Find Your Navratnas (Nine Jewels)

Reference : The Concept is not directly derived from any reading. But I think it is influenced by two writers. One is the father of management Peter F Drucker and other is Chief Belief officer at future group Mr Devdutt Pattanaik. Any other writer who touched on this subject before I wish to give credit to him.

Entrepreneurs, businesses, institutions, organizations are all humans. When you are working in any company you are practically helping someone achieve his dream, joining efforts to extend the passion of some pioneer. You may not realize it if you are stuck in day to day working but when you can pause for a minute and see the global picture then you will find some link.

So it is very important for leader to understand that people are working for him, people are working to achieve his dream, people spending their valuable lives to help him reach new highs.

So I thought of dream as a basis of institution and hierarchy as follows.

So Master dream is a dream of creator or Pioneer who is visionary and want’s to change the things around him or her. Step 2 Dreams are dreams which are related to any one of several aspects of bigger picture and small tasks are the wheels on which all the system works. The interaction between them is bi directional and not unidirectional. Proper feedback is important for success and revise the expectations or even increase the level where we want to reach.

Ok why I introduced this concept here is the fact that I want to emphasis on the fact that Step 2 dreams are most important. These are the pillars on which building can be built. So you should have people who can do this. You need people who will support your dream but also Create their own dream to motivate the tasks.

The concept of Navratnas come up here. Raja Shivaji was one of the greatest warrior in the history. he saw a big dream. But he had people who could see step 2 dreams. People who were aligned with big picture but also having their own path. So these people were motivated and were pursuing individual dreams. Take another example of Pandavas, Krishna was having bigger dream of defeating evil forces but pandavas wanted revenge and their land back. These step 2 dreams were powerful it propelled bigger dream.

So if you have dream, start looking for people who can see step2 dream for you. Start looking for partners who can align with your thinking and will create their own path to reach their dreams. so I gave the title as “Find Your Navratnas”. Find people who will fit into and your chances of reaching the goals suddenly increase many folds.

Motivation comes from meaning and dream and not from money and material things. Leader who understands this will be successful and his partners will be satisfied.

Disclaimer: The views above are independent and not pointing towards any organization or person. examples from history were used as I tried to relate the subject. If someone thinks they are not suitable please feel free to comment on the same. 

Signing off

Nikhil Parchure.