by Naresh Jotwani
Simple people go about their lives in simple ways – farming, fishing, carpentry, baking … whatever. Sometimes they are happy, sometimes sad; sometimes they celebrate, sometimes quarrel. Not being ‘sophisticated’, they do not say that they are ‘pursuing their self-interest’. They don’t need that kind of verbiage – because they are simply living.
Billions of people have lived their lives in this manner over millennia. One prays that, for millennia more, simple people will continue living their lives in simple ways.
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by Naresh Jotwani and R. Srinivasan
Should I try to be a moral person? A nice guy? A law-abiding citizen? Or would that turn me into a loser? An impractical dreamer?
How do I become a winner? A realist?
Can I become a cunning operator in a philanthropist’s garb? Is that option available to me? Or only to some billionaires? Is greed really good – as they say on Wall Street?
Questions, questions … and more questions! But – alas! – no clear answers!
In the hope that a discussion around such questions would be of interest to everyone, we attempt here an exploration of some basic issues.
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Last week, Srini discussed ‘politics of management’. Clearly, almost every agent in that kind of a political environment has hidden motives, or personal agenda. An agent’s personal agenda must be kept hidden, quite simply because it is not aligned with organizational goals; discussing it openly would let the cat out of the bag – and allow others to plot against it.
Srini made it clear that one learns about such politics only when one gets into the real word – which is where one runs into conflicting human motives. Text-book knowledge of management principles cannot impart the valuable lessons which real life experience does. In text-books, human beings are assumed to take up some idealized roles – as ‘director’, ‘manager’ … and so on. Real human emotions and motives cannot be captured in text-books.
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