Krishna Kiran's

Last Sunday,I was watching a program on CNBC TV 18 which was hosted by the management guru Deepak Chopra. He was in conversation with Narayan Murthy, Chief Mentor and Chairman of Infosys on various issues of leadership. During the show both of them ended up praising each other for each others achievements in life. According to Narayan Murthy, a leader is one on seeing whom there is a glow in the eyes, smile on the lips and a overall feeling of happiness in the faces of those seeing. While summing up the show, Deepak has given a nice acronym for LEADERS which was really interesting. The acronym goes like this L - Look and listen E - Emotional bonding A - Awareness D - Dare to dream E - Empowerment R - Responsibility S - Synchronicity I am not elaborating as they are so simple to remember and follow. M.Krishna Kiran

I was on this flight IT 2883 of Kingfisher Airlines from Calicut to Chennai on 18th June 2009. The journey was a long one for me as the route was Calicut - Kochi- Trivandrum and then Chennai scheduled to land at 10.25 pm with a journey time almost four hours. At Kochi there was a change of guard as two young airhostesses whose names I later realised to be Caroline and Sheetal took to duty. I was in the window seat in row 14 and there was a family of three in row 16 in the ATR 72 flight. Within 15 minutes as the plane took off in Trivandrum for Chennai, the elderly man of the family seated in row 16 starting losing consciousness for some reason. The wife and daughter of this man started to cry and that raised an alarm and all the passengers seated in the front rows became attentive. Initially there was panic in each of their faces. The airhostesses who are hardly in their early twenties jumped to action and provided oxygen for the man while simultaneously keeping their cool. They also h