Trishna Singh, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Gram Sevak Sangh was worried about how the

team she has put in Kalandhi block would work effectively. Since the constitution of the team,
she had reports of conflicts between the members and the leader and despite of the hard work that
the Kalandhi Spearhead Team (KSHT) Leader had put in, not a single review meeting had passed
without the tension level becoming unbearable. The performance level of the team has been going
down. Two years have already passed in the life of the team, after initial euphoria of the team
leader who initiated certain activities in the area the team seems to have made little progress.
Gram Sevak Sangh (GSS) has been working in the tribal belts of Central India for over one
decade; in earlier years, its major emphasis had been on income generation projects along with
fighting for the rights of the tribal’s. A couple of years back it had developed a project proposal
for an integrated approach to development through participatory approach. The proposal was
accepted by an international donor agency and as an experiment; GSS was given funding for a
period of five years to apply its approach to development in the Kalandhi block. For this project,
Trishna Singh selected Munish Kumar as the leader of the team. Munish a rural management
graduate is 28 years old, and has been working with GSS for last five years in various projects.
The CEO likes him for his initiative and hard-nosed approach to development. Moreover, Munish
is regarded as an asset by the organisation for his presentation and report writing skills.
GSS, from its earlier experience, found that most of the development