ashokbhatia

Attachment is an intoxicant which, when taken in excessive doses, leads to perilous outcomes. When consumed without a moderating dose of detachment, it could prove to be a disastrous tissue restorative, a concoction which is surely injurious to the efficiency and effectiveness of a manager.

Attachment with a Lion King could leave a sheep ending up as its prey. If the Lion King himself feels attached to a wily Finance Fox and ends up promoting him as a CEO, the organization may soon start running only on Standard Operating Procedures, neglecting customer service and employee relationships. A Production-Bovine who is attached to the technology in use on the shop floor would take a jaundiced view of a more efficient technology being planned to be introduced by the management.

A sprightly Operations-Reindeer might start believing that the whole organization would collapse if he were to proceed on leave. A Human-Resources-Canine may start hiring people only from his own ethnic background, resulting in a lack of diversity in the organization. Separations with non-performing
employees do not get handled well, impacting down-sizing initiatives of the management.

The war depicted in the epic Mahabharata, of which the Bhagavad Gita is an integral part, came about only because King Dhritarashtra could not overcome his attachment to either the throne or his son, Duryodhana. The outcome was the death of all his 100 sons, loss of prestige and kingdom, and of course,
social and economic misery of the multitudes who had earlier thrived during his reign.

Those of you who have come across the works of Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese-American luminary, might recall his poem ‘On the Children’ which captures the futility of being attached to one’s children thus:

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and
daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through
you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet
they belong not to you…

(Some excerpts from my latest book, as per details below)

https://www.amazon.in/dp/9353520436

https://www.amazon.com/BHAGAVAD-GITAS-GUIDE-CORPORATE-DHARMA-ebook/dp/B0GHZJRQMR