Sunday, January 14, 2007

See you at the top ! . ?

How many are we in India? 110 crore?

Let us say around 5% live in urban cities and therefore at least one tenth of them are working in Professional fields. So that is close to 55 lakh professionals working in various organizations. Let us not have any disputes with that; if the actual figure is different – please relate that to this.

Isn’t it the aim of each living creature to succeed? It isn’t. At least 10% among them are just working for the sake of working and are so lazy that even while they retire, they would have just grown one post higher or may be at the same post or probably retired early (through voluntary retirements).

So that leaves us with around 49.5 lakh professionals. Let us not further bifurcate this lot else it will just come down to one person who is the most successful one – then there would be no need for me to spend all this time typing this.

If, after reading this far, you are wondering why I considered only the urban lot and whether there would not be any one from the rural population in professional field, I pity you.

Do only few among these 49.5 lakh professionals get to the top because each one of them is different? Yes. They are different. But in what ways are they different? Well that is precisely why I have been writing all this.

Can one who spends just 8 hours at work and work for only 5 days a week, be better, than one who works close to 16 hours or more every day and also might drive down to the office on a week end? May be.

Can one who has just passed +2 be better than one who has many PhDs? May be.

Can one who is not planning his daily work schedule and following it with discipline be better than one does plan his work and follow it with complete discipline? May be.

Can one who is not planning his daily work schedule in line with his goal of being successful and follow it with discipline, be better, than one who does plan his work according to his goal of being successful and follow it with complete discipline? Never!!

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