Earnestness in corporate sector, politics, social sector & the government !

Even when we worked in the government, the inner urge to somehow circumvent the government to do things, we believe to be right and fair, is quite strong.

There are some who confront head on, and the system simply throws him out as anti-bodies.

There are some who get frustrated, and then resign to go out a do things , avoiding the government. Many IAS and IPS officers can be quoted as examples.

But there is a third categoty, who continued in the government, used their smartness, camouflaged the things they want to do to fall within the acceptable limits of the government's perception, and did achieve results.

Earnestness was not abandoned.

The major difference is in private business, there are fewer peer members to be convinced and the over bearing dictatorial owner boss- once convinced , the earnest man gets through his proposals. The spreadsheet works here.

But in the government, the peer group as well as the multi- tiered hierarchy, finally headed by a different class of people, politicians, queer the pitch. The spreadsheets lose their gloss and the communication its effectiveness, colored by many a different filter of perception guided by varying self-interests and as much variable degrees of earnestness, because each has own agenda.

The challenge is truly complex and multi-dimensional. The option of quietly joining the flow is so comfortably welcome.

That is what is happening with almost all persons in the government., and of course, headed by political class with divergent interests.

But earnest persons cannot for long over look the politics which drives finally the system There are spread sheet wielding wizards, who are nowadays joining the political class, to work out the voters profile, what idea appeals, how to manage the perception of different social groups to gain their trust and confidence, and decide what ultimately sells with the objective of getting back to power. The conflict of interest in this game is that earnestness is forced to be compromised with the need to indulge in perception management rather than by actual delivery of services promised earlier. Why?

Again the same complex mechanism of the government comes in the way coupled with political requirements of meeting unfair demands of pressure groups who want to gain what they had set out to gain, through fair or unfair means.

So smart laptop holding crowds work on corporate side to fight the war to gain from the government, while another similar laptop wielding group manages the flow of political power to grant but assuring their bosses objective.

Thus we have a strange scenario where small groups, intelligent and earnest in their own way, keep striving day in and day out working in three focus areas namely corporate world, the political world and the social sector avoiding both the corporate and political class, but the government is an ever present factor for all of them.

Majority in the government just remain indifferent to all the fierce fights going on just as much as majority in the society too remain mere spectators, suffering whatever the consequences.