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| ashu |
Posted
on 23-Jan-02 05:16 AM
Food for thought:
While some American business school professors and their MBA students trek to the Everest region in Nepal to learn more about what it means to be a leader,
why are our own political netas in Nepal NOT learning what the Himalayas have
to teach us all about being good leaders?
OK. That was a rhetorical question.
At your phoor.saud, click on:
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/products/hbr/oct01/R0109B.html
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 23-Jan-02 07:49 AM
Uttar to Ashu's question:
"Najik ko tirtha helaaa " bhanera hola ni.
oOhaH tadhaaaa ko manche lai matra Everest le sikaune
hola ni ta. Hami ta dherai ukhana ma wasta garchou ni
ta, matSap.
YaHaKai
HahooGuru
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| Gokul |
Posted
on 23-Jan-02 10:39 AM
Thanks that you brought this topic.
Many universities are using Jon Krakauer's "Into thin air" for risk management and decision support classes.
Definitely,
"Kaudi ma pani milkanchha, villa ka desha ma mani" (Nepal)
"Krishnaa kaa tatako dhungo devata kahalaunchha" (US)
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| Bisundev Mahato |
Posted
on 23-Jan-02 01:55 PM
Bhalulai jati puran padhae ni lagdaina ra kukurko puchhar jati nai dhwangma haleni siddha hundaina. The case of our politicians is somewhat similar to this. If some are intrinsically corrupted, no external virtues can help them. Everest climbing (or whatever) can only teach to those who can learn. These MBA graduates and executives learnt, “Leaders should be led by the group's needs” because they already and intrinsically believed in the group’s interest before their own interests. If our ‘netas’ did the same mountain climbing, they will instead learn this principle: “Netas (can’t call them leaders) should be led by individual interests, even if it means letting someone die on the way, or even pushing someone off a cliff.” It will take them lives of climbing to intrinsically get that Netas interests lies in the group’s interest. Unless they die on the way while trying to attain their own selfish motives at the cost of others, they won’t realize. Even then they might think that it was because of a random chance that they died. So they will have to die many times in order to see a pattern. Then maybe they will realize how important the group’s interests are for their own survival.
For those who already have the ability to learn they don’t’ need to climb the Everest to learn the principles that these MBA grads and executives learnt. We learn and appreciate these principles in our everyday lives---- while playing football (soccer), any kind of relay race, or even our own traditional “kabardi.” Jungle bata daura lyauna wa ghas katna jane bela ma pani hamri cheli-betile sikchhan ii principleharu. And they apply it and save each other from wild animals and other dangers.
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 23-Jan-02 10:14 PM
> If our ‘netas’ did the same mountain climbing, they will instead learn this
>principle: “Netas (can’t call them leaders) should be led by individual interests,
>even if it means letting someone die on the way, or even pushing someone off a
>cliff.”
Bisunji, Great observation.
When BP Koirala was returning home with the message of 'mel milaap' in 2033, his
comrades Captain Yagya Bahadur Thapa and Bhim Narayan Shrestha were
sentenced to death for participating in anti-Panchayat movement that NC
launched. BP , as long as I know, never even asked for amnesty of his comrades.
Now that is the story of our 'reverred' politician. It is not even necessary to talk
about rest.
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| nobody |
Posted
on 23-Jan-02 11:54 PM
Ashu,
Leadership and inspiration from the Everest does sound interesting, especially since it appeals to our Nepalese sensibilities. But I'm sure these behaviorists who get their papers published in HBR can make anything inspirational. I don't think a lot of us have access to HBR or subscribe to one. So can you summarize what he has to say? Apart from the overview (which says nothing really) in the link you had provided.
Regards.
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| nobody |
Posted
on 24-Jan-02 12:08 AM
on the other hand, aren't our leaders like Everest, standing tall in thier rarified atmosphere. doesn't really matter what happens down there, because the blanket of cloud does making everything look serene down there. and they keep growing in stature, and what makes them grow (higher) is understandable but still unconquorable phenomenon... and they don't need to learn anything because like the Himalayas, their prominence makes them impervious to everyting. you can run into them, but you'll only hurt yourself.
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