When I was studying at BITS Pilani, a play was performed by our college’s dramatic society, which was originally written by Girish Karnad (whom, incidentally, I consider a genius. A low profile giant of talent and without whom, Bollywood may not have existed in its present splendor). The play was HAYAVADANA and it moved me tremendously.
Two men, one with a brilliant mind and the other with a fantastic physique are vying for the love of one beauty. The story takes various curves and bends. Lord Ganesha and Ma Kali play their roles. The intelligent guy gets a head of a horse (stud) and the stud gets the brains of the brilliant man. My recollection may be a bit rusty (it has been thirty something years) but that is how the story develops.
Basically the play challenges us to decide as to what is superior. Beauty and physique or intelligence…It is a rare situation (not impossible though) when both can exist together. Hritik Roshan proves the rule by being an exception. Remember the jokes regarding the blond and brains (silly as they may be)?
In management today, the mind is the leadership; the body is the physical organization. In today’s economic situation, it seems that the mind has betrayed the body. In company after company, Management has over-eaten, over gratified itself, over extended the resources, and neglected the work and labor of its workforce. Golden parachutes and handshakes are for betrayers. Soup queues for those who are betrayed.
In other words, the brains have betrayed the body.
Yet, what will a body do without a mind? Can it exist and flourish? Logic says “NYET!”
So what is the solution to today’s mistrust between the body and mind?
Management HAS to win back the trust and thereby control of the organization. This will need calm and patience which you can equate to yoga. The mind has to stop wandering towards unimportant and trivial issues like which model of Benz to buy and focus on the Prime. Get business and get it now. Keep your organization (body) intact and active. Do it now or you will be like Hayavadana. Forever in struggle and never winning.
I have often told my colleagues that in business, profit is like food and cash flow is like breath. You can live without food for many days but few seconds without breath and you are history. Well friends, there you have it!
Now decide for yourself.. Can you get there without a mind (management)?
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I went to the Lord’s Clinic to have my routine check-up and it confirmed I was ill:
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When he read my temperature, the thermometer registered 40º of anxiety.
He ran an electrocardiogram and found that I needed several “love bypasses” since my arteries were blocked with loneliness and could not provide for an empty heart.
I went to orthopaedics, because I could not walk by my brother’s side and I could not hug my friends, since I had fractured myself when tripping with envy.
He also found I was short sighted, since I could not see beyond the shortcomings of my brothers and sisters.
When I complained about deafness, the diagnosis was that I had stopped listening to Jesus’ voice talking to me on a daily basis.
For all of that, Jesus gave me a free consultation thanks to his mercifulness, so my pledge is to; once I leave this clinic, only take the natural remedies he prescribed through his words of truth:
TREATMENT
Every morning,.....take a full glass of gratitude
When getting to work,......take one spoon of peace
Every hour, ..........take one pill of patience, one cup of brotherhood and one glass of humility.
I wish these traits could be followed by the modern Managers, once they start looking for remedies of the problem.