Positive Attitude and success
July
4, 2012
In my last blog I had mentioned
about 3 A mantras---- Accept, Adjust and Appreciate. These work well at work place.
However, to begin ushering in a robust and successful future, one needs to
understand the power of three major inputs, required to promote a success
conducive system in oneself. The three major inputs here are as under:
1, Knowledge
2, Skills
3, Attitude
One may say that these three
inputs form a triangle of sorts in each one of us. It may be prudent here to
discuss each of the inputs above to understand the import and impact of each
one of them.
1, Knowledge
One must possess excellent
knowledge in one’s CORE area of operation. Knowledge is one of the main planks here.
One must acquire as much knowledge as possible to enable one to perform
efficiently and effectively in one’s chosen area of operation. Further, one
must constantly upgrade and update one’s knowledge. For this, one must stay in
touch with latest happenings in the industry as also academically.
2, Skills
Knowledge alone is not enough. One
must develop sufficient skills to implement the various projects in one’s core
area keeping one’s knowledge base in focus. One must constantly endeavour to
improve these skills. The skills could vary depending on the chosen CORE area
by any individual.
3, Attitude
It’s not merely enough to possess
knowledge and skills; one must also have the right ATTITUDE which can also be
termed as positive attitude. A positive or right attitude can have a profound
impact towards promoting a success conducive atmosphere in any work area chosen
by a person. An example elaborated below would help understand ATTITUDE better.
A multinational company in USA
sent its salesman to a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean to promote the sale
of their popular brand of shoes. The Salesman on reaching the island was aghast
to find that none wore shoes in the island. He immediately sent a cable message
to the parent company in USA mentioning that he was rushing back home since
none in the island wear shoes.
Another Salesman was then sent to
the same island, who on reaching there was quite excited to find that none wore
shoes in the island. He promptly sent a cable message---“Send me big
consignment of shoes since none here wear shoes”.
The above example aptly describes
how an attitude ought to be like at a work place.
Having understood the three
inputs briefly, it may be mentioned that the triangle of the said inputs may be
small initially but it should be our constant endeavour to increase the size of
each side uniformly to form an equilateral triangle. It’s no use having a huge
knowledge side with poor skills and even poor attitude. We have plenty of such
knowledgeable arm chair critics. Knowing is not “doing” (function of skill),
Doing is “doing”. If knowing was “doing” most of us would not have got married.
(Lots of laugh)
All the three inputs in the right
proportion go to form a success conducive base which would act as a launching
pad for any aspiring person to make a tryst with his GOAL in any profession of
his preferred choice.
Needless to emphasize the
principles of Accept, Adjust and Appreciate will come handy in addition to the
above said inputs of Knowledge, Skills and Attitude.
Above all this is one major
guiding principle which should not be lost sight of by any individual would be
to pick a core area as his career which is close to his heart and which he
enjoys doing most. Remember, the Quote—“If you cannot get what you like, you
must like what you get.” Let us avoid such a situation and take an informed decision
to choose a CORE area which one loves/likes the most.
In a nut shell ,to generate a
success conducive situation at a work
place one must keep in mind and implement 3 A principles of ACCEPT,ADJUST,APPRECIATE.
Develop a sound base of KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ATTITUDE and above all pick up an
area of operation which one LOVES/LIKES doing most.
Regards and
Best wishes to my readers.
K V VAIDYALINGAM
C8 Melur Meadows and
Flat no 201,
2nd floor BALDOTA RESIDENCY
1st cross,
14th Main, Munivenkattappa lay out
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