Co-flow Forward
Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft, becomes Chairman and CEO. This news triggered us to remember his father, BN Yugandhar, and his father-in-law, KR Venugopal.
Milka Singh, Flying Sikh, 91, halts the race of life. Sadgati. He continues to inspire the generations now, and the generations to come.
May be, we have to live with Google-Jio connect. Reliance’s Jio ties up with Google Cloud on 5G Technology to enable accessing Superior Connectivity. Jio would remain to be the largest provider in the country, for a long time to come. Jio would be offering new services across sectors, powered by Google. Jio offers extremely affordable reliable access ‘for all, all the time’. Google Cloud accelerates the ‘digital transformation’.
All of us are and have to be socially responsible. Individual personal social responsibilty. Community social responsibility, is their raison d’etre. State and State arms’ social responsibility is a mandate bestowed by our constitution. Business/Corporate social responsibility is good for their buisness. Now section 135 of the companies’ act mandates, a little. 2% of the surplus/profits. Should not it be, say 1-2% of the turnover? Then, how does CSR get delivered? Benefitting society at large – giving funds to a social/community entity, project, doing an activity by CSR department, running a CSR Foundation, supporting augmenting architecture for better ‘development’ work, getting studies commissioned towards informed advocacy, supporting schemes of the government, contributing to government-announced priority/support-charity funds et al. We hope the word ‘responsibility’ is active and not a reciprocal ‘gesture’.
Is India getting tax on profits/incomes, commensurate with the incomes/profits shown by the corporates et al?
Third Wave may be around the corner. May not be intense, but may linger long.
We may have to continue to work from home, anywhere, hybrid. If coming back to office is insisted, we may see some of us leaving. % of people leaving is increasing. It appears people have settled on a lower ‘aggressive aspiration levels’ in sync with the focus on freelancing, portfolio of works, self-employment, working in a small team, expanding experience ‘packets’, better society-planet work et al. Survival, equity, usefulness are the drivers. On the other hand, some of us seem to take a chance to be aggressive, given the CoVID and post-CoVID contexts.
Interestingly rich are coping without loss of life quality. Poor are getting help in some sense. Not-so-poor are lost in between. Tiny pico-nano-micro group, team, family and individual enterprises have suffered dramatically. The surveys indicate more than half-of-them have to slow down, due to losses connected to low demand, decreased ability to deliver, team losses/sufferings, difficulty with working capital, keeping the team without remunerative work, and so on. GST has also troubled some of them. Getting the work from team members is tough. Burnout has hit many a team member, due to pandemic-induced workstyle, workload and stress. Savings haven been wiped out and looking for ‘money’ opportunities/options.
Outlook has changed and people are seeking alternative engagements. Detachment is striking many of us. People have discovered new talents and interests and they want to go with them. Some are looking for portfolio of works. One work may not be satisfying enough. Loyalty to a cause may be fine, but to an entity is coming down. In any case, Universe guides us, in its own ways.
Ved talks at IIMA incoming batch. His message: Can we encash our brands and build a social brand like AMUL? Can we dream BIG and take risks? Why not? Can we become outliers? Can we do something different? Can we impact lives of people, who need us, significantly? Can you volunteer and intern with social cause, very early? Can we be ‘spiritual’ as early as possible?
IRMA Alumni, we are a strong contingent of socially responsible beings, in their own ways. We are grateful. Can we pay back? Can we have more social entities/teams? Can we start a tribal-rural-urban-emerging, true leadership-management school, world class? Can we help in starting more? Can we have an online K100 academy? Can we be hogh-end consulting group in the domain? A la big 5. Can we establish a BrainsTrust or a Thinktank or two in this livelihoods, poverty reduction, collective action and social development space? Can we start a foundation, may be more of them, in this space? Can we build a Leadership Cohort(s) for the next 20-25 years or more?
Dementia, Alzheimers give us problems in dealing with time and space. We become more absent minded. We become clumsier. Then, we need a little, but often. Support. Kindness. Co-reflection. Memories.
How can we embrace and be comfortable with the ‘uncomfortable’ physical, emotional, mental? Can we see, think, feel everything as an opportunity to realize our true or real potential and ‘grow’? Every fear, frustration, anxiety, stress should take us to what we learn from it. A lesson, opportunity or blessing. Plan to tap them.
Yes, we can. If we reflect, co-reflect, think forward, meditate, practice, plan and lead. If we co-flow with life, N. For 7L.
Join us in the world of yoga of life of gratitude and paying forward in useful coexistence – nijapravaahayoga for 7L.
G Muralidhar