Life is not just u love someone and then u get together and that’s it, life is a big ball game where you should always think and try to hit the correct ball at the correct time with the correct effort so that it goes a long way and that on seeing it soar everyone who is involved should be a joyous lot and yes at the end of it all you should get the feeling of accomplishment, establishment and satisfaction.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Let the grass be green!!! - everywhere...
This one stems from the situations faced by us in almost anywhere where we go and try to ask for Help. I'd say the best example would be our offices... I mean why go far, look at our second home... and you'll know...
Ok so what am I trying to talk in here - well I said help, now what happens in 'HeLP'. Let's analyze...
Ok so we are in need of help or if I would say we need something from another human being, say our peers (as I have set the context to be a work place), and what do we get to hear??? Any guesses??? Well this should be so simple, ain't it... I bet you'd already be having the answer and would be saying that why is this guy writing so much... Ok so killing the suspense (as if there was any :)) we know that the reply would be,
Ok so what am I trying to talk in here - well I said help, now what happens in 'HeLP'. Let's analyze...
Ok so we are in need of help or if I would say we need something from another human being, say our peers (as I have set the context to be a work place), and what do we get to hear??? Any guesses??? Well this should be so simple, ain't it... I bet you'd already be having the answer and would be saying that why is this guy writing so much... Ok so killing the suspense (as if there was any :)) we know that the reply would be,
1. "Hmmm... let me see what I can do and will get back to you."
2. "You see that's a nice point but we need to check with the ...."
3. "I would surely love to help you and hope you get that but we have certain ...."
Some possible Gerantiosus responses, as expected... But the fact is that no matter how simple the need would be but people, ahem peers (remember the context...), just don't say a yes or give a Green signal instantly. I know that there are a few who do so, but mark my words - few - and that is what makes the difference.
Now what this makes us believe is that the 'Grass is not that green on the other side...' but that's not true, simply because when we get a glimpse of things on the other side we say, "Wow. That's not what I'd expected. It's so bad of him to say like that and make me feel..." But this is the truth, many-a-times, right!
So all I'd say to such people who like to keep things in a vault - one which has the toughest combination possible and all laser security, just to keep a small key to the door - is to have no such vault and have transparency in their dealings so that we always end up in a win-win situation and hence keep the Grass as Green as possible... always... and everywhere...
2. "You see that's a nice point but we need to check with the ...."
3. "I would surely love to help you and hope you get that but we have certain ...."
Some possible Gerantiosus responses, as expected... But the fact is that no matter how simple the need would be but people, ahem peers (remember the context...), just don't say a yes or give a Green signal instantly. I know that there are a few who do so, but mark my words - few - and that is what makes the difference.
Now what this makes us believe is that the 'Grass is not that green on the other side...' but that's not true, simply because when we get a glimpse of things on the other side we say, "Wow. That's not what I'd expected. It's so bad of him to say like that and make me feel..." But this is the truth, many-a-times, right!
So all I'd say to such people who like to keep things in a vault - one which has the toughest combination possible and all laser security, just to keep a small key to the door - is to have no such vault and have transparency in their dealings so that we always end up in a win-win situation and hence keep the Grass as Green as possible... always... and everywhere...
Friday, June 1, 2007
Managers will be Managers !!!
This one is for all those who have gone to their managers/bosses and have come out saying, "He'll never understand me!"... and shook your head in dispair...
Well this happens to almost all of us, isn't it?
You would say a Yes or that's what I expect to hear from those reading this post as this is a very common phenomenon that happens to everyone. I might want to call it as - Gerantiosis (gerant is Italian for manager) - meaning a problem associated with anyone who gets the bug...
We all think and know that he is the last resort that you need to goto when it comes to pay check issues, salary hikes, domain issues, technology issues, blah blah blah... thinking that, 'The guys been there for long and he ought to know how things work', but as soon as we enter and open the mouth .............................................................................................. ok that's a long silence, but doesn't this happen?
I mean we open our mouth and tell our misery or whatever and expect a reply that would be oriented in the same direction but what hits us is something that is completely alien, to say the least.
We catch the bug, Gerantiosus and succumb to gerantiosis!
Problem is that all the time we are tought by them to be empathetic, to be polite, to be competitive, to be always on our toes so that the business does well but we dont get the same treatment from them, do we?
I am not trying to say that all the managers in the world are like this but I'd not be exaggerating if I put the figures to, lets say, 90% to say the least!
I know and have been in the company of some real human managers and have loved working under them and would wish and hope that sanity prevails and atleast we do not end up in the 90% share of the Gerantiosus pool but rather be the sane, polite, empathising dudes that we have always been...
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