Frieda Pinto - the lovely actor in Slumdog Millionnaire, now commands a price more than many even in Hollywood. Well, cosmetic major Estee Lauder is replacing Gwyneth Paltrow with her. And not to be left out, the Spanish are claiming that Frieda is Spanish and not an Indian. All this in probably six months. Tens of thousands of girls would give an arm and a leg to be where Frieda is today. What to say, even Aishwarya would have toiled away couple of decades to be where she is now! Now it is confirmed, Frieda should be wearing a lucky stone for sure! Or is it so? Do you really want to know the secret of how to get lucky? See the presentation.

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How to get lucky?
LeadLab by
Sangeeth Varghese

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What Would We Discuss Today?
• Speaker introduction
• Million-Leader-Mandate
• This week’s excitements
• Leader for the week
• How to get lucky?
• Interaction and Q&A session

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Speaker Profile
• Sangeeth Varghese is an acknowledged leadership
thinker, and the founder of LeadCap.
• Is the author of the bestseller 'Decide to Lead' and
writes a popular column in ET. His columns have
appeared in Forbes, TOI and he has appeared in BBC
and CNBC. Varghese guest edited the 2008 New Year
edition of the TOI as a “young star making a
difference”.
• Feb 2008, Bombay Stock Exchange Journal rated
Varghese as one of the most influential leadership
thinkers.
• Did his masters and research London School of
Economics with a scholarship.

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Building a Nation of Leaders
• LeadCap is nurtured by thinkers from the Ivy League with a
vision to build the first leadership democracy in the world; to
build India as a nation of leaders.
– Teaching to fish is better than providing fish
– Leadership is a decision, not a position or set of skills
– Leaders breed leaders, not followers
“Is there an Indian equivalent of the American Dream?
LeadCap is striving to identify it:” Forbes Magazine

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Million leader mandate
• Million-Leader-Mandate aims to empower a million citizens
of India with leadership opportunities, beyond their birth
and living conditions.
• Saturday sessions is one of the ways we enlighten people
to take that decision

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Weekly excitement ;)

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Leaders build communities
• LinkedIn community “Million Leader
Mandate” conceptualised and led by
Col.Navinder Narang
• Google community “LeadCapMovement”
conceptualised and led by Balu
• Leadership interns of Swagath
• Groups in Orkut, Facebook….

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Leader of the week
Neelmani Chawla of NITJ:
Along with Ankur Bajaj
Revamping our website

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How to get lucky?

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Shilpa Shetty vs. Frieda Pinto
Toiled away close to 20
years. Also-ran. Sidekick
roles, occasional heroine.
Career dip.
Debuted last year. Already
a Hollywood celebrity.
Estee Lauder contract.
Highest paid. First time
lucky.

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A bundle of $100s on the road
• ‘Most successful people are not more skilled. Talent and
hard work matters, but plenty of more talented ones end
up with worse results than less talented ones. Luck shuffles
the results.’ Leonard Mlodinow, Calech
• How Bill Gates picked up his $100 bill
• IBM met Gates for an OS
• He directed them to Gary Kindall. NDA
• Ball back to Gates court
• What would have happened if Gary accepted the
offer?
• To Gates?
• To Gary?
LUCK
changed the
game

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We don’t understand this!
• Chance happening. Something beyond our control.
• Since we do not understand, we think it is supernatural and try
to invite luck
• Lucky stones
• Numbers
• Names
• Time
• New people strive to be first time lucky
• Established people strive to hold on to their luck
Karan Johar
and his ‘K’
luck!

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Look at the lucky ones
Teflon
Scotchguard
Penicillin by
Fleming
ViagraPlanet
Uranus
X-Ray
Ink-jet
printer
Safety glass
Cornflakes
Microwave
oven
Chocolate
chip
cookies
America

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Shilpa Shetty also got lucky
After 20 years “Celebrity Big
Brother” happens. Loads of
money. Fame. Power.
Admiration. Rich husband. IPL.
And yes Hollywood! You might not be
first time lucky, but
even after 20 years
you still could
discover it.

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Dr.Wiseman is a wise man on
luck
• Dr.Richard Wiseman, head of psychology research at the
University of Hertfordshire in England
• From professional magician to psychology
• Studied luck for more than a decade
• Studied more than 400 people
• Reached a profound conclusion

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“Luck is not by chance. You
can learn to be lucky”
Same
conclusion that
Shilpa Shetty
reached!

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Lucky people generate their
own luck via 4 principles

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Maximize opportunities by being
open
• Lucky people take a relaxed attitude to life
• They keep themselves open to people and opportunities
• They network, keep in touch
• They evaluate even silly opportunities
• Create their own opportunities
• How could your interaction with other smart and ambitious
LeadCappers help you unravel your luck?

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Not missing on intuition
• Most of the times our intuitions are correct, but we discard
them
• Lucky people take time out to listen to their intuitions
• They build their mind
• They think about connections
• They act on their intuitions, even if they are risky

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Unleashing self-fulfilling
prophecies
• Lucky people think they are lucky
• They expect success to come through
• They do not undertake a task thinking about failure
• They have a very positive attitude to life

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Moving ahead of bad fortune
• Lucky people are resilient
• They look at the positive side of bad luck

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Leadership Takeaway
Luck is not by chance. You
can learn to be lucky.
1) Be open to people around
2) Be open to yourself
3) Think yourself lucky
4) Bounce back from bad luck

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Celebrations
Milli is getting
wedded to
Sanjay on the
17th of April

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This week’s question
• How will creating a million young and positive leaders help
our nation? Or What is your interpretation of the dream of
generating 'one million leaders'?
• Post your answers at:
• LinkedIn: Million Leader Mandate
• Google group: LeadCap Movement
The best
argument shall
be mentioned in
next LeadLab

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