God called Audience and seeker named Speaker.

Audience was king , but now he is God .... Say Management Gurus .... Audience management and Audience anger management are two different derivatives of Business communication.

The God has the power and rights to any incarnation , i.e. humble , polite , angry , revengeful , non-participative , attentive and even sometimes destructive.

So , what does a manager/speaker do. Only way out, exercise "patient hearing". Let their venom be out , Let them exercise all their real and masquerade incarnations.

Then , the dos may be following :
1. Silence , Lets you buy time for forecasting and analyzing the intentions.
2. Silence on stage and one sided exorbitant speaking makes the audience tired , and also makes the audience perceive that the speaker has bowed down and adds up to their psychological superiority.
3. If the issues are cognizable , speak after the turbulent pause and that too with an embalming intention to the cause. Empathize with the audience and do the trouble shooting.
4. If the issues are non - cognizable and intentions are malafide , then adhere to the prolonged silence , till absolute silence is achieved. Tell them , you need to research more and more on their views before addressing their issues. Speaking anything against the audience in such a situation will definitely lead to the democratic destruction of the motto of such communication. Protection is ever better than letting some one destruct. Atleast what you have constructed , remains safe.
5. In any communication , there is no winning and no loosing. And the behavior one portrays leaves the lasting effect on memory of all concerned. Nobody remembers the context later , but the happenings . As a speaker always make sure , you do not give others a chance to hate .... Try to win by losing sometimes.

God called Audience and seeker named Speaker. 

Corruption Eradication: A new approach

Debate held at Aryabhatta Hall , IIM , Ranchi.

Can Corruption be erased or reduced drastically ??

Respected Jury and esteemed thought leaders ! What is corruption – Any act which makes one morally depraved. Deviations from the purist ideals , systemic degradation. Something like when the fence meant to protect the crop starts eating it.

What makes corruption the most discussed phenomena- Because its like a termite eating up all our age old values and making our egalitarian growth impossible.

Why corruption flourished – Social values changed with advent of modern socio-economic methods of civilization. We forgot or rather negated the feeling of “Trusteeship” towards wealth.  Isha Upanishad professed “Ten tyakten bhunjitha” , enjoy with renunciation. During Chanakya era , the highest social paradigm was “Idam rashtraay na mamah” , which means this belongs to nation , not me.

But , we knowingly kept these ideas progressively alienated over time and indulged in  “ To have more and more” and “Eat , drink and be merry”.

Gurucharan Das in his book “ Difficulty of being good “ says that ancient Greeks had a proactive method of counteracting social jealousies due to a personal hoarding and growth. They used to send a person to programmed exile for 5-10 years. Citing and accepting the reality that disproportionate belongings generate jealousy in others and there must be some means to vent this jealousy.  In India , people agreed upon two renunciating stages of life called  “Vaanprastha” and “Sanyaas” . But we have washed it all. So , today we have peaks of belongings , peaks of attachments and peaks of natural jealous forces around to counter it. As a result we see so called great leaders , businessmen , advocates enjoying their jail terms.

Now question come “How can we reduce or eliminate corruption” ?

Only mantra “ Honesty “ – we need to create an Honest society and that would surely ensure Corruption free society. This can be done by four pronged strategy:

1.      Honesty Generation – We need to reach out to the kids , the future of society. We need to train them young. We need to reinstate to them that Honesty still remains to be the best policy. Prior to the fact that our children start dreaming of becoming a doctor , engineer or manager , we have to train them to be human. None of the govt schools teach lessons on moral science. We need to sow the seeds of new world order morality in our kids to see an emerging India or emerging planet.

2.      Honesty Propagation – Enough  have we talked on corruption. Now we have to aim to make an Honest India , Talk in terms of honesty , let the scale of character be honest and less honest. This will make a paradigm shift from corruption to honesty.

3.      Honesty modelling – We need to talk more and more of honesty and ways to achieve it. Most of our minds are engrossed with scams and its figures. We need to talk about honest leaders , how they work , how they perform and how they survive. Our kids , our society and ourselves must not forget the honest deeds in the hurricane of corruption.

4.      Anti Corruption measures- Unless above steps are followed all anti corruption institutions would prove futile. From hospitals to classrooms , from power centres of Delhi to panchayats , from rockets to needles , where all can we put CBI , CID , CVC etc. But still , importance of such institutions are un remarkable . What we need more is specific measures for control and the trials to be within a time frame and punishments extreme. We need to send a message across that Yes we are serious on issues of corruption. So , empower and envision the anti-corruption bodies.

Finally I would like to reiterate that corruption can be reduced and even eliminated. The process has to start from us today and at this moment. Our values , our honesty are our possession and its growth and propagation are our own responsibility. So , I believe together we can and together we will.

THANKS.