Golden Egg at Office or Home!

 

Golden Egg at Office or Home!

This is an old story, Stephen Covey explained with the new paradigm in one of the best seller books: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People [Worth reading book]. Please pay attention to the story and below examples to implement and enjoy the golden egg.

This fable is the story of a poor farmer who one day discovers in the nest of his pet goose a glittering golden egg. At first, he thinks it must be some kind of trick. But as he starts to throw the Egg aside, he has second thoughts and takes it in to be appraised instead.

The egg is pure gold! The farmer can't believe his good fortune. He becomes even more incredulous the following day when the experience is repeated. Day after day, he awakens to rush to the nest and find another golden egg. He becomes fabulously wealthy; it all seems too good to be true.

But with his increasing wealth comes greed and impatience. Unable to wait day after day for the golden eggs, the farmer decides he will kill the goose and get them all at once. But when he opens the goose, he finds it empty. There are no golden eggs-and now there is no way to get any more. The farmer has destroyed the goose that produced them.

I suggest that within this fable is a natural law, a principle—the basic definition of effectiveness. Most people see effectiveness from the golden egg paradigm: the more you produce, the more you do, the more effective you are.

But as the story shows, true effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset or capacity to produce (the goose).

If you adopt a pattern of life that focuses on golden eggs and neglect the goose, you will soon be without the asset that produces golden eggs. On the other hand, if you only take care of the goose with no aim toward the golden eggs, you soon won't have the wherewithal to feed yourself or the goose.

Parental version of goose and golden egg:

Suppose you want your daughter to have a clean room. Your daughter is a goose and the cleaning action is golden egg. She is a valuable asset to produce golden eggs.

But if your paradigm is focused on production, on getting the room clean, you might find yourself nagging her to do it. You might even escalate your efforts to threaten or yell, and in your desire to get the golden egg, you undermine the health and welfare of the goose (that is your daughter)

Bringing values and discipline in children is a good idea that is a golden egg, make sure the goose (your child) is enjoying it.

Manager/Lead version of goose and golden egg:

Assume, you are the lead or manager, you need to get work done from your team. Here work is a golden egg. Your team is goose.

If you keep your focus only on getting work (golden egg) and ignore the health and welfare of your team (goose), you get very less or least productive deliverables. And you will be projected as a bad leader.

If you are focusing only on team welfare and their comforts, by neglecting delivery of work. Organisation will eliminate you. As you are only feeding the goose and not producing golden eggs.

Learn to balance, else you lose the race!

Spouse version of goose and golden egg:

Root of all your success is: Succeed at home first! If you are not successful at home, you lose Interest, Peace and Happiness. You will be in disturbed mindset. With that mindset you have the possibility of experiencing a chain of failures.

To get success at home, you must follow these goose and golden egg principles. Happiness, peace, and cooperation are the golden egg. Your spouse is a goose.

It's your duty to keep the goose happy and healthy. If not, you will miss the golden egg. (i.e., Happiness, Peace, and cooperation)

Don't be greedy in getting only golden eggs (work and cooperation). Pay little attention to goose (subordinates, children and spouse relationships) health.

Corporate Guidelines on Golden Egg:

Your subordinates are not your servants or slaves, they are the beautiful assets who produce golden eggs. Treat them with respect. Because they are working for your success. Recognise and appreciate their hard work. Win their trust. (Ref: How to win trust)

Most of your subordinates may be much smarter than you. Listen to their views and ideas.

If Lead/Manager only projected on work (golden egg) by not recognising employee (goose) health and hard work, with no doubt he/she will be remembered as a worst leader. And in organizational employee review and surveys you have the possibility to receive least ratings and bad reviews on your leadership qualities.

Author: GCV (Vishnuvardhana GC)

• Kannada Blogger

Kereya neeranu Kerege chelli

Author Disclaimer:

I’m not a robot to be constant, consistent and complete, I’m a normal human and my blog will be contradictory like director give multiple movies have different opinions on the same subject or different subjects. I flow like a river, I really don’t look for sand, rock, trees, house, and so on. Intention is helping as many as possible before reaching the ocean. I strongly recommend to consult expert’s advice to follow and adopt any methods. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being.

PMP/IIT/IIM/Stanford may produce bad manager or engineer

PMP/IIT/IIM/Stanford may produce bad manager or engineer

If you are not driven by values or not courageous to do something great or not innovative or not helpful to the people or society; having degree is just like having one more paper in your hand.

How holding a certificate looks?

Let me tell you one small story which I realized and created after I started writing this blog…

There is big forest with different types of wild animals and few tigers are the leaders of the forest.

One day suddenly there was one announcement from the Parrot, announcement is like this: “This is tiger certification program announcement; people who haven't certified as tiger from the institute F-Tiger, may please apply for the certification and practice using the syllabus of the institution. Important note is; whoever gets certified will be treated as leaders of the forest”.

Hearing this news, real tigers started wondering – why do we need certification when we are born tigers?! Scared of losing the forest leadership; they decided not to ignore this certification.

So, they informed other tigers as well, all of them went to the certification center. There was so much crowd over there - many tigers, leopard, foxes, wolfs, cows and so on. All were standing in a queue to pay fee and collect the course materials.

Funniest thing was that, the certification center was headed by management who are all foxes!!!

So, these real tigers started working day and night for the exam. On the day of examination; the real tigers along with other animals appeared for the exam.

They had theory and practical exams, and went home. While returning, the real tiger group was not happy as they felt they didn't do well in the exam.

Finally result day came…!

Tiger Certification management (Group of Foxes) came out and announced, F-tiger certified candidates are: 3 Foxes, 1 Wolf and 1 Tiger.

So, guidelines were passed as- “from now on; only certified people will be the leaders of the forest”. The real tigers who failed in the exam felt bad and surrendered. Still they were wondering about the results.

The exam was more on Foxes and its activities, how come the Wolf and another Tiger cleared this exam? Reason was; that tiger and wolf went missing in the forest in childhood, and they grew up with the group of Foxes. So, they were habituated with all fox activities and life styles.

See this is how our current certification system instills fear, fakes and makes Foxes as Tigers and vice versa.

Our college education is sufficient to provide all aspects of the professional requirements. Those who are done with that, it's more than enough. Of course, there is a self-learning to enhance further.

Whereas this certification is like Fox groups creating fear and stealing money from masses. Pathetic thing is real tigers can't pass these stupid exams.

Sorry folks of PMP or ISTQB or CSTE or IIM or IIT or any, this is the truth and you too know about it.

Many of you are aware of this certification fever is going on in corporate sectors. As PMP gives good manager, ISTQB gives good quality engineer, IIT or Stanford give good Engineer, IIM/MBA gives good management administrator and so on.

If you think or believe that certification gives quality people? What about the below story

One of my friend scored 100% in ISTQB, it doesn't mean, he is a greatest QE on the earth. He was fortunate enough to get questions from the sample question paper he referred. Similarly, PMP or Stanford or IIT or IIM or ISTQB or Any…

Since I'm software quality engineer (QE), let me take my own field of certification: For one person to become a good quality engineer, he or she must be very creative, should have test to break attitude, should have logical thinking and investigative nature, should have burning desire in finding bugs and give quality, also capable to see one thing in different dimensions that results in many test scenarios. And he/she should never feel that testing is completed, that means; they should always think and act in different ways to break the application.

Similarly, PMP/IIM will never provide a great manager. If they really do that? then, my classmate who is a topper in college, he will score 100% in PMP/IIM. Whereas he is very weak in people management, communication and so on. If you consider only PMP/IIM gives? Give him a manager post! If you see only certificates, you are hiring one BOOK.

Let me give one real time example of the real manager or leader I witnessed.

I was constructing a farm building, and decided to hire the same person who constructed our home.

His name is Obanna, not Obama, it's OBANNA, he stays next to my village involved in building construction. He is a Mestri (Mestri in Kannada means lead in English) has around 4 to 5 teams working for him, each team varied in size: 10, 15, 20 so on. Construction happens in different geographical locations (villages or towns nearby). He manages all the teams through phone call (virtual management) and he will be physically present at one location. Workers under him are not stable, not professional, uncontrollable, uneducated, and have NO Loan/EMI’s 😊 but Obanna has a great skill in dealing with them, all the things happen as expected and as planned. How?

Reasons I have seen in him are:

1. He is aware of kinds of works and his estimations are clear on the teams.

2. He is aware of who is doing what or who can do what and how to get connected with them.

3. He knows - when to speak and when to act and when to be silent.

4. He is humorous and challenging too.

5. He had worked in many projects before he took leadership (not by certificates)

6. He maintains the balance between house owners/constructor’s and his team members.

7. Without big education (studied till 4^th standard in Kannada medium), he knew about; what is estimation, planning, team building, team outing, talent recognition, work and life balance, planning and so on.

I told him you are the real great manager I have ever seen, as you don’t even know what are workshops, management course, self-help guide and so on.  Obanna just laughed at me for my words.

What I observed in OBANNA is shown in the below image; i.e. he is a leader not a boss.

Have you ever noticed that trees and flowers growing in bushes and wild are more beautiful and stronger than the garden grown? Same is here, some of the certified people just look like cropped garden plants, they look like robots. You know how robots function; they can’t think, they can’t be creative, they can’t be dynamic, they are just work based on algorithms and its instructions.

Life is dynamic, it's like a running river, every second it changes, that is its nature. No certification will help you in corporate to grow company to the higher level. Start identifying people who are creative, skilled and talented from the masses.

Real leaders or experts come from masses, their creativity is not certified by institutions. Of course, institutions try copying them and produce content (copies/slave) in later stages. Example: IIM Ahmedabad doing case study on Bollywood blockbuster 'Baahubali' movie which was directed by S. S. Rajamouli, what is S.S Rajamouli’s education and which certifications he has…

Take few examples:

A. R. Rahman in music, Raja Ravi Varma in Arts/Painting, Lata Mangeshkar in playback singing, Sachin Tendulkar in Cricket, Diego Maradona in Football, Rabindranath Tagore in Literature, what is their academic score in related subjects/skills, did they pursue any certification before they become popular in that field?

Let's see these people’s qualification:

Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Indira Gandhi, Narendra Modi, what is the score of these people in political science subject. Do you think that certification helped them to achieve success? Never. If someone thinks so, I don't know what to say to them.

Many corporate employees, out of fear, are running behind PMP, ISTQB, CSTE and many more certifications. These certification companies encash this fear. If certification is the measurement then CEO or business owners should have 100’s of certificates. But most of the successful leaders are college dropouts!!!

List of entrepreneurs who dropped out of college:

· Michael Dell, Dell founder, dropped out at 19

· Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dropped out at 19

· Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, dropped out at 19

· Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, dropped out at 20

· Evan Williams, Twitter co-founder, dropped out at 20

· Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, dropped out at 20

· Larry Ellison, Oracle founder, dropped out at 20

· Jan Koum, WhatsApp founder, dropped out at 21

· Travis Kalanick, Uber founder, dropped out at 21

· John Mackey, Whole Foods founder, dropped out at 22

Source: https://blog.adioma.com/entrepreneurs-who-dropped-out-infographic/

To hire real tiger or real creative or real leader. As per many CEO’s and great leader suggestion; “don’t look for institutions or certifications, look only for skills”.

If someone is looking into Caste/State/Language/Education/Certificates while hiring, soon or later that organization will vanish.

Employers – here is your choice:

1. Which chef food is good, to run your restaurant successfully? hire the real cook instead of certified chef.

2. Improve the manger hiring process, like for employees you ask manager reference, get team members reference for the manager from previously managed companies, conduct some checks on how he or she was managing. Later take a call on hiring them. If you hire based on certification then better hire one book or robot, it may be equivalent to it.

3. Don’t make everyone as Tech head or Manager, just because they have worked for many years in the organization. In that case you need to give preference to the walls and doors of the office, they too stay longer with office.

4. Remember, while hiring – watch CEO’s type of behaviors in hiring employees, ownership attitude, and commitment. They are the only possibility to take company to the next level, Learn from Google, Facebook and Microsoft.

a.For Identifying leaders watch: Leadership (must watch !!!) - TD Jakes - Complete

b.For unbiased hiring of Google watch: Google’s 4 rules and How We Hire

c. The Most Successful People Explain Why a College Degree is USELESS

5. Is manager real or not? You should identify them by the employee survey (who got highest rating). Not by the PMP/IIM MBA.

6. Is engineer real or not? You should identify them by their innovation which will generate revenue (not a non-sense innovations). Not by degrees of Sanford or IIT or any. That is the reason I say Sanford, PMP, IIM, and IIT may produce bad manager or engineer.

7. Please don’t give leadership positions in corporate; just because they returned from America or they have American citizenship. If donkey stays 10 years in America it may also get citizenship. What is the use? Its having all its core nature. That’s why Benjamin Franklin said as: “Some People Die At 25 And Aren't Buried Until 75”

From which school or which certification these people have - Albert Einstein, Aryabhata, Archimedes, Thomas Alva Edison, Isaac Newton. School or college can produce disciplinary or machine type of people, creativity is born outside of the school. Height of stupidity is to find creativity in school or college or certifications.

Tell me what you will do, with the below people:
1. PMP/IIM certified manager receives least rating in employee survey.
2. Java/Python certified person not able to fix a bug or understand the code or logic.
3. ISTQB/CSTE certified person not able to find the bugs in application or a product.
4. Sales/Marketing certified person not able to sell or market the products.

5. Certified musician or art person not able give good art or music to the world.

6. Certified chef not able to cook a real delicious food.

Creativity comes not by certification, many institutions have tried and failed. Reason is the certifications will teach mainly on earlier successful scenarios. Life is dynamic, it changes its routes, ways and dimensions in every single minute. Only creative people get along with it and get success. Not certified people.

If you guide someone to take one route, and if s/he gets blocked in that route, s/he will ask for help, whereas creative person find the alternative routes and reach the destination.

Author: GCV (Vishnuvardhana GC)

• Kannada Blogger

Kereya neeranu Kerege chelli

Author Disclaimer:

I’m not a robot to be constant, consistent and complete, I’m a normal human and my blog will be contradictory like director give multiple movies have different opinions on the same subject or different subjects. I flow like a river, I really don’t look for sand, rock, trees, house, and so on. Intention is helping as many as possible before reaching the ocean. I strongly recommend to consult expert’s advice to follow and adopt any methods. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. 

A manager can project a fox as a tiger

A manager can project a fox as a tiger

You all know, tigers are born with the qualities, if someone project or make a Fox as a Tiger, it looks like an 8th wonder. Where as in IT or corporate, some of our great managers achieved this 8th wonder!

Why what is the need?

Unfortunately, in corporate; it is started recognizing foxes as tigers, reason in superior position some other foxes are already occupied, they know that one fox can align with other fox. If tiger allowed to grow it may eat the fox and its group too.

That is the reason other than startup companies or path changing companies, all other headed by pure management (here I’m saying pure management means; they are not either involved in innovation or development of that sector work) not making good business.

Here I’m saying path changing is a company driven by the real tiger or headed by an innovator/developer. If company given to pure management, you can find many foxes. Reason; pure management always struggle to keep the business and safe running. They never attempt any new things, and they have only followers. Followers are a kind of fox and sheep’s community.

Here are some differences between Tiger and Fox driven companies:

1. Real innovator or a tiger, do always adventures, they conquer the market.

2. Fear Mgmt or a Fox always try securing their jobs and they bargain in market.

3. Real innovator or a Tiger look ahead of the future demands and requirements.

4. Fear Mgmt or Fox look for quarterly benefits, cost cuttings, reasons for failures.

5. Real innovator or a Tiger make the customers come and beg for products.

6. Fear Mgmt or Fox makes the corporate go and beg for the customers to stay back.

This cost cutting in corporate looks like this way. Assume vegetables and grocery prices gone high, do you fire your family members or eat grass? No, in general you find the way to increase the income or adjust. See this is the reason fox driven companies always look like family members firing companies. You can get more info on this context by watching TED talk on: Why good leaders make you feel safe

If you put tiger skin on fox it will never become a tiger, it may look like a tiger, but act exactly like a fox.

Tiger get identify by birth as they are, if you make a fox or wolf as a Tiger, you are creating or attempting to create funny things, you must be a magician or a mad.

 Many superiors identify some foxes in the team they make them as Tigers, reason; they fear for the real Tigers, those may dominate and attack on them, because manager himself/herself is a fox. So, making a fox as a tiger is safest decision, and the same superiors don’t forget to project a tiger as a fox so that, real tigers will leave the office with insults, and managers will be escape from the future questions as well.

Let’s see how manager project a Fox as a Tiger:

1. Talking in the meeting about foxes and their work too much and too often.

2. Raising questions that a fox only can answer.

3. Display foxes work as ultimate and nobody can do that.

4. Very often manager says as fox have done great job in emails and team meetings.

5. Giving some work to the foxes that work can’t be traceable in count or giving some easy work counting that in numbers to project high, also giving foxes a high attentions wordings work, in fact no customers are using those work or no value creation to the organization.

6. For the new forest animals and leaders, they introduce a Fox as a Tiger.

Let’s see how manger project a Tiger as a Fox:

1. Treating Tiger’s greatest contribution as nothing or very simple or not important.

2. Giving no option to raise a question to the Tigers, even if its relevant or required.

3. Displaying Tigers small mistake is a great business lose or insult to the organization.

4. Very often they find and show some mistakes of Tigers.

5. Giving some real brainstorming work to the tigers, taking count by giving complex work. These tigers given work, creates values to the organization, whereas manager shows that’s nothing.

6. For the new forest animals and leaders, they introduce Tigers as they are foxes.

Some other strategies or behaviors of bad managers:

• Manager treating Partying subordinates in soft corner. Being hard for No partying subordinates. Some do this in opposite way.
•  Giving more and more work to the working folks by treating them like a donkey. Not questioning or giving work to the slackers
• If someone question about slacker’s work, suddenly applying all world’s policies and rules on the honest employees to trap them.
• Giving good rating to their pets and 3rd grade rating to the honestly working employees, if they question manager, manager give reasons; those reasons look like asking a fish to climb a tree on land.
• Using office rewards and resignation to feed their friends and pets, some managers give rewards and get party from employees in return.

Why do they do this?

This is driven by fear, they are very sure that fox/wolf/dogs can’t harm them and they can suppress at any point of time. They also know that they can’t suppress real tiger’s roaring, they fear of losing their jobs. So, safer side is making fox/wolf/dog as Tiger/Lion! Biggest blunder is some of the mangers grow from manager to senior manager, senior manager to group manager, group manager to director, still they have not identified any assistant manager or mangers in their team?!!! These nonsenses happen only in corporate. (To the outside world corporate is more structured or organized than Govt) Whereas in Govt if taluk officer promoted to district commissioner, immediately Govt hire other person to the taluk officer. And for commissioner Govt gives commissioners work, not the taluk officer work.

These bad managers usually don't work, because most of their time and effort they invest on destroying honest employees.

HR's or Corporate:

Introduce a system: if any manager who ask daily status of the employee? He/she must provide their daily status back to the employee by copying his supervisor. (Reason for superior is, manager can't lie) Managers status should include: how many hours they have meetings, how many hours they spend on the task assignment (what are those tasks...) and how many hours they spend on team management. What about remaining hours? Are those hours manger is putting on office work or personal doings? Reason many managers and director’s positions are redundant in Corporate. By cleaning this stuff, you give some justice to the investors’ money.

Sometimes I feel: Uneducated, uncivilized worker heads or leaders are look much better when compared with worst corporate managers. Politics is more in corporate than the real politics. If corporate office politics is exposed? that looks uglier than the 2G, 3G scams, or any other scams. Politicians are good! At least they do something good to the society. Example: They work and provide roads, water, electricity, hospitals, so on. These corporate politicians are so self-centered and selfish.

There are many I heard and witnessed transitions of Tiger as a Fox:

1. A manager can project a manual test engineer an automation engineer.

2. A manager can project an automatable engineer as a manual test engineer.

3. A manager can project a real marketing person as an office assistant and an office assistant as a marketing person.

4. A manager can project conductor as a bus driver and a bus driver as a bus conductor.

5. A manager can project a real architect as a mundane worker and a mundane worker as an architect.

6. A manager can project managerial person as an independent contributor, and an independent contributor as a managerial person.

7. A manager can project 10% important work of his Fox work as 100% important, same manger can also project Tigers 100% important work as nothing.

8. A manager can make a core developer as a bug fixer and bug fixer as a core developer in a software company.

9. A manager can project stone as a diamond and real diamond as a stone.

10. A manager can rate dumb as an extraordinary/exceptional and an extraordinary as a dumb.

In between some actors also get benefits of growth in corporate. Reason: these actors don’t work, they act very nicely they overtake even Oscar best actors. The reason they are not harmful, that is their strength! Main strength of showoff people is Acting and Buttering. In India/Karnataka this buttering is also termed as holding bucket, some exceptional cases this also called as holding swimming pool.

If someone (working person or real tiger) complaint about their manager with his superiors, it goes this way; you are complaining on bitter gourd (your manager) as it is bitter with neem seed (his superior). What neem seed will do? It convinces you as, bitter gourd is sweet and I’m also sweet.

If someone serious and not totally agree on above facts, it looks this way, there’s a proverb in Kannada, When I call there is a pumpkin theft, other person suddenly touching his shoulder.

I'm using word manager in the title to create curiosity in the reader, if I don't use, this blog will be ignored or may not reach as intended. When word manager comes in… for few it stimulates nerve system and neurons in the body. Of course, content is also focusing on manager too, my idea here is to build or helping to build the good and honesty in corporate culture. I'm aware that this blog contains utter negativity on negative things which are happening in today’s corporate.

Writing is not great, one must know to take it to the public. If one writing and not trying in take it to the public, it's just a waste of his time. And writing must be true and close to the truth, if writing is not true? again it's a kind of projecting fox as a tiger.

"new bies" of corporate please go with the values, no matter you have job or no job. Let the life ends today, let it end. Die like a lion. Never entertain and support fraudulent things and people.

Please don't make next generations life as hell, you are building today's corporate, your kids and grand kids will face the same in tomorrow. Be conscious, be aware, be careful, build the beautiful corporate and world.

Author: GCV (Vishnuvardhana GC)

• Kannada Blogger

Kereya neeranu Kerege chelli

Author Disclaimer:

I’m not a robot to be constant, consistent and complete, I’m a normal human and my blog will be contradictory like director give multiple movies have different opinions on the same subject or different subjects. I flow like a river, I really don’t look for sand, rock, trees, house, and so on. Intention is helping as many as possible before reaching the ocean. I strongly recommend to consult expert’s advice to follow and adopt any methods. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. 

My Manager is a Donkey and Me too*

My Manager is a Donkey and Me too*

I think in the today’s corporate world most hated word is MANAGER. If we put, the word ‘Manager’ in the hated words computation, word ‘Manager’ will get shortlisted with great majority, why many hate their managers? There are some reasons I found from one of the below mentioned site:

Top 10 Reasons Why Your Employees Hate You

1.    You Don’t Know What You’re Doing

2.    You Treat Them Disrespectfully

3.    Work Is All About You

4.    You're a Blockhead or a Jerk

5.    You Over Manage Good Employees

6.    You Don’t Know What They Are Doing

7.    You Don’t Act As If They Have a Life

8.    You Don’t Give them Credit When Credit Is Due

9.    You Don’t Have Their Backs

10.  You’re a Bully   (Source: https://www.thebalance.com/why-employees-hate-you-1917713)

Many resignation happen because of manager, not because of office or salary or policies.

Never support Favoritism, crank, personally taking, psychopath manager to grow, it will be create harm to the society, as is the leader so is the employees, again in future; today’s employees will become tomorrow’s managers. How they will be different from their earlier bosses. That’s why more stupidity we see in today’s corporate world, earlier it was only in politics.

If manager is complaining on any employee, he is not at all a manager. Skills of real manager stays in dealing with different and difficult personalities, if all the employees are good and working, why the need of manger?

Manager is someone who generate loyalty and kind of leadership reputation that will have the best talents standing in a line to work for him/her.

We are in soft work (or software) era, arrogance wouldn't help here. Arrogance works only at lathe work/rock work. With arrogance; hard worker may hit hammer with more stronger. (Now a days hard works also introduced soft processes) if you show arrogance here - employee may take leaves at the time of important work. Keep in mind have good relationship with employee, in case; if they are sick also, they should come and work for you when it is really needed. Not like taking sick leave just because they hate you..  Corporate running with deadlines and milestone dates. If they have not met deadlines or milestones because of employee intentional sick leaves or intentional personal off or manager’s stupidity it moves project at risk. That is why surveys, feedbacks and retrospect’s come in picture, it helps to eliminate those managers out of corporates and employees too if needed.

You should respect your manager, it’s a position that deserved it. It does not mean that you need to accept all his/her non-sense too, if you find your manager is playing favor to his relatives/friends, community, language, and country, so on. Make sure you are intimating this to your higher management, if in case you have no trust in his/her higher managers, try to reach the skip levels or whatever the level, and make sure, you are sending a feedback on it. Don’t worry to talk to the big people, big people values your feedback, they don’t harm you. If they harm you they too will be a small people, better leave them.

Entertaining your boss just because he/she belongs to your community, language, state, they helped you to grow without you get qualified to it, means; you are contributing to grow immorality and crime in the society, it will affect the future generations. Please don’t support and be part of it.

As 16th Century poet Sarvajna said: if coward become a leader, if stupid become a teacher, if rascal become a ruler, the whole country will suffer badly.

Currently with our great ignorance we have destroyed our political systems functioning in the world, please don’t destroy the corporate system by supporting or giving good rating and feedbacks to the idiotic managers or management. In future your kids will be suffering with the system you have created today.

Thank god we have GPTW and other surveys in the organization to create better work and life balanced environments.

To the Management: please try to hire or position a manager or a director based on their qualification, not based on their “tenure”. If donkey’s age is 20 or 30, it doesn’t mean it is a wise or capable.

To the Managers: Appreciating your favorable people and ignoring others, is clearly visible to the team. You are here to work for the organization, don’t expect employees to bowdown in front of you. We all working for common goals. Expect only work, if you try to show your attitude or personal ego, you will be thrown out, Reason: after manager, next levels are very few and it will be given to the real qualified ones. If someone missed in that filter, next filter you will be cot.

Don’t start hating managers. By hating your manager internally, how you can expect your manager to love you? Have good thoughts internally about your manager, than you will be having good relationship with the management.

Don’t give up or blame country or society for not getting professional growth. Take A P J Abdul Kalam is a role model to all of us, he born and brought up with normal family. How he achieved great positions? Keep this in mind, our sincere effort will always give good results, no politics or buttering is needed. In this Indian society person belongs minority community, without bribing, buttering, he achieved highest position in Govt Organizations. Why can’t you make it in more transparent corporate sector?

Abdul Kalam I’m referring is not 1000 years old person. Till recent days he was guiding and helping our current generation, now he is no more, his name and motivation stays with us forever.

One thing is sure: what you give you get it. Give good to get good, giving bad and expecting good to come is nonsense, which will never happen.

Let’s start seeing on the title of this blog: 

You just work like a donkey, no one cares your words and not required to care, look at the great constructions Egyptian pyramids, Golden Gate Bridge, Taj Mahal, many more you will see only one or few dreamers to these. Others are just workers. If all are dreamers, who will work? If all are the dreamers what kind of design will come out? So make sure you work like donkey when working as worker.

Throw out your EGO of being to be printed your name on every project you work, once project completed, no one’s name come out, other than the project name.

Just take an examples and try to find the names of the designers or developers:

• In software: Bluetooth, Linux, TCP/IP 
• In construction: Burj khalifa, Great wall of Chaina, Mysore palace, so on.

Tell me the names of the designer or developers or companies without googling, its bit difficult to get names right?

Look at the above temple image, few days’ back I took it at Sringeri Sharada Peetham, Look at the single stone curved rings hanging at the roof of the temple. I have no idea of this great Rock curved art temple designers or developers names. I just only enjoyed the beauty of it. I don’t even searched for the names. Name does not matter only purpose matters.

Just I had a selfie with it, I took one more selfie with elephant too, in both the case I have no idea of Designer of the temple and Father/Mother of elephant too..

                                 

Having selfie is OK, having too much selfishness is not OK.

Don't worry about the name, just work like a donkey. Sometimes; time gives you an option to play different roles, utilize that opportunity and express your thought or idea’s to it or else; work like a donkey. Don’t simply comment on every process of the system, every design of the system, it just creates some amount of stress and anxiety in you. Management/owner/designer know about how to take and make the things to work for the organization and its goals, they go with their plan and purpose.

If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs. – Tony Gaskins

Above quote make sense, still I’m not totally agreed with the above quote. We all have dreams, size of the dream matters; if your dream is small you alone make that true by working. If your dream is big, you need many to work for your dream, in that care you hire or take help of others.

In my opinion; we all together working to fulfill each other’s dreams.

Why you need to work like a donkey?

• Donkey never questions.
• Donkey have no ambiguity in doing work.
• Donkey follows defined rules without fail.
• Donkey don't skip the given route without further notice.
• Donkey don't dream something its own to put in. (when on duty)

If you want something to get successful as per the dreamer's dream, just work like a donkey or hire donkeys to work for.

We are here to work like a donkeys, don’t try to impose your dreams, when working in corporate organizations remember you are here to make companies or owners dreams come to true, not your dream come true. Of course by doing others dream work, you will be full filling your dreams too.

You don’t think that you are working for your manager’s dream. Your manager and manager’s manager too are working for the dreamers dream. In corporate: dreamers are the Owner’s or CEO’s or Customers and only few countable people in it. Rest of the mass are just a works, and may be designation is varied.

Here is a reporting structure: Look who the dreamer is or where is he and where are you?

                                 

Just imagine, before building Taj Mahal, It was a dream or design of Ustad Ahmad Lahauri, and Shah Jahan gift to Mumtaz.

If they have taken 20,000 employees advice for design, who worked for it? What will be the design? We can’t imagine it right?

If everyone gives one one suggestion it goes nowhere, long back I heard one quote on this context: if you don’t want something to happen, put it in meeting with few people. So each one will suggest something and it will be stopped.

That is the reason; I’m saying we are here to work like a donkeys.

Many times I see employee’s comments on their manager, manager complaining on their manager, so on.

Let’s study their complaints and nature of complaints:

• This design is wrong, what the hell they are going to do with it?
• This organization is using most stupid technologies.
• This is a useless effort they asked us to do, something is wrong with my manager or director.
• Simply investing money.
• Office process is not good.
• HR policies are not good.
• Who will use this design? So on.

If you understood the above paragraphs, and above or any other questions of yours got answered.

Regarding corporate:

Corporate are not food distribution centers(except food sector), reason why I'm bringing this point is many times I heard people saying that office gives, dry fruits, beer, that this, so on. Are we going to the office to eat or to do sumo fight? Many of the people forgotten the purpose of their employment. Some are thinking that we completed tech degree so corporate need to pay? Remember corporate are not charity centers, not Ashrams to expect that way.

So called educated people talk so much about corruption. Touch your heart and say, how many days you have taken salary by not working or by working only few hours (Excluding people in bench/have no work). Taking money and not working is a kind of stealing. Don't say its small, and I'm not doing big one.  For you its small, for them that is small.

Last but not least:

Regarding Donkey, I don’t want to speak light words on donkey, since the word is catchy, I just used it, and in future they may sue me on this subject. 

We human being are defined, qualified, and certified ourselves as a most intelligent animal on earth. Still we haven’t done enough research on other organisms exists along with us, may be still we have not invented those equipment to measure their IQ, EQ and So on.

Just imagine donkey might be a great intellect in the living beings, because of its physical limitation and non-speaking nature [may be we are not able to decode its language yet]. Hence we are not able to identify it as a great living being. In future some research says and declare that donkey is a master of living beings!

Author: GCV (Vishnuvardhana GC)

• Kannada Blogger

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Author Disclaimer:

I’m not a robot to be constant, consistent and complete, I’m a normal human and my blog will be contradictory like director give multiple movies have different opinions on the same subject or different subjects. I flow like a river, I really don’t look for sand, rock, trees, house, and so on. Intention is helping as many as possible before reaching the ocean. I strongly recommend to consult expert’s advice to follow and adopt any methods. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being.