Building teams that last !

The BJP family is breaking up. Not able to take the shattering loss in the elections, the so called leaders, pointing fingers at each other for failure.

And the family is breaking up !

BJP is / was the only viable alternate front to the dynastic Congress rule, that India has seen since independence. And the team has shown characters of amoeba,

multiplying from mere 2 seats in parliament in 84 to a near-majority govt. under the Thespian leader Atal Bihari Bajpayee !

And set a chain reaction of state wins post that.

So, now that it is breaking up to pieces, betaal looks at what went wrong, organizationally speaking !

- The team was built on one man leadership - Bajapayee ! He was well supported by Advani-jee, Jaswant, Yeshwant, Murli Joshi and all other leaders

- The individual leadership quotients of all these people are still intact. Just Bajapayee, the voice of reason, a resolve of steal and glue between these leaders have retired

- A well thought out Mission/Vision was not in place to appeal and address progressive shining India, that in the first place was set in with the vision and mission of the

same leadership team. It was clearly showing up in BJPs last election manifesto. The manifesto swung between Congress style socialism, to true Right wing ego !

- A well thought out leadership architecture was not put in place for post Bajapayee era

- Overconfidence from a few state wins

So, Mr. Bajapayee - while hats off to you that you built the ONLY viable alternative to the dynasty - you failed to built it to outgrow you ! You led from the front and climbed Everest. But the people who followed you up there, could not repeat that mantle.

Betaal hopes the strong alternative does shape up - first with a purpose that fits the changing India, and then with a leadership that executes further changes !