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Random Nuggets!

Don’t change, Repurpose!

I was neurotic for years. Anxious, depressed, selfish. And everyone kept telling me to change.

And I resented them, and agreed with them, and wanted to change, but simply couldn’t, no matter how I tried.

What hurt the most was that, like the others, my closest friend kept urging me to change. So I felt powerless and trapped.

One day he said “Don’t change. I love you as you are.”

Those words were music to my ears: “Don’t change. Don’t change. Don’t change. I love you as you are.”

I relaxed. I came alive. And, suddenly, I changed!

Now I know that I couldn’t really change till I found someone to love me whether I changed or not!

Is this how you love me, god?

(~ Anthony De Mello)

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Natural transformation like that of a caterpillar is sustainable. Everything else is just yet another attempt to please someone!

If we can’t change naturally, it might be worth repurposing – finding new meanings, application or value for what we are/have, right?

Repurposing is sustainable!

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What’s stopping?

Learning is a tough act! Doctors advice a patient post triple artery  CABG that it is normal to have such a surgery and all he has to do is – “slow down” to be healthy for rest of his life! But what is “slowing down?” – not an easy one to understand and institutionalize!

One doctor explained – accept half the load as before and take double the time to complete – never compromise on quality but it is fine to reduce the quantity. If one continues to follow the advice, naturally the system will slow down and achieve the new level of tolerance – good enough to ensure similar quality of life as before!

But is this good enough for this world where  the speed god rules? Yes, says the parable:

The animals met in assembly and began to complain that humans were always taking things away from them.

“They take my milk,” said the cow. “They take my eggs,” said the hen. “They take my flesh for bacon,” said the hog. “They take me for my oil,” said the whale.

The snail was the last to speak. “I have something they would certainly take away from me if they could. Something they want more than anything else. I have time!”

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Wonder what’s stopping us….from having all the time in the world..?

I guess we have it but, are not giving it to ourselves… wonder what’s stopping us?

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Structural Paradox!

Organizations are built, maintained and nurtured to meet the business purpose(s) visualized by promoters. This is true for those with or without profit motives. It is also true that the vision and mission of the organization keeps changing/evolving as and when new puzzle pieces are found and assembled.

Performance of an organization is attributed to its structure – an ordered set of leaders, functions, responsibilities & accountabilities; a system – of people organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships!

Incidentally, structure is an organic part of the system – one that grows – in complexity with growth of the Organization! But its identity is always internal. Design is always inside-out & people-centric!

End users/customers of the Organization generally do not give too much of prominence to this structure. They neither relate to nor appreciate any part of the organization that does not directly add value to their experiences. What matters to them is – the brand, the promoter and of course – the product/service the organization offers – for which they pay!

That may be the reason why CEOs (or Promoters) are required to close the deal – even though there are brightest possible sales heads/team; propose a winning solution – though there are a lot of people working to make it happen; be awarded/rewarded for their visionary leadership, etc….

Their name comes before that of their Organization while all others have to put their organization’s name & gifted business title, behind them to get identified!

But most of organizational politics stems around sticking to positions, titles, span of control… etc.! This guarantees – stressed employees, customers and leaders through continuous clarification / claims of boundary, relative importance of the role, issues/escalations and meeeeetings! – Purpose of enabling performance turns to that of disabling! What a paradox?

User Experience Centric Organization Structure, Leaders without titles and Self Healing Business Models will change the dynamics of how organizations are built, maintained and modified to meet ever changing needs of business performance! Hopefully this will clear some of the paradoxes too…

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