Vice President Hamid Ansari wants to defer live telecast of Indian
Parliament proceedings, to prevent the world watching the unruly and unparliamentarily (softer word for uncivilized) behaviour of its members. Can deferred telecast
make our parliamentarians better behaved?
In response to the brutal rape of the 5 year old girl, our
home minister says that such rapes happen everywhere! Is this the solution?
Indian railways have announced that it is introducing
personalized SMSes and wake-up calls for its passengers. Addressing issues like
clogged website, making ticket booking a herculean task, poor travel experience,
stinking toilets, unsafe trains and unruly daily local passengers making life hell
for 'reserved' passengers, would have been prudent before introducing frills.
Will frills solve the 'chills' of our railways?
Ostrich buries its head in the sand and assumes that since
it cannot see anyone, no one can see it as well. This is called the ‘ostrich
phenomenon’.
Do you see some uncanny resemblance in the above paragraphs? I am
not surprised!
Organizations trying to address problems through interventions
(often cosmetic ones) fail miserably. The solution lies in impacting the
design. Fundamentally if the organizational design is flawed, then problems
will linger and become more acute.
Lets bury engagement!
2 comments:
Problem Lies in the fundamentals...
I wish there had a been a course called HR from non-HR's.
Because the engagement plans gets drafted from HR Team but at the end of the day gets implemented with the Line managers..
BUT Nearly 40 percent of managers say they Don’t understand the concept of engagement.
(http://www.modernsurvey.com/accountability-engagement-tlnt)
Your comment reminds me of an artcile in HBR - 'Teaching smart people How to Learn' by Chris Argyris
Cheers,
Debashish
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