Monday, 21 October 2019

The Tricycle we must balance !


The Male Trinity are :

Brahma the Creator, 
Vishnu the Nurturer,
Shiva the Destroyer.

The Female Trinity are their respective consorts :

Saraswati with Knowledge, 
Lakshmi with Wealth, 
Durga with Strength. 

At the Creative stage of any organization - you have ideas i.e. Knowledge is your key asset. 

Later as the organization grows, you need Wealth to keep Nurturing the business. 

And finally, for renewing, reinvention & rejuvenation, you need all the Strength to Destroy your very own -  else the business itself dies.

The Male Trinity represents the actual visible action, the Female Trinity representation is the intangible source that nourishes them. 

Without her, he is completely incomplete. 

The indestructible crucible of the entire Eastern spirituality is "Change" & that is a constant !

For change, you have to destroy the old paradigm.

Thus, Shiva the destroyer is worshipped much more than what the nurturer Vishnu ever will be.

And the creator Brahama is almost not worshipped at all, as is revered for only a fraction of time's tiniest unit. 

Destruction of the feeling of achievement is the essence of human progress. 

It is what the Western management is now beginning to learn.

Now, they claim that eventually, a man reaches the maximum level of hiz incompetent self. 

With each promotion he sought, the man feels incompetent in the higher plane. 

However with his capability, he overcomes that incompetence. But on doing so, he finds himself at once dissatisfied - his lust for that position is instantly destroyed & becomes restless to seeks next higher level. 

This goes on, the cycle of promotion and almost at once resultant shortlived joy of success & instantly followed by the angst arising  from greed to achieve more - till he keeps rising and reaches his level of final incompetence. 

Now when he can't destroy success anymore and begins to enjoy it instead - he feels not incompetent. 

He basks in the past not realizing he's becoming a prisoner of it.

He begins to feel comfortable !

At that stage, begins his own personal destruction. 

The world views the man on the top as most comfortable  and competent !

But the man on top must perpetually wear the uncomfortable crown of incompetence - else his days are numbered.

At some level, the man started at the lower most level of nothingness & ends where he began, as if to discover it for the very first time. 

Then sum total of his life is a brilliant nothing.

Thursday, 10 October 2019

Your language decides the future performance capability of your entire team !


If there was an award for name calling, the same would have to be split amongst all the members across the opposition benches. 

Madam Sonia Gandhi has been called "Italy-ki-beti" (the daughter of Italy) by NDA when in opposition & Mr. Rahul Gandhi has been called "Pappu" (stupid-boy) by the public. However, that pales when compared to what Shri Narendra Modi has been called, led by none other than the senior most political opponents. 

And yes, Modi has been vilified beyond comparison & comprehension. 

The industry of name calling was commenced by none other than Sonia Gandhi herself. About two decades ago, she was seen less in New Delhi or in her own constituency, as was busy canvassing in the Gujarat assembly polls, desperately trying to halt the rise of Modi-ji, then the CM of the state. 

Modi-ji is a "merchant of death" was her clarion call; "mass murderer", "intolerant" & "dictator" followed. 

Hitler, Mussolini, Milosevic became the comparisons in due course. 

Notwithstanding the venom spewing, Modi-ji had won that election & kept on rising, never to lose any election. On that day, since her first malicious barb & the victory thereof, history was in the making - not just in Gujarat but even in New Delhi and eventually spilling into the world politics. 

Even after being bestowed with 9 international awards, in his recent speech at the UN, the Pakistani Prime Minister Mr. Imran Khan echoed some of those choicest phrases in the presence of world leaders. He too got very little traction. 

It begs the question - Why?

Steve Saffron & Dave Logan have documented "The 3 Laws of performance", succinctly they are:

* How people perform, correlates to how situations occur to them. 

* How situations occur to them, arises in the language. 

* Future based language, transforms how situations occur to people. 

Communication is the single most powerful asset of any person, more so for a politician who must mass communicate. 
A politician's language can either show you a dream or a nightmare, but not reality. Reality is the subject matter of perception & so is different for different people. 

But one thing is common - all want a brighter future. 

Future based language however does give us a clue about one's intent - of the likely goal the leader has in mind.

If the goal shown is positive & language's tone has the elements of aspirational affinity - automatically, the stakeholders find a reason to coalesce together. Individuals then become a group, a sort of motivated fused block.

They not only just stake a claim in the future fruits, but also become a participant & work towards realizing it. This should explain why Modi enjoys an army of ardent followers, taunted by his detractors as bhakts ( or blinded followers ) !

BTW, even when patience is a scarce resource, the good-intent related implementation issues & some delays are of lesser consequence if the future based language is conveyed in a powerfully honest way. The future is just work in progress & same is well understood by most. 

The public however knows that if one has no intention, the dark outlook is anyway almost already assured. 

In politics, the future based language is either about possible hope or fear. The opposition for most part is found to be silent on future, instead has been indulging in personal attacks.

The catch is, if it's not a personal attack & instead, if they are talking of the problems in the present, they continue to face flak as Today is nothing but Yesterday's Tomorrow - when the opposition of Today, was in power Yesterday when they had promised a bright Today!

That Yesterday's long night is over & now it's dawned to the people that they've been taken for a ride.

What most folks don't understand about Modi-ji, is that his secret sauce is in his language & not just oratory skills. 

Thus, far from anti-incumbency, Modi-ji's recent victory was unique, in that - it is for the first time in India's history, that the 2nd term's victory margin was higher than that of the first term !

His slogan "Achhe din aane waale hain" or Good days will surely be arriving - are not just words, but a complete language in itself !