Organic Performance

Everything about Performaning

Who is good for your business?

Performance in simplistic terms is a function of two key factors – ability and willingness!

Ability to perform is something to do with physical constraint of an individual like that of lifting 200 kgs of weight, fasting for 21 consecutive days, Singing for 48 hrs, working for 80 hrs a week, etc…

Willingness to perform is to do with the inherent interest to contribute – cheerful compliance to the job!

If one is willing, they can find ways to build the ability to perform. However, lack of willingness can only guarantee below par results – irrespective of the latent ability!

Who is good for your business – highly willing but not so able guy or highly capable but not so willing type? 

It depends on what is your business – if it is people centric, keep and invest on the first type and shamelessly weed out highly capable but not willing ones! They might be best suited for political parties, I guess! They will add lot of weight, as long as someone can lift them!

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Making relationships work is easier than making them fail!

Yes!

Every customer takes their own time and process of evaluation, references and careful design to enter into a relationship with any product or service of a company.

Once in this relationship, the expectation is to make it work – at any cost! Every mechanism of monitoring, governance & evaluation of an ongoing relationship is just to ensure that it is always on-track! – not to make it break!

Even when we buy a product or service for personal use, the story is the same – we always would like to know about the warranty, maintenance plans, recharge plans, replacement plans….

Making the relationship break requires a lot of effort on all dimensions – continuously failing service delivery, product performance, always slipping promises and constantly evading responses across the organization!… No one leaves a relationship on a single account of failure!

Making the relationship work however requires one small act – Submission!

Relationship is always two-sided. It is always subject to test of time. At tough times, when one exercises the act of submission – a demonstration of “lack of false pride”, the other falls in place!

One way of submission is to express your concern clearly and precisely so that the other understands, appreciates and acts in a way to help both! That’s the power of true submission!

Any company, individual or a group that has no false pride will keep their relationships – naturally bounded!

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Art of Playing small!

Yes! Looks like this is truly the most sought after art form!

Met around 8 different, highly talented  people (toppers recruited from their institutes) with very similar outlook to life – Remaining shielded from action is the best way – to keep themselves safe & secured at work!

Proof point being over 25 yrs of working in the same company – mostly in 2-3 different levels of the same role – undisturbed & hardly noticed!

Not sure what they gained and the company!

Everyone is expected to make it big/large – something, sometime, somewhere,… and somehow! – that’s the DREAM! But majority, give up – somewhere, sometime,… somehow!

Dreamer doers in the crowd of any section/segment will not be more than 10% of the population! It seems everyone else, practice and master the art of playing small! – mostly unknowingly! That’s the big stealth virus!

The world is so big, and it is easy to feel like just another number! We see so many things that need to be changed, so many things that could be better – at work, at home, in the neighborhood… everywhere! But we choose to feel powerless! So, we shrink from our expectations, desires and responsibilities!

It is easy to remain – a victim, silent to the calling, shy admitting a mistake or staying away from acting on candid feedback! – Simplest way for becoming prisoners of unfounded fears!

Playing small may offer comfort, but does no good to anyone! Still, we find a lot of people – living on playing small!

Does this justify the “art” form?

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