Are You a Procrastinator?
“Procrastination is like a disease. It develops slowly, often over a long period of time.”
It can be like an anchor around your neck. We have to learn to deal with it if we are to become effective at whatever we choose to do. You see, procrastination is the breeding ground for incompetence. If we don’t learn to conquer it, we will not maximize our effectiveness and become everything we can be.
Experts have written that only twenty percent of employees reach the level of effectiveness based on individual potential. I believe that procrastination contributes to that negative statistic. Procrastination can drain your energy, affect your attitude and suppress your creativity.
Five Common Excuses
These five common excuses are crutches. They are easy to use ----- Don’t! Print these out and post them within eyesight to remind you they are what they are--- EXCUSES.
1. There’s never enough time.
“I don’t buy it. You need to make time to establish priorities that lead to your success.”
2. There are always so many distractions. Everything is urgent.
“Learn to prioritize based on importance. Address things that are in alignment with your objectives”
3. I get tired of beating my head against the wall.
“Don’t lose your motivation, be persistent – don’t give up. Success may be right around the corner.”
4. What will my boss think? What will people say?
“Learn to ask for forgiveness instead of permission. If you have thought things through, done adequate research, go for it.”
5. Lack of confidence. It’s better to do nothing than to make a mistake.
“Believe in yourself. It isn’t a crime to make a mistake. "Good judgment is based on experience and experience is based on bad judgment." (S.Kauffman) A mistake is one of the greatest learning tools known to man.”
The key to success for anything you attempt is your ability to commit yourself with a passion. A commitment with a passion suggests you are someone who would rather take action and make things happen, than sit around and worry about what could happen. Without commitment you become someone who spends as much time avoiding the issue as others who just get it done. Procrastination is a waste of time and time is something you never get back once you spend it.
Source : Internet
By Dr. Rick Johnson, CEO Strategist, LLC
Tuesday, 19th August 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Questions !!
What went wrong? I was trying to find answers for the pestering problems.
Is the system so fragile? Not to retain the highly talented and experienced man-power till the company’s order books are over flowing.
Neither our economic system is hollow nor do our company’s suffer from a hand–to-mouth existence. Remember, it is the same workforce that gave us almost a 40% growth rate in IT sector and made the country proud. I T shifted our culture from agriculture to technology.
Is the system leakage prone, where people with fake experience and credentials could easily enter in?
HR is mainly utilised for coordinating. We have out-sourced recruiting, credential verification to name a few. These out sourcing companies were paid for the number of people they recruit. Many mal-practices took place leading to the so called “back-door entry”.
Are we professionally mature for flexible timings?
In a recent survey by a HR Consultancy on employee practices in private sector, it was found that many of the employees are engaged in side business, use office stationery for personal use, and lie in their resumes. It is high time we reconsider our priorities.
Did we pass through the stringent SEICMM levels only as a ritual? Did we disregard the first principle of management - “planning”? Have we ignored the spirit of Kaizen?
The employees, instead of being shown the exit door, could have been trained in impending technologies, or their expertise could have been used to train others.
Are we only a bunch of intellectual slaves to execute what the masters want?
Sacked employees could have been assigned to take-up R & D, or utilised to market our facilities to cater to new areas. We do have the wisdom to analyze new systems and suggest automated solutions to prevailing problems.
Did we make an error by over depending on customers mostly from one single Nation?
We experienced similar tough times subsequent to Y2K and also after 9/11/2001. This problem is not one sectors’ problem alone, this slow-down is entire nation’s problem, let us face this collectively. We can explore new avenues of technology applications to solve the several persisting problems of the mankind.
(Problem 1 – it takes two months to get results after students write their examinations – if this gap is reduced to one day, imagine the gain in number of man days for our country.
Problem 2 - Birds are used to probe the poisonous gases in the under ground – mines, and technology can be used to save many precious lives that are lost due to occasional manual error,)
Is there any co-ordination among the various departments viz. marketing – delivery – recruiting?
Take out our business intelligence from the cold storage, and give due prominence to forecasting techniques, with proper co-ordination among various departments, and branches we can easily envisage the changes that are likely to take place.
Are we in an opinion that JIT (Just-in-time) is only for the manufacturing sector?
Have we followed basic JIT principles, we could have avoided all the costs associated with “keeping-on-bench” so many the software engineers.
We are recruiting directly from the campuses one year before the students pass the qualifying exam as if there is a gap in the supply-and-demand. Let us see the statistics of professional colleges in India. We have 1668 Engineering colleges nurturing 6.53 lakhs engineers, and 1017 MCA colleges supplying 70,000 software professionals, more than sufficient for our needs.
Are the exorbitant pay packages justifiable?
Let us not kill the golden-egg-laying–duck out of our over enthusiasm to get rich over-night. We should now conduct a study to measure what is a reasonable compensation, with out over burdening the investors or customers. Let us realize that life is a very long marathon and not a 100 M sprint.
Source : Internet
Goparaju JayantH KumaR
Is the system so fragile? Not to retain the highly talented and experienced man-power till the company’s order books are over flowing.
Neither our economic system is hollow nor do our company’s suffer from a hand–to-mouth existence. Remember, it is the same workforce that gave us almost a 40% growth rate in IT sector and made the country proud. I T shifted our culture from agriculture to technology.
Is the system leakage prone, where people with fake experience and credentials could easily enter in?
HR is mainly utilised for coordinating. We have out-sourced recruiting, credential verification to name a few. These out sourcing companies were paid for the number of people they recruit. Many mal-practices took place leading to the so called “back-door entry”.
Are we professionally mature for flexible timings?
In a recent survey by a HR Consultancy on employee practices in private sector, it was found that many of the employees are engaged in side business, use office stationery for personal use, and lie in their resumes. It is high time we reconsider our priorities.
Did we pass through the stringent SEICMM levels only as a ritual? Did we disregard the first principle of management - “planning”? Have we ignored the spirit of Kaizen?
The employees, instead of being shown the exit door, could have been trained in impending technologies, or their expertise could have been used to train others.
Are we only a bunch of intellectual slaves to execute what the masters want?
Sacked employees could have been assigned to take-up R & D, or utilised to market our facilities to cater to new areas. We do have the wisdom to analyze new systems and suggest automated solutions to prevailing problems.
Did we make an error by over depending on customers mostly from one single Nation?
We experienced similar tough times subsequent to Y2K and also after 9/11/2001. This problem is not one sectors’ problem alone, this slow-down is entire nation’s problem, let us face this collectively. We can explore new avenues of technology applications to solve the several persisting problems of the mankind.
(Problem 1 – it takes two months to get results after students write their examinations – if this gap is reduced to one day, imagine the gain in number of man days for our country.
Problem 2 - Birds are used to probe the poisonous gases in the under ground – mines, and technology can be used to save many precious lives that are lost due to occasional manual error,)
Is there any co-ordination among the various departments viz. marketing – delivery – recruiting?
Take out our business intelligence from the cold storage, and give due prominence to forecasting techniques, with proper co-ordination among various departments, and branches we can easily envisage the changes that are likely to take place.
Are we in an opinion that JIT (Just-in-time) is only for the manufacturing sector?
Have we followed basic JIT principles, we could have avoided all the costs associated with “keeping-on-bench” so many the software engineers.
We are recruiting directly from the campuses one year before the students pass the qualifying exam as if there is a gap in the supply-and-demand. Let us see the statistics of professional colleges in India. We have 1668 Engineering colleges nurturing 6.53 lakhs engineers, and 1017 MCA colleges supplying 70,000 software professionals, more than sufficient for our needs.
Are the exorbitant pay packages justifiable?
Let us not kill the golden-egg-laying–duck out of our over enthusiasm to get rich over-night. We should now conduct a study to measure what is a reasonable compensation, with out over burdening the investors or customers. Let us realize that life is a very long marathon and not a 100 M sprint.
Source : Internet
Goparaju JayantH KumaR
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