Archive for Original Thoughts
July 8, 2013 at 9:56 pm · Filed under My Views, Original Thoughts, Social Initiatives, Spirituality and tagged: Intelectualism, MIR, ONE
Convention holds that our thoughts are as much a part of our being as our physical bodies. Thoughts are things and yet when it comes to the notion of feelings which again are a manifestation of thoughts, the conventional wisdom tries to dismiss them for feeling are figments and so must not be as important.
The reality is that God conceived all things with a duality at its core. A duality of intellect and instinct.
While our brains can distill the frequencies of thought, our hearts are designed to distill the frequencies of instinct (at a finer level). Both intellect and instinct are not a singular entity belonging to someone and not the other but rather a sea of knowledge that permeates the entire cosmos.
God persists through all fabrics of space and time and so it’s the infinitive wisdom that each and everyone of us is tuning into.
The reality is that when humans learn to tap this vast pool of intellect and instinct with the proper ascension of it’s brain and it’s heart – similar to all other creatures big or small. Humans also learns to balance and counter-balance the two against each other. This means that if our balance is proper we should factor in our instincts into our intellects and our intellect into our instincts to find the correct answers to all our questions in life.
The irony of our so called modern times is simply the disconnect of this unique natural balance that God gifted to all it’s creations.
Our scales are tilted.
We the current state of humans have a bias against instinct and a favor for intellect.
As a result all our judgements and conceptions are naturally more intellectual yet seldom morally sound for we are not utilizing our instincts as most all of us have not acquired the means to do so since birth.
The ancients of past in the history of our world utilized instincts at a very enhanced scale. As a result of which their capacity to tap into the vast pools of knowledge was far higher than we can reach with the limited capacity of intellect. Some examples would be Leonardo Da Vinci, Einstein, Plato, Tesla, Aristotle etc… Why is it that the innovators of today despite leaps and bound in science and the capacity of super computers are still limited in comparison! I wonder.
Consider the possibilities if we learn to galvanize our instincts to the tune of high intellect, as we possess today.
Intellectualism is not within us – It is something we tune into. Instinct awards us that capacity; today’s highly intellectual man is deficient in that and perhaps, till it wakes up to this fact, will remain so.
© MIR
July 3, 2013 at 8:17 pm · Filed under Business, Global Affairs, My Views, Original Thoughts, Social Initiatives and tagged: Business, Fashion, MIR, ONE
It is when we let a statement made by someone else take over our lives that we start to live a life of conformance, instead of reasoning with it.
Fashion is conformance.
Imagine if animals decided to make their looks fashionable. Slowly those that are in fashion say cats with a brown coat will be the ones that stick out together in high societies where as those that have white, black or grey coats will face discrimination. They will become the minority forced by the ideals of conformance and then one day they will become the vigilantes and revolt!
Perhaps it’s not so difficult for us to sense the state of affairs in life around us. Major matters stem out from minor and seemingly insignificant actions.
Fashion is the undertone of the conception of conformance and exclusivity that divides people and creates a sense of high and lows.
Societies need to address these issues better to become more cohesive and sensible in keeping people together.
© MIR
July 3, 2013 at 2:18 pm · Filed under Business, Business Intelligence, Business Process Re-Engineering, My Views, Original Thoughts and tagged: Business, Change, Development, MIR, ONE, Processes
What’s more important in your view? Capacity or Tenacity.
Capacity to do something empowers us with the tools that are needed to break through a situation, to enable the necessary change and to shift the canvas on things. Tenacity on the other hand is the strength to keep at it and to not stop till the end is achieved. Like a drill machine, tenacity empowers the will to go on, to be at it and to break through a situation that does not allow for change.
In my view both capacity and tenacity are complimentary components for building change. For one without the other looses it’s meaning and it’s underlying purpose.
So, if you posses natural capacity then focus on building tenacity and if you possess natural tenacity, focus on building capacity.
It’s then that you will build magic.
© MIR
May 20, 2013 at 6:31 pm · Filed under Global Affairs, My Views, Original Thoughts, Social Initiatives and tagged: Asia, MIR, ONE, Pakistan, Politics
Elections are done and over with in my part of the world – The bigger question we now contemplate is… the definition of fair play!!
I remember when as kids we played musical chairs there will be times when someone will simply throw you out of their way to get the chair and then keep ranting at the top of their voice that they are the ones to get it. They will throw wagging tongues at the poor kid on the ground and push forward to keep playing… going round and round and round.
Is life really like that in practice? Is winning the game of musical chairs the defining pillar of success and fortunes? Are we upon this earth to win – musical chairs !!
Well for all I have been seeing it seems that winning musical chairs is critical for success and one should push people out of their way to get the retched chair – just so they can rant and shout that they are the ones to get it, for when one does that as a toddler one ensures they remain one for ages to come.
We don’t really want to grow up, it seems.
© MIR
May 20, 2013 at 5:40 pm · Filed under Global Affairs, My Views, Original Thoughts, Social Initiatives and tagged: Freedom, Global Issues, MIR, ONE, Types of Freedom, World Affairs
In almost all things in life we witness a duality present – there are always two opposing forces.
The notion of freedom too has a duality.
Freedom to and Freedom from.
Freedom to, focuses on the self and Freedom from, focuses on the collective.
I have freedom to wear anything I like in a public place (even obscene) or I have freedom from any possible obscenity one could come across in a public place.
The two freedoms are in complete contradiction. If one type of freedom is catered to the other looses value and vice versa.
Global cultures and societies are also facing this dichotomy of freedoms.
What kind of freedom do you want in your country?
A self-centered freedom to do whatever you like or
A collective and conscientious freedom from possible difficulties or pains of life.
For me personally it’s simply about finding the right balance. I would use a moral compass to evaluate situations where each type of freedom makes sense and take an informed consensus from a group of wise elders and ethical/ informed and highly intellectual young individuals to formulate the best social makeup where freedom reigns supreme.
Yet despite all efforts the balance will always stay elusive requiring a counterweight act on a consistent basis to maintain the right mix.
Inspiration: Rick Steves
© MIR
May 17, 2013 at 6:09 pm · Filed under Global Affairs, My Views, Original Thoughts, Spirituality and tagged: Communication, Intrusive, MIR, ONE, Personal Space, Technology, Telecommunications
Increasingly with the advent of newer and technologically fancy ways of human interactions what seems to be getting compromised is the ‘personal space’.
When we look at and listen to a beautiful composition. Silence and gaps play a critical role in maintaining the pleasingness of a musical piece. There are high notes and low notes and there are gaps and spaces.
What is the price we as humans pay when we loose the gaps and spaces because of intrusive technology and communication mediums in the composition of human existence?
Will we be able to maintain the symphony of human existence like a pleasurable one or will the sound of human interactions evolve into a piece from Metallica!
Now that is a thought for us all to gravely ponder!!!
© MIR
April 28, 2013 at 1:30 pm · Filed under Business, Global Affairs, My Views, Original Thoughts, Social Initiatives and tagged: Business, Capitalism, Consumerism, Global Business, Global Trade, Greed, MIR, ONE, Socialism, Switzerland, Toxic Business
Socialism, Capitalism and now Consumerism. All these ‘isms’ are major reformers and destroyers. These ‘isms’ are causing chaos in the world and tilting the world scales. Every time these ‘isms’ have taken command they have created tremendous value for some and losses for plenty.
The world tested its merits with the first ism being socialism the next ism came upon the stage as capitalism and now consumerism is taking root across world planes.
I will not delve too much into the merits of socialism or capitalism for I am a firm believer in keeping to the pivot like Switzerland. We just needed a combination of the two with a counter weight of shared morality principles to begin with. Yet it’s unfortunate now the fight for domination by the two ‘isms’ in the first place created such disasters in the past 200 years of our history.
Consumerism is one that I simply do not approve. It is a product of social neglect and capitalistic greed multiplied by infinity. It is idiotic in its nature, has no sense of morality at all and it is driven by an insatiable desire for more and more pleasure. Simply speaking its the prostitution of socialism and capitalism on a global scale – combined. The common denominator being sheer greed for more and more without limits.
I would really love to find out how consumerism started and when it went out of hand. Was there a through research and debates on its approach and merits or it simply sprang out of nowhere like a wild weed.
Consumerism has a fundamental flaw in its makeup.
It’s all made up. Lies and deceit are at the core of its construct and nature is abhorred. Consumerism abhors balance and prudence. It drives humans to consume without rationality and proper thought. It compelled us all to be driven by our impulse rather than by our minds or hearts.
If we as a global union can address the ills of consumerism – I feel we will fix 50% of its problems.
God Bless us All.
© MIR
April 23, 2013 at 3:36 pm · Filed under Business, Business Process Re-Engineering, My Views, Original Thoughts and tagged: Business, HR, Leadership, Management, MIR, ONE, People Management
The need for group oriented work (multiple hands) lead to the conception of hierarchies. As management practices evolved they stipulated a wide array of techniques and best practices some of which survived mainly over the past 200 years of industrialization and were solidified into best practices and recommended techniques. A lot of authors and writers have delved into the merits of people management and notable scholars and academics have highlighted upon mistakes and pitfalls.
The simple fact due to which the subject still eludes perfection and continues to demand dress ups is because since the past 200 years business runners have been trying to fit people into boxes they do not want to fit into.
Its a constant circus like trying to cage a Squirrel that very quickly finds a way out through a crack or an opening acting before one can think properly.
People are thinkers, all of them – educated ones and uneducated ones. Education can uniformly provide them with life’s stimulus that helps them evolve their ways but the ways are already there naturally.
People naturally form communities and find ways to do things and most importantly – build things.
When one human being tries to box in another human being there is natural resistance. The approach in the past more aptly followed in the oriental cultures was to walk with them and reason. That is not what industry followed for the past 200 years. Europeans and Americans mechanized the machines and then they tried to mechanize humans to fit the boxes. This approach is evident in the way of life and its core nuclear family structure. There were a number of short-term gains but then there were major long-term losses too.
Today the world is far more different than ever before. We eat, wear, feel, effect and reflect globally. The interdependencies are multifaceted and multi-tiered borrowing from diverse experiences and the stimulus is growing exponentially.
For this world the old models will not do, we need evolved ways and newer means to handle human creation and development.
© MIR
April 21, 2013 at 7:36 pm · Filed under Business, Business Process Re-Engineering, Original Thoughts and tagged: Core Competency, HR, Leadership, MIR, ONE, People Management, Specialization
In this growing corporate world of cogs and gears we have an ever increasing desire to make things and people modular. So long as we speak about things – its ok… To add people in to the mix would be a mistake.
People are not designed with a repetitive nature. They appreciate discipline but not repetition. People can think, review and analyze. So long as people can do all that at work they become efficient but when a manager or a lead limits those capacities for short-term tacts and gains for the ease of control or quick deliverables – the approach bears very bitter fruits in time.
To make your people efficient at work – make the things they do modular, but not them. You will win them over.
© MIR
April 20, 2013 at 3:56 pm · Filed under Business, Original Thoughts and tagged: Business, Departments, Functions, MIR, ONE
Often times we come across common perceptions that are misleading and vague.
People require a very focused and keen behavior at work and in life to succeed. That is essential.
There is a major difference in how we perceive the departments of a company and how we perceive functional nature of those departments. Both are very different.
A department is a group – a label to a collection of people that come together to become responsible and actionable towards its core function.
If you have a department in your company that does not focus on a core functional nature then that department is ineffective and non-productive and will remain so till a rigid framework is defined.
Departments should never be multifunctional. There should always be just one core function, if you seek to guarantee efficiency and success.
© MIR
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