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reality was ignored by the educated elite Sia relations with Western eyes, rela ve thought only of disputes and provided for them. This is not a difference in toute is Soren in basic assumptions. Those employers and Managers who have found alternative perspectives have achieved great successes in their organisations. They have created standards of achievement of world class. Just to cite one example: From 1978to 1980 the Government of India mooted an idea to nationalise Tata Iron and Stee! Company at Jamshedpur. The plan was successfully opposed by the workers’ Unions. There. was no work stoppage

on any count in that unit for 50 long years. It was a record in India despite having several unions in existence.

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Aristotel’s and Descartes’ logical method which is prevalent in the West makes a division of the world in two compartments of Yes/No. The arguments therefore are made inside these compartments very rigidly. This categorisation puts forward views in two defined classes. The thinking system is thus expressed or compressed in these rigid compartments. Talking logically means to follow this given categorisation. It is therefore not accepted by many intellectuals that there can be another category beyond Yes/No. Since Indians came in contact with Western thought as a thought of Victors, the received wisdom of English-language educated classes is based on this categorisation of yes or no, In many books, lectures and dissertations this is the basis taken as axiomatic truth.

I was not aware of this straightjacket of thinking in my own mind until I came across a book by Edward de Bono, entitled “Beyond Yes or No: PO”. I had to unlearn the old framework imposed on my own thoughts. After reading the book I became aware of this intellectual shackle. Dr De Bono's concept of Lateral Thinking rattled my ideas at the roots. Though Aristotelian logic is an effective logical system it is not the only logical thinking system. Once this yoke was removed it became easier for me to understand Indian logical propositions. Bono’s lateral thinking helped me in changing my entire thinking pattern. This hit at the roots took me to Indian Thought in a better and useful manner.

Once you accept that the method of categorisation into Yes/No is logically correct, the next step is that is that it is the only correct method. That every event or happening then has to fall in this categorisation becomes an expectation. This insistence on ‘only “method, easily slides into belief that mine is the only correct method. This word ‘only’ is a

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