Short term goals,long term goals and traffic jams
Two small phrases , a whole world of possibility.
For people living in Hyderabad, this concept takes on a whole new meaning.
Example 1:
Short term goal : Cross the road which has no trace of a zebra crossing, while constantly dodging vehicles hurling down in your direction.
Long term goal: Survive one more day of the insane driving on Hyderabad roads.
Example 2:
Short term goal: Overtake the vehicle in front, despite a traffic jam.
Long term goal: Prove to self that, while others can criss cross their way during ‘smooth’ traffic flows, the perfect driver can steer and overtake despite all odds and … rules.
Example 3:
Short term goal: Zip drive through the beautiful stretch of the winding necklace road.
Long term goal: Intake as little of the stinky and possibly harmful Hussainsagar fumes.
Short term goals in this city are like tiny episodes of the ‘Amazing race’, which might put it’s people ahead of the traffic jam by just a minute, but sure keeps their pride soaring, and you will never run short of the contenders ( If ever you do, the auto drivers will keep the show running).
One crazy city .. one crazy post – that’s the long and short of it 
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Versus
Teaching Science, Mathematics, History VERSUS Teaching.
Education on past achievement and logic VERSUS Education inspiring thought.
Would make a world of difference, wouldn’t it.
Thank god its Monday!!!
Perhaps one of the easiest way to get employees to say that, is to make one of the other working days even more miserable.
Pick a day (other than a Monday of course) and cram it with weekly reporting, paperwork activities and tonnes of presentations. Viola, you would soon hear people say … “Thank god its Monday and not Wednesday”.
Long live recession!
More often than not it, takes dire situations to clean the act.
There has been a lot of talk about the current market recession, the world economy, resulting job cuts, uncertainty of employment and the never predicted price fluctuations.
The global phenomenon is also a wake up call to all those who gave in to laziness, mediocrity and personal benefit.
Organisations shaken from their cozy slumbers are forced to notice the under performers they have been nurturing at the cost of the dissatisfaction of the performers. Finally, efficiency has become more than a mere bullet point on company websites and organisations can no longer justify the ridiculous resource allocations – both human and material.
Recession could not have come at a better time, trimming expenses is the perfect opportunity to shove the freeloaders and close superfluous job titles.
It is also the perfect time to jolt the world out of mediocrity and acceptance of the substandard. It is also a time to honour the truly deserving. If it takes a recession to weed out the unnecessary and elevate the deserving, I say that the recession last longer – long enough to keep the best and leave no option for the others, but to improve.
It is inevitable that once this phase is over, the stupidity will creep in and the mistakes done will be repeated, but until then I hope that enough time is given for a thorough cleanup.