Monday, July 28, 2008

independence

How independent am I?
or rather rephrasing to a rhetoric:
You can be boss only up to a point!

Beyond that point it is about you needing others and others needing you.

Well, it's good to know the baloney ends somewhere...

useless management advice

1. Look at the familiar in novel ways.
I mean if it is familiar I doubt I would notice it.
If I don't see the familiar the question of looking at it in novel ways does not quiet arise.

2. Look for patterns.
Patterns of what: distinctions or similarities.
Once we do, then what? make a pickle, I guess.
What do we do with the patterns?

3. Look for unmet needs?
Hey buddy if I could, they would not be unmet anymore.
They would be needs that I can meet, so the question is how do I look for needs that I have not met and how do I meet them if I don't know them.

4. Listen to unheard voices.
Here we go again, how can you listen to what you cannot hear.
Please elaborate how I can heed to what I cannot hear?

...the humbug just does not end...

hostage to naivety

technology will offer novel reasons to be surprised.
disputes and ideology will threaten our security.
disasters will create hardship and heartache.

This world will continue to serve us the unexpected.
that is just the way it is!

these pressures can hold us hostage, but stating this is the first step away from naivety.

motivation & responsibility

If we were asked to predict the probability of picking a number out of a box we feel much reassured if we do the picking rather than relying on some one else's pick.
The odds are the same however when we do the picking we feel we have some control over the event.
It is this sense of control that gets us to do the picking ourselves or rather the motivation arises from the fact that we have some sense of control over events.

The inference is that the ability to pick that right number is the same as everyone else, we are not any one special that nullifies the laws of probability.

But it is the sense of control that motivates us to make an action or decision.
And it is this motivation that also makes us responsible for an action or decision.
I mean rationally if I am motivated to make a choice then I need to be responsible to do what's required to make the choice work