What should not matter

Just returned from a trip to Australia. A trip down under changes the Indian Cricket team everytime. I went there with same hopes.

I must admit it I was skeptical at first then disappointed. And then i thought what the heck. These guys are lazy. They never work for more than 8 hours a day, five days a week. Why are we behind. They are not driven.

But then i realized why and why we may never be like them.

Because for them Individuals matter. YOU are important and they are convinced that for their colleagues they are important.
And when this happens job becomes a part of the big picture called life. Let me make it clearer. For us there is a big picture called JOB and life is a small part of it.

More than growth we need is more relaxed tension free work places.
We just need people to act responsibly and find value in their work. Let nobody be asked to prove himself. Let there not be a rat race but just a commitment to honest work.



The way we work we start having crap in our jobs like "internal politics". We start worrying about the "important people" in organization, keeping juniors in control, impressing rather than delivering, fighting for credit for our work etc.

All this goes on and we find that we are no longer being honest to our work. We no longer are doing it because it is good business. We forget that we should do it because it is the right thing to do.

But we do it because we want a nice appraisal or we will be blasted by or bosses if we don't do it.

It thus gets lost somewhere.. the basic essence of why we should do what we do.

An after effect: When things get relaxed we drop our commitment to work deep down in some well. This is the time that matters this is when we as a nation can make a few extra laps to catch up. But we are already too emotionally drained.