Mr. Muthuswamy N holds a Mechanical engineering degree from Guindy (Anna University, Chennai( Madras), India) & a Post-graduate Diploma in Systems Management from Jamnalal Bajaj institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.
He has over 16 years of industry experience, including 5 years with Voltas ( a Tata Enterprise about 9 years IBM India. Then he was executive director of Baroda Productivity Council that grew 7 times in 9 years under his leadership, and made it the largest local productivity council in India. He has about 3 decades of consulting experience in India. Presently , he is the Managing Director of Quest Systems Private Limited – a general management consultancy company founded by him.
More often than not, in life, we get a little less than what we aim for as an objective or goal. So if we aim at success as an objective , we may get something less. We believe we should not settle for anything less. We believe every one of us is entitled to be successful. This means we should aim for something higher than success so that we get success at the very least! Making people aim at something higher than success has been the mission with us. Something higher than success is “effectiveness”. If we are effective in whatever role we have chosen to pursue in life, we cannot avoid success and we get success as an automatic bye-product.
Success is an automatic byproduct of effectiveness and effectiveness is made or marred by the same fundamental laws of energy that govern all systems. Although these laws have been known to science for a long time now, what is striking is how we missed linking these laws of energy and nature to ourselves, the systems around us, to effectiveness and therefore to success! Because we human beings are ourselves energy systems, our effectiveness and success are also governed by the same basic energy laws operating through us. If we understand how these fundamental laws of energy operate in any system, and how their operation is pivotal to effectiveness and success, we can use these laws proactively in order to position ourselves in the evolutionary path of success. Using the laws of energy to enhance our likelihood of effectiveness and success is in our hands alone. Indeed, once we tune our minds to allow ourselves to be governed by these laws, rather than create blocks or obstacles to the free flow of energy through us, effectiveness and success is ours for the asking!When effectiveness and success are linked to the basic laws known to science, they cannot be associated with random and non-scientific explanations of chance or luck. When we avoid setting boundary conditions on what being successful means, we avoid limiting the definition of success to what we can see. Just like science converts the unseen or not-yet-seen results into something tangible, we have the capability of envisioning success, and translating this idea into reality. Success, therefore, involves the tuning of the mind, which, in turn, visualizes triumph and experiences immense thrill when the vision becomes a reality
The model for effectiveness and success that we have established is presented through books and training workshops. The first book “ Success through Opposites” is published in Feb., 2009. More books are in the way. This first book essentially gives a ground-breaking insight into the human mind and how to make our minds susceptible for success and allows both the everyday reader and the high placed manager a chance to succeed in new and exciting ways.
Unfortunately, the process by which we learn is also simultaneously responsible for creating blocks in our mind that, in turn, create blocks to success. As we grow, there is a recording process in our mind that makes each one of us a slave to any one of a given pair of opposites. The mind becomes comfortable with only one opposite that gave us happiness and comfort and gets averse to and blocked by the other opposite. As for example, we are more comfortable with high but not so comfortable with low education, more comfortable with leisure but not so comfortable with work or vice-versa, more comfortable with our mother tongue but not so comfortable with other languages, more comfortable with our native village where we spent our early childhood but not so comfortable with any other village or place, more comfortable with the food we ate in our early childhood but not so comfortable with any other food, more comfortable with truth and not so comfortable with lie, more comfortable with leading and not so comfortable with following, more comfortable with ambition but not so comfortable with contentment, more comfortable with independence but not so comfortable with dependence, more comfortable with ego and not so comfortable with humility, more comfortable with systems but not so comfortable with no systems, more comfortable with materialism but not so comfortable with spirituality, more comfortable with certainty but not so comfortable with ambiguity and so on. Consequently, in situations in which we have to go by the other opposite for getting success, we are not able to proceed. Thus success eludes us!
The concept outlined in the book is that the driver of an automobile is the third element to make the system of two opposites- accelerator and brake- run; the driver has to have equal liking for both the brake and the accelerator so that he/she applies whatever opposite is appropriate to the situation on the road. A good driver therefore spends time with both the opposites of accelerator and brake every day. Similarly the third element of the human system of two opposites, body and soul, is the mind. So the mind must be equally comfortable with both the opposites of the human system namely body and soul. But since our minds spend most time with the body and hardly any time with the soul on a daily basis, they become drivers who love only the accelerator or the brake and not both! What can the vehicle do if the driver likes only the accelerator or the brake?! What can the excellent human system do, if the mind likes only the body and not the soul or vice versa? The book “ Success through Opposites” suggests a simple method of vaccinating the mind to get over this basic defect developed as the years pass by after birth and makes the mind in tune with both the opposites of a given pair of opposites. Thus the mind is able to think in opposites- a basic pre-requisite for success and happiness.
By thinking in opposites – and not just by what gave us comfort in early childhood- we can get over this unavoidable and natural phenomenon of recording in our mind, by which our mind becomes a slave to just one of any given pair of opposites. Thankfully, only one simple tool is necessary to become the master of both opposites instead of becoming a slave to one of them. This process is vaccinating the mind, which is explained in the book.!
Both opposites become tools in our hands and lead us to the path of success and happiness without any block.
The concepts outlined in the book and in the training workshops are being made available as software products to make the implementation either by an individual or by an organization easy . The first two such products are already available, one for tindividuals& organizations and the other exclusively for students. Please go to our website: “questsystemspvtltd.com” . More products are on the way. The third product to be released by September 2009 is primarily for organizations to become effective, but it makes the users – employees and managers- more effective and successful in the process. These products have embedded in them the practical management expertise and incorporate the principles of energy that make one effective and successful.
The concepts outlined in the book and in our training workshops are also offered practically in our role as management consultants. Here we practically apply these concepts to the organization concerned. We implement our suggestions with the people of the organizations we consult so that all practical problems that arise during implementation are sorted out. Obviously, as we are part of the implementation team, we take only very limited number of companies for consulting.