Monday, November 17, 2008

Journey to self realization.

You might have heard the story of the owl and the field mouse: lost in a dense jungle, a confused field mouse turns to a wise old owl sitting high on a tree and asks him, "Prey help me, how do I find my way out of here ??", "Simple", replies the owl, "just grow wings and fly out".

"But how can I grow wings?" asked the mouse. At this the owl gave him a haughty stare and said, "I don’t delve into details, I only decide policy!!"

Now, does that make you wonder what would happen if the corporate jungle only had policy makers who never bothered to delve into hows and whys and simply pronounce decisions?

The truth is, in business as in all other disciplines we are often blinded by the glamour of winning strategies and final results and tend to undermine the importance and contribution of pain staking research into the problems.What we overlook, is the fact is that, the strategies which work well for others might not be sustainable for us.

A lot of it has been driven by so called "Herd Mentality", what we fail to recognize is the ability to see our own inner strengths and true goals.

I think on our part, we have to undertake responsibilities of our respective journeys to self realization, coz self discovery is the only assurance to meaningful success.

1 comment:

Noms said...

Hi Komal,

Really nice thoughts. With corporate programs on leadership and strategic planning one would imagine that such policies are not made. However more often than not we find ourselves surrounded by such policies.

Common sense is not so common and it is easy to not see the forest for the trees.