We seem to be heading towards One Nation, One Election. Lok Sabha, Assembly Elections together, and local governments’ elections within the next 100 days. Unity government, in indefinite results, or no confidence motions. Cabinet resolutions. Now, it has to go to Parliament for its 2/3 majority approval, and several amendments to the Constitution. It may require ratification by states. Maybe, a single list of voters for all polls. Maybe, taken up after the delimitation exercise in 2026 onwards. Some assemblies need to have extended tenures, and some decreased tenures. Election costs to go down; economic growth to be faster, higher. Stability all around, good or bad, for 5 years. Local issues take backstage. Election time to reduce by 60-70%. Opposition is not so ‘inclined’. Will it be 2029 or later?
60% voter turnout in Jammu and Kashmir in the first of the three-phase elections. Results will be on 8 Oct.
26-year Anna Perayil succumbed to overwork, toxic work culture and pressure for ‘success’. May her soul rest in peace. Are we pushing the wrong ends? Do we need to be a trillion dollar economy? Or do we aim for equitable incomes to our people? What is work overload? Is it hours, or is it the toxicity of the work? What is optimal? 40-60 hours? What about breaks? Coping with exhaustion? Ignored well-being? Tiredness, exhaustion, and diminished well-being reduces productivity by half, if not more. How do we manage toxic stress, how do we ensure that we are not falling into toxic stress? Can HR, team, or organization do something about this? It seems, most of us, 85%, are not engaged at work, and do work ‘mechanically’. Our performance is suboptimal and is falling down. Our systems are indifferent, harmful and perpetuate ‘indifference’, ‘harm’. More than the pay, culture, and processes matters in our teams, workplaces. Can we work on this? Urgently, significantly, and sustainably.
The stream of the work that became mainstay, more than a third, over 4 decades is learning facilitation. With six-digit co-learners, 5-digit co-learning teams, 4-digit co-learning organizations. As practitioner-academic, mentor, facilitator, animator, and lead. TRUE Livelihoods to development, of poor-vulnerable-marginalized. 7L. TRUE Livelihoods Framework – arrows, capitals, contexts, continuums, interventions, instruments. LEAPs, Valuechains, enterprises, collectives. Watersheds, and landscapes. Collectivization, inclusion, equity, agency, and communitization. Livelihoods assessment, scoping, development. Individual, family, group, community, village, area, state, country development plans, architecture, and progress. Community mobilization, inspiration, coordination, social development, and development practice. Visioning, values, strategy, structuring, design, planning, activities, costing, and budgeting. Group, team, institution, organization design-development, and group sutra. Poor-vulnerable-marginalized, poverty, vulnerability, marginalization, and gender. Microfinance. Feasibility, viability et al. Results, effects, measurements, and tracking. Write-shops, notes, conversations, and communications. Curriculums, modules-manuals-courses-kits, learning programmes, and faculty development. Foundation, induction, and immersion. Counselling, behavioural interviews, recruitment, and performance assessment. Leading, managing, apprenticeship, and mentoring. Research, evidence, data, information, and knowledge. Sustainability, safeguards. Models, processes. Participation, Scaling, Systems change. Government, civil society, community, krshi, and movement ways. N-way.
Can we facilitate learning? Participatory, experiential, and field-centric, exercises. Multiplying Teams?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, if we flow with unlearning-learning practice. In N? saandrayoga for 7L.
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