Which employee type are you ?

Employee "A" in a company walked up to his manager and asked what my job is for the day?  The manager took "A" to the bank of a river and asked him to cross the river and reach the other side of the bank. "A" completed this task successfully and reported back to the manager about the completion of the task assigned. The manager smiled and said "GOOD JOB"

Next day Employee "B" reported to the same manager and asked him the job for the day. The manager assigned the same task as above to this person also. The Employee "B' before starting the task saw Employee "C" struggling in the river to reach the other side of the bank. He realized "C" has the same task. Now "B" not only crossed the river but also helped "C" to cross the river. "B" reported back to the manager and the manager smiled and said "VERY GOOD JOB"

The following day Employee "Q" reported to the same manager and asked him the job for the day. The manager assigned the same task again.  Employee "Q" before starting the work did some home work and realized "A", "B" "C" all has done this task before. He met them and understood how they performed. He realized that there is a need for a guide and training for doing this task. He sat first and wrote down the procedure for crossing the river, he documented the common mistakes people made, and tricks to do the task efficiently and effortlessly. Using the methodology he had written down he crossed the river and reported back to the manager along with documented procedure and training material.  The manger said "Q" you have done an "EXCELLENT JOB".

The following day Employee "O' reported to the manager and asked him the job for the day. The manager assigned the same task again. "O" studied the procedure written down by "Q" and sat and thought about the whole task. He realized company is spending lot of money in getting this task completed. He decided not to cross the river, but sat and designed and implemented a bridge across the river and went back to his manager and said, "You no longer need to assign this task to any one". The manager smiled and said "Outstanding job 'O'. I am very proud of you."

What is the difference between A, B, Q O?  Many a times in life we get tasks to be done at home, at office, at play.,

Most of us end up doing what is expected out of us. Do we feel happy? Most probably yes. We would be often disappointed when the recognition is not meeting our expectation. Let us compare ourselves with "B". Helping someone else the problem often improves our own skills. There is an old proverb (I do not know the author) "learn to teach and teach to learn". From a company point of view "B" has demonstrated much better skills than "A" since one more task for the company is completed.

"Q" created knowledge base for the team. More often than not, we do the task assigned to us without checking history. Learning from other's mistake is the best way to improve efficiency. This knowledge creation for the team is of immense help. Re-usability reduces cost there by increases productivity of the team. "Q" demonstrated good "team-player" skills,

Now to the outstanding person, "O" made the task irrelevant; he created a Permanent Asset to the team.

If you notice B, Q and O all have demonstrated "team performance" over and above individual performance; they have also demonstrated a very invaluable characteristic known as "INITIATIVE".

Initiative pays of everywhere whether at work or at personal life. If you have initiative you will succeed. Initiative is a continual process and it never ends. This is because this year's achievement is next year's task. You cannot use the same success story every year. The story provides an instance of performance, where as measurement needs to be spread across at least 6-12 months. Consequently performance should be consistent and evenly spread.  Out-of-Box thinkers are always premium and that is what everyone constantly looks out for. Initiative, Out-of-Box thinking and commitment are the stepping stone to success.

Initiative should be lifelong. Think of out of the box…..Happy Working

source: http://paradigmwisdom.blogspot.com/

How To Live!

Can any one tell us how to live?

3 Don'ts n 3 Dos (for Children)

IN Quran Allah Says:
" teary Rub nay hukum diya k tum usi ki ibadat karo aur waldain k saath ehsaan karo. Agar tumharay saamnay in mein say kisi ik ka burhapa aa jaiey ya donoon ka to (2 don'ts)
1.ufff tak mat kaho,
2. Unko danto mat.
(Now 3 Dos):
1.Acchi baat unko kaho,
2.aajizi say bazoo ko un k liye jhuka do,
3. (Aur is tarah dua kartay huay) kaho meray Rub in Donoon par raham jis tarah unho nay bachpan mein meri tarbiyat o parwarish ki....aameen

Choices

Story: Giving Comments about others

Once an old man spread rumors that his neighbor was a thief. As a result, the young man was arrested. Days later the young man was proven innocent. 

After being released he sued the old man for wrongly accusing him.

In the court, the old man told the Judge: "They were just comments, didn't harm anyone."

The judge told the old man: "Write all the things you said about him on a piece of paper. Cut them up and on the way home, throw the pieces of paper out. Tomorrow, come back to hear the sentence."

 Next day, the judge told the old man: "Before the hearing starts, go out and gather all the pieces of paper that you threw out yesterday."

The old man said: "I can't do that! The wind spread them and I won't know where to find them."

The judge then replied: "The same way, simple comments may destroy the honor of a man to such an extent that one is not able to fix it. If you can't speak well of someone, rather don't say anything."

 

Giving comments about others have several disadvantages:

1-     we become slaves of our words what we have uttered.

2-    We lose our own respect in society/colleagues because of doing consistent character assassination.

3-    Most of time, we are not sure whether we are right or wrong because being human our judgment can be wrong so we fall in the category of liars.

4-    Negative trait of our personality becomes prominent which becomes of character in the long run.

The law of the seed

Take a look at an apple tree. There might be five hundred apples on the tree, each with ten seeds. That's a lot of seeds!

We might ask, "Why would you need so many seeds to grow just a few more trees?"

Nature has something to teach us here. It's telling us: "Most seeds never grow. So if you really want to make something happen, you better try more than once."
This might mean:You'll attend twenty interviews to get one job.

You'll interview forty people to find one good employee.

You'll talk to fifty people to sell one house, car, vacuum cleaner, idea...

And you might meet a hundred acquaintances to find one special friend.

When we understand the "Law of the Seed", we don't get so disappointed.

We stop feeling like victims. Laws of nature are not things to take personally.

source:  http://paradigmwisdom.blogspot.com/

The story of 100 Rupees

The story of 100 Rupees:

*In the National Assembly,** Islamabad**, a PPP MNA, during his speech,
told a story.....*

"Once upon a time a father gave 100 rupees each to his 3 sons and asked
them to buy things and fill up a room completely.

1st son bought a bulk of hay for Rs 100 but couldn't fill the room entirely.

2nd son bought a pile of cotton for Rs 100 but couldn't fill the room
entirely.

3rd son bought a candle for Rs 1, lit up the candle, the room was filled
with light."

The PPP MNA added, "Our President Zardari is like the 3rd son. Since the
day he has taken charge of his office, our country is filled with the
bright light of prosperity"

A voice from the backbench MNA, Usman Bhai from Karachi, questioned:

Woh sub to theek hai, per baaqi 99 Rupay kahan hain... ???