Do you care?

One time i was speaking to my boss about my aims, problems.  Then out of the blue he said, “I don’t care.”

I was dumbfounded.  Then one year after, may be feeling the awkwardness i felt or something in himself, he came up with a new management technique going by the acronym ICARE. 

Since then i have been struggling with the questions

Should we care?

whom should we care of?

How much should we care?

How should we care?

When should we care?

Finally why should we care?

We care about our employees, about our family members.  We are if they sick or if they are well. 

But we don’t care about the stranger walking in the street.  We can’t care about him. 

We buy from the grocery shop.  But we care about him? 

MAny of us are buyers of products and service at corporate level.  Do we care about our suppliers?  Do we have a responsibility towards them? Or are they like daily wage laborers? 

Why don’t we care about them?  Because we don’t need them daily?  Because those who need them daily, cares about them.  So need precedes caring? 

Is this good? 

All this seems philosophical talk only when you are on the recieving end.  When you are the supplier who is treated like the king when needed and forgotten like a grave when not needed.  It is almost funny.  Yet this is my life as a management consultant/trainer/motivator.  At first it seemed hard to understand but now i am getting used to it.  I am a star afterall and we don’t shine 365 days.  Or should we?  But at least not for the same people. 

But i don’t care about laborers that come to my house.  Freelancing is pretty much like that.  In better perspective it is like being an actor. 

But we should care enough, because if we dont’ specialized experts will join the mainstream job market or business and we will not have them.  We should not totally ignore them. 

Nepal is notorious for ignoring experts or talents and as a results they migrate.  The most badly hit are singers and actors.  PEople sing their songs everywhere but they won’t buy their CD.  They will borrow, copy, but they will not buy.  So they fly away, become business men and we end up poorer in entertainment. 

Few have survived, by getting pulled by the advertizing industry.  But i think that if you going to sing a song, enjoy it, you should buy a cd. 

Have i bought a cd of a nepalese singer? Well no because i am not into nepalese song.  But i will buy the day i will enter this segment.  Soon. 

In this way Nepal is slowly killing talent and only corporate players, business players are striving.  But they too will need talent.  If we don’t care for them, what will we work with?