Breakthrough Options for Management Science
Part 1 of 2
by Dr A Agnihotri
copyright 2003
In organizational learning, innovation is a prime demand. People are told to think-out-of-the-box all the time but continue to work within known, comfortable parameters. This article welcomes you to extreme science, taking you literally from out-of-the-box to out-of-this-world.
There will always be options. So why do people cling on to methodologies that have proven to be unsuccessful or costs too much to implement successfully? What is this thing about being scientific? Why do failures continue to persist if everything was a science and all procedures replicable? Based on experience, science is as much a belief system as everything else. Astrology is therefore as scientific as you want it to be, or not. The argument itself will never be as important as the impact it can produce in terms of results for success. If you're running a serious business, you want to consider all possible options in your honest drive towards business success.
In this article, we're not dealing with the scientific aspect of astrology or not, but we're going to deal with a very important issue in modern business management: why the people who manage businesses risk are not really thinking out of the box to try new models that might produce better business results? And we'll talk about how you can liberate yourself from that limitation.
After almost two decades as senior principal consultant in a consulting firm, advising organizations on troubleshooting and workforce renewal, I find management science presumptuous. There are so many variables that need to be considered; the obvious as well as the not so obvious. Unfortunately, the latter is sadly untouched due to an obsession with objective procedures. Everybody appears to be of the opinion that only objective procedures are capable of delivering. This alone is a major setback in effective goal setting and achievement.
One of the most powerful buzzwords today is innovation. This is where everyone is urged to innovate their existing ways, products and services to go beyond the norms to achieve unprecedented results. I am amused at how most business managers or owners appear to think out of the box, only to get into another bigger box. People continue to swim in semantics and concepts, still caught within their own acceptances and beliefs. If they knew what it meant to use a model that reached deep into the blueprint behind their reality, they'd know what it's like to deal with causal systems. Astrology offers that. But most people at the helm were not ready for turnaround success largely due to self-protectionism.
Today, when I use astrology for dire entrepreneurs, I do the following:
1. I determine the essential owners and major contributors
2. I ask how happy they are with their current ways
3. I ask how serious they are about achieving their business goals
4. I ask what risks and sacrifices they'd take to achieve their goals
5. I propose a success strategy to arrive at specific goals using astrology
6. I ask for specific terms of commitment they can offer
7. I demand specific terms of empowerment to help them make things happen
8. I offer a guarantee commensurate with their commitment
9. I offer total confidentiality due to the nature of the work
Contrary to popular belief, astrological application, executed by an astute and responsible astrologer, offers a lot of options. The idea is to weave astrology into the volatile decision-making of the organization. It is not like astrology makes its own decisions, and the organization has to have it written in stone as a policy. As in Muhurtha or Electional Astrology, where the system suggests optimum windows for auspicities in time and space to undertake specific types of events for best results, there are options to fit with the spiritual movements of the querist, individual, or even business entity. Due to their lack of understanding astrology's role, people tend to reject one of the most powerful decision-making tools ever devised by ancient technology.
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Breakthrough Options for Management Science
Part 2 of 2
by Dr A Agnihotri
copyright 2003
In organizational learning, innovation is a prime demand. People are told to think-out-of-the-box all the time but continue to work within known, comfortable parameters. This article welcomes you to extreme science, taking you literally from out-of-the-box to out-of-this-world.
The following would be the essence of what I would have to say to the would-be user of astrology in business success:
New ways, new results
With astrology, you can only win. If something has not been working for you, and you're still waiting for new results when you're doing things the same old way, then you should review your strategy. You have absolutely nothing to lose by taking a new path, because each one is a learning journey. You can still go on with other models subsequently. Become a learning individual by moving on. Try some models that might work for you, individually.
Astrology is individualistic
Business management models are most times generic, requiring you to plug your business into a pre-structured template. By astrology, this is unacceptable. Even by intelligence alone, we realize that there will be numerous variables that need customized consideration that must be factored in. Astrology begins with this as a fundamental and basic premise, not as a subsequent requirement. It is individualistic from the beginning; which is why it has stringent requirements.
Astrology has proven itself to the diligent
Many management techniques work for some people, but not for all the people all the time. In some cases, it even cost the company millions just to try it out, and they could just shake their heads and just try some new model a few months down the road. Why not put astrology on the list of models to try? After all, it's been around for four thousand years, and cultures across the globe have used it. Even governments are using it. Wall Street tycoons are using it. Even if it doesn't work for you, it won't cost you the millions modern systems would.
You have no risk to use astrology in your business
If you own your own business, you owe it to yourself to undertake every measure that avails itself to you to make your business a success. If you've tried everything you could lay your hands on, then lay aside the belief complex. If it doesn't work, then just like what many people have done with other models, just put it aside. Using astrology for yourself can be so affordable, you would be a fool not to consider it.
The following are ways to use astrology gently for better enterprise, without need to believe in it:
• Study it at a personal level first. Learn the fundamentals, and go for the killer techniques that will reveal the validity of astrology. Convince yourself that there could be something here. Give it time, like you did with other models. When you begin to see the parts that work, then you might want to apply your skill to your company needs. This is the cheapest entry level.
• Get someone you can trust to do an astrological job for your company or business. Same thing again. Convince yourself that there could be something here. Give it time, like you would with other models. When you begin to see the parts that work, then you might want to get on with the deeper, more intricate modules of its business application. This is still cheaper than if you were to use other conventional services for your corporate decision-making or troubleshooting.
If you can work with someone to show you the ropes of sound astrology, you'd be happy to know that it's something you can do for yourself. The astrological work that I've done for organizations are only because the owners can't find it in themselves to work things out for themselves, nor can they delegate it to anyone else. With good astrology, studying its relevance in your personal readings alone, is already a good connection to the implications of your business potential and success. And more, you can even do an astrological study for your business and obtain a revealing profile of its own potential success. I retrain top leaders on many business tactics and models; and I can tell you that studying astrology for better business is many times more worth the study; and it's even simpler, too. If I can teach my students to make astrological predictions in two days, you can learn it, too.
Many corporate friends have eventually started learning astrology not only for their own use, but also to apply it in their corporate decisions. Many were skeptical, but after some of my free lessons, had become so sure of their analyses they sound as if they've been doing it for years. They're definitely more scientific in their attitudes now and certainly more serious with their businesses.