LUCK

 Loyalty Understanding Collaboration Kinship

The Secrets of Dazzling Success

(Part 1)

“Ram, sorry to have barged in so soon after your long overseas tour. Guru, your guidance has saved me from many disastrous situations in the past. But my career, plagued by several calamities, is now struck by worse-than-ever luck now. I am facing  a make-or-break dilemma,” said Krishna, one of Ram’s closest friends.

“I am indeed incredibly tired after the hectic activities during the tour and an 18-hour long flight. But you look damn too worried and on the verge of collapse. Let’s talk over a cup of tea. Tell me about the crisis you are facing.”

“Guru, I told you during our last meeting that my relative, who has  large farms and orchards, and I had decided to start a packaged food business to help farmers to avoid losses due to market volatilities and price crashes. 

“But I don’t know what devil charmed us into buying a running food packaging company with apparently  good product lines and network for distribution. It was started by a  bio-scientist, another relative, after his return from the U.S. with a good degree. He told us that his heart was in research and that he had made a grave mistake of starting a company. He got an opportunity to head an R&D organisation in America and hence wanted to sell the company. We found it to be a very valid reason, and took over the company, funding it by selling part of our lands.”

“That sounds like quite a good decision, tell me what hidden ghost has sprung up that has almost shattered you?”

 “Guru, I have brought all the papers and can meet you after you have had time to review them.”

“Krishna! Papers  never reveal the full reality. Let us talk it out - you must know all the details inside out. So tell me main problems and I will give you some guidance.”

“Guru, it is, as I said a stroke of bad luck. We bought a company looking good from outside, but with serious cracks inside – on the verge of a crash. Firstly, the scientist-turned-businessman created a top heavy organisation with various sections and departments or what you call silos. He was always in the laboratory and conferences, leaving the business to haphazardly hired managers and motley crowd of employees hired through an agency. 

“To our horror, we found that the employees hardly have any loyalty to the company. The attrition rate is high, there are factions and petty fights over minor issues which hampers collaboration. There is no understanding among themselves nor do they understand the environmental factors like competition. Because of the factions there is hardly any feeling of kinship - not even normal feeling of companionship - the very basis of the concept of a company.

“In your absence I felt helpless and got depressed. Please, Guru, show me the way. I have tried self-analysis to find a way out, but books and articles like 100 virtues of leaders or 100 reasons why companies fail completely baffled me. My partners are farmers with little education and look to me to resolve the crisis. Consultants fees and time schedules are beyond us. I’m counting on your guidance.”

“My friend Krishna! Your self-analysis has served you well. A problem well stated is half-solved’ says Charles Kettering. And, you have already come half way. Only one lacuna is your belief in strokes of bad luck.

“You have identified the main problems as lack of (i) Loyalty (ii) Understanding (iii) Collaboration and (iv) Kinship. If you join the first letters of these factors what emerges is LUCK!

“So the first lesson is - LUCK helps those who help themselves.

“I will now go through the papers and later camp in your place. We shall solve the problems together and Dame LUCK will help us.”

“Oh Gurudev! You are amazing!” exclaimed Krishna.

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