Thought Leadership

The alternative plan that we must know in organisational leadership  

The Rip Van Winkle Saga  Rip Van winkle was a farmer. One day in the forest he saw some mysterious men playing the game of nine pins The mysterious men called him & asked him to join the game. RVW joined the game & enjoyed the drink offered to him Slowly he felt drowsy and fell asleep RVW woke up and remembered those mysterious men. There was none to be found Life has changed He found his beard has grown very long. His musket has rusted. His dog was gone. His clothes has worn out. He found himself to have aged a lot He walked down to his town. He did not recognize anybody. Nobody recognized him too. The whole town has changed Luckily his daughter identified him & brought him home. RVW was missing for 20 years He came to know that all his friends have died. His wife too had died. He felt very sad RVW was at the crossroads of life. Whether to give up by cursing the past or rise up & reinvent himself again Humanity at the Crossroad  Humanity is also at the Rip Van...

Neccesity is the Mother of Inventions  The prehistoric humans had no written form of communication. Every communication was oral The earliest form of written communication was pictorial. But it could not serve the purpose The Sumerians developed the cuneiform writing. But it was no easy task to remember more than 300 different wedges & even more combinations of wedges Religion popularized the written style of communication  The Akkadians popularized  cuneiform writing  by creating religious hymns in this style The Assyrians refined  cuneiform writing  & the Babylonians shaped it to the point of Alphabets The Phoenicians created the Alphabet system of Writing. The Greeks borrowed the style & created Philosophers out of this A human Revolution in Communication has begun. Art, literature, philosophy, medicine, history, geography etc took birth from the womb of Alphabets No Ideas are Original No Ideas are Original per se. But Improvisations are most...

The Godly Word in Economics  The world’s public policy is based on the concept of Utilitarianism (U) propounded by Bentham & Mill. The cardinal premise of U is “  the greatest happiness of the greatest number  ” The Idea of Utilitarianism can be achieved through three 3 actions  Absolute free play of market forces Free individual choices to operate in that market The state must ensure the above two through legislations The All Weather God  History & experience shows that absolute & uncontrolled market forces tends to favour more who are already entrenched socially, economically, politically etc in society Theoretically It seems that the absolute free play of market forces is creating free individual economic choices. But in reality it is weighed heavily against the lesser mortals The  Utilitarianism  dictum somehow seems overturned. It is now “ greatest happiness of the smallest number” The Thought Leadership Must Intervene  That is w...

Passion leads to Wisdom  Many say that passion for the domain leads to farsightedness in that field. Obviuosly it leads to leadership in that domain too. An outstanding example of anticipatory leadership comes to my mind from the field of Archaelogy. In the late 1840's one French archaelogist Victor Place was excavating Assyrian sites in Iraq. A great number of Assyrian historical antiquities were discovered which were priceless. The Anticipatory Leadership Everyone wanted the antiquities to be shipped immediately to Paris for further studies. But Victor wanted that the drawings, sketches & copies of every antiquity had to be done before shipping it. This obviously meant more delay in shipping it to Paris. Many objected and criticised his plans but Victor was adamant on following his protocol of business.  Victor requisitioned an artist who drew the sketches, drawings & made copies of all the artificats as per the protocol. It took many days & delayed the shippin...

Our Conception of Success may be Outdated  The way we look at success is outdated. We are searching for it through tactics, strategy and concepts in proportions which is not even required We pass through so many little milestones of happiness even without realizing it each day & night. For the obsession of the so called big eventful & glorious success we are blind to the success which are intertwined with our lifestyles Not all dreams require you to sleep  Not all dreams require you to sleep to visualize it. Not every time a sun lit day is essential to feel the brightness of the light. Sometimes the night is brighter than the days with the stars We need to understand that everything is in motion. Even the galaxy & the cosmos. Nothing is fixed & permanent. All creations are designed to be in a journey. So are we Nothing shines permanently, not even the brightest of the stars. It too will collapse, burn & fade away into the Black Hole one day The journey of l...

How Thought Leadership makes the difference The Egyptian, Assyrian & Babylonian civilizations were almost contemporaneous at some point of time in history. All three were glorious chapters in human progress. But there is a stark differences between the Egyptian & the other two civilizations The legacies, memories & the visible representations of Egyptian civilization has survived till now. We can see the pyramids, mummies, tombs, texts etc etc .But the other two have almost faded away in history. It took lots of efforts to trace out & join the dots of Assyrian & Babylonian Civilization. But for the Egyptian it was available in all its splendor  & glory from the first day  Why was it so ?  The Egyptians built their entire civilization with rocks, stones, indestructible materials while the Assyrians & Babylonians entirely with the clay. Same material was available to both. But it was the matter of choice. One Civilization thought about the long t...

Obsessing over the order of the mind  Man's desire to regulate itself into order is exceptional. The sub-actions of religion, culture, traditions, rules, laws etc are ways of regulating humans into an orderly & regulated entity For humans the concept of freedom has always been the directed, ordered & monitored freedom This is the cardinal difference between the human & the animal world Even our Aesop's fable stories fantasize about the managed & controlled animal world Controlling societies & Leadership  In the earliest recorded history we find ample traces of regulations. It was more managed than what we have today. But still the theme remains the same though essence may have changed Those societies which regulated less the mind has prospered more. Those who obsessed over absolute control lost progress on the way Mind is a Nomad  Mind by its basic characteristic is a nomad. It is created to wander & lose itself in the process Those who never got l...

Greek Philosophy Summarized If we summarize the whole Greek Philosophy into simple dictum, we get the following messages 1. The unexamined life is not worth living 2. The search for wisdom leads to Truth is the key to human progress 3. Virtue is a type of a knowledge & it must be learnt & followed 4. Humanity must aspire for the “Good Life“ & not the “Mere Life” Leadership Qualities & its  Attributes  When examined closely the Greek Philosophy and its dictum reveals all the desirable qualities of leadership Every leadership must be an examiner of their own lives so that they lead a goal directed conscious life which is worthy of emulation & admiration The leadership without wisdom is like the sky which never rains & the water that never quenches the thirst. In such leadership Truth is the first casualty Leadership virtue is not genetic & theoretical but acquired through knowledge & actions. It is verifiable, measurable & transferable li...

The Kardashev Scale  The Scientist Kardashev categorized human civilization into 3 Types based on their capacity to use & harness energy According to Kardashev Scale we are in Type 0 where we have not utilized fully the energy resources of earth The Type I is when humans use star energy. Type II is when they use total galaxy energy. We are almost entering Type I The Alternative Idea  But the moot question is at what stage of civilisation are we in terms of human dignity, Rights, Privileges, wealth distribution, disease control, employability, peace & security etc etc Are we at the same stage as in   Kardashev Scale   or less than that or beyond that ? From history we know that the rate of increase in human equity & prosperity never corresponds to the rate in increase in wealth generation capacity of any civilization The  Kardashev Scale   talks about energy use which means economic activities which means wealth generation Can we say with ce...