Strategy Yoga


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Peter Senge: Top 25 Management Gurus:  "My intuition is they (India and China) will move somewhat together but in very distinctive ways. But I think the thing that will be really common to both of them will be the fact that they won't be able to do this without reconnecting their heritage. They will have to develop a confidence that they can do this as Indians and they can do this as Chinese. They have learnt a lot from the West but they don't have to copy, they cannot create a Chinese or Indian version of a Western model. The Western model itself is basically bankrupt. It does not give enough attention to the human side of development." End of Quote.
Is strategy required if everything was in abundance?
I guess the answer is "No".

One factor about strategy is that it has to be applied to aspects / things that are "limited/finite". It could be time, space and matter.
Is strategy required if everybody knew what was to be done?
Answer is again a "No".

People individually know certain things, differently though because of their customized backgrounds. Some people know some things better. Hence another factor about strategy is the responsibility of leaders to align stakeholder's thoughts-feelings-actions.
Does strategy have a job?
"Yes".

Its job is to bring joy, friendliness and togetherness amongst stakeholders.
Can there be infinite joy, friendliness and togetherness?
Answer is "Yes".

If Life is termed in moments, then there is potential to experience these virtues in all the moments. Hence, the character of infinite.

So what is strategy?
In sanskrit, there is a term called "Vivek"...meaning discretion.

Strategy is about applying discretion to align stakeholder's thoughts-feelings-actions on the finite elements of time-space-matter to bring infinite joy, friendliness, compassion amongst its stakeholders.
Discretion and Alignment are the two key functions of strategy. Incidentally that is what Yoga does.
Hence in some sense strategy is the yuja/yoga of, by and for stakeholders.
How does one bring discretion because its subjective?
How does one bring alignment because its conflicting with stakeholders intra and inter priorities?
Wisdom discussions and contemplative tools are the answer.
If organizations continue to ignore these fundamental fulcrum, they shall be engaged in manufacturing of unbridled desires, half knowledge, egosystems, jealousy and insecurities. These have potential to implode and hence

- one can see why S&P 500 in 1955 is almost wiped out by now.
- Gallup saying 70% of employees are disengaged
- Forbes mentioning the issues of human condition affecting productivity and creativity greatly
- Roman Krznarik mentioning that despite having 12,000 job types today as against just 100 almost a century ago, even then people feel incomplete
- World Economic Forum mentioning higher incidences of chronic lifestyle in corporate life...cancer, diabetes, obesity, stress.

Happy Discretion & Alignment.
Happy Strategy Yoga.

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