Can Thinkers and doers be the same?

What a beautiful question!!!!

Thinkers(Read Mangers) have to get work done from the doers.All their stategies will bite the dust if they are not do-able or not done right.

So i think thinkers have to put the doers hat and it helps if they have been doers at some level previously.

Usually thinkers and doers are different people but it helps if they are the same.

Yes, thinkers and doers are same. Infact two of these activities will not make sense when done parallely on a thing. I repeat , 'on a thing'. Thinking is a phase , where a person has already himself, a question ' What to do'? So a doer definitely gets his support and energy from his thought or from his thinking phase. Call it planning or thinking , as long as it goes for a activity its one and same. And coming to process in industries , some are thinkers and some or doers .... that does not however mean that , the doers dont think. Ya, its not a good idea to only make a person do , without letting them think or explaining the thought behind it... dont ask me what happens if not  explained ,but just think what it can bring about in a person. This is exactly a point of dissatisfaction of a employee as he tries to understand the overview (some get it from experience , but some suffer as they dont see the view ) so they wont feel interested or feel stressed out and there by chain of reactions leading to failure. In my opinion projects dont fail because doers wanted to think... Sorry here i dont agree with Mr.Raghu Kastury.

Yes, certainly can be same. Bill Gates has disclosed at once that he used to think alot when he was a student and child. Bill Gates thinking has materialised int he form of writing first software and sending an offer and then finally getting the offer accepted, and he could start microsoft at an early age. I believe that it is sure that even our great Kalam was a great thinker from the beginning and he has achieved many. Steve Jobs was also a great thinker and achieved alot. What I wanted to say is that a person can't do anything unless he think about that. Thinkers can be doers, but, a person who can't think, can't do anything and its my opinion.

I was in KSFC in the early eightees. After I left KSFC, I developed a software to generate project reports, which could also be used as a credit appraisal software.  KSFC was reluctant to implement it at the time for they wanted to keep decision making to themselves for obvious reasons.  After a while, however, KSFC had to computerize to a great extent.

I proposed to the banking head of RBI Bangalore, in the early nineties that I could develop a module where 90% of outstation cheques could be credited to the payee within 48 hours.  All I asked for was clearing house membership to my company.  I was proposing to use a particular provision in banking law.  The RBI official asked me to arrange an aircraft first and then approach him!  Till today, our banking system has not been able to implement it.  If a cheque has to be encashed at Chamrajnagar from Mysore, it takes 15 days.  Even between core banking branches, only self drawn cheques are encashed in other branches.  My project can still be given life and the banking law provision is still relevant.

In the early nineties, I started a project called Kreedagram where I had highlighted innovative approaches to sports training.  Times of India had carried an article on this.  Some discussion with SAI with the then Director, Shri AJ Anandan had also taken place.  I could not get any cooperation after Shri Anandan retired, from SAI.  Only a part of the proposal is now implemented in high-end sports training.  Many of the approaches are still relevant and can benefit a large number of sports persons.   

I have identified a crucial strength of electricity companies which the companies themselves do not know how to exploit!  An excellent product can be built out of it. 

I approached NIIT when they had only Bangalore centre in addition to their HQ at Delhi.  They had announced franchise for Mysore, Mangalore and Hubli in Karnataka.  Next day I was in Delhi talking to a Keralite franchise manager.  He asked me to fill in an application which was in the form of a project report.  I listed all computers in Mysore District (this happened in early nineties) and full projections as part of the survey.  When I went bank to NIIT to sign franchise, I was told that NIIT would start Mysore themselves and that if I have any other place I should tell them.  I returned disappointed.  After few months, another Keralite started Mysore NIIT centre as franchise!!

I had designed a leisure project (which is still live for implementation) and invited an ex-MD of an Bharti Airtel group company to participate..  He regretted his inability to participate.  Few months before, Bangalore Habba, hitherto only a music and dance event, included Swimming, golf, badmintonm snooker and exhibition as part of the event.  All these events are part of a unique combination in my project.  And Airtel sponsored the event by chipping in 1.5 crores while the government sponsored 2.5 crores.  I want to call it simply as coincidence but do not have the heart to!

I have discovered a self diagnostic system within the human body, where I can either reverse or delay the effect of ageing on a human body.  I am aware that I can not practice without proper license.  I have just asked academicians and bureaucrats to register my research as a regular research project.  I have told them that I will submit myself to the research grind.  I have told them that I would submit a theses which can be evaluated in the normal course.  Even before this, I have asked them to constitute a panel of experts to whom I will present my discovery and convince them of the scientific basis.  I have not received any reply so far. 

And I still remain a thinker and not doer!!!

They can be the same. However, I am not sure in what context this question is asked.

You have said it all Mr. Gopalan; nothing further to add.