Lessons from L&T’s showpiece tasks
What is that this life if filled with care,
We don’t have any time to face and stare?
No time to face beneath the boughs
And watch the great thing about our partner?’
– Updated from ‘Leisure’ by William Henry Davies
Woke chairmen like Anand Mahindra have requested their L&T counterpart to make up and odor the kapi. They are the newest and weightiest to hitch the banned-wagon towards S N Subrahmanyan’s no-longer-private video. In it, L&T C’man, seeing no use for TLC within the office, hinted at a 90-hour week. This would subpoena Sundays and thus nix non-productive pursuits equivalent to ‘staring at your wife’. Since Smt S has maintained Sphinx-like silence on this now-viral problem, we don’t know if she too would favor her Pati Parmeshwar to finest the Almighty, and go away her to relaxation alone on the seventh day. Adding to the damning barrage, severe and hilarious, I’d like to make use of L&T’s most-vaunted tasks to point out how its boss can engineer a office as completely satisfied as worthwhile.
Mumbai’s trans-harbour Atal Setu. Don’t be intransigent and harbour a grudge towards sybaritic Sunday. Instead, bridge the hole between company targets and private targets. Also span gaping chasm at dwelling.
Delhi & Mumbai Terminals. Extending my analogy to full airports, L&T wants inner programs as subtle and delicate as these in its aeronautical arsenal. Human error can nonetheless stymie top-end remote-control tools. The tragic penalties of over-competitiveness resulting in over-stretching flight-duty time requirements are too well-known.
Bullet Train. Boss might want development at Subrahsonic velocity, however manpower acquisition might be as fractious as the present land acquisition is that if procurer thinks he can use his superior muscle to coerce supplier.
Undersea tunnels for Mumbai’s coastal highway. These are deservedly hurrah-ed engineering feats, however the latest video’s leak was much more embarrassing than the bodily one which sprang within the barely three-month-old underpass at Priyadarshini Park. Tunnel imaginative and prescient is as harmful.
Cryostat – largest-ever, high-vacuum-pressure vessel constructed — for International Thermo-nuclear Experimental Reactor, France. Like it, L&T Chairman might intention at producing vitality by way of fusion not fission. Implosion is assured if higher-up strain is utilized whereas retaining worker satisfaction in vacuum.
Statue of Unity. Tallest firms are constructed as a lot on variety; much more essential is calibrating the appropriate steadiness – structural, chemical, work-life.
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Alec Smart stated: “Now even cricket’s LBW is Leave Behind Wives.”
Disclaimer
This article is meant to deliver a smile to your face. Any connection to occasions and characters in actual life is coincidental.
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