Git Winch did not come up in a vaccuum. It was build up over decades, by architect Sabu Francis; an innovative architect from India who wrote his own architecture design software (one of the oldest in the world. See www.teamtad.com )

The basic question was: How do you organize an office? But don't organize it so much that the systems you setup becomes micro-management?

Over time, the questions become more sophisticated. Especially after COVID-19, there are questions such as: Should people work from home? Or hybrid? Or only in office premises?

The answer to all this possibly now is better achieved with Eastern philosophy such as Indian; rather than Western ones. One of the fundamental principle in Western culture harks back to the “law of excluded middle” – where sharp end points are recognized and not anything in between.

Take most power-point presentations: The audience craves for bullet point explanation. Neat and sharp. With no shades of gray floating in between. This approach bubbled up into many areas – including software designing; where there is an overuse of forms and overuse of fields on those forms. Much like the overload of bullet-points on presentation.

But the real world, especially when it comes to an individual is quite hazy and scruffy. So most individuals (when you pin them down to extract an honest answer) would really want their own control on the way things are organized for them. Given a choice, they don't want to keep filling up a plethora of forms – they would rather get to the job itself.

Sabu was the architect for the building and interior works of Konkan Railway Corporation (KRC): One of the toughest and complex railway projects of the world. The KRC team was a very lean Skunk-works Just 14 of them. Sabu was the unofficial 15th man. (Kind of like story of the old “The Dirty Dozen” movie)