How long do we focus only on Finance Capital? When will we start to give importance to Human Capital? Who will take initiative? Is there any set mechanism for that?
Dr. Oommen Mammen / NV Paulose
How many cities in India are Intellectual Cities? There are many. Are the Intellectuals a commonwealth of the society? Are the intellectuals very much self-centered? Are some of them other-centric or socially centered? Let us collectively launch the concept of an Intellectual Bank. It is a consortium of people who are interested to contribute a portion of their time for the common good of their society. Naturally it will benefit them and their institutions. Someone saying they are selfless, we should watch them very close and very careful. Very rarely only such people appear on earth. We need not be selfless entirely. Better we have enlightened self interest.
Mangalore is an Intellectual City. We can call Mangalore one of the Intellectual Capitals of India and the World. Plenty of Mangalore Intellectuals are serving in key positions across the globe. At the very same time, there are plenty of resources untapped in the city of Mangalore. When everyone is focused on building their own organization, who will focus on society building? How many trusted politicians we have in our country altogether?
The New Mangalore Port is underutilized. It has no impact on the life of the common people. No one is talking transparently about the possibilities of port-related opportunities for the common good. In fact, Mangalore can become a hub of Organic Food Export since we have a large port here. Port is for Export. What else? Land and Natural Resources wasted in Mangalore are very large. No thinking is going along those lines. All because of the absence of a socio-economic culture that takes care of the common good.
Even Cruise Tourism has remained in the limited thinking of a few ordinary travel agents. Large society is kept themselves away from the thinking process. Plenty of expansion programs can be linked when options are open to the public. Ideas cannot be restricted to the top end of any organization’s ladder. People are good at the top to bottom but they are not getting into the terrain of possibilities. This is because of their comfort levels. People perform only when they are desperate and in need of an outcome.
There are plenty of people who are truly concerned about the well-being of others. Plenty of Teachers give a lot of time to take care of their students. Some of the work is much beyond their office hours. They enjoy it when their students are well-nurtured. This attitude is seen very much in other professions as well.
People in Positions can become more passionate.
This is a general suggestion. We are yet to meet any bad heads in any institutions in Mangalore. Good people can become a little more active and productive is our humble submission. Success makes organization heads to remain not much imaginative. People also get stuck with a corrupt system that can never foresee any vision more than capital corruption. Match fixing very much impact the conduct of the city. Builders are happy with the TDR Silent Scam that’s happening in the name of Road widening. Something that was visualized for the large good of society is limited to the advantage of a few people. Those who are into it all benefitted. Fall into the system or else you have no role to play is the approach of the controlling system. They are not understanding the non-productivity of their wealth which is ill-earned and purposeless.
Why Intellectual Bank of Mangalore (IBM)? What is the Relevance? Who Can Benefit?
There are but plenty of great people in the city of Mangalore. This must be the case in many other cities in the world. Most of the rich people in Mangalore are loving simple living. Most of the, if not all of them, are family people. They listen to common people and they are helpful to everyone. By forming IBM in the new Connotation, We wish to thread socially committed individuals to come together and get into an Informal Forum to help society to grow through collective thinking and massive action.
We can take up plenty of zero-investment expansion projects in many of the organizations in the city. This is the same for many cities too. What is needed is something called an Open Space Approach.
Open Source (OS) is very familiar to us. Are we familiar with Open Space (OS) Approach?
Keep your windows and Doors open for people to come and work with you. Find out ways and means to engage Intellectual Resources. Identify areas where you can engage external Intellectual Resources. Making an external layer to your existing employee base will help you to create new avenues for revenue and to multiply existing revenue models. Human resources play a major role in every wealth-creation process. Next time, someone comes up with an idea for you; say yes; let the idea be implemented by the person who proposed it. Anyone giving an idea and running away is not genuine. Such ideas are not original ideas for sure. The idea to be an idea to be close to the heart of the originator of the idea.
Other Cities are also Welcome. Let us form Intellectual Banks in every City. There is no license required to do good for the larger society.
