Organic Performance

Everything about Performaning

good to be a fresher!

It is typical to see an over committed new product development program under tremendous pressure especially ahead of a critical customer demo! A make or break situation – ahead of once in a life time opportunity. Entire team is finding it hard to fix the problem and get it rolling… Architects are seriously debating what would have happened over night to have such a situation. Development and test teams are huddling to secretly find out that they did not cause the error. No clue, except the time is kicking .. fast!

Project Manager, without an option has called for the meeting – to find and fix the issue within no time! No solution, but only suspicion prevails. Senior members do not seem to agree that there is any way they can fix it! Junior most member of the team, a fresh grad – the configuration manager speaks out hesitantly…”Why can’t we switch back to previous stable release – for this demo?” As simple as that – going back to previously known better state is the simplest one can do – any time! if that is possible!

Keeping fresh minds at work is the simplest form of best insurance, a manager should have!

Check this one too…

A large truck was moving through a railway underpass when it got wedged in between the road and the girders overhead. All the efforts of experts to extricate it proved useless and traffic was stalled for miles on both sides of the underpass.

A little boy kept trying to get the attention of the foreman but was always pushed away. Finally, in sheer exasperation, the foreman said, "I suppose you’ve come to tell us how to do this job?"

"Yes," said the kid. "I suggest you let some air out of the tyres."

In the layman’s mind
there are many possibilities.
In the expert’s mind
there are a few!

Many a times, it is the fresh mind that brings the best value – especially in the time of crises when most of minds do not seem to work!

Being fresh at heart and mind will make us proud of whatever we do! 

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quest for greatness!

It seems only fearless achieve greatness. Everyone else is always looking forward to being great. Stopped only by the fear of failure or something unknown! Quest for greatness is never ending. But…

You achieve greatness
when you are oblivious of the dignity
of those above you,
and make those below you
oblivious of yours.
When you are neither haughty with the humble
nor humble with the haughty!

Being fearless and purely duty-bound behavior will make anyone great, like our guard out here:

A recruit was assigned to guard the entrance to the army camp and was given instructions to let no car pass if it did not have a special pennant.

He had an occasion to stop a car bearing a General who promptly told his driver to ignore the sentry and drive on. Whereupon the recruit stepped forward, rifle at the ready, and calmly said, "Pardon me, sir, but I’m new to this. Whom do I shoot? You, sir, or the driver?

It is time to be a sentry of self set principles of life – to be truly passionate = self imposed discipline to achieve something!

Good to stop the quest and start the journey!

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Man is mind!

However persevering and persistent you are, sometimes it is difficult to stick to the job until it is fully done! You mostly work steadily along until of a sudden the feeling of weariness sets-in, shouting "enough!” for the time being, and then yield to the impulse to stop!

You can not be immune from the feeling on certain days – leading to not being at your best! It is usual in such days to miss a few appointments! Lagging interest in almost everything – failing to notice or react to issues at work though they are just routine for the capability you have!

Beauty of the fact is that you realize – at heart that if you continue to exert the will and persistently hold yourself to the business on hand, sooner or later you will warm-up, enthusiasm comes back, shadows of clouds disappear and wings start spreading to fly high, as usual! Is this the rest that mattered or power of the mind – inherent drive of persistence?

If you carefully observe, more often, it was not the rest that triggered the action. It is the impulse of some strong desire that carried you over the threshold of inertia!

Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, 
And Man is Mind, and evermore he One_Mind_calligraphy[1]takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:—
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass.

(~ James Allen)

It is truly the power of mind – desire to perform and be counted!

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