Thought Leadership

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The source must deliver seamlessly  In the technological communications the “ the last mile connectivity” is considered the holy grail. The source must deliver to the user seamlessly. This is an inflexible concept practised by every source  Every ordinary leadership also tries to communicate to the last audience  Mostly we are trained to set our eyes & minds for the most represented communications. This is quite normal & logical  The Reverse Concept  But what most forgets is the reverse of it. The leadership must also allow the last man to speak up. It ought to hear the last voice in the communication process. It should necessarily hear the feeblest voiced ideas, concepts, grievances & feedbacks  On the other hand the visionaries go beyond the obvious. They look for things that others skip. They hear the voices which many dismiss  Why They Do it  One may ask as to why they practice such leadership style?  They do not always...

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Time is Everything  The importance of time no one can refute. "Time Management" is an academic discourse in all the leading management books.  Perhaps this is the only asset that depreciates continuosly without any change. We also know the rate at which the "time" depreciates and how it goes away never to show even its shadow again Time is the only progressve equation that progressess lineraly and never looks backward. Time never forms a cycle and it moves like a single straight line which has no end. Infinity, time & death are all linked together in the mystic mathemetical equation called life. The Poet Message on Time Management  Omar Khayyam talks about the importance of the present & living in the moment. It means that time can only be controlled by making our moments or the present beautiful & happy. That can be our only link to the future. Do not despair too much for things you can't control. Control the things that you can control and control ...

The Aim  The aim of concepts are far more wider than what we think of. Somehow the concept of Thought Leadership wrongly became the field of winning & success only But it is way above & beyond this temporary destination Thought Leadership adds value The sole purpose of Thought Leadership is to provide "Value Addition" to the domain. It is a more philosophical framework of understanding There are many Thought Leaderships that seemingly failed to become famous J. C. Bose work on material radio signal made Marconi famous but is hardly acknowledged Ibn al-Haytham, the 10 th century Arab Mathematician no one knows. But his works on optics made Roger Bacon famous centuries later Jerome Cardano the unsung Italian genius who invented practically the Quantum Physics & Probality Theory but is hardly credited by any Can we deny.... Can we deny the value additions of such great minds though they are not famous & successful? The collectivity of failings in Thought Leadersh...

Metaphors are signs ...They are saying something The Metaphors are the first signs of knowing things which are literally unconnected to each other. The Metaphors are the first flight of stairs to the realms of Metaphysics What you see plainly are the obvious & the connected dots of our existence. What we don't see easily are the higher thoughts of existence If we can tether the known with the unknown with metaphors our minds get trained to think beyond the common & the observable Thought Leadership & Metaphors  To understand the first step in "Thought Leadership" is to acknowledge the science of metaphors If we cannot talk in two different planes at the same time by metaphors it simply means we may be lacking in conditioning our mind for the "Leadership of Ideas" To read a phrase is one aspect & to understand it is altogether another matter. But to relate it to the metaphors and give it wings of metaphysics is the higher dimensions in Thought pro...

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...

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...

Do Not Sow in Parts   If you sow in parts you reap in parts. The harvest of the mind is always in doubt. This is the clarion call of the Wise At the elevated conciousness level, knowledge is a unified concept. Astronomy cannot not be separated from Mathematics, Mathematics from Philosophy, Philosophy from Medicine & so on All things are unified if seen from the perspective of Wisdom rather than mere Knowledge            picture credit : jean van der muellen from pexels  Leadership is Wisdom  A wise man is supposed to be the unifier of the knowledge. A solution provider The subject of leadership belongs more to the category of the Wisdom than to the Knowledge Wise leadership does not see problems only from the operational, technical, financial, resource, capacity etc perspective The Wisdom Deficit  They often visualize it at the Macro Level & try to find the “Wisdom Deficit” that led to the problem Wisdom to them is more than...

The Great Imbalance  Have you ever realised the great imbalance we have created in our Self Communication System . Though inadvertently developed but it has a profound & lasting impact on your leadership attributes Speaking, listening & writing are the core  Self Communication System   which connects your personality to the outer world. It's like the visa by which you enter the other people’s mind  But to avail the visa one has to first get the passport    Picture credit : Thought Catalog from Pexels  The Passport to Success  Reading is the passport of your personality. Without it your entire  Self Communication System    is an exercise in self deception  We must have read upteem articles about personalities & their reading lists. Their list is not so important. But the fact that they read is some pointer towards their success  Now the basic question is what to read. The answer is a simple formula which I have ...

The Two Wings  Have you ever thought about the two philosophical concepts that lets your Thought Leadership soar high.  They are like the two proverbial wings which are interconnected & inter dependent for the high flight  The Metaphysics of Leadership  The metaphysics is the art of thinking, visualizing, contemplating & defining of aspects beyond the physical. The Metaphysics allows your mind to probe the abstract & the unknown. It makes your intellect question the beings & the things along with the truth of existence. It lets you search for things that even do not exist in the realms of words & ideas  The metaphysics tests the capacity & the limits of your thinking abilities. It is the most potent tonic for your unharvested mind  The Physicalism of Leadership The “Physicalism” conception brings your mind back to the world of the seen reality. Sometimes Physicalism is casually understood as Materialism. This makes your senses obse...

The Much Debated Concepts  There are two diametrically opposite concepts in philosophy that have dominated the minds for ages  The “ Priori ” concept believes that the mind already has certain knowledge embedded in it much before it experiences the sensation of it  The “ Posteriori ” philosophy believes that the mind is like the blank slate on which knowledge is written only after it interacts with the sensation outside Ibn e Sina's influence on the western thought  Plato was to a certain extent a “Priori“ believer while Aristotle was for “Posteriori”  The West was influenced in favour of “Posteriori” by the work of Ibn Sina (Avicenna), the father of modern medicine. His Magnum Opus “ The canons of medicine ” is the most celebrated book on medicine ever written. Ibn Sina’s philosophical outlook in favour of Posteriori settled the debate forever in Europe  Where does leadership belong to?  Now the question arises whether leadership belongs to the prior...

The Epic of Gilgamesh "If you want a new idea, read an old book" said a wise man onceThe earliest recorded epic is from the Sumerian Civilization called the "Epic of Gilgamesh"(3000 BC ). It is in the form of five surviving poems Gilgamesh was the ruler of Uruk. He wanted to go to war with the kingdom of Kish Gilgamesh knew that Ego has no place in leadership matters First he consulted the council of elders who always opposed him. As expected they opposed his ideas & plans Next he deliberated with another council of elders who supported his course of actions Now it was Gilgamesh turn to take decisions based on the different advices What Gilgamesh did afterward is another matter of debate Hear all the Sides  Leadership means hearing all the sides of the arguements including the one opposed to your vision, strategy & tactics Those who are convinced & have faith in their own vision have the confidence to hear all shades of the arguements Those who desist fr...

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...

But Why ?  Some of the Boeing 747 planes still use the 3.5 inch floppy disc to upload the softwares related to navigation, way routes, airport details etc. Every month the SW is loaded via the floppy disc by engineers otherwise the flight won't be in operations  But Why ?  The Comfort Zone  The possible reasons for not transitioning from the floppy disc era to the latest methods are not far to seek. The hardware mechanics of the plane are so rigidly built that it does not allow the upgrade. The other reason could be that since it is serving its intended purpose there is no need to upgrade it  The later reason seems quite possible as it is nearer to our human thinking behaviour  Is necessity necessary for change ?  Most of the time we also do not update, upgrade & change ourselves simply because we feel that there is no necessity for it. Everything is going fine & we feel blessed to be cocooned maintaining the status quo in our own comfort zones...

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...