Work Ethics Which Should Be There – But Absent

The Work Ethics Which Should Be There –

But Absent

1.       Initiative to make things happen

Without waiting for things to happen, work with a sense of urgency.  Life is short and there are many things to be done.  Take up things to be done on priority basis and do all that is needed to make them happen.

2.      Follow up on initiatives taken up

Good intentions do not make things happen.  Keep on trying, asking, reminding, then only it will happen.  Systematic approach and repeated attempts.  Perseverance is needed.  Generally people tend to postpone. Dealing with only urgent matters

3.       Learning how to solve problems and also about new things

New learning from reading, understanding them and also from acquiring new experiences.

4.       Taking Pains

People nowadays avoid taking the required effort to achieve the 3 things mentioned above.  Somehow expecting things to happen without any effort.

Without the above actions  no enduring results can be achieved

Are We Indians Any More Part II

Are We Indians Any More Part II

The Deadly Traps We See In Our Lives

In continuation of the previous post, please see the next installment below (where are our ethics?)

1.     Tempted By Money:- It is rare nowadays to see people who are not moved by money.  The rule is “every person has his price”.  Wealth is the only motivation for many.

2.     Tempted By Pleasure:- drinks and easy access to the pleasures of the flesh (in spite of AIDS threat).  Sometimes even people above retirement age are not beyond this. Woman is seen as an object of pleasure.

3.     Instant Gratification:- No patience.  Not ready to wait, put in the required effort.  “Is there a shortcut” is the question asked by many people nowadays. That is the logic by BRIBE.

4.     Tempted by Praise:-  Starved of genuine recognition, people feel that any appreciation is rare.  But some people know that by just praising people , you can make them do anything you want.  Our people are susceptible to  this  .

5.     Tempted By Good Food:-  You can make many people do whatever you want, by giving them a good luxury meal.  Some people will even kill, for a meal.Why is this so? 

6.     Chameleons: - Nobody appears to have a stand of their own.  Change colour according the stand of the powerful or one’s own convenience.  The colour changes as per the season.

     we will cease to be Indians 

Are we Indians Any More? (Part I) The Self absorbed Generation

Are we Indians Any More? (Part I) The Self absorbed Generation

We have been subjugated to the centuries of external rule both directly or through internet, television, facebook and Hollywood, IT firms, call centres management so that we have really forgotten who we are and, we are neither here nor there.  Material comforts have increased,  but there is no well being mentally and spiritually.  We now lament that we are not born in England or America and being born in India is something to be ashamed of.  The only thing attractive here in India for them, is Exchange Rate.  Some of the indicators are:

·       In many public places like trains railway stations and airports I see a new breed.  They bother only about themselves.

·        They carry many large luggage

·       will open a chicken biriyani packet in an A/C compartment at night and after finishing watching a film/working on laptop.

·         Not bothered about the disturbance they cause lack of sensitivity and awareness/respect for the needs of others is the common norm.  (Does money at young age bring this insensitivity?)

·        Along with it today’s parents have provided all material comforts to them (mostly they are rich or both are employed) but forgotten to develop their kids mentally and spiritually.

·        The kids cannot bear any disappointment (so many divorces, suicides, mental depression). 

·       Their time has very high value.  Others’ time has zero value. 

·       Their money has high value; others’ money has zero value.

·       Their feeling are important, not that of others.  No idea about values. 

·       No patience, cannot concentrate.   

Westerners have invented the “empathy” only in the 20^th century.  Indians lived that value for centuries.  (This does not mean that there was equality among classes, such an equality was never there, even now, in any country, only that legally(or for standing in queues) in developed countries  it is meant to be so).

Any amount of lying, backstabbing, not honoring promises, ingratitude, hypocrisy, sycophancy, lack of respect to elders, views, experience is okay for this new class. 

And I agonize on the trend, that if left unattended, we will cease to be Indians soon.