Monsoon reaches Hyderabad after a full fortnight delay. Finally. It arrives early in Delhi.
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Yoga. Music – listen, play, sing. Walk, jog, dance, run, cycle, exercise. Diet, fast. Read, Write, Logic. Crosswords. Converse. Coexist.
Jagannath Rath Yatra. Bonalu.
Are we really part of nature? Are we interconnected? Can the ecosystem be fair to everyone? Can we achieve zero-emission levels? Can we achieve the well-being of producers and consumers ecologically? Mere rhetoric?
Do we need management education to manage our collectives, enterprises, projects, interventions, teams, organizations, and networks? A full 2-years? One year? Integrated 5-6 years? A sandwiched education of some 100 days followed by some 200-300 days of practice, twice or thrice? Can management, leadership and entrepreneurship be part of the school curriculum? Isn’ it a must for all, like the 3R literacy, and digital literacy?
Should we be serving ourselves as the owners of the entities we work in? Or some owner-micromanager? Or some appointed chief of staff? Or some community of owners? Should we keep moving, chasing opportunities and possibilities, or should we be in one or a few jobs for long? Should we be in ‘happening’ places or should we be elsewhere far away from hustle and bustle? Can this guarantee ethical living, decent and reasonable quality of life? Do we get fair income as our owners get fair and better share of the market? Do we get satisfaction and happiness from being useful? Productive? Efficient? Effective? Do our owners get happiness from our work?
Does it occur to us that most of us, 80-90%, are entrepreneurs? Most of us in India, farmers, weavers, craftspersons, service providers, wage workers, etc. We pursue relentlessly, even if we do not have resources to invest adequately. We keep trying. This translates that we acutely need life, living, livelihood, literacy – management, leadership, enterprise literacy. Knowledge, Skills, Tools. Can our homes, schools, communities do this for us?
If we become literate as above, can we apply this literacy in action for betterment? – Making more people literate in this, making more people live better, making more people come together to make voices heard and heeded, making more marginalized to regain their agency, life and destiny. Are we committed? Are we committed to moving from restlessness to rest with fulfilment? Are we committed to making a difference to this society, this planet, and this Universe? Are we aggressively aspirational and ambitious? And realising this commitment?
Can we let millions of flowers bloom? Can we let millions of households smile? Can we let millions of children become ‘life literate’? Can we let a million villages become ‘circular’? Can we let a million local value-chains be fair? Can we let millions out of margins, and have agency and own democratized forums, platforms and ‘places’?
Emerging and expanding: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Assets, Tokenization. Are we getting literate in these? Are we having increased inequities in one more set of dimensions? Do they matter when the crunch comes?
Can we be free without losing productivity? Can we just live life, without worrying? Can we keep learning from our living? Can we see into ourselves? Can we be grateful as we’re always heard and blessed?
Can we just love – not too much, and not too little? Can we give? Can we earn and give? Can we understand? Can we co-exist? Can we persevere? Can we raise and uplift? Can we mentor, to live and grow together? Can we build a legacy beyond us and now? Can we build a culture of coexistence?
Yes, we can. If we coexist to be mentees and mentors simultaneously and enterprisingly. The flow of N. For 7L.
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