If you do not believe me, please consider these elements he has juggled in 20-20 tournament of IPL ( Indian Premier Leage ) and judge for yourself:
1. He is developing the young crop of Indian cricketers by providing the best platform of learning for them: real playground with real life situation. No training in the class room. No computerised web based training. No simulations. Direct real-life situations.
2. By pitting best cricketers in the world with the junior cricketers, he has compelled compulsory knowledge transfer of insights, tricks and ideas. I remember Kapil Dev saying in his interview that 'Had he learnt reverse swing early in his career, he would have got 100 more wickets'. This is a biggest bane in Knowledge management in real life organisations. Experts in an organisation do not share their knowledge even in the most knowledge intensive organisations. Organisation further compound their difficulties by 'promoting' competition in favour of collaboration.
3. The learning is not just confined in downloading 'content' ( what to do) but also applying content. Organisations, who pride in spending huge money in learning and development, spend money in downloading content, hoping that individuals will learn to apply content by themselves. Instead Lalit Modi has incorporated both in his IPL format. In order to win matches, senior cricketers have to teach juniors how to sum the situation, how to find ways to score,how to construct an over, how to be positive in the head despite the onslaught, how to anticipate the next action of a batsman and so on.
4. He has roped in ICL in the format by including foreign players so that the tournament can find a time window in the ICL match schedules. By doing this, he has killed two birds with one arrow. One, he has got the best talent in the world. Two, by restricting the foreign players to four in a team, he has got the best cricketers in the world to rub shoulder in junior cricketers. Organisations plan their learning and developement in isolation with rest of the organisation. Even Leadership development programs are planned in isolation with the real-life work in an organisation. Therefore these programs are shunned by the best in the organisation, or worse still, are treated as 'sight seeing' programs.
5. The best part of this development story is that he has 'not asked' for any funds from BCCI. Instead, he has generated funds. Organisation worry about 'return on investment in the development of their employees'. What else one can ask for from their learning and development manager?
So, do you agree with me?
1. He is developing the young crop of Indian cricketers by providing the best platform of learning for them: real playground with real life situation. No training in the class room. No computerised web based training. No simulations. Direct real-life situations.
2. By pitting best cricketers in the world with the junior cricketers, he has compelled compulsory knowledge transfer of insights, tricks and ideas. I remember Kapil Dev saying in his interview that 'Had he learnt reverse swing early in his career, he would have got 100 more wickets'. This is a biggest bane in Knowledge management in real life organisations. Experts in an organisation do not share their knowledge even in the most knowledge intensive organisations. Organisation further compound their difficulties by 'promoting' competition in favour of collaboration.
3. The learning is not just confined in downloading 'content' ( what to do) but also applying content. Organisations, who pride in spending huge money in learning and development, spend money in downloading content, hoping that individuals will learn to apply content by themselves. Instead Lalit Modi has incorporated both in his IPL format. In order to win matches, senior cricketers have to teach juniors how to sum the situation, how to find ways to score,how to construct an over, how to be positive in the head despite the onslaught, how to anticipate the next action of a batsman and so on.
4. He has roped in ICL in the format by including foreign players so that the tournament can find a time window in the ICL match schedules. By doing this, he has killed two birds with one arrow. One, he has got the best talent in the world. Two, by restricting the foreign players to four in a team, he has got the best cricketers in the world to rub shoulder in junior cricketers. Organisations plan their learning and developement in isolation with rest of the organisation. Even Leadership development programs are planned in isolation with the real-life work in an organisation. Therefore these programs are shunned by the best in the organisation, or worse still, are treated as 'sight seeing' programs.
5. The best part of this development story is that he has 'not asked' for any funds from BCCI. Instead, he has generated funds. Organisation worry about 'return on investment in the development of their employees'. What else one can ask for from their learning and development manager?
So, do you agree with me?
