Life Lessons from Narayana Murthy - 1

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Dear All in TBP,

 

Love and Love alone....

 

If you all like and allow me, I would like to post the speech of Mr.

Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor and Chairman of Infosys daily for 5 or

6 days. It is a wonderful speech and one should read it to get

inspired. I hope the Moderators will allow it to go on line and you

all enjoy reading it. Here is the first part.

 

Love and Love alone...

 

P. Gopi Krishna

 

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Life Lessons from Narayana Murthy

May 28, 2007

N R Narayana Murthy, chief mentor and chairman of the board, Infosys

Technologies, delivered a pre-commencement lecture at the New York

University (Stern School of Business) on May 9. It is a scintillating

speech, Murthy speaks about the lessons he learnt from his life and

career. We present it for our readers:

 

Dean Cooley, faculty, staff, distinguished guests, and, most

importantly, the graduating class of 2007, it is a great privilege to

speak at your commencement ceremonies.

 

I thank Dean Cooley and Prof Marti Subrahmanyam for their kind

invitation. I am exhilarated to be part of such a joyous occasion.

Congratulations to you, the class of 2007, on completing an important

milestone in your life journey.

 

After some thought, I have decided to share with you some of my life

lessons. I learned these lessons in the context of my early career

struggles, a life lived under the influence of sometimes unplanned

events which were the crucibles that tempered my character and

reshaped my future.

 

I would like first to share some of these key life events with you,

in the hope that these may help you understand my struggles and how

chance events and unplanned encounters with influential persons

shaped my life and career.

 

Later, I will share the deeper life lessons that I have learned. My

sincere hope is that this sharing will help you see your own trials

and tribulations for the hidden blessings they can be.

 

The first event occurred when I was a graduate student in Control

Theory at IIT, Kanpur, in India. At breakfast on a bright Sunday

morning in 1968, I had a chance encounter with a famous computer

scientist on sabbatical from a well-known US university.