WHITHER "VIRTU"???

With the impending Fiscal Cliff, real or imagined, one returns to Machiavelli's basal political question: How does one sponsor Virtu? Virtue, in a republican polity, is the consitution of order and progress. Above all, however, Republicanism is defined by the principle of Civic Participation. _____ Our leaders have truly - (squarely and succintly) - failed us. But we cannot call defeat in as much as we cannot claim victory. Republicanism is Struggle... _____ Without the struggle of arms, Republicanism is the struggle of conscience. Dear leaders, choose (and perform) the right thing.....

GLOCALIZATION = "DEPTH AND WIDTH"

http://www.salagram.net/parishad77-g.htm; http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html

IMAGINATION AT WORK

DOLL - LUXE MODEL

HOLISTIC VISION: Barber, 'Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance' ~ 'Full of grief I scream at the wind Thought I heard the words of others Imprison myself and stay in a shell I won't let you in to have a story to tell Things tend to drag me down Don't understand so they hate me now My fear grips the will of stone My fear grips I'll die alone I promised myself somewhere in the teenage life I'd never submit to the ones I will not be like Live in a hole but stay close to my kind Cause they understand what burns in my mind I still feel incomplete Friends are few and far between'..

Samuel Barber, Piano Concerto, Op. 38: II. Canzone: Moderato

'If ever words were spoken painful and untrue I said I loved but I lied In my life all I wanted was the keeping of someone like you As it turns out deeper within me love was twisted and pointed at you Never ending pain, quickly ending life You keep this love, thing, love, child, love, toy You keep this love, fist, love, scar, love, break You keep this love, love, love You keep this love, love, love, you keep this love I'd been the tempting one stole her from herself This gift in pain her pain was life And sometimes I feel so sorry, I regret this the hurting of you But you make me so unhappy, I'd take my life and leave love with you I'd kill myself for you, I'd kill you for myself You keep this love, thing, love, child, love, toy You keep this love, fist, love, scar, love, break You keep this love, love, love You keep this love, love, love, you keep this love No more head trips You keep this love, thing, love, child, love, toy You keep this love, fist, love, scar, love, break You keep this love, love, love You keep this love, love, love, you keep this love You keep this love, you keep this love You keep this love, you keep this love'

ERNEST BLOCH, 'HIVER-PRINTEMPS', TWO SYMPHONIC POEMS

THE 'BRIC' TALENT MATRIX: CHRSYALIS NOT A CACOON [http://hbr.org/2008/11/winning-the-race-for-talent-in-emerging-markets/ar/1]

Hats off again to Harvard Business Review for its winter 2012 edition regarding talent management, 'Talent: How to Find It - How to Keep it'. And there could not be a more appropriate and timely topic.. _____ The article that really struck me, among the outstanding contributions, was "Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets" co-authored by Professors Douglas A Ready, Linda A Hill and Jay A Conger. (A lot of A's there!) Though reprinted from HBR's November 2008 edition, the article remains remarkably prescient. This is only a short post, for it is unecessary (pleonastic is the literary term, I think) to add to the authors' excellent summary approach to conducting talent management in the BRIC countries. A few points may, however, suffice preparatory to reading this wonderful article. _____ Ready, Hill and Conger negotiate the emerging markets' talent matrix by focusing on four cardinal points: purpose, brand, opportunity and culture. Whereas the authors label this matrix a Framework, I see the four-point framework as a foundational 'true north' compass to engaging with the region with the rapidly shifting, and evolutionary trajectory, of BRIC emerging market potential. Drawing on examples from HCL, a software company and Standard Chartered Bank, the authors emphasise the power of an energising brand unified with an elevating global mission. As Liu Chuanzhi of Legend and Bill Amelio, current, CEO of Lenovo, China attest, in another instance, Lenovo offers a 'stage without a ceiling for every employee' in what was once an impoverished and financially undernourished region. Similarly, TCS Iberoamerica, a $160 million Tata consultancy unit in Uruguay represents the cutting-edge confluence of brand and opportunity for a "glocalised" workforce ( my interpellation). TCS's star platform is its Project Arogya, led by Olivier Jarry, providing health care and education to Uruguayan villages. As Jarry notes proudly, 'We provide a source of revenue for local talent working with us on the ground. We are helping local doctors and pharmacists. This is a tremendously exciting mission' {Emphasis added}. _____ Hence all-in-all, a wonderful blueprint for emerging market (and general) talent management. If I had to add my own short gloss to their effort, however, I would highlight the potential for "reverse mentoring" in Ready et al.'s true north compass. As the authors suggest, this will very much take global companies to the next level of 'promises made, promises kept'. In order to fulfill the long-suppressed potential of emerging market candidates in BRIC markets, corporate headquarters will profit immeasurably from sincere alignment to emerging market cultures. Our top business leaders, both senior and middle management, must not be above learning from our new BRIC colleagues and their increasingly crucial perspectives regarding global talent development and engagement. The bottom line, here, is ever more in view.. _____ Thus Katherine Tsang, CEO of Standard Chartered China asserts: '{These] challenges forced us to tell the SCB story with passion, but to make sure that our culture and management practices matched that story in an honest way'. _____ So, adding to that story, the authors do a phenomenal job of relating the talent 'promise' and key to accomplished success in our emerging global economy. What an exciting story that is, and yet could be............ :-) !