Good advice: pass it on

Business has lots to learn and multiple avenues to learn from. Management education is becoming better and more accessible. There are more management books and journals today than ever before. Then there are business magazines like OER that not only inform but also attempt to guide and educate. With so much of wisdom on offer, it is an irony that most successful people don’t quote a publication or a course as the source of the most profound advice that they got.
 
The advice they cherish mostly is usually the one that they got from their parents, mentors or bosses. This probably has something to do with the advice as well as the adviser. There is something heartwarming and enduring about a definitive advice given by a person we personally admire and respect. Such advice remains embedded in our minds throughout our lives.

In a world where uncertainty reigns, we could all benefit from some sound advice. Keeping this in mind we decided to give readers a break from the regular news and opinions and give you something unique and valuable. We asked the who’s who of Oman’s corporate world to share with us the best advice they ever got. The result is a compilation of the most profound pieces of advice that you will ever find between the covers of a magazine.

The most fascinating part of these anecdotes is that the best advice that some of Oman’s most successful businesspersons and professionals received was not business advice. It’s an advice on life, but one that changed the course of careers and businesses significantly. This collection of larger-than-business advice acquires special significance in these times when economic crosscurrents have created unprecedented challenges for businessmen and professionals.

Agatha Christie said, “Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.” So here we go.

Mayank Singh

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