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1. Using Crisis as an Opportunity to
Change

2. Do you see an opportunity in
crisis?
You have been in circumstances that have been so adverse that
there could have been no positive side to it?
Retrospect & think about those incidents of your life, you will
realize you must have learnt immensely from them. These
adverse circumstances become opportunities, when you don’t
let them hinder you, but let them motivate you.
This presentation brings to you some great people who found
opportunity in the most adverse situations.

3. Narayan Murthy in prison in Bulgaria
• In 1947 , when the co-founder of Infosys, Mr
Narayan Murthy was hitchhiking from Paris to
Mysore. At Nis a town on the border of
Yugoslavia & Bulgaria, he took the Sophia
Express. He started a conversation with a local
girl & discussed about the challenges of living in
Eastern Europe. When the police observed this,
they caught him & jailed him for 72 hours. Then
they released him & put him on the freight train
to Turkey.
• This experience made a deep impact on his mind.
He concluded that the only way to eradicate
poverty is by encouraging entrepreneurship that
results in large scale job creation.
• Thus, he successfully founded the IT company
Infosys in 1981.

4. Get inspired by adversity
• In adverse circumstances our view
becomes pessimistic, but if we keep a
positive attitude, we can think carefully as
to what lesson we can derive out of them.
• We will get inspired by the adversity to
overcome it to build institutions like
Narayan Murthy did.
• Such situations change our ideas & leave
us inspired.

5. Amitabh Bachchan after bankruptcy
• In 1999 ABCL started by Mr. Bachchan faced a
liquidity crunch & went bankrupt. He was in
deep trouble, but the reel life hero bounced
back with Kaun Banega Crorepati.
This program on Star Plus revived his fortune.
He hosted this quiz show at a time when movie
starts saw featuring on television as a step back
in career & Mr. Bachchan changed this
perception.
• He earned Rs. 15 crore for 85 episodes. Then
came the rush of endorsements. He bagged the
deal for endorsing ICICI Bank for Rs 10 crore.
This helped him to clear all debts.
• At 60 plus Mr. Bachchan had fought a battle
that even youngsters couldn’t have dared to
fight.

6. No opportunity is small
• Don’t look at any opportunity to be small,
take it and make it big.
• When you are going through tough times
opportunities might knock your door.
Don’t turn away by saying that your
problem is too big & won’t get solved by
this small opportunity. Take it & give it
your best.
• Fortune favors the brave.

7. Narasimha Rao liberalized India
• In 1991 India faced a Balance of Payment
crisis. Foreign Exchange reserves were low &
the Indian government was in such a severe
debt that it had to trade its gold reserves to
the IMF to get a loan of $ 2.2 billion.
• The then Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao
introduced liberalization in India. Reforms
were introduced to open up India to foreign
investments. Capital market & trade regime
were reformed.
• Rao along with economist Manmohan Singh
then set goals to reduce the fiscal deficit,
increase infrastructure investment &
privatize the public sector. They opened up
India to foreign trade & pulled India out of
the crisis.

8. Bold decisions at a crucial juncture
• It is difficult to take the right decision at
a crucial juncture, especially when you
are a leader.
• Bold decisions are risky but, when
implemented in the right way always
lead to successful future.

9. Hurricane Sandy & Obama’s election
campaign
• Barack Obama led the presidential
elections in the final days and Hurricane
Sandy is one of the reasons why he won
the elections according to many.
• The storm devastated the West Coast of
US just one week before the US
Presidential Elections.
• The Federal Government did everything
possible to provide all that was
necessary to the affected areas. He
closely monitored the situation and
pushed the electric companies to get
back power as soon as possible.

10. Obstructions are opportunities
• When you have planned something &
things go wrong to disrupt your plans, the
disruption might actually be an
opportunity.
• Be prepared to use each impediment to
your advantage.
• Obstructions in your plan are testing times,
when you overcome them, you grow & rise
above the situation.
• People start trusting you & relying on you.

11. Julian Assange in Political Asylum
• Julian Assange the founder of WikiLeaks is
in Ecuadorian Embassy, as he faces the risk
of extradition to the US, charging him for
leaking out thousands of US military secrets
& diplomatic information.
• According to him 40 % WikiLeaks' funds
come from the US, despite the hostile
government. In his second address since his
confinement he said boldly that 2012 was
‘huge’ year for WikiLeaks, as it had placed
million documents on internet, some even
related to the Syrian Civil War.
• Despite the dire circumstances he has no
intention of slowing down. He said that
WikiLeaks was releasing some more million
documents in 2013, that would affect all
countries.

12. Challenge yourself
• When you take a step that challenges the
authority it demands courage. But, you
cannot give up even if you are confined.
• Even in dire circumstances you need to
stand by what you believe strongly.
• In fact, you will gather courage from the
people who stand by you.
• When tough times besiege you, your self
belief will be challenged.

13. Grow from your challenges
• Bold decisions are risky but, when implemented in the right way
always lead to a successful future.
• When you have planned something & things go wrong to disrupt
your plans, the disruption might actually be an opportunity.
• Be prepared to use each impediment to your advantage.
• When you take a step that challenges the authority it demands
courage. But, you cannot give up even if you are confined.
• Keep a positive attitude in adverse circumstances, only then will
you learn from them.
• No opportunity is small, cash on it and make it big.