This is what I call samskaras or engraved memories. These engraved memories distort or disturb your decision-making capacity. You even if you consciously know that smoking is see, if the whole process of the mind map I injurious to health. just described happens consciously, then it is In the same way, many times in your life, a straightforward and logical process. But due even if you know what is right, simply you to the unconscious mind, a lot of times, the decide unconsciously because of your process is not straightforward. As I described engrams. Your life is under the control of earlier, we tend to get biased based on our unconscious engrams, it is not under your experiences we have had with a particular control. You may think that you are taking the person or a particular situation.

This is the decision, but your unconscious engrams are space where politics happens! This is the taking the decisions! space where things move illogically. This is These samskaras or engrams are the rootthe space where the past memories or engrams cause of our behavior. They are the reason will be sitting and you do not even know what why we behave in a certain way with certaindecision you are making! people. The engrams tend to cloud our Let me give you one more example to give judgments when we have to take decisions. you more understanding of the unconscious They influence how we accomplish our tasks mind. If we analyze logically or consciously, in an organization. It is these engrams that all of you know that smoking is injurious to dictate our productivity, interpersonal skills, health.

If we follow through the process from teamwork, judgment and all our responses and eye to the mind, you know clearly that smoking behavior. But engrams are never understood is injurious to health, according to the data and more importantly given any importance collected by your senses. But suddenly, even in the field of corporate training and leadership though logic tells us not to smoke, you decide development. to smoke, beyond your logic and The Eastern mystics and inner scientistsconsciousness. This is where the unconscious have spent thousands of years developing toolsengrams are sitting. and meditation techniques to cleanse us from Even though you consciously know that these engraved memories. These samskaras smoking is injurious to health, when the data can be effectively erased through meditation moves to the ego, when the file takes a techniques.

quantum leap, you just decide to smoke. Recently I visited one of my devotee's Maybe some memory, or some experience houses and saw a beautiful one-liner in thewhich you had in the past must have made living room:you feel relaxed when you smoked. Or maybe when you smoked during your youth, you may I am the boss of this house, I have my have felt like a hero. So these engrams have wife's permission to say so! been associated with this habit, and suddenly, Similarly, you may think you are the boss, because of this engram you decide to smoke, but your unconscious engrams are leading you! As long as you are caught by these unconscious samskaras, you can never achieve the state of a leader.

You may achieve the status of a leader with a lot of suffering and struggle. Be very clear, if you sit in the leader's chair with a lot of suffering and struggle, you will tend to create the same suffering and struggle for your subordinates! Again and again, your mind will say, When I suffered and struggled so much, why not them! You will just reproduce your old mental setup on others. This can be a very de-motivating factor in organizations. Productivity Definitions and understanding A small story: Once a boss asks his employee, Why did it take you six months to complete such a simple task? The employee replies, Because of your confusing directions, continuous changes and short work days! The boss replies, I was looking for something like you being lazy! So much has been written and said about productivity in organizations.

Productivity has become the mantra in organizations for the last two or three decades. As a result of invention of computers and new communications technologies such as the internet and cell phone, the world has become a much smaller place. While there has been an increase in productivity in companies, it has often come at a huge price on the health (physical and mental) and well being of the employees. Let us now start to understand what is productivity and how productivity can be enhanced without the side effects of stress. In simple terms, productivity can be measured as: Productivity = Output / Input The measure of output may be certain number of tasks completed by a particular individual or team or revenue in the case of a manufacturing company.

The measure of input may include the number of hours worked on a particular project, manufacturing costs etc.