Youth Power

Enthusiasm, passion and sense of commitment are contagious. More so when one comes across a youngster brimming with these positive attitudes propelled by youthful energy. I came across such an individual who is from a lower middle class family in Bangalore. He has just passed out his engineering course and has already become an entrepreneur since last 3 years with a portfolio of customers and healthy pipeline.

I decided to invite him to one of our quarterly leadership meeting to present his company and offerings. The objective was not to review his solutions, but to energize the room with this youngster’s positive attitude, passion for building a company from zero cash, innovative mindset, playing with business risk, relentless effort in acquiring customers while maintaining services to existing ones and a commitment to his employees. I must say that the one-hour session was the highlight of the day for all the leaders in the room.

Next 5 years will be the era of youth i.e. less than 30 years old. India is rightly poised with its educated youth population as armor to gallop in the world economy.  We will see more innovators, entrepreneurs, thought leaders from this section of the society and in fact I will not be surprised if teenage section also will join this bandwagon owing to their exposure to technology world and creative mind.

Let us get contaminated with the new tonic of youthful energy, keeping the heart young and filling the mind with agile wisdom, by inviting more and more youngsters to our meetings, brainstorming sessions, strategy workshops and boardroom discussions.