Rarely a month goes by when a corporate scandal does not hit the news pages nowadays and it is inevitably because someone, somewhere discovered a dirty little secret (or a big one) and made it public. Today, the Internet has given everyone with access to it, the powers of virtual policing and activism. There is nowhere to run and nowhere left to hide.

The eternal question - much like the chicken or the egg... shall the creative spark that is the genesis of all truly inspired work be allowed to rule untrammelled? Or shall the tried and tested methods to control quality gain precedence?

I have often felt that some of our losses in today's lifestyle tend to outweigh the gains when we look at the larger picture. That, to me, puts a whole new spin on the perception of progress. Take the IT industry for instance. The proverbial fly perching on the wall where a major project is in full swing, might well be forgiven for thinking that work was not about people at all.

Google search is truly a wonderful indicator of where an individual or society stands today. I recently Googled "worth of an individual' quote" , searching for different parameters for measuring a man. Of the 10 results that were returned on the first page, only three were talking of measuring the individual in non-monetary terms and one was a lesson plan for third graders!

"As you sow, so shall you reap"? is an adage much battered from overuse but I maintain that clich?s become clich?s for a reason. Particularly in the context of people in the IT industry, I feel that it is overwhelmingly true. The energy directed towards discussions on how to cope with high attrition rates might be better channelled into figuring out the why of the problem.