Look around within the working environment
and one shall find many who never really started or have given up at the
slightest pretext. It is such attitude that is indeed the biggest drag in the
forward march of organizations and also the nation.
The staff is bad : How common and
how unfortunate is the oft heard rant of the senior blokes that if they had
better men with them, they would have delivered. I am good and they are bad, I
am honest and the rest are not, I am committed and others are not and more
often than not – no one else is bothered about the organization. Sadly these
are words uttered by the mediocres who aspire for positions, get them and yet
never become worthy of them. Over thirty five years of service has convinced me that the root cause behind non deliverance is inadequate
bureaucratic leadership.
There is no support : If I had
enough support I would have done it. Unfortunately this penchant of relying
heavily on support from the superiors has been carried to a ridiculous extent by
almost all and sundry. The guy who seeks support from those above him actually rarely
supports those who look upto him. It is almost akin to the hostel experience –
I was ragged so I will rag, I was not looked after so why should I and so on
and so forth. The go-getters however go ahead and do it nevertheless.
People are corrupt – Very often
we paint with one black brush those who we work for and also work with. The
widespread extent of corruption is indeed undenied yet the only way one can
help clean this rut is neither by complaining nor castigating others but by
being a crusader for the cause and at the same time carrying an unwavering
focus on the objective to be achieved.
Inadequate funds – The failure to
realize that money is the least of the issues unfortunately never dawns on most
of us who start their careers with and also end up with almost a regular banter about inadequacy of funds, for want of which they believe they have been failing to deliver. Look around and
witness the creation of empires literally from scratch by budding entrepreneurs
of the yesteryears and even today. They never cribbed and in the process created
wealth. That initiative is the first step to generate wealth rarely gets
appreciated.
The boss is bad : This is rarely true and but not as often as it is made out to be. The presence of a few rotten
apples cannot be wished away yet the realization that if one is a good boss, he
also gets one, rarely gets appreciated.
Life is not fair : Having been
treated in an unfair manner remains the biggest grouse of almost all blokes
thronging the environment. It however rarely matters to them whether they have
been fair or not in their dealing with all those who fall within their sphere
of influence. And fairness after all is a matter of perception, often perceived
wrongly.
The eternal pessimist : And one
often bumps into many of them. That being fiercely optimist is often the only
way to turnaround a really bad situation is often never believed and therefore rarely
practiced. Like optimism builds itself many times over and in the process
converts an impossible scenario into a possible one, pessimism attracts
negativity at a much faster rate and often converts an already won battle into
a lost one.
And lastly the misplaced notion that
a position is merely for self-perpetuation and not a means to achieve an
objective, a noble one at that, is so widespread that it is not at all funny. Almost
everyone aspires for top slots, but unfortunately only for the power and pelf
that goes with it, and the transient nature of these gains is appreciated only
when they end, as all good times do but by then it is too late. Performing what
the position expects from the incumbent is the only thing that has the power to give a lasting experience.
Amen!
