Three things have been occupying me for quite some time:
· Where am I going career wise?
· I need to buy a Sony 37" LCD
· What is important the means or the end?
Career wise, I have created a need for me for my boss. However, if that need was more from the organization front, then my career would have been flying high. I will get the desired promotions and increments but the satisfaction from within is missing. I am doing bits and pieces of everything totally driven by my boss's whims and fantasies. A bit of branding, a bit of advertisement, a bit of research, a bit of co-ordination, a bit of operations, a bit of admin .... to cut it short tid bits of everything. I don't know how much longer I would be able to keep my spirit up.
Sony LCD, well I am financially constrained. So for now I have to just look at it from a distance and wish to embrace it. It is a one sided love where I am the poor one hoping to woo the rich and beautiful one.
Now, about means or end. A pat on the back or a knot in the stomach? I feel that the end is much more important than the means. How many people were within an inch of the end but got lost in the history books. The one who are etched in our memories are the ones who made it. Also, what is the right path? Who arrived at it? How was it developed? Is it absolute? A right path 10 years back is not the right path now! It changes and evolves. The text book is a manifestation of everything which has been experienced or discovered through practice. The idea of the end/objective should be very clear and absolute. It has to be reached some way or the other. Then the theories are challenged and the right path questioned. New things discovered. Abacus led to calculator which led to computers and the story of evolution continues. If you are a master at using an abacus, go for it and if I am proficient with computers, I would use it. What matters is the completion of objective.
Let’s hypothetically assume that there exists a perfect and right process. Then the fun part would go out of the window. There will be no mistakes, no imperfections. Something like a machine, input -> process -> output. Where’s the human touch, our intelligence, our nature to evolve. It will be so boring to lead life in monotony.
Work get assigned, a very tight deadline is set. The process of completion starts with a weak plan in the head. As it progresses, the loopholes become apparent. We adapt, we change and modify to achieve a greater plan. The loopholes etched in our sub-conscious. The same work gets assigned again but this time the planning will be done taking into consideration the incidents which happened last time round. This is what is known as experience. Our bosses sitting at high places are paid not to work but to share their experience to do the work in an efficient manner.
Another factor which needs to be considered is the externalities. At this point a series which I saw during my MBA days and later was aired on Star World by the name PRISON BREAK comes back to me again and again. It is a story of two brothers. Elder one was serving a death sentence for a murder which he didn’t commit. The younger brother, gifted with ingenious capabilities, decides to save the day for his brother. He plans and plans and plans. He gets tattooed all across his body. The elements of the tattoo contained the plans in the form of maps, the phone numbers, the address etc. He took every possibility in consideration while deciding the process. The nuts and bolt screwed in the bench, the inmates, their desires and weaknesses. The perfect plan. There were no questions which was left unanswered. However, the problem was that his brain was not that gifted to ask more questions, to see more possibilities. Suddenly, the plan looked like a house of nine pins surviving on a tenterhook. He had to adapt, he had to change the plans, change the process, and change the means to reach the final objective.
Externalities exist, mistakes happen, technology changes, ideologies are different but what remains absolute is the end, the final destination. If the final destination remains clear, every bit of the jigsaw puzzle would be in place sooner or later.
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