Just a name. Just a designation. Just a title. Just a nobody. Imagine being in the highest seat and being powerless. Imagine being at the top and being looked down upon. Imagine being the head of a state/company and being headless. These are the imageries that are live and upclose in the country.

A country that is bankrupt and suffering from high inflation, disinvestment, unemployment, lawlessness has a Prime minister, a Deputy PM and ministers but no leaders. Nothing can be more belittling for a leader than to make a decision that is dismissed by his junior.

Nothing can be more humiliating that the junior makes a decision contrary to your decision and gets it implemented without any repercussions.

Nothing can be more shocking than the fact that this humiliation is met with a smile by the leader as if nothing has happened. In the last petrol price change announcement, the state-run PTV on social media platform carried Prime Minister’s directives to the finance ministry to reduce the prices of petrol and HSD by Rs15.40 and Rs7.90 per liter, respectively. The directives were dismissed by finance ministry that issued a notification of reducing it by hardly Rs 4.

This malaise of sitting in high offices and acting low is widespread in the corporate and institutional world. More often than not we see potential being crushed by people in teams, in divisions, and in departments. Many times it may not even be intentional. It is just the way things are being done there.

The problem is that the higher you go, the lower you give importance to feedback. The issue is that as you rise in rank you fall in........

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