are conducive to change. In normal times people are too comfortable to be open to change. Adversity pushes everyone past the tipping point.
- Adverse conditions help unite teams and create a sense of bonding. Everyone goes 'we are in it together'.
- Bad times test your character and integrity
- Facing adversity is a transforming experience. Regardless of how well you did, what matters more is what the experience did to you - did you emerge stronger?
- In some adverse conditions, the best response is to wait it out until conditions improve. This is a great opportunity to revisit other important and interesting things you may have left on back-burner.
These viewpoints give a very practical insight to a ‘seemingly’ complex problem. It always helps to sit back, analyse, take charge of the situation and move forward. The best aspect of Time is, Time moves on. Adverse days will also end and good times will be right there, we just need to hold on, hold on strongly. May be there is something wonderful, waiting for us at our doorstep and we need to make the first move forward! As Peter Drucker has rightly said, ‘The unexpected is the best source of inspiration'.
ReplyDeleteThe point(6) is really sobering - that one has to accept "what is" and, without fussing over it, look closely at other important things.
ReplyDeleteAbout (2), the law of inertia holds when it comes to any change. While adversity may feel like a zero gravity situation - the good news is that it gives you a chance to change! BTW - an interesting aside is that some Management Gurus prescribe creation of artificial adversity just to push the change through. :)