Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Friday 31 August 1984

GUJRAL STRIKES AGAIN

Synopsis: Communication For Productivity
Letters written to some 7500 Workers / Managers / Union Leaders, following a period of strike / Go slow / Murders (1979 - 1987), at Mumbai factory of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. This direct / open / honest communication led to a remarkable atmosphere of trust between Workers and Management, which, in turn, increased productivity at 3% per year (ave). 

31 Aug 1984

To:

Dear Friends


Sometime back I sent you an article titled "Gujral Gamble".
Here is  another.  This time  it is not  about Gujral  but by Gujral. Although   Gujral   has  called   it   "industrial Sickness", I was tempted to call it,
"GUJRAL STRIKES AGAIN";
And this time he strikes at the  managements of Public Sector Units - for  allowing  themselves   to  be   "hijacked  by land-based  Guerillas  who  hold   industries  to  ransom  to enforce their own selfish demands".
The message is loud and clear.
u    freedom of speech and constitutional dissent    -  YES
u    minority trying to paralyse and throttle production    -  NO
As far as  Powai is concerned,  we have no major  outstanding bargainable issues.  The only remaining issue is:
"How to increase Productivity?"
But  productivity  is  not a  bargainable  issue  and  anyone trying   to   hijack   productivity  must   be   dealt   with accordingly.   We cannot  allow  productivity to  be  held at ransom.  Our  next-door neighbour Swami Chinmayanandji would tell us:
"Practise Religion  as though Death  has got hold  of you  by your hair".
And  our   religion  today  is   to  push   productivity  and discipline to the highest possible level.

H.C. PAREKH

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