A story to be Optimistic or Realistic ?

-
The Vice President had lost his audience mid way of his speech with a montonous and uninterested content. Noticing this the Managing Director of company who was next to address the employee at the half yearly event wanted to get back the audience. So he started with an aggressive start.
"Good morning my dear colleagues, i am sure the canteen services have improved and we get the best food here. I see that in all your eyes." Sarcastically started the MD. 

"As many employees here are future leaders, let me start this speech with a short story. There were a group of young soldiers who were lost in peaks of Alps, Swiss. It was getting dark and they wanted to get back to their base camp. A young soldier in group who was carrying some food in his bag, emptied it and suddenly realised that there was a map stuck to the bag. He took the map and gathered the other soldiers to lay out the route to the base camp. They all laid out the map and started moving in the direction. And finally they were at the base camp."



"The Young soldier felt proud that he had been the saviour of group and had led them to the base camp. Morning, when he woke up he noticed and was shocked !! The bag was made in Kashmir and  Map was of Kashmir."

The Managing Director gave a pause to gauge his audience engagement and continued after reassuring that everyone were keen to know next.

"What do we learn out of it ? It means at times of crises any resources is a good resource. And we need employees to step up like the Young Soldier and show qualities of leadership to lead the team."
He thought he had conveyed the message through this story.

But somewhere in crowd was a young, brave employee who had dared to question raised his hand. 
Everyone stared at him, but he didn't bother. When he met the eyes of MD and got his attention he stood up and took the mic "Sir,  I have a question. But tell me what if the map had led them to a different place and had further confused the group ? Then the Young soldier who had stepped up would have been blamed for his actions!" 

In an optimistic view the Managing Director was right, but in a realistic view anything was possible and so was the young boy right. Until we don't get judgemental and stop discouraging people and appreciate their efforts, we will continue to have lesser leaders coming forward to take risks. 

These are "My Thoughts" and would like to hear your views and thoughts on this. 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

4 Ways of saying "NO" for organization and career growth !!

-
Image
World is being a more competitive place and to retain customers and increase the sales / turnover of an organisation, there are many things a company can plan / strategize. But many times the company plans to achieve these strategies by squeezing the existing resources. But since many employees fear saying "NO" to the managers, they take the tasks / additional load which would impact the productivity levels of their existing tasks : Am not saying here that each task an employee receives, must say "NO" to it, but my point is that the employee needs to evaluate it before accepting.  1. What is current occupancy level ?  Nobody in the organisation is working for 100% of their working hours. This is a known fact to all. But the occupancy level differs for each employee. The employee needs to evaluate the occupancy level and based on the same if it is more than 75% then he can explain the same to the manager in a logical way to say "NO" to t...
Read more

5 Things to do in New Office !!

-
Image
First day to office, get the best shirt you have, get the best trousers, polish the shoes until it shines like a mirror, get the best perfume etc etc..... So it is the best you put on to impress the people you will be meeting in first day of first / new company. Let's look into some of the must do things as an employee joining a new organization : 1. Be who you are : While they say "First Impression is the best impression", be who you are, do not over impress. While many employees take the extra effort to be accepted in new organization, what they miss out is probably that this extra effort would cost them in future. As people build expectations with your initial few interactions and to retain the impression with them new employees continue to deliver the extra effort which would drain out their energy. Therefore, be who you are !! 2. Listen carefully : Open your ears widely to listen every bit of conversation. Restrain as much as you can from partici...
Read more

My Experiences from Shanti Bhavan !!

-
Image
On 1st of Dec, i had an amazing opportunity to visit Shanti Bhavan, a residential school dedicated to the education and development of children from underprivileged homes. A Brief of Shanti Bhavan Shanti Bhavan a residential school dedicated to education and development of children from underprivileged homes. 95% of children at Shanti Bhavan are from lower castes of India and 60% of them are from rural India and 40% of them from urban slums. Team of Shanti Bhavan is making a great effort in changing the lives of not only these children but also the lives of their family members. For more details, you can read on their website :http://www.shantibhavanchildren.org/about/ My Experience at Shanti Bhavan On Dec 1st as part of CSR activity, we visited Shanti Bhavan which is located near Krishnagiri. Address :  Shanti Bhavan Residential School Baliganapalli  Hosur Taluk Bagalur Krishnagiri  Baliganapalli Tamil Nadu 635103  We reached the place in mo...
Read more