Institution Building

Prof. Anil K. Gupta (www.iimahd.ernet.in/~anilg) always says; "institution bulding is not an easy task. It needs many elements, aspects and ways. Most of them are ethical and moral values on which the institution is based on...." and he goes on the discourse of his lecture with his twinkling eyes with passion to make the person understand it. He has built institutions, sustained them and most important is he has preserved the value and essence of these institutions.

Management thinking will tell that Institutions and Organisations are different entities and has diffferent deifinitions. I agree to it; however I strongly advocate that Organisation is a subset of an Institutions. Organisation is a brick and mortal model; institution is a value based model beyond organisation. There is a flow of energy, vibration and dyanmics that is associated with an institution than an organisation. This is a subtle difference, but understanding it makes the difference clear.

I have seen with my more than a decade of experience in various management cadres and organisations I am associated with, that it is not easy to sustain an organisation or institution. Each and every institutions has a different model, has a different set of disciplines, has a different ethos and culture. The 'Culture' of the isntitution is what makes it different. Even the "MOM and POP" organisations or institutions which has been sustainable have been able to feed some culture into the institutions.

- Many times I try to ask this question : " Why do institutions or oragnisations fail to survive?" I think the best answer lies in exploring the truth that why the institution was born? In general the technology vision based insitutions have seen death more often than management or human resource based institutions.

I Will need more analysis to perahaps discuss it more..and who knows it is not a bad idea to have my next book on this topic..any advance incentive from publishers please...