Fighting Fear
There is a lot of insecurity amongst the powerful and influential people today, as always, perhaps? Insecurity breeds insecurity. When the powerful are insecure, they inevitably exploit the powerless. Students graduating out of the leading educational institutions, who are expected to lead, begin with, or rather, are equipped with this sense of insecurity. If this assessment seems thoroughly incorrect, read no further. But if there appears to be truth in it, let us explore more of the truth. Businesses today seem to have more adversaries than stakeholders. In other words, those who were stakeholders have become adversaries. Consumer, regulator and the peripheral society have since long become adversaries. They put pressure on profitability. Off late, channel partners, vendors and even employees are treated as outsiders . It wouldn’t be surprising that the board of a company considers public shareholders too as outsiders, rather than owners of the business. Who, then, is the insi...