Right versus the Left
“Business is more about doing and less about reflecting”Gurucharan Das.
There are so many Indians on the global business map.We are not only creating spiritual gurus but also business guru.
As Mr Das has rightly reflected guru stands for “Good at understanding but relatively Useless.’
There are too many people on the Indian business space, who have very high IQ’s but fail as managers. Employees in today’s organization need executional abilities besides having as pinch of vision.
To my mind there are two types of people- The Consultants and Non Consultants. Consultants are the kind of individuals who have a very good left brain with a comparatively dead right brain(which needs honing). However what is needed on the ground level is an active right brain with a pinch of left brain( to understand which jobs to prioritize and understand the macro picture)
Determination and persistence are the more needed qualities to succeed in the business.These qualities lie on the right side of the brain whereas analytical abilities lie on the left side.
Ironically our education system teaches us to analyse,ofcourse one might argue that all students don’t need to join the corporate world/business community. But when one steps into the business school one expects them to clear this bias.
Millions and millions of our government employees who have entered the government services through IAS and other competitive examinations also lack this ability to implement.Which is why we have such few success stories like the Delhi Metro, the white revolution.
There are ample examples, like Dhirubhai Ambani, who have not graduated from any business school, but still have been successful since they have an excellent right brain,which helps them implement things better, with a dash of analytical ability. No loss of not going to a Business School or sitting for those competitive examinations which are a passport to the cushy government posts.
A well developed right brain makes ordinary people do extraordinary things .
Bizzare...
It is as it should always be..
As things are...They need be..
Life is easy on me..and i am flowing with it...
A gaze at the picture of the world in front of me...
I listen so hard that i hear no more...
Through an unconscious mind ...
I feel rain drops on my face, which makes me smile...water flows down my drenched body trying to create that stir....and i feel redeemed from this world...
Why do these buildings keep smirking down at you as if they knew nothing more? Why do people keep chasing you, Pricking you..waiting for you to react in a fashion that they want you to?Why do these ships on the sea keep coming back and forth as if they knew no other life?Why do people bet everything that they have on one condition of "if"...?Why cant they just let it be?
Why hasn't the world learnt to just live? And things be? Why is it important to create symphony and behave like it is expected?Why does everyone feel they should get all that they want?Why cant people accept defeat?
Why is there so much of fear and such little love?Look at the same picture and find something new each time that I see..Each human being is God's master piece, and we should just let it be....A MASTER PIECE, Unduplicatable,incomparable...the Best!!
Let me be an unalloyed, anonymous me!!
In times like these
There are these times in our life when, one needs to be a mere spectator and watch one’s life like a play happening on the stage of life.
These are times, when no matter how much we want something,there is little or maybe nothing that we can do about it.The best way then to deal with it is to look at everything from an outsider’s perspective, which besides detaching ourselves from the situation also lends some kind of objectivity it.
It is in these times, that lessons of wisdom are learnt and we can learn analyse,dissect our own behaviour without getting emotional about anything.It also in many cases helps us laugh at the pathetic situations that we land in. Our stupidity and foolishness.
As they say, there is nothing which is larger than life. There is something worth enjoying in every moment and in every phase. ENJOY AS LONG AS IT LASTS!
On a monday afternoon...
A frenzied morning
Skipped breakfast
Heavy traffic
Usual Monday morning meetings
Unusual mistakes
Tired mind
Unrelenting Software
Forgotten lunch
Frentic client calls
Loads of Caffeine
Deep contemplation(to fix that problem at hand)
And mechanical absentminded
replies to friends and collegues..
A small knock from inside,
with a chirpy voice
humming my favourite song
brought me some smile.
I promised to have a wonderful end to an otherwise mad day
With peaceful,quiet moments with the life inside.
Escaping Reality...
I am an imposter! There is a need to create a story of my life,something which I repeat in my head,after dark..when everything is asleep..inside and outside..
In this story,I change the story at will,inventing the minutest of details,shaping and changing my persona as per the need of that insecurity most dominant in me....
For me, as an individual,I am the most important thing on this planet..the desire to love someone all stems from my desire to be loved..the desire to calm someone stems from my desire to feel wise..and in this life after darkness I feel enlightened.Coz I am one with the mask I otherwise fake the entire day!
I get extremely frustrated when those around me depend on me or for something and when I need to depend on someone.I am not Shikha, my name actually is Prajakta, no it's actually Cathera and this blog is a farce..i have faked information...and the previous blog was a bigger farce...now the words that i ever told you make anyless sense to you?
You thought you had my company and we would ride our ship of dreams together..All this is a lie
and It does not irk me to tell you goodbye,coz i just need to hide my own disguise!
Tasting Music..
We taste food the same way that we listen to music...
with ecstacy,
tasting each peel of sound,
seperating layers of rythm,
savouring melting melody,
in unexpected sweet refrain
held at the back of your throat
the deepest base
touches the tip of your tongue
so sourness sings
its sharp twists
to curdle drums.
in the wet mumbai street a woman and man argue
about who should have rung who.huh!
on rainy day i am told everything tastes like music!!!
Lance...
(This is from my previous blog and the first review of any book that i have written..I love it in many ways..and would find my blog incomplete without this one..so please bear with me...)
I read this book,not because I am a Lance Armstrong fan or I love cycling or even because I follow the sport.I know nothing about cycling whatsoever. But I am happy that I read this book, and I will not tell you the what happened in the book , I will make you read it.
The book is written with raw honesty. The book is not a literary pleasure, where things are put across stubly..it’s raw! candid and straight from the heart,without regret and pretence.
Early in the book Lance Armstrong says “…cancer is the best thing that happened to me.” He goes on to say, “When I was sick I saw more beauty and triumph and truth in a single day than I ever saw in a bike race.”
For people who do not know Lance,he had testicular cancer with 3% changes of survival and he went ahead to win the TOUR DE FRANCE.
A young Lance Armstrong was a tradegy waiting to happen, an extraordinarily gifted man who literally amused himself by playing with fire.He was full of bravado and full of fear. A child long on attitude and raw talent,but short on introspection. He was an unpolished diamond and had a strength . An older Lance Armstrong who writes this now admits that he was a unpolished diamond and had he not been polished with cancer he would have been a very sad case indeed!
As you will read this book,you will realize that it is not about Lance,who became a great athlete.It’s about his journey to a life unknown before. It’s about the realization of those small things that we take for granted. For Lance it was cancer,for you and me it could be a break up, or a career failure. How important are you if you are a parent.How important you are if you are a spouse. How important you are if you are a doctor,a nurse, an ultrasound tech.Most of us find ourselves in some role or the other,it’s the everyday choices that make such an enormous difference.We don’t need cancer to realize that.
Another main point is that,success isn’t bouncing out of bed everyday with a go getter attitude.It’s not even about knowing what your goals are—you have to search for,at each juncture in your life.It’s about slogging through when the attitude is not there,about rising after failures.Some of the things are quite easy to tell.But as Lance describes it, the best thing about survivorship is that “ Those small things that you do every day,like shaving,riding a car to work,having breakfast…you just learn to appreciate them and put the string of things together to give them a pattern called LIFE”
The unspoken prologue,his marriage with Kristen did not last.An illegitimate child,whose mother divorced thrice, he was an independent man with no track record of long lasting relationships.Kristen or Kris as he calls her is an independent and self possessed woman.There marriage was navigated through fame ,the ordeal of becoming parent(lance had testicular cancer and his sperm was stored before the surgery so that he could become a father), and the rigors of professional bicycling.There was this one time that Lance could not manage to beat the odds,even for the sake of his children.There is a point that you feel sorry for him and Kristen, I would be embarrassed to raise the sentiment of the marriage.Both as individuals are past needing the sympathy of strangers like you and me.
