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Message for May 2004
Having been both a student, and sometime practitioner of both Cricket and Management, I cannot fail to make the cross-over connection between the two, particularly in the aftermath of the recent successes of the Indian cricket team. The recent resurgence of our cricket team reinforces the relevance of a few cardinal tenets of organization and management. Clear objectives, sound strategies, focused and supportive leadership, a team structure with not only a balance of skills in the field, but also much better supporting infrastructure in training, sports medicine, and even psychological inputs. From a collection of gifted individuals, in the last few years, a confident team has been forged, and as Navjot Siddhu often repeats the old saw that the whole is always greater than just the sum of its parts. A point, subtle to some, was made when the acting Captain Dravid declared at Multan, when the great icon was a few runs short of his double century – i.e. that the team’s objective comes first. This leads us to another truism, often forgotten, though – that the Institution is greater than any individual. Individuals are at best birds of passage, however gifted, but the Institution is the permanent repository of all the many contributions made by the individuals connected with it. And so in Masonry – the allegory re-inforces and reminds !
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