INDIA HAS POTENTIAL BUT IT IS UNDERPRODUCING IN BUSINESS (10.02.2007)

It Is Time For India Inc To Come Out Of Comfort Zones, Says International Performance Coach Lou Tice

INDIA has enormous potential but it is under delivering and under producing in business. The country needs its people to come out of their comfort zones and desire to achieve greater goals, instead of being pushed into doing something, says international performance coach Lou Tice.

Mr. Tice, The Pacific Institute (TPI) co-founder-chairman, told reporters in Chennai on Friday, that a study. Which covered 207 firms over an 11 years period, showed adaptive culture to have a dramatic effect on corporate performance. From 1% the net in come soared to 756% due to this approach.

The global corporation has been specializing in performance improvement and professional growth, change management and leadership development. TPI has helped organizations move to the next level of performance. In India, CGN and TPI-India run seminars with participants from GAIL, TCS, Sundaram Clayton and HCL, among others.

"We want to share knowledge with other parts of the world. The Chinese Olympics team has engaged us. In Japan, we have been there for 12 Years. In Australia for 27 years. And, yet look at where most of the people actually live. It is about time to go to a place, where majority of the people live (India). I had to come out of my comfort zone to undertake this trip at 71 years," he added.

He said the fear of failure made people seek comfort zones. Tension and anxiety results in negative creativity and the person always looks to go back to familiar surroundings, his family or his comfort zone.

Through CGN, the TPI parent company in India, cognitive-based leader ship and excellence concepts are being promoted, CGN and Associates Chairman Seshadri Guha said. The focus areas for the TPI exclusive licensee, which has two offices in New Delhi and Chennai, were corporates, educational institutes and NGO, he added.

Later, CGN managing principal Kris Arvind told ET the $30 million company, employing 300 people globally, is aiming for $100 million by [2012]. It has a MoU with the Indian Institute of Public Administration to run the curriculum across 12 centres. Other companies to evince interest were HP and NTPC. A two-day leadership seminar for a person costs Rs 25,000.


 
 
 
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