A Guest Blog Post by Pensive Lawyer. Click on Image below to visit the author’s blog.
Happened to read Anil Thakraney’s blog and the latest entry pertained to none other that, you guess it, the flavour of the month for Indians, a-la cricket.
It’s an interesting article where he compares the Indian Cricket team with the Corporate world where a “kick-arse, professional, unbiased, results-driven leader joins a large existing company”, where people are living on their “past glories” The new guy comes in and puts his plans into execution.
Sure enough, as is in every game of dirty back-door politics, the lazy no-good oldie refuses to wake up to reality, gets insecure about his position, anticipates changes (which are not in his favour) in the hierarchy and then proceeds to save his own – Anil Thakraney uses the term ” skin”, I prefer to use the term BALLS!
And there comes a good old fashioned stalemate where the new guy in faces a wall of opposition that calls him every conceivable name in the book starting with the term ‘ lacks people skills’. The new guy in is left reeling under shock. I mean, isn’t this supposed to be a company where people work together to improve the bottom line (of the COMPANY YOU IDIOT, not their own!)
End of the day, the new guy is left with no choice but to give up……His spirit is broken, friendships cultivated with the seemingly great leaders left in shreds. What else remains?
It kinda wakes you up to a certain reality where the world is out there to break your spirit and its you and only you who are responsible, truly alone, to stand up and fight for what you believe in. And in the end, all that matters is ash and dust.
Nobody remembers the reason the new guy was brought in the first place. It was to clean up the damn mess that eventually got the better of him! Nobody sees that the damn mess is right there. Its only become someone else’s problem now.
Which is why I agree with Anil Thakraney. Cricket is merely an extension of the corporate arena. In my opinion, the best punishment would be to NOT purchase the products endorsed by these guys. That’s right, let the Corporates feel a pinch. Let this move be publicized. And then watch the mazaa as all the big contracts are repudiated with a vengeance. After all, who wants to sponsor an idiot who is responsible for your declining sales right.
And after such revenge is taken, we must proceed to make kabbaddi our new national past time.
And for those of you who still insist on cricket,
Please note the following mach schedule of our Great Indian Team.
India’s Next Four matches:
April 15 : India vs D.P.S. R.K. Puram
April 18 : India vs Chinmaya Mission Girl’s School, Delhi
April 21 : India vs Lady Irwin College
April 25 : India vs Little Flower Primary School (1st std to 5th std),
at Nehru Ground Faridabad
Dravid: Its tough time for us. But we will do the Best… Our aim - Defeat the Little Flower Primary School, because lot of players are young and energetic…
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April 15th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
The problem is that we put our cricketers on a very high pedestal and are disappointed when we fail. Based on our results at home, we expect them to be world beaters. Let us cricketer-bashing; they have a right to make money during their short span. Unless they perform, they will not get endorsements.
The blame lies at the door of our Board members; they are doing nothing to promote the game at the lower levels. Unless we also prepare fast pitches and perform on such pitches, we cannot be consistent winners.
Regarding drawing an analogy with the corporate world. I had the same problem in my previous company. Against all odds I had to bring changes in the comapny to turn it from a loss making to a profit making company in a short period.
Eventually I lost because there was a lot of back-biting
April 19th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Didn’t know that he had a blog. Thank you for the link…
April 20th, 2007 at 12:28 am
Haaa!Lol! Trust me, they’d lose to the Little flower primary school…
April 25th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Nice post, its a really cool blog that you have here, i like the way you present things, keep up the good work, will be back.
Expect more from you…
Warm Regards
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