Tuesday, December 29, 2009

It's all about PEOPLE !!!

‘Machine is anything which reduces human efforts’ this simple definition of machine is now known to almost every Indian ever since 3 idiots has been released. Rather I would like to modify it as, ’Machine is the physical substance which reduces human efforts’. The need for modification is because, there are certain other intangible things which are again used to reduce human efforts or in other words to give a better performance, like management tools.

First being an engineer and then a management student I had a pinch of both. Over the time now I started realizing that, we tend to depend too much on them. Of course we are highly convinced about their mechanism and results. Machines or tools both with similar configurations are used everywhere. The only thing makes a difference is the one individual or altogether group of people handling them. And that is the reason these tools and machines seems to me very tiny after comparing their roles with that of human beings.The exactly similar system can give different results with every different set of people. So if this is the case then the big question ahead is, we often talk about need to change the system. WHAT exactly need to be changed??? System or people itself??

I think what makes a difference between people is beliefs, attitudes and behaviours. Individual beliefs are shaped from individual experiences, i.e. what ever is seen around. It then leads to an attitude and reflects in behaviour. The different pattern of behavior, which keeps on changing with time, is the culture.

I always liked the debate raised by Mr. Harsha Bhogle between talent and attitude. Talent can open the first door of success, the second but not the last. It is the attitude which really makes a difference. Rancho says, “Don’t run behind the success but run behind the excellence, then success will follow you”. It reflects nothing but his attitude.

And that makes BABA KAPIL say, “Baccha, What you have? Is not important but What you do with what you have?? Is important”. Kyu sahi hai na mamu……

1 comment:

  1. Provocative. Gives a reader good scope to think abut the People Vs Process/ System. Nice.

    Please post the poem or song that you wrote. Awaiting.

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