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| 2013 : Let me Lead...! |
Many of us believed and thought that 2012 was one of the
longest and toughest years in their lives. Some of us even took life changing
decisions in the year and realized the ways to the real journey beyond the
meadows and against the tides. Some of my friends were shattered in the first
10 days of the New Year and thought the 2012 cataclysm hasn’t deserted their
lives.
Let’s stop winding the clocks back and ring in the New Year
with some fresh pieces of music and few liters of wine.
So, the next question gets fired: ‘Huh! What is it that you
got new?’
I don’t have anything new but I would like to share with you
an inside story about people management in the leading institutions and
industries in my country and abroad.
It is going the ‘Haddi’ (Read: Bone) way.
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| The Haddi Fight |
Recently, one of my close friends and advisor to life
decisions was boarding an overseas flight to his work place. Every Business
Unit Leader wants him to be the lead in his team. In interesting course of
events, he coined this term when I asked so what does the Big Boss (Business
Head) wants you to do?
And he said nobody knows what is to be done. But everyone
wants the Haddi. And I was startled and said him to repeat the lexicon. Then he
said in some clearer diction. HADDI He said everyone wants him in their team
but no one bothers what and where the ‘Haddi’ wishes to go. We shared a good
laugh and then the flight untwined its wings and kissed the clouds to the
deserts of dates where oil is cheaper than milk…!
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| The Haddi and the Boss |
Every working guy is
like a Haddi today. The top administrators wish to have a multi-toothed gear
with them who can shift numbers as the terrain changes. It is same as now an
engineer (or an accountant) and then a logistics guy; Now a researcher and then
a procurement guy. Every second organization including the art Industry is
hunting Haddi. He sings well may even act, so take him on board. Here is a
B.Tech with an MBA, take him board; may solve some shop floor problems.
So, when people come
to me with their logic saying Multi-tasking is the new thing on the dash
board, I smirk and say, “Do hell with the domain expertise and let the fire
clouds from the oil tankers of some oil company shake hands with the clouds in
the skies!!!”
Let’s come out of our offices and observe the Haddi thing in
some personal arena. Your own sibling or you would be the haddi of the family
if you or he/she is successful and single. Every aunt, neighbor or some distant
relative would come to you with marriage, business or even career proposals and
would like to get the haddi on their platter and precisely in the same order…
If you are not contended with whatever state of affairs you
are onto and someone is coming for you and trying to pull you in his/her business,
just smile and activate the Haddi Mode in your life…!
Sing aloud and join me:
Ek rang guniyo ka
nirala,
Ek rang agyani...
Rang Rang me Hod Lagi
hai,
Rang Rangi Manmani…
(Song : Des Mera
Rangreziya Babu, Peepli Live, Composer : Indian Ocean)
Amit Purohit
The Lone Soldier
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