A Leader should motivate his team in difficult times

Debasis Satapathy, GM (HR)- NBCC LTD

The way Artificial Intelligence is becoming popular like ChatGPT and other AI tools, the US President called a meeting a few days back where Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Google’s Sundar Pichai were also present to discuss the impact of AI in the job market. This is really very alarming for us. In a recent newspaper it is reported that TCS has hired 90% less than what it hired last year. They are all undergoing a position of lowest ever attrition in the organization. So, you can imagine what kind of impact it is going to have.

As an IT Head of an organization when this kind of disruption is happening, how will you deal with your team when they will be demotivated? How will you motivate them? Let us try to understand how Duryodhan beheaved in Mahabharata. When the Mahabharata war was about to start and both Pandavas and Kauravas were facing each other, Duryodhan came down from the chariot and he started addressing to his army to motivate them because they knew that in the just concluded Virat war from Pandava side only Arjuna was there and from the Kaurava side all the worriers like Dronacharya, Bhishma, Kripacharya etc. were there but still Kauravas could not face Arjuna in the Virat war and they had to accept defeat. So just imagine what must be the thinking process of Duryodhan. He was the only person who knew that defeat was a must for them. He could not accept it and he said they are the best in the world and their strength is more than the Pandavas. He encouraged the army to fight together to win it despite knowing that they are going to face the problem.