Divan (Divyang) Dave is actively involved with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) donating and contributing to the society’s goal of providing treatment to blood cancer patients
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Divan (Divyang) Dave is actively involved with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) donating and contributing to the society’s goal of providing treatment to blood cancer patients
Divan Dave, CEO of ISM/OmniMD, visited the barren site of Akshardham (New Delhi, India) land before it was constructed, with HDH Pramukh Swami Maharaj of Bochasanwasi Akshar Purshottam Sanstha (BAPS) on May 26th 2000. Swaminarayan Akshardham in New Delhi is a landmark representation of Hinduism and the Indian culture. The beautiful art, colossal architecture and the serene environment makes Akshardham a magnificent site to experience. No one would have imagined that such a magnificent divine expression of Hinduism would be built on such a vast space of land in five years time. Divan expressed great joy and bliss being with Swamishree and quoted, “Only Divine power can achieve such a great monument in a record time.”
On October 30th 2009, the day of Gandhi’s Jayanati, CEO of ISM/OmniMD Divan Dave appreciated Gandhijee’s leadership and immense contribution to India’s struggle for freedom. He taught leadership basics to the ISM/OmniMD team through Gandhijee’s efforts. Quoting Maharishi Patanjalee: "When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds, your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great & wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculty and talents, come alive and you discover yourself to be great person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." Divan believes, “While leaders are both born and created, leadership cannot not be taught. A leader to be must want to be a leader. Many leaders are made out of necessity, while few are born with certain leadership traits.” We’ll be taking example of Gandhijee.
A) Have a Self initiated objective to achieve, which inspires you. Don't do something for heck of it. Life is too short and too precious to waste on mediocre achievements. Take an example of Gandhijee, he had life mission to free India from British rule.
B) Find a solution commiserated to your nature to achieve the objective. Gandhijee devised the non-cooperation and the non-violent movement, as that was his TRUE nature. He wouldn’t have been too successful on the path of violence.
C) Believe in that objective and solution fully and unwaveringly. Stay committed throughout - even in toughest of times. Tough times are the true testaments of one’s leadership and set examples to your team, how committed and focused you are. Throughout his struggle of freedom of India, Gandhijee was endearing to his commitment to non-violence.
D) A true leader devices an effective method to communicate his/her objectives and solutions to the masses. Your team must buy into your project & methods to achieve it. Win Followers, Friends, converting foes into friends to communicate your objectives and its solution; making everyone to buy-in. Remember everyone is on the Frequency WIFM (What's IN For Me?). Show them why, how, when and what they need to do. Gandhijee orchestrated many acts to gather masses like the Dandi March to collect salt.
E) Leadership is full-time. Be a Fulltime and Fully committed leader, there is no part-time leadership. It’s said Gandhijee was used to work 18 hours/day for seven days week.
F) Be a likable leader. Though leadership in NOT a popularity contest, one must make oneself a likeable leader. You'll have far less resistance. Lead by inspiring, rather then fear. Many decisions will be hard and unlikable, but everyone you're dealing with must follow you. One of the key achievements for a leadership trait is willing followers. Many disagreed with Gandhijee. There were many freedom fighters, even who believed in violent struggle against British rule, but Gandhijee was able to convince the majority of masses; a great achievement on his part.
G) Produce results. W/o results there is no leader. Leaders don’t make excuses, they get things done. Gandhijee, with help of many freedom fighters, did achieve freedom from British rule in India.
H) Leave a legacy. A leader creates his/her legacy. During his life and after, Gandhijee created many leders who still follow his vision today. An organization or Philosophy created by a leader should not fall apart after his/her going. A leader creates a principle based organization, not based on his/her personality. Because people come and go, they can make mistakes and their image can be tarnished. A principle based organization will not have such an issue.
Divan in a surprised revelation to the group revealed a picture. “I’m glad to reveal a picture of my own grand father, who was not only a true Gandhian, but Chief Minister of Gujarat and five times Member of Indian Parliament, Shri Ghanshyambhai Oza. Here is he with Gandhijee on a train station in Gujarat. This picture was taken somewhere in the 1930’s. The man in a black hat with raised hand in front of Gandhijee is my beloved grandfather.”
Mr. Divan Dave, CEO of ISM/ OmniMD was invited to represent NRI (Non-resident Indians) during the inauguration ceremony of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in India. It is quite the achievement to represent the NRI community at the BJP government inaugural event. A selected group of eight business leaders and luminaries were invited from the US by the BJP Government to represent the NRI community of America. Divan remembered meeting all the politicians of India and wished BJP a great success.
CEO of ISM/OmniMD Divan Dave had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Sushma Swaraj, an Indian politician to the Bharatiya Janata Party. Mr. Dave met Ms. Swaraj at an honorary reception held in New York City. There, they discussed various aspects of politics, economics and worldly matters affecting society today. 
While meeting Vinod Khanna MP of BJP, Minister of Tourism and Bollywood Super Star, at his residence at 5 Tughlaq Lane, Mr. Dave was impressed by Mr. Khanna’s, care for his country and constituency, that ISM decided to create a website for Mr. Khanna (http://www.vinodkhanna.in) at no cost. Divan quotes, “I was meeting Vinodjee with a doctor and another businessman. Vinodjee made sure that the doctor received an MRI machine for a hospital of Gurdaspur (his constituency). A local singer, Jasee was preset there and Vindojee asked us to promote him in the US.” Such a leader is required for India, who is constantly thinking about his country and people.
While meeting Advani, one of the persons introduced Divan Dave as grand son of former Indian politician, Chef Minister of Gujarat, and muti- time member of the Indian Parliament, Shri. Ghanshayam Bhai Oza. Right away Advanijee invited Divan to join politics, which Divan respectfully denied to. Subsequently Advanijee was gracious enough to show Mr. Dave his office. His ceiling had paintings of all the laws of India including the Hindu law, Mahmedan law and others.
Mr. Divan Dave, CEO of Integrated Systems Management Inc. (ISM and OmniMD) met Mr. Murlee Manohar Joshi, Human Resources Development minster to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and was elected a Member of Parliament from Almora. Mr. Da’ve and Mr. Joshi met during the swearing-in ceremony of the BJP government in 1999 at Raj Bhavan. Subsequently, Divan met Mr. Joshi and was invited to lunch. There, Mr. Dave and Mr. Joshi discussed politics and other such matters.
Amongst Vedic hymn, Integrated Systems Management Inc. of Tarrytown, NY opened its software development center at Aakurati Complex, C. G. Road, Navaragpura, and Ahmedabad, India. CEO Divan Dave mentioned that the 500 + seat center will serve as a software development, marketing, customer support and an HR hub for ISM globally. Customer Support for ISM’s flagship product OmniMD will be also conducted from here. The opening of the office is a great achievement for ISM to become a global company. The occasion was attended by more than 1,000 prominent people, well-wishers and employees of ISM.
Divan Dave, CEO of ISM/OmniMD, remembered Indira Gandhi on the 25th anniversary of her assassination. Divan said ‘Today, while India faces a plethora of terrorist attacks, no political leader is able to take any decisive action. We need a leader like Indira Gandhi, who reduced the threat of Pakistan by creating Bangladesh in six days of war.” Remembering meeting Indiarajee personally as a young boy Divan said ‘While my Grandfather, Shri Ghanshyambhai Oza, was Chief Minister of Gujarat, Indiarajee visited our home for dinner. I as a kid remembered plenty of politicians and dignitaries coming to our home.” Before that, when my grandfather was India’s industrial development minister, my brother and I used to stand outside our home at 15, Safdarganj Road while Indiarajee lived at 1, Safdarganj Road. Many times we saw her travelling in a white open Jeep around 10:00 AM to attend Parliament meetings. India’s Prime Minister (PM), Indiarajee was free and daring. Today, almost all politicians have to travel in bullet proof cars with an entourage of blackcat commandos. What a shame.”
ISM has decided to pay for its employees’, who have below a certain salary, children to receive education. Education in India is very poor; however, there have been efforts to raise the education systems in India. CEO Divan Dave firmly believes that, “Illiteracy is unacceptable and we must create an environment where every child can study. Due to poverty, many parents in India take their children out of the schools to eke out daily living, leaving child almost illiterate. This vicious cycle must be broken. ISM/OmniMD will make sure all of its employees’ children go to school fulltime up to high school.” By ensuring that its employees send their children to school, ISM is taking a step forward in contributing to ending the illiteracy rates in India.
ISM’s India office, based in Ahmedabad, India, has recently introduced communications program to ensure that all employees of ISM are fully versed in English, which eliminates the language barrier to clients. The medium of communication is introduced as English in the entire office globally. ISM’s CEO Divan Dave states, “The Economy Times reports that less than 5% of Engineer Graduates in India are employable in the global economy. One of the prime reasons for such a meager number is the communication barrier these graduates face.” ISM has introduced a communication and an English mastery program to irradiate such issues. Employees do not have to face obstacles presented by the English language, by addressing the problem, workers can produce more results. “We want to achieve 100% productivity from 100% of our employees.”- Divan Dave
The Ekal Vidyalay Foundation, www.ekalvidya.com, is a charitable organization that helps build schools in rural India. India’s illiterate population continues to grow and this organization hopes to eradicate illiteracy in the years to come. By creating non-formal education institutions, India can rise above the minimal level of learning for students and come together as a nation by fighting the education barrier its students and people face. People have the ability to sponsor schools by donating just $365, dollar-a-day, to the cause. ISM/OmniMD took an active role by sponsoring many schools, which is one step forward in fighting illiteracy in rural India. Divan Dave CEO of ISM/OmniMD believes, “Illiteracy is a sin. In the world of words, an illiterate is completely blind. We’re all connected. We are one large family. A Single person left behind impacts all of us.” While certain segments of India progresses tremendously, many in remote villages are left behind. The foundation hopes to acquire enough funds to operate 100,000 non-formals schools in the rural parts of India by 2011. It would be a great achievement to be able to eliminate illiteracy in India as a much as possible. ISM/OmniMD supports Ekal Vidyalay – “one teacher school to eradicate Illiteracy from India.”
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