From ugly black caterpillar to a colourful butterfly


Recently got some bad news,

"The San Jose Mercury News reports that a 47 year old man named Jing Hua Wu, after being laid off from his job at a fabless digital radio semiconductor startup in Santa Clara called SiPort, came back to the office on Friday afternoon with a gun and killed three people. Sid Agrawal, the company’s CEO, and Brian Pugh, VP Operations, were killed along with one other as yet unidentified woman. Wu is still at large according to the latest reports."

There are two things that strike me.

1) Sid Agrawal. that strikes me as an Indian name. (Must have been Siddharth).
2) I wonder if this was only the idiosyncracy of the employee who gunned down three people.

I feel really sad for the families of these 3 people.

Already people are insecure with the current meltdown that we are witnessing in economies around the world. Most of the people who invested in stocks are left with less than half of their net worth. Add to it job loss and insecurity and you have an explosive situation.

After all the good times/aftereffects of GATT, WTO, WWW, Liberalisation We seem to be witnessing their dark side.
I still feel all those decisions were right ( opening up economies, getting the best people from anywhere to do the job at lowest cost. All this makes sense ). But this shift asks for a lot of 'aahuti' and we should keep our senses intact. unlike the gunman in question. These are tough times for everybody, employee as well as the employer.

POST SCRIPT ::: (from managing radical change - Sumantra Ghosal, Gita Priamal and Christopher Bartlett)
'From a caterpillar to a butterfly' sounds and feels so good. From an ugly black caterpillar to a bright colourful butterfly - the symbol of fantasy of love of good cheer! But imagine what is happening to the caterpillar as it goes through that metamorphosis. First it goes blind then its arms and legs fall off Finally its body splits open to allow the beautiful wings to emerge think of the fear and pain it is going through. A similar kind of transformation is being witnessed around the world. and I am sure it will emerge to be a better place that it is NOW.