The youth shall prevail - I mean after 20 years of experience

It is lovely to hear corporates talk of employees as their asset and go on to tell us how important their youth are etc. Unfortunately corporate talk and reality seldom match. Empowerment of the youth, need for fresh ideas etc are lovely to hear. Unfortunately between the youth of the company and the well meaning top management come a strata of paranoid mediocrity - the middle management. These are the people who have invariably started their career with the company; got their promotions by default - not by design, and have glued their backseats to their well-cushioned chairs. Top management's visions mean to them (rightly or wrongly) - a loss of power and the push of people who at least IQ wise pose immense challenges to them. You can almost see their thought processes - the paranoia of giving up power accumlated with tenacity over the years - a destruction of their self created comfort zone - and above all the mega question - if you allow these youngsters to perform and start giving them promotions on merit instead of seniority (like he got his), at least for middle management anarchy would prevail. The end result - most manufacturing houses in the private sector today have public sector mindsets . So, where does this leave the "future of tomorrow"? The answer is very simple - as frustrated and impotent executives who are merely glorified clerks. And the end result - no matter what your visions and missions are - a total corporate castration.

- Hari