Ever heard of the phrase," Shooting the Messenger?" Well, in earlier days, well before Shakespearean era, this metaphor meant something like lashing out at the blameless bearer of a bad news. As the time progressed and warfare got modernised, commanding officers followed this code by not harming enemy envoys and messengers. In today's world and more so in the management world, a derivative of the saying took birth in wherein persons tend to blame media, this blog for example, for presenting contradictory news/views about a subject, issue, person or establishment. So, while shooting a messenger may be product of an insecured mind who can not digest the fact gracefully and prefers to target the messenger, such a stance leads to information black-outs. (credits for picture venitism.blogspot.com)
Shooting the messenger may also be a kind of a tactical move (rather 'strategic' move as self styled strategic managers like to call it) but a certain fallout of such an attitude is a trend wherein ethos of non-disclosure may actually set in. The affected populace is generally intelligent enough to understand such a trend and start to hold negative feedbacks. So, the KING continues to live happily with a great degree of self-delusion.......!!
Coming more closer to my skin...... There was some ugly scene created in the cafe yesterday while I was away. I believe some oblique references had been made towards my blog (that appears to be the trend here). I wish I could be spoken to rather than sending a messenger with a freaking hope that I would shoot him. Lemme clarify a few issues once for all:-
1. I, and only I (Ajay K Raina) am responsible for each and every word that is ever written here. So, if my writings ever cause some justifiable pain in someone's mind or sole, I am the person who should be spoken to directly. I do not fall into the silly traps of messengers and shooting them.
2. Barring a few incorrigibles, every one is a friend in my batch. Close door meetings at personal levels with an obvious aim of driving a wedge between students, are as useless as such childish efforts are laughable. But yes, lemme confess, such issues give us reasons to laugh out loudly, LOL as they call it!
3. Sudden increase in words like "Suspension", "Legal Team" and such like threats are pretty amusing and equally laughable. Students are already (and always) under stress; if we do not laugh at such words, at least a few of us will get into depression. People need to understand that. Threats have never worked.
4. No wonder then that the system is working through close door apologies to parents of some student, arm twisting of another to seek certain details and attempts to create friction amongst students and so on. If only energies were utilised in a positive manner, EBS would be better place to study and impart education. I only hope that strategists do appreciate the fact that same templates can not be applied with everyone and good sense would prevail in the end.
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