hi ms iyer, well am not from corporate world, but being curious by nature and also having dealt with some corporate co. on some levels, i understood some things very well a] given the no. of people working in such organisation, you can too apoint train them to have a herd mentality where every thing is so polotically correct that it might make you gag with repressed emotions as it is there is bound to be cauldron of emotions flitting around jealousy, cut throat, to get ahead trample on every toe please you boss like crazy, imagine the impact of all the heaving suppression on one's health i would suggest that since one is diffrent when one is one's familiar territory eg;home, amidst friends, family, to work in such multico.s one can adopt a attitude of sheer professionlism, and to remain in touch with oneself that is the key the moment you let go of the reality you are lost forever, you donot have to please everybody all the time you donot have to be correct all the time and you donot have to so super ambitious,that you hurt others ruthlesly,one must have the comapassion and a basic healthy respect for evrybody's viewpoint, but a walkover 'doormat' never .