‘Whatever you are doing, make sure you are so passionate about it that you’d be happy doing it for 10 years even if you didn’t make any money from it.’ I didn’t say this. Neither did any management guru. These are the words of Tony Hsieh, 37 years old CEO of Zappos.com, a billion dollar online shoe retailer. Pretty unconventional wisdom from a man in his thirties; wouldn’t you agree?

Those of you who have been reading this blog since last year might remember the video of Rahul Ganapathy, a young leader at HCL Tech and a role model, who inspired colleagues to look beyond work and add value as a brick in the construction of society.

Egypt, a country transformed in less than a month! Without getting into the politics of the region, I am transfixed by the very power of the youth movement that brought about this change. A simple Facebook group that took their protest from the virtual space to the streets and changed their world. Young leaders who had no sanction of authority but appealed to popular imagination.

It’s tough to escape the cricket fever these days with the ICC World Cup underway in the sub-continent. So let me begin the discussion on youth leadership with the man who has won his way into the hearts of a billion Indians and millions more worldwide: Sachin Tendulkar.

There is so much debate these days on the role of the company. So I decided to go back to the beginning – the definition of a company. The Webster dictionary defines a company as “an association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some commercial or industrial enterprise or business.”