I was asked to evaluate a school called xyz situated in a
city abc. Since it was a friendly
request and I do not say no to friends (only regret latter), I ventured out in
that exercise. As usual, everyone was aware of the vital problem, yet no one
was speaking about it. It is there I remembered the old saying that consultancy
is nothing but looking at the client’s watch and telling what time it is.
Yet, like an objective evaluator I interacted with the all
parties and came to the same conclusion which was known to everyone. So
everyone accepted my findings. I told them that you guys have two options –
either leave the school or fix the hooligans (or just eliminate them) who are
in the form of teachers. The management was eager to handover the school, they
were waiting for some so called expert to give the verdict.
When they tried to handover the school, all the involved
parties got panicked. And there was commotion among the teachers and everyone
except the management wanted the present administrators to continue. As usual,
management gave in to the relentless request.
The joke is not over, the management once against asked me to
conduct workshop for the same teachers. Einstein, long ago, said, “Repeating
the same things again and again, and expecting different result is the
definition of stupidity” (the original quote is somewhat different, but meaning
is same). Now in this school, nothing is changed – same administrators, same
situation and same structure and same activities, yet everyone is piously
hoping that things will turn out different this time.
Looks like that I will be continued to be employed for ages
to come …..
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