Way it works in Corporates - Lagori

Way it works in Corporate is more of Indian ancient rural game called “lagori”.
1. Make two teams of equal number on each team. Get hold of a rubber ball (For maximum pain factor) or make one using cloths rolled around a stone.

2. Have a toss (coin or yes-no on a hand with stone) and decide between the playing and defending teams.

3. Arrange a pile of flat stones in the form of a pyramid.This will be normally done by the defending team to ensure that structure is resistant to casual hits by a ball.

4. One of the players from the playing team will take an aim at the structure from a predefined distance. He has 3 chances to hit it. If he can't, another person from the same team will try his hand. If no one can hit the pile, then the team is said to be out and has to defend .

5. Once the pile is disturbed by the ball, the playing team has to redo the pile while dodging the ball thrown at them by the defending team. This is not easy because of a keeper(!!) standing near the pile, defending it .

6.If the ball hits any of the playing team, then they would be out and the defending team gets the chance to play.

7.If the playing team manages to reconstruct the pile without getting hit, then they score and will get another chance as the playing team.At the end of the day, Lagori was a game of simple rules, hurt backs (courtesy of considerate defenders) and awesome fun.

As you can make out you are out if you don’t make the pyramid fall………..in the end you are you are out if you don’t fix the pyramid back into its shape.

This is pure game……. What can make you a winner at the start of the game will not make you a winner at the end of the game. You need move on with new strategies. I am not making this comparison with cynicism rather with positive note of ……. Playing with moving target and changing success factors is the way corporate works. That is what ensures maximizing revenue and optimizing operation cost.

After all………leadership is about…… bringing stability when things are unstable and creating instability when things stable…………RIGHT?

You can not enter prayer room wearing yesterday’s unwashed cloth….but can you enter prayer room wearing yesterdays soul.

“I don’t want to enter prayer room wearing my yesterday’s cloth…….doing so is not correct as per my religion tradition”

When I herd this it tickled my brain to think…..though I have heard this from child hood till date in different words in different place.
I never believed this to be true but followed it just to ensure not entangle with my parents religious emotions and later with my wife’s religious emotions.
But today I wanted to think about it………..and felt it is so right!!!!!
If we consider there is god in everyone…..when we actually offer our prayer sitting in front of gods idol we actually putting our life into the idol to offer pooja……..
If we take this further …… the idea of this practice of not entering pooja place wearing yesterday’s cloth must be to symbolize…….. Don’t enter the prayer room wearing yesterday’s soul.
We have to grow each day….new learning must get into our should every day every minute….every learning will clean the darkness of ignorance further……if you have not learnt anything from what you experienced yesterday than you are not clean enough to put your soul into prayer.

Negative Charity & Positive charity....

More you think about charity…..the more we get picture of some one giving something to a poor person. It somehow doesn’t make much sense to me.
It doesn’t make sense as:
1. As it assumes poor need charity
2. It assumes something is bad and need to be elevated to good

We need some attempts on creating positive charity…which focuses on:
1. Making good to better
2. Focusing on strengths of poor and channelizing it into sustainable earning mechanism
3. Focusing on weakness of rich and channelizing them to mitigate those weaknesses.

India is on Yang (=light) side of the current recession?

Today I found a great analysis of current recession. It compared the current recession in US with Japan recession. Slides are great insight on what actually happened in US (without talking about usual stuff!) it dwells in macro economics with new perspective out side “text book economics”.
http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/04/richard_koo_on.html
What cached my attention is slide 32 (last but one slide!!!) which shows the where each country stands. India was on the Yang side of the recession getting pregnant for next bubble in sub continent. I have asked experts to help me to understand this better. I will keep you posted with more.

Something different but shows correlation.....but i am not sure...but worth looking at

Why we chose what we choose

Today I was watching some inspiring talks on TED. I was really intrigued by what understood for these 2 speeches. They were pretty old speeches done in 2004 & 2006. But had such a strong connection and relevance to current date or even to future.
In his speech Gilbert( http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html ) refers to synthetic happiness and led us to what Adam smith mentioned in “Theory of Moral Sentiments”.

It is truly the over rating the permanent situation lead us to the short sighted decision. This is true both for financial decision for choosing once investment or for choice in relationship or choices in life or even most of corporate decisions.

I recommend you to listen to the following lecture as well and visit below website.

www.authentichappiness.org

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psychology.html)