Waiting for Cincinnatus.com

 ORGANIZATION: PART 2:CHANGING CULTURE Emperor Ashoka after Kalinga war Whoever controls the narrative controls the people You and I are poles apart-we are like parallel lines which never meet but stay together till infinity Leadership is always about change-It’s not about mobilising people to do things they have always done well-John kotter Changing organizational culture It is evident that organizations value and culture change over time. The organization has a number of stakeholders whether it be a firm,nation or family.When the stakeholders are given commitment of equal benefit in the organization,the same  remains fit and healthy. Over the ages cultural change has repeatedly changed the balance in all organizations between the stakeholders. Thus the family had male dominance during agricultural stage. Proffesional managers and industrial workers dominated in manufacturing era in business organizations.       A visionary leader can mitigate the imbalanc...

ORGANIZATION:PART 1:THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND PERSONALITY The Victorian family Those who meant well behaved in same way as those who behaved badly-Aldous huxley The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man.We can only by interfering with it can we make the survival of the unfittest - John Kenneth galbraith Our values are what we think are good and bad,noble and contemptible -Isaiah berlin Theory of mind and origin of organizations Theory of mind enables individuals to understand the thoughts of others.This enables communication through language. However the use of this faculty occurs in society in the formation of groups and organizations. This takes place through seeking means to cooperate with each other to attain a common beneficial aim. Partly it is used for competition between individuals for skill and power within groups. However group formation predominantly requires cooperative coordination to succeed.      Group members require commitments about mutual su...

BIOLOGY: ORIGIN OF INTELLIGENT LIFE PART 4 THEORY OF MIND AND PERSONALITY Emotion can get in your way or get you on the way The greatest journey in life is the journey of self discovery Thinking modules Modules of working memory exist for a wide variety of purposes. Initially they require voluntary action inputs. Later the inputs act on the previous experience and produce automatic action. Modules for object recognition utilizing vision depend on such programs to recognize individual objects. Later these objects with the help of psychological distance maps which resemble navigation maps,build classes such as transitivity, by thinking modules.Thinking modules have inputs and programs to utilize object similarities to map deduction,induction and analogy.Thus deduction utilizes overlap of category distance in maps to form  conjunction or disjunction. This program is extended to determine ordered lists .     The thinking modules are greatly enhanced by mirror neurons which ar...

 ABOUT ME:SAUMITRA SIRCAR Namaste, A  number of visitors to my blog have asked me why there is no name of the writer of the blog anywhere.There are two reasons for this. Firstly while choosing a blog name you can either write your ownname or choose the topic you are most interested in. I admire  the personality of Cincinnatus and chose to name the blog after him.The second reason is that I wanted to stay anonymous and wanted people to understand my writing rather than come to the limelight.     Anyway since visitors want to know my name here it is ,Saumitra Sircar.Saumitra is related to Mitra a Vedic God ,responsible for earthly  administration and well-being . Sircar is a title given by the British to my ancestors as reward for some achievements dear to them ,when they ruled India.        I had probably an extremely fortunate childhood. My father was a professor of Physics. He had done his PhD in Germany in 1962. My mother was a profess...