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September, the month gone by, when the weather starts turning a little hospitable this side of the globe – nip in the air and all of that, start of festivities and a general sense of well being amongst the population at large. This year, there was more good news – indications are that the Corporate world has shed some of the caution that infested it’s spending on the nice-to-have activities (yes, I AM talking of activities on the Human Resources front here, unfortunate, but true).

On the national front, the déjà-vu brought back a sense of unfairness, almost as if the Gods were conspiring yet again – India has lost a disproportionate number of leaders to unnatural deaths – Gandhi, Bose, Shastri, Sanjay, Indira, Scindia, Pilot, Surendra, the list is endless – and now we have the Andhra strongman, YSR added to this unfortunate inventory. While not all of them will rank right up there in terms of leadership skills, popularity, expertise or skill, the fact remains that the political canvas of India just might have been a little different if all of them were still around, or had lived their full lives.

What was more disconcerting was the senseless ranting amongst even the senior state party functionaries to pass on the baton to his greenhorn son. THIS is our own doing, the craving to attach oneself to someone who is not even close to his father or uncle or husband, or what-have-you, for short term gains and miss the big picture completely. My father served as the Vice-Chancellor in two prestigious Universities of India – and when he retired from there, none of his senior Deans and professors put pressure on the authorities to hand over the mantle of running the Universities to his son

Why, you must ask – and the answer is clear (apart from the fact that I would stand nowhere close to my father in administrative or subject-matter expertise, but that’s the obvious one) – the real reason is about structure – the more ambiguity there is in the surroundings, the more the uncertainty, the more the insecurity, the more the chances of the wrong decisions being taken. Universities, unlike states or nations, are run, like well-oiled machines – on policies, rules, regulations and structures.

You must ask yourself whether your HR department will fall apart if the existing HR guys left you (and they will, sooner or later), will it take you long to recover, and will some knowledge be lost forever? Similarly, if you’re setting up an HR function, do you want to let it remain at the mercy of the person who sets it up? Benifys provides seamless transition of your existing HR set-up (or setting up the function, if you don’t have one now) on templatised, time tested methodologies and implementation expertise. Would you rather trust this important function to professionals and experts, or take the long-winded route of hit-and-trial, and yet not get the HR function contribute in the manner that it actually can?

Choose, and let us know – we’re here to help.

I don’t even want to talk about our campaign in Champions Trophy. Another case in point, though – if you love your Hummer more than your profession, you’re bound to let people down. And if you don’t concentrate on your core competency (we help you do that, by the way), you’re probably delivering a sub-optimal result.

Finally, I have to force myself to agree with Mr. Tharoor when he says that we should work on Gandhi’s birthday. It is only by working harder and smarter that we will take India to the heights that he would have wanted us to scale. Working on his birthday is the least that we can do for him.

In the meantime, enjoy the festive season, and keep smiling