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What can CEO's learn from Rahul Dravid?

The U-19 team from India made all of us proud by bringing the U-19 World Cup to India after six years.This blog is about this victory and what businesses can learn from this victory.


Prithvi Shaw and his team has made India proud by winning the U-19 World Cup 4th time.This victory is even more satisfying as we lost in the semi finals of last edition.The main hero of this World Cup has to be Rahul Dravid.He is probably the most selfless cricketer I have ever seen.He has let go tonnes of money,commentary carrier,IPL coaching carrier for coaching team India.Yes this is all he did to coach U-19 team.He had offers from Delhi Daredevils devil to work as coaching staff but he just let it go so that there are no objections on his position of Indian coach.The U-19 team has also worked really hard to achieve this feat.They have been playing many tournaments in last one year.This must had given them a lot of exposure of International cricket.They also lost to Nepal in a match after which they played quiet consistently.This is all because they had a person with them who has been with them all the time.One more advantage that these U-19 cricketers had was that most of them were also playing Ranji cricket which certainly has higher level than U-19.This must had uplifted their game.Now what can startups learn from this entire victory.I would say three main things.
1.Choose a good CEO
This probably is the most critical step.CEO should be a selfless person who does not work keeping money as the prime motive but the one who works out of love for his team.I am sure Rahul Dravid was the driving force in this triumph.He had brought in several reforms in the team.The most important was that a player can play only one U-19 World Cup after which he has to start playing the senior level cricket.This is a very wise decision as the main motive of U-19 cricket is to prepare young players to compete at the highest level.

2.Things might not go your way even if you do everything right
I believe that last edition's U-19 World Cup team was also capable of winning the World Cup.Everything was approached in a similar fashion,the coach was the same,players were equally capable but we know the results did not come our way.Hence patience is an important key.Who better than Rahul Dravid could actually guide the youngsters to be patient.

3.The CEO should always give importance to the team rather than himself
Rahul Dravid has never projected himself as the supreme boss and neither has he allowed is captain to be very much opposite to senior cricket team.It is very important to put forward the team when the company does well and take the responsibility when the company does not do well.I have not seen any big interview of Rahul Dravid after the win.It was just one press conference after the worldcup.This is what great people do without letting other people know.

This U-19 victory will surely make great players in the future.Experts see Prithvi Shaw as the next big cricketer.This tournament is yet another display of Rahul Dravid's coaching abilities and his greatness.I wish he could be the coach of senior Indian cricket team but I am afraid he might face the consequences faced by Anil Kumble.He is an asset to Indian cricket and must be respected for his commitment.
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