HUMANE LEADER - THE NEED OF THE HOUR

As you know, the previous year I contemplated about does humane leader still exists? And quoting about life experiences of shri manohar parrikar and the present newzealand prime minister, days and months passed by and still being the new year I was contemplating on the same subject even today

Since I work in a MNC, we get to understand leaders from corporate, leaders from hardcore Indian managers and leaders who are there risen up to the challenge for the 1^st time, after years of hardwork.

Understanding and moving with them, made me realize the value they hold to the team, the daily activities they are into and the care but deep down, there is also the point of fact, do they actually show humane values, in the way they move is still a question mark to contemplate upon being amidst pressure of performance, and the general human tendency to manage life of oneself first, we come to the conclusion of the missing fish that the value of humane leader is the need of the hour!

There may be various aspects of leadership shared, deliberated and understood, over various decades, of life and I am here to share that made me feel important to be a leader who is humane!

In life, we may have ups and downs and leadership is a call that should be led from the front despite caring for our personal objectives, the team and the one’s tagged along, matters, but being a humane leader, balancing the art of a positive spark of a word to a tap behind the back, when the individual is down, matters more today, in my experience, we tend to miss a lot of face to face conversations, than meeting together in social media.

                As Part of experiencing humane in us, it is our duty to be more conscious in our decisions that we take rather, than making aggressive decision making to accept and change, but rather falter in the long run.

                In fact, majority of the world like to lead rather than being followed and here is where one has a leader needs to give that ample time and space to understand and bring up the one who is in need for life, and helping in do better, the  moment of lift, that you has a leader gives, makes you special.

                At the end of the day, we are here together to work on a balanced life for the good of ourselves and for the good of all wherever we are and leading from front, it is our need and urge to understand the art of making a conversation with our fellow counterparts on a intentional note and not valuing it just for something.

                Leaders are not born but they are made, and leading from front, can be a gift, which many few possess, many try to portray, but only few succeed.

                At this hour of time, being a society of a unjust value, we need leaders who are more humane to the cause and value  the work we do and that’s when a equable society comes into the picture.

Joseph Kamal Francis

IS IT TIME TO UNPLUG

As it was the start of the new year and I felt that this year should be a special year,after 2019 was a year of so many unforgettable moments, I decided to make a short visit to Sristi Foundation a eco sustainable village near the outskirts of tindivanam before the city of Puducherry where my friend Mr Ebin, a research scholar is doing his internship over a year and has always got a fruitful experience of life apart from the normal busy schedule.

I started on the eve of Pongal (a festival of tamilians) and it was a enriching experience to understand life, apart from our normal day to day life, and I reached in the afternoon of the 17^th of January 2020 and I was greeted by Ebin and we had to ride around a small but long road inside the village of Kunanmangalam which the village was once passed by a King, who had his chariot broken and had no other choice to stay over and was joyfully taken care by the people in the vicinity and looking at the character and the respect and down to earth character of the people he named the village as Kunanmangalam, and we rode around and reached sristi foundation a lush campus, that is surrounded by nothing but a dry road and I was overwhelmed with Joy looking at the greenery since I am from Chennai and we don’t get to see that, not only me but almost a whole lot of people.

Adding a bit of a short story which I read from,

Sristi Foundation was named after the Sanskrit word which means «creation». Indeed, we want to create a world for those who are marginalized and people with intellectual and developmental disability, a world which they could call their own, and where everyone would be treated with equal respect. To achieve this goal, we bought 8.39 acres of land in Thazhuthali Village (30 km from Pondicherry).

I had to dine in for lunch and had the fortunate chance of meeting its founder Mr Karthikeyan Ganesan, a Young Energetic, always caring individual who was a revelation, in the story of life and how he had to give about his little contribution for the society,.

Then it was a foundation where they take care of people with disability, my possibly the second experience of having a meal together, and was rejoicing the afternoon, filled with smiles around in seeing me, then set out to take a ride around the foundation to explore the various sustainable activites and quite overwhelmed in understanding the fact that even when the entire surrounding go without crops in summer, there is our foundation that helps to sustain life and move on.

Understanding the idea of a fruit forest was a different experience and enriching was to see few friends from foreign land, were on foot to learn the art of agriculture and help to learn the art of life.

Then evening dawn, with a little bit of a drizzle and we set out to a nearby village taken care  by the Youth who have been idealized and moved by the values of Dr BR Ambedkar for a short festival celebration where all young ones be part to bring out their talents.

And also was a opportunity to witness the village is separated by the road in centre, where one end of the town , is led by the lower caste and the other end of the town lived and nurtured well by the Upper caste, it’s still a dream of understanding developing India and yes that’s life.

We returned back to our home, which is bamboo, house, lush air in the night surrounded by the stars and green fresh air, the 1^st time, I ever had never to see a fan needed.

The next day was a melancholy in witnessing the dawn of the morning rises along with you and your part of it, wish we still find something like that in life and the morning began in a experience to speak to the young people of the foundation on leadership and what changes in life when you ask the question WHY?.

It was a memorable sessions of all that I gave, since I was finally getting to see a lot of people showing interest, since being in the fast moving world, many sessions where I addressed we find people equipped with media and the influence of it  and they miss the art of meeting in person and speaking,.

I felt happy in doing a better job in this short span of time and making them understand the need of values and how important it is to take guidance from holy books.

And we broke down for lunch and helped to spend some quality time, in speaking with the children to understand each one’s story and personally, I have listened to few stories and of the way they were before here and how life has transformed them to understand and move a pace with life.

We then set out as it was the evening and we had a nice evening spent at a little while in the nearby vacant area surrounded by trees and gazing at the stars and was fortunate, and made me realize this is life, though there is many we get in life, we tend not to move with and we stop, and realized enjoy life no matter what it is…

Money will come, but time doesn’t.

                And retuned back to our home and room and set foot to bed with the quietness of life.

                We began the next day, in meeting the Mr Karthik and was a long conversation on life, values, biology and the contribution to society at large and it was  fruitful word to understand the need of life and how to go about it.

                I bid a big thank you to all and returned back to my home back, with lot of memories of life, walk, and the art of there is more to life than work.

It gave me the life learning of Is it time to unplug? despite our busy schedule of life and no time to even talk moments, do we need a pause to understand the essence and the value of personal time and the growth phase of one's life is when you give time than the mobile phone in hand...

Can we stop a Catastrophic Future!

Global Warming refers to significant changes in global temperature, unpredictable wind pattern and other to measures of climate that occurs over several decades or longer. For the last couple of centuries, this change has made a notable impact on our Biophysical environment and eco-system which aggressively destroys the earth’s biodiversity.

Rising sea level, Atmospheric hotness, Ozone Depletion, and few human activities which went out of control for instance: Deforestation, Ocean acidification, Human Population, poor waste management in a massive quantity and aggressive urban sprawl are the global activity which ignites Global warming.

While exploring the root cause of how it affects life on earth, Life form on planet earth is carbon-based including humans. The carbon supports our life is CO, it holds one carbon molecule and one oxygen molecule. It gets complicated when humans release colorless carbon dioxide gas with a density of 60 percent higher than the dry air. Carbon dioxide consists of a carbon atom covalently double bonded to two oxygen atoms which do not provide a habitable atmosphere for any living organism.

A couple of months ago, I’ve visited Delhi. Air Quality Index was displayed in the Delhi metro station. It showcased Delhi’s pollution level of 439 AQI (Air Quality Index) during the peak level of air pollution where countries like Canada only had 9 AQI on the same day. however, during this study, I felt a shock wave within myself after witnessing this scale which shows three Degree of Climate Destabilization. It showcases warning levels of raising Global Temperature and how hard it’s gonna hit the existence of all life forms. Climate Activist Greta Thunberg’s voice on “We are at the beginning of mass extinction” knocked my head after understanding the general idea on Global Warning and climate justice in-depth. 

This exploration leads me to find the changes on planet earth in specific to ever-changing yet unpredictable climatic conditions via NASA’s earth observatory. The website presented a 50-second video on the drastic change in earth’s climate which gradually increased from the little ice age to the current time (1885 to 2014) temperature raising from -2.5 to +2.5.

 I also came across the keeling curve graph of the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere based on continuous measurements taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory on the island of Hawaii from 1958 to the present day which technically shows how our global development via industrialization has pulling growth of the lifespan of each lifeform.

Nature never disappoints to fascinate, during this study I came across few types of natural phenomena include Permafrost in geology, causes of extreme Weather and fog, thunder, tornadoes; decomposition, germination; physical processes, erosion; tidal flow, and natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. Global warming disturbs all these earth’s nature happenings and places environment in a catastrophic position where life forms may not able to adapt or sustain.

-          V.M. EBIN NAVIS, CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU.

Understanding the Season of Advent

Courtesy: YCW group in Europe

Being You...

As most of you are aware , we are in the era where the entire society is talking about the prime elements of the end of the world , call for rapid change and care for the mother earth and some where in bits and pieces people talk, amidst all that the society at large many speak but nothing comes out in practice and amidst fast changing society the trends have changed to look up to a whole lot of development but side by side the main cross roads of individual values, respect , care and concern is a doubt, from the small issues in our day to day life to the injustices that happen to women and to a whole lot of problems that go unnoticed, this is a society where we live in, from the recent incidents of brutality to the call from a nobody to a somebody and suddenly the world looks up to her as change, personally trends have changed but people haven't to my knowledge of understanding . I have been personally listening to incidents for almost a decade and hardly things have changed nor i have made little attemps to change in my livelihood.

Likewise understanding the fact, there must certainly br quite a lot of people who must not be aware of these instances that the entire world is encountering annd they must be worried about their own livelihood.

So is this the end? Understanding the Society at large do we look up to our world alone or do we feel accountable to our society at large ! Is what i believe is the question we need to seriously look into.Amidst the fast moving world i believe if we as an individual can look upto our values and being accountable to our own actions will be our simple solution to cater to a whole lot of talking that our world is speaking about..

Taking care for our words and being accountable for our actions is the best thing we can look up to do to be there to safeguard our society for Survival.

Who in the World Am I?

As most of you know, I’m Joseph Kamal Francis, Profession as a Banker, Passionate Blogger, YCS’er and adolescence friendly life skill trainer in India.

I ask to all off near and dear ones from all around the world to understand the rich & unique experience of our Society By understanding the facts based on reality, I believe it will definitely make oneself to care and love to whole new level.

Being part from rich and diversity land and at the same time, I’m aware & feeling so special to be with personalities from unique land, culture, tradition, language and heritage who is about to listen somethings about a journey. A Journey which is hard to fade away in time.

A Journey which defines us, from generation to generation where we have been rising up but there is a greater call this special hour, where our question of relevance is deeply doubted? And it is here, I ask each and every friend inside this environment to travel in my journey for next few min.

A Journey where helping young mind by being a support system to understand the society & it’s problem which is evolving every single hour. A Journey towards equity in the smallest level, and that every tiny drop will soon be an ocean of balanced communities.

A journey where we must help young mind to care and protect our common home. Where we need to make this world inclusive, sustainable, Human as well as other species friendly.

Every Journey deserves a master plan and a voice to executive the master plan. Every journey requires a voice to the voiceless, every journey needs a quality leader who can teaches how to help the common man to help her/himself. A journey which can unite, connect, bridge young minds to grow god’s kingdom.

A Journey where voices are in a great need to showcase the Era of relevance! It is the right and duty of ourselves to look up and understand, do we participate in a world just like others, or do we look up in order to lead from the front to build the goal of a just society!

A Journey of understanding the fact that we have come across, various situations of our Global History. It is here where we decide, what is that we wanted to take up for our life and for our generations to who are yet to be born. It is here where we decide how you are gonna raise your voice with the right choice. It is here we decide about the journey as well as the precise path of the movement. It is here we decide about the great harvest that the movement is gonna travel with young mind, harvest of goodness in all of us.

In this journey, Joseph Kamal Francis as National leader, it is my duty to tell all the brave young minds that the world needs to take a greater step in order to reach greater heights. The Society has to continue to grow up in the right path which makes every young mind in all the corner of the world to Grow. Growth via adding the new flavor, different dimension, bright perspective, strong energy, higher goals, powerful vision, smart solution and diverse approach with great intention towards journey of growth.

Today, if you feel the same energy that I do, if you feel the same urgency that I do, if you feel the same passion I do, if you feel the same hopefulness that I do - if we do what we must do, then I have no doubts that all across the country, We will rise up to Believe, begin and Become better global citizens to live for nothing but die for something in this Awe Inspiring World

The world at Large is fighting for it's survival, and now I ask you, do you have a minute to listen and try to change live a life that's worth it!!!

Please Ask yourself, are you really aware!

Ask yourself, do you reallyreflect!

Ask yourself, do you reallyAct!

Understanding US!!!

I am grateful and thankful that I work, these days, coz that’s where I find myself a little happy because of the wonderful people I have come across, in this journey and also few bitter moments to pass by, all for good of something, we now are a part of Team of fourteen, leaded by a hardcore Indian Leader , as my daily work also the team’s majority work is to manage the daily operations of various inflows and outflows and projects that take place along for the good of the organization.

We moved our Journey as a team, but the understanding, that the leader needs to accept everybody as one and carry on, still happens but to a greater extent the bonding mattered and the ship slowly started sinking, which led me to a greater amount of reflection to understand, what’s that been lacking and I couldn’t figure out where are we heading! So I took up to understand a little bit of understanding WE!

Leadership as defined, by wise men, who defined, your defined who you work for!! And not by whom you work under!! Growing as a team, since being the most number of team across, having the most number, we felt that we worked under clusters under various domains, which felt that the team had to struggle and understand that there is to much in the taking when it comes in the taking! I’m referring to the stretch and the man- power hours to take control and the accountability that mattered, but here comes the idea, of the responsibility to recognize the fact the people who work for long hours!!!

Now that recognition, takes a long way to come, because, you now come to the picture of daily operations taking in the manual way, which includes lot of manual labor, realizing the fact that the art of responsibility lies with the leader, which need to be addressed, which is a long way in the picture, because of the reality that the leader doesn’t understand the real picture.

Now, where are we as a team!, work happens, and move on, people tend to forget their value of being recognized in a team, and they still tend to understand that, survival matters and that the problem of  getting behind fingers pointed at one’s face becomes a fear and that the bond of the team is finally lost.

At this juncture, what now matters wasn’t a life time of experience but a simple value of empathy, that encourages oneself to accept the art that even the other is slow, there is still that saying that we are part of a great team and that’s when the team is reborn to do something good for everybody!

Being a leader of the 21^st Generation, we still need to accept times have changed and not look up to accept what life was back in the generations that passed by, we are a team and only when the leader leads the team is built.

A successful team isn’t determined by the output each individual delivers but the amount of group photographs the team smiles and accepts to take together, will determine the family!

The world is rapid and it’s time to understand that reality must not be just a dream but in practice!

Cheers 

Joseph Kamal Francis

To be continued!