Thought Leadership

The Greatest Question Ever Asked ?  Why can’t everyone be rich ?  If this question seems too audacious to ask then let me soothe some of the nerves. we can reframe it to look less unsettling for many  Why can’t everybody be more or less equal in terms of economic prosperity?  Ok. wait. This question also seems to be far fetched & unachievable  Then maybe it is time for humanity to lower the bar even low & finally settle for this question  Why can’t every human be above a certain defined threshold limit of economic prosperity ?  The Common Threshold of Humanity This certain threshold limit can be relative from place to place. It should be such that it provides acceptable dignified economic life to everyone on the planet In simple terms it means there will be no poor when everyone is above that threshold mark.  I am not asking to make everyone rich.  I am demanding to free everyone from poverty Is it too much to ask from human civili...

The Wrong Headlines  We often hear such news that Mr X has become the richest person in the world. His wealth has doubled or increased phenomenally in percentage points. We also get to hear news that such & such people are the 7th or 8th richest person in the world.  But I am sure that never we have come across any news which says that X Numbers of people with the following names have become rich from being poor. Or entered the upper middle class from the lower middle class  The Economic Collectivism  Why is that in matters of culture, tradition & society we celebrate collectivism but when it comes to economics we always tend to sing praise of individualism. Why can't we celebrate collectivism in economics as we do with individuals  Why the list of billionaires is considered such a matter of pride but we hardly feel demand for the list or the numbers of ordinary people who transitioned into economic prosperity. Or is it that such list is hardly availab...

Name is not Everything  The greek word from which their identity emerged means Wise, Wisdom etc. They were people who excelled in knowledge of philosophy, Mathematics, Astronomy, Administration etc just like any renowned scholars of their day.  They even wrote books, taught students and excelled in discussions, debates, lectures etc. They were also famous & liked by the public just like any other scholars of those days  Yet they are never considered Philosophers or Intellectuals even till date. Many even do not consider them as Scholars, Teachers, Wise men etc The mainstream Philosophy has more contempt & disregard for them than any schools of thought Add caption What was Wrong with the Sophists ? The Central Question is what went wrong with the Sophists & Why the word itself came to mean a Pejorative term ?  Similarly it is even important to know why Sophism came to signify a derogatory ideology ?  The answer lies in their non-conviction & non-...

The Binary Mind  Our human mind is trained to view things mostly in the binary perspective. We generally interpret things as Black & White, Right & Wrong, True & False, Good & Bad, Yes & No etc. We do not allow the world of uncertainty to exist even in our consciousness. We want Certainty to be our guiding light always But our existence is not Binary nor is the ecosystem surrounding it. We exist in the mixture of Certainty & Unpredictability Dont Duple it  Thus the desire to see & interpret things in the simple “Duple” phenomena is a false start Our insecurity & the haste in understanding any phenomena must not dissolve the possibility of the existence of an area of darkness. Just because we do not have answers to certain things doesn't mean we do not understand it An Area of Darkness is sometimes more illuminating than the percieved halo around it Not having an answer is also an answer sometimes. To be ignorant rather than be disdainfully rigid...

Everything is in Flux  Everything seems to be in flux. Nothing is remaining constant. There is no guarantee of stability.  The rate of change is astounding. It is becoming difficult to remember the last change. Change is the new normal  It is more so in the field of technology & its associated interactions Leadership Concepts will Change  It is imperative that change will occur in the concepts of leadership to match the rate of change outside Till now we have two stakeholders in the idea of leadership- the concepts & the humans. But the new age will have the 3-Way-Matrix- the Concepts, Human & the Machines (AI).  Add caption The Single Point Model Our new partner (AI) will bring unthinkable changes in the leadership domain. It will delete, modify & revise our old concepts towards new models of thinking Some thinking has already started on this front. It visualises to change the 3-way-Matrix to the single unifying Dot Point Model  This Model...

You feel you are done & out  You can't take one step further. You cannot carry a load one pound more. You are gasping for the breath. You are done, out & gone You feel you have reached the limit of your capacity. There is nothing you can do more You simply want to quit & go home The 40% Rule  But what if someone tells you that you are only 40 % done of what you can do. The rest 60 % of your capacity, skill, talent etc is still left untouched, unseen & unused I bet you would frown & make your mind unbelieve those uncomforting words This is precisely what I read about the “40 % Rule” for the Navy Seals The job of trainers at the Navy Seals is to get the untapped 60 % out of you. It is already there in you. The trainers just tell you the way to get it out from you The Leadership & You  Literally this is what smart leadership does with you. They guide, motivate & inspire to get the latent 60 % out of you One of the best qualities of any winning lea...

Madness and civilization Michel Foucault, the french philosopher wrote the famous book Madness and civilization. His views changed the perception of Deviance from individualistic to collective in the social framework. No worldwide intellectual circles of that time remained untouched from his book  Look at things  differently  There was also one scholar who read this book. But his attention got fixated on a passing small paragraph which read “ ‘ In the universality of the Western ratio, there is a division which is the Orient … The Orient is for the Occident everything that it is not ”  This small paragraph evoked sea of thoughts in the mind of Edward Said & the rest is history in the field of Post colonial intellectualism  Influenced by the paragraph, Edward Said wrote “ Orientalism” which is considered one of the most influential books of the 20th century. From this book was born the concept of Orientalism which changed our perception forever  Ironi...

Past is a treasure of learning  Much has been written about the Greco-Persian wars of the ancient times. Much still needs to be learnt from it  The 2nd Greco-Persian War occured around 480 BC. Xerxes, the Persian king marched with such a huge force that the Greeks never anticipated it. If we believe Herodotus, then Greeks were in for a big defeat  Future is not always linear But most of the time events do not unfold in a simple linear way as expected & that too wars. The Greek sides consisting of the Athenians & the Spartans, though numerically less, did not allow Xerxes to make any inroads. Xerxes was getting frustrated though having the largest & the best forces of that time  Xerxes left his forces in the battle to his commanders & returned to his capital. The Greeks defeated Xerxes forces at Plataea & Mycale & he lost the 2nd Greco-Persian war  The Resourceful leadership  leadership is not always about the availability of Resourc...

Do not value the Periphery More  “ Whether the history exists or not is doubtful but there is no doubt that the historians exist. ” Thus lamented a great scholar of history once We value the periphery more than the core as it is easily accessible. To understand the crux one has to transcend the margins & that is difficult While learning we tend to get more influenced by the narrator than the Process, Facts & Events itself. This makes us vulnerable to one sided & distorted understanding of the phenomena The Wisdom to Learn  That is why Wisdom teaches us to always isolate the Matter, Narrator & the Phenomena separately Matter & Phenomena definitely has a natural inbuilt connection with each other. But the Narrator is an artificial construct to both of them. It has the power to redesign the Matter & Phenomena relationship to the point of falsification So do not attach more value to narrators than what is required. Attach much higher value to yourself to un...

Welcome to MIND SPARKLE SERIES (MSS) MSS is a series of motivational and theme based lectures, Panel Discussions etc on online platform with experts from all the walks of life The idea of the program is to prepare the students, professionals etc for the future career and progress Today we discussed Career prospects in the legal sector.. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝘄.. By DR. Yogesh Singh, Prof at National Law University, Odisha Dr. Yogesh Pratap Singh  is one of the leading experts on matters of law in India at present. He is widely known in legal fields for his scholarly achievements and deep insights on legal matters Pl do watch on youtube by clicking the link above 

History is Not Only About History  Generally we read History to understand the society, culture, polity, economy, governance etc of that era. Often we compare those aspects with our present times & deduce learning inferences But how many of us read History from a geographical & topographical perspective to understand climate change ? The Imperceptible  When Alexander marched through Persia, his historians talk about greenery, fertile plains, flowing waters etc in one of the provinces. But in the 19th century another historian talks about the same province as arid & dry There are innumerable such geographical inferences from history Some climatologists study history to compare the climates of the two eras & deduce their findings Such climatologist offer one simple & effortless solutions to the study of climate change The above discussion highlights the importance of “Seeking & Perspective” Seek what you Seek  You get what you seek even from the most...

The Eternal Search for the Ultimate Oracle  The oracle looked at the heavy warm smokes coming out from the boiling water bowl. Then it made bizarre eye movements, muttered incomprehensible words & predicted the future Such oracles of Delphi abound in our world in some form or the other  The only thing lacking in them is the definiteness & conclusiveness  The AI will be  the greatest Oracle  Our eternal search for the oracle has not ended but actually progressed to an unimaginable degree  The AI would be the greatest oracle of our times  It will have the proven accuracy, exactness & finality in its predictions  The AI will be the best Leader  It will also predict whether a person has leadership abilities or not  It will recommend the person with the best of the leadership qualities for the job  With further accuracy in predictability AI may even take the role of the leadership  AI may be the next CEO whom we ma...