Followership crisis

Aha, a new term to the existing forest of management terms!!
We will agree that leaders lead and managers manage. The behavioural courses and existing literature talk eloquently of various traits of being a good leader, but what about being a good follower.
Lets try to step into a shoe of a follower (he might be a leader for few members in the organisation). Lets see the world through the follower's (who is also a leader) eyes. To make matters interesting lets assume that our follower has a boss who is a manager and NOT a leader.
This implies that the organisational hierarchy instead of bringing him in touch with a leader, brings him in touch with a supervisor. Bad Luck!! Now what should this follower do?

1. Wait for next official appraisal dialogue and then escape from the supervisor?
2. Remain with the supervisor and seek a leader outside the hierarchy?
3. Vegetate and enjoy the supervision

Which of these options will you as a follower follow?

Nice to Know

Kuznet's curve and its implications: Came across Kuznet's curve in a lecture. It seems to reflect the current situation with India as well. The inequalities have grown as the income has risen. Isn't it beautiful how the samples across countries follow similar emperical rule!! Also, does the curve also depict the distribution of benefits in case of various other schemes aimed at social justice like : Reservation, NREGS, etc. It will be nice to see if the impact of these schemes also follow the Kuznet's curve

Fortune diggers

Trying to get in touch with fellow fortune diggers.
As Hammel Prahlad say in their book and article on "Fortune at the Bottom of Pyramid" poverty has to be alleviated by means of creating choices.
I along with fellow fortune diggers will try to understand the fortune and then find it.
In the journey, I expect that we will be able to create choices for the BOP segment and hopefully trigger some entreprueners to come up from the segment.

We have few options:
- Be the idea generators and implementors
- Be the idea generators and then find implementors
- Provide framework for idea generation and later implementation to entreprueners from BOP

Of these, the last idea seems most sustainable - since entreprueners from BOP know the market. while we could provide them the necessary support in resource generation and utilisation.

Lets see how this shapes up.

Being an Adult

Dictionary defines adult as someone :

"full grown", a person who has attained the age of maturity as specified by Law!

Is this sufficient? Thats it grow till 18, come of age - and be an adult?
How about defining adulthood in terms of maturity of body and mind! Maybe that will give us the complete picture.
We are living in India that seems to be made up of two distinct sub countries. On one side we have immense wealth being generated, and on the other side we have 300 million of 1.1 billion under poverty line (people earning less than 300 rupees per month).
I have sleep walked through this India, slightly aware of the environment, but chosing to ignore it. Few donations here and there, few kids sponsored for education, and my conscience is clear. This is my quest to discover myself, to find my potential, not just to earn money, but to contribute towards alleviating poverty and hunger in my country.
Its my quest for being an Adult - to make the right choices, decisions - and to make them with the right impact!

And maybe we should define adulthood as the growth of consciense!

Consciense: the inner sense of what is right or wrong.