From | Via | To |
Alone | Relationships | All-One |
Ego-system | Ecosystem | “One” System |
Products | Services | Liberating frameworks |
Wanting | Giving | Flow-through |
Doom and Despair | Hope and Aspire | Devote, design and Do |
Hoard and Manipulate | Give and receive | Gift and lift |
Cost saving | Profit Generating | Value creating |
Consume | Prosume | Partake in the Divine Play |
Memory and knowing | Insight and Wisdom | Being and Happening |
Ignorance and denial | Acceptance and Knowing | Being and Celebrating |
Labour and Capital | Knowledge | Divine inspiration |
Thursday 26 July, 2007
A Home coming - the eternal movement - Unfolding and enfolding
Actualizing Possibilities (AP)
Straddling worlds
Bridging spaces / healing all gaps
Revealing the mystery by reveling
in the healing Wholeness
The underlying Oneness
The timeless, formless Divine
That Celestial Being
The very breath of the Becoming
The maker / the magic of all miracles
The energy and source of all rituals
The core of all religions
The message of all symbols
The inspiration of every Mystic
You are here, now, (as always)
Breathing, experiencing, re-membering
Enjoying the ebb and flow
of the eternal connect
the essential Oneness
Wonder
Wisdom Wealth
Wholeness Wellness
Working relentlessly
With a smiling untiring heart
A devoted journey-man of the Divine
A Being, A Becoming
A happening
A torrent to wash all dirt and quench all thirst
A fire to bring inspiring light and energising heat
Doing Whatever it takes
Read, write
Rave and rant
Push and Cajole
Threaten and Inspire
“Awake, arise and stop not till the Goal is reached!”
What else is there to do?
How / Who else can I be?
The less there is of me
The more there is of HIM
Yes!
I am He!
Now
Here!!
Thursday 19 July, 2007
Evoking Excellence -- In-Out-In Spiral
- The belief being that coach is just chiselling away, at the individual / team / organizational ignorance.
- Excellence lies-in-wait to shine through -- when we are ready!! Really ready!
- The only real Coach is the "Divine" -- all others her vehicle agents.
- Evoking excellence is actually a dynamic engaging the individual, the team and the organization. The picture below attempts to pictorially depict the acts at each level and their interplay. More on this at a later date.
Sunday 8 July, 2007
Paradigms and Choices
– All models of reality are “flawed” – some are more useful than others
– Paraphrasing Einstein and Kuhn
• Problems we perceive around us can not be solved by the level of thinking which created them – Einstein
•“Beautiful Distinctions” is an apt description of what follows.
–The “From” is the commonly held world-view
–The “To” frame is for me, a gift, of a “shift to a more enabling and ennobling perspective”
Business
• From
– Ways to generate even more wealth for the affluent
• To
– A contribution to the world-at-large as a token of gratitude to the Universe
Organization
• From
– A machine, designed and maintained for wealth creation
• To
– A purposive community for contribution (where one of the outcomes could be personal wealth)
Success
• From
– Achieved by “my personal” intelligence and efforts which inevitably fuels arrogance
• To
– Gift from the Universe to encourage me to do the right thing right thus nurturing humility and responsibility
People
• From
– Resources to be used to generate wealth
• To
– Partners to be supported in their quests for meaning and contribution
Identity (Who am I)?
• From
– Intelligent, knowledgeable (software) professional
• To
– A person committed to contribution -- blessed with intelligence and feelings!
What's really important?
• From
– Working relentlessly towards pre-set / desirable financial targets
• To
– Working with commitment towards genuine contribution and the resultant excellence
Time
• From
– Something which we always have “little or none of” because there is so much to do
• To
– A precious commodity we create by doing the right things for the right reasons in the right spirit
How to handle a difficult situation
• From
– Appease, Manipulate, Find an easy way-out
• To
– Authentic engagement, do the right thing, trust the universe (BE LOVE)
Secret of Performance
• From
– Fear of failure
– Comes from existing capability
• To
– Inspiration and commitment to excel
– Comes from capability which is “created” out of the desire to perform
What nurtures intelligence at work
• From
– Clear targets and continuous challenges
• To
– Loving acceptance and a will to learn -- individually and collectively
Leadership
• From
– Drive (subtly or explicitly) others to do what is "required“
– Be a hero
• To
– Creating conditions for excellence to flourish
– Be a faithful servant of the “vision”
Managing
• From
– Planning and tracking work of others to completion
• To
– Inspiring and nurturing others to meet their commitments
Innovation
• From
– Triggered by the fear of survival
– Need of the hour
• To
– An outcome of the desire to serve a need out there -- that requires me to solve a real problem
– A natural consequence of the “desire to serve”
Split-model (US-India)
• From
– Necessary evil to be managed for cost purposes
• To
– Opportunity to create a new level of collaborative excellence via a real marriage of the best of both cultures
Start-up
• From
– Frenetic fight for market win “anyhow”
• To
– Inspired innovation to deliver a novel value preposition
Inexperience and youth
• From
– A curse of the split-model that has to be some-how handled
• To
– An opportunity to shed “old rules” and co-create a community of commitment
Architecture (of systems)
• From
– Something to be talked about and done only when we have the luxury of time
• To
– A core requirement to deliver excellence consistently in our chosen field
(Software engineering ) principles / practices
• From
– Platitudes to be mouthed and/or “crutches” not required by the really intelligent folks
• To
– Part of a "my" tool-set to be a responsible practitioner
Employee retention
• From
– A difficult act to be managed with any and all means available
• To
– A happy outcome of an authentic community
Appraisals
• From
– Necessary evil to distribute goodies in some believable manner
• To
– Framework for nurturing genuine contribution
Recruitment
• From
– A way of ensuring availability of appropriate resources at all times
• To
– A way of inviting new members to the community of commitment
Friday 6 July, 2007
Top View of the World
- I see a world which is full of possibility -- a never ending path towards the Light. It feels like a journey through space and time.
- In reality it is an unfolding, a shedding of ignorance, an emergence of the latent understanding here and now which appears as a journey for a being trapped in an illusion of being a body-mind complex, an individual
- Every breath I take it, is gift of the divine. How can there be any other space than gratitude? Tears of Joy are washing away the eons of encrustration....how enlightening -- bringing in light and making "me" lighter.
- So much to say and yet no words are adequate. And yet without words how does once share? Words means symbols -- words in a language, music, painting, pictures, whatever.
- Actually the need for communicating in symbols continues as long as the illusion of the individual exists. After that who is communicating to whom for what reason?
- Oneness just is!
Tuesday 3 July, 2007
Action Map for the rest of my life
- This is a visual representation -- an initial one of what I see I am here to do
- Over the last few years there is a growing awareness that wherever I look, there exists a huge gap between the "normal world" and "the plausible world". Take any field, and what one sees, experiences is that the state of practice is far behind, what already exists at the frontiers of awareness of the pioneers of that field -- what one can call the state-of-the art.
- Another way of putting it would be that the technology-in-use is always behind the most advanced theory or actually even early prototypes based on that theory
- There could be many reasons for this gap. There is a requirement to first acknowledge that such a gap exists. Coaches and leaders get us out of both denial and despair into the world of action!
- Much inertia needs to be overcome, serious responsibility claiming has to be done inside before the outer journey can begin. Hardly ever can be done alone -- need some help -- divine or divine-in-human-form.
- I see more clearly now that my role is to be "present" to anyone -- person or organisation, including myself - who is deep in confusion and seeking clarity (more on this loop later).
- Hardly ever there is a need for new theory / new know-what. What is often required is to put-into-practice that which is already known...that is some bridge needs to be built between what-is-commonly-held-to-be-true and what is actually true at a higher vantage point.
- At least until one grows to see the illusory nature of limitations -- the walls are out there because they are in here!
- No matter how advanced the state-of-art is there is always the world of infinite possibilities lying beyond. So while in comparison the State-of-art may look and feel like heaven, compared to the daily living hell, there is still many a wondrous places left to discover!
- Every state-of-art eventually would become state-of-practice and from that vantage point one would want something even better. So once unleashed from the chains of self-imposed limitations, there is no holding back -- a never ending trek through the Divine Landscape of challenges and blessings
- An infinity of infinities awaits. And yet it is possible, entirely humanly so, to regress into living hell at any point in time. What one needs is discipline, devotion, and deep Surrender. Paradoxically, they are both causes and effects.