Sudarshan was born in a  remote village in Punjab. He was son of a refugee family who had migrated, leaving behind their hearth and home in newly created Pakistan, to Punjab, India after partition of India into Pakistan and India (Bharat aka Hindustan) in 1947. His family was in economic distress is to say the obvious. He was sent to his Uncle in Delhi for education. He studied from 1st Standard to PhD in Delhi. He was his class topper most of the time.

He started his career in academia and gradually moved up to become Dean and President of a top business School in India. He also worked abroad and finally relocated to USA, on extraordinary ability basis, and took up  a teaching position.

I asked him, what is the secret of his success?

Pat came his reply: 2 Cs of Success.

2 Cs of Success?

He spelled 2 Cs of Success as

Competence and Compassion.

In more words, he said, you got to be competent, that is like distinguishing yourself in what you do by good self-development and self- management, and compassion is having empathy for others, giving space to others, enabling and empowering others.

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