Is Anything gone wrong?
We are deaf with indifference, and the Mumbai blasts should be loud enough to wake us up.
Wake us up to understand : what has become of us - us as a nation!
Will you pay donation to get your child educated at that elite school?
Or will you compromise on her education?
Will you pay bribe to get that seat in the railway compartment?
or Will you suffer the discomfort of standing and travelling?
Will you pay the 100/- to traffic inspector and save time and money?
or Will you instead park on the side, settle the fine, waste time and money?
Will you watch that nice movie available on the net?
Or wait like a fool for three months before the DVD is officially released?
Will you be street smart or a dumb person? Which one will you be?
So what can I do?
We ask what the politicians are doing, what is police doing, what has happened to this world?
We never ask - what has become of us? What has happened? Why has our core competency of being adjusting in nature has become our core rigidity of "chalta hai". Everything goes - we take everything in our stride!
Corruption has set in every small thing - it has become part of us - we don't even feel now that somethings are bad!
Imagine, from where will the policemen, armymen, the workforce will be drawn from?
From us - they are us - they inherit our core rigidity of "chalta hai" from us.
How can we expect them to be suddenly holy and saintly?
Still, what can I do?
So,what can I do - can I be foolish - as the world overtakes me - acts street smart?
Am I a weakling? What is in it for me NOT to be corrupt? No one catches me - and its all in so small things - no one minds?
Why shall I do anything about corruption? I cannot be a martyr - you see - I have my company to run, my family to take care, my responsibilities to fulfill.
But if I still don't wake up - what else do I need?
What if my family was in Taj that fateful day?
Isn't this a grim enough reminder, that forget conscience, forget duty, forget responsibility, just for my own sake - it is high time that I stop being corrupt.
The fight has come to my home - I need to stop this corruption - and I have the power to do it.
If each one of stop being corrupt in small things - there could still be a difference made.
Let the feeling of guiltcome back into corruption. Let that ticket checker, that traffic inspector feel ashamed in asking for a bribe.
Stop corruption, be awake - please now before its too late
Monday, December 22, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Core Rigidities
A definition:
Flip side of core competencies, and caused by overreliance on any advantage(s) for too long. While a successful firm's management relaxes its improvement efforts, others keep on getting better and obsolete its competitive advantage.
Are we by nature also like this?
We stop challenging ourselves - and relax our individual improvement efforts - and what used to be a core competency for me when I was 30 yr, becomes a core rigidity by the time I'm 35??
If its true for me - in past few years - imagine the rigidities I have developed over last 32 yrs of my life!!
And now think of a culture that goes beyond decades - and is measured in Centuries!!
Came across this concept of "Capitalization Problem" by Malcom Gladwell. It talks of what stops us from reaching our full potential!
He gives an example:
He refers to James Flynn, an academic who got really interested in why Chinese immigrants to the US vastly outperform white Americans. Within one generation, they’re achieving at an extraordinary rate. The difference is not usefully described by differences in IQ. The cap rates for people who are smart enough to be a professional who end up being a professional is vastly different in different communities: 78% in Chinese American community rather than 60% in the white community? How are they able to capitalize on this? Flynn suggests it’s because they work harder, and Gladwell agrees. But why?
If you take a group of Chinese schoolkids and a group of American 10-year-olds and give them a complex maths task and time them at it, you’ll find the American kids give up after 2 minutes; the Chinese kids will still be working after 15 minutes. It’s about persistence: it’s the consequence of ingrained cultural notions of how hard you should work.
This is a cultural problem.
Core Rigidities and competencies of Indian Population?
So how do we go about unlocking the great potential we have within our nation?
Do we have core competencies and core rigidities that need to be unlocked? How do we go about identifying them and then leveraging them?
In my quest of contributing to alleviating poverty - to go beyond mental masturbation - and really act - I feel the key is in:
identifying these rigidities - against which I will have to fight, and
identifying the competencies - they will have to be leveraged
Let me start with identifying the core competencies of the "Rural Indian Market" - thats where the 70% of people reside - people who do not participate in the great debates in popular media - people who still die of hunger, malnutrition and preventable diseases...
I'm sure they don't want to die - and I don't have any data, but I'm sure their IQ and zest for life is not below their Urban bretherens..
So why do they die? Why are they poor? What core competencies can we leverage upon and get them going?
I need your support in identifying the core competencies first.
Please do post comments about your ideas - what could be the core competencies of the "Indian Rural Population"
Flip side of core competencies, and caused by overreliance on any advantage(s) for too long. While a successful firm's management relaxes its improvement efforts, others keep on getting better and obsolete its competitive advantage.
Are we by nature also like this?
We stop challenging ourselves - and relax our individual improvement efforts - and what used to be a core competency for me when I was 30 yr, becomes a core rigidity by the time I'm 35??
If its true for me - in past few years - imagine the rigidities I have developed over last 32 yrs of my life!!
And now think of a culture that goes beyond decades - and is measured in Centuries!!
Came across this concept of "Capitalization Problem" by Malcom Gladwell. It talks of what stops us from reaching our full potential!
He gives an example:
He refers to James Flynn, an academic who got really interested in why Chinese immigrants to the US vastly outperform white Americans. Within one generation, they’re achieving at an extraordinary rate. The difference is not usefully described by differences in IQ. The cap rates for people who are smart enough to be a professional who end up being a professional is vastly different in different communities: 78% in Chinese American community rather than 60% in the white community? How are they able to capitalize on this? Flynn suggests it’s because they work harder, and Gladwell agrees. But why?
If you take a group of Chinese schoolkids and a group of American 10-year-olds and give them a complex maths task and time them at it, you’ll find the American kids give up after 2 minutes; the Chinese kids will still be working after 15 minutes. It’s about persistence: it’s the consequence of ingrained cultural notions of how hard you should work.
This is a cultural problem.
Core Rigidities and competencies of Indian Population?
So how do we go about unlocking the great potential we have within our nation?
Do we have core competencies and core rigidities that need to be unlocked? How do we go about identifying them and then leveraging them?
In my quest of contributing to alleviating poverty - to go beyond mental masturbation - and really act - I feel the key is in:
identifying these rigidities - against which I will have to fight, and
identifying the competencies - they will have to be leveraged
Let me start with identifying the core competencies of the "Rural Indian Market" - thats where the 70% of people reside - people who do not participate in the great debates in popular media - people who still die of hunger, malnutrition and preventable diseases...
I'm sure they don't want to die - and I don't have any data, but I'm sure their IQ and zest for life is not below their Urban bretherens..
So why do they die? Why are they poor? What core competencies can we leverage upon and get them going?
I need your support in identifying the core competencies first.
Please do post comments about your ideas - what could be the core competencies of the "Indian Rural Population"
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