Being Inclusive - Business of Business !!!

Business is all about expansion and whether we do this by exploiting or inclusion is what that determines its success over long run because in this world, irrespective of whatever might be one’s immediate business there is only one business in reality that’s human wellbeing.

Over the last century, India has moved from the feudalistic to democratic leadership and now we are in need for Economic & Business leadership. In this context, it’s greater responsibility of the business leaders to conduct or expand their business by embracing and not disgracing or excluding the marginalized communities.

In a growing country like India with huge diversity in terms of Religion, Values, Skills and Needs . With regard to marginalized communities it's not that they aren't capable to perform,the challenge lies in providing right platforms to reflect their capability and grow.

Each clan is unique by itself and human potential left unexplored in marginalized communities is a biggest hurdle to the growth of individual and nation.Leaving behind 50 % of the population in the growth cloud would prove to be a disaster in terms of provoking terrorism, hunger and socio-economic imbalance.

On the other hand, marginalized communities are greatest potential that remain untapped by the business organizations in terms of capitalizing them on Market penetration, enhancing sales, human talent and building businesses by including them as stakeholders in various capacities.

Social Entrepreneurship is an emerging concept that provides a striking balance between lessening the socio economic divide and profits for the promoter. It’s very important that these entities not only make services and products available to the marginalized populace at affordable price, but also help them to create a self-sustained environment where people can learn, earn and grow to stand by their own on a long run without any handhold.

Inclusive business and economic policies would not only include the marginalized communities in the growth trajectory but also would make the expansion of business entity more purposeful.

Passion + Pressure = Christ !!!

It has been three months since I joined Christ University for my MBA leaving Cognizant. Leaving back cognizant and joining Christ was a tough decision in my life and being @ Christ is even more challenging. 

These three months have been challenging for me in terms of adapting to the so called Christ Culture that includes - Surface reading, Information overload, Book Review, OBT, CIA, End term, 0.49 weightage assessment’s, typical school rules and people with from diverse background.At times what people perceived to be exact fun here was not so for me.

Probably one of my biggest mistakes in my life could be choosing Christ for an MBA but I didn’t have a better option to pursue when I was to choose between Passion and Pressure. However to a greater extend it serves the purpose apart from the fact that it doesn’t pays me well and of course HR’s are never paid well ;).At this juncture another confusion crept into my mind – if HR’s are paid less, then why HR. I had a quick answer for this- Simply bcoz I love it and wish i shouldn't hate it for money :)

My decisions have gone wrong because of considering the fact - “Greater good for larger number of People”. So have to learn to Say ‘NO’ and at times be Self-serving.

Irrespective of whether the Christ MBA had a trajectory for me or not to evolve as a HR professional, to a greater extend in these three months I had people betraying me, exploiting me and making it learnable for me to handle emotions. It was peak of learning experience when even my closed ones were closed ended :)

At the same time, I had lot of people who cared for me to a greater extend and  at many times i wasn’t in a position to respond to those people due to my mood swings.

On the whole these three months got me new perspectives on relationships, betrayal, exploitation and how taking decisions on pressure might have a negative pay off.

With a rocking combo of Passion and Pressure, begins a new trimester with greater responsibility and higher agenda. Believe my buddies - Aditya ,Saro ,Vignesh would make things interesting and worthwhile... May our life’s blossom together !!!

Shyam