I end the book with one of the most powerful quotes I've ever encountered It changed my life And it's by a professor from Stanford who was no longer there Jim March But he says look and I'm reading it He says in the end we are very minor blips in a cosmic story All our hopes are minor except to us but some things do matter And what might make a difference to us is if in our tiny roles in our brief time we inhabit life gently and add more beauty than ugliness So what I would tell your listeners is this Just spend minutes today trying to answer the question what does living life more gently look like for you And what a couple of things you can do to make the world more beautiful in the ways that you uniquely can
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Ravi Venkatesan is the Chairman of The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) launched at COP26 with USD10 billion of committed capital to accelerate investment in green energy transitions and renewable energy solutions. He is also UNICEF’s Special Representative for Young People and Innovation, and the Founder of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME). He serves on the Boards of Rockefeller Foundation, Hitachi Ltd.
Ravi was the Chairman of Microsoft India, Bank of Baroda and Cummins India, and served as a co-chairman of Infosys Ltd. He is an alum of IIT Bombay and Harvard Business School. Ravi is the author of What The Heck Do I Do With My Life: How To Flourish In Our Turbulent Times and Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere. He was voted as one of India’s best management thinkers by Thinkers50 and as Microsoft’s Alumni Hero 2020.
Under Venkatesan's leadership between 2004 and 2011, India became Microsoft's second-largest geographic area and one of its fastest growing markets. Microsoft India was rated one of the country's most respected companies, among the most admired brands, and one of India's best employers.
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