This has been on my mind since a really long time...
Generally when any new thing is started, it is started with a vision. A vision to radically transform something, or to take new strides in some direction. A lot of enthusiasm is build around it and most of the people find that this is really the answer to all the woes.
Then gradually over the years the 'thing' expand. New members are added, old members leave; some new cultural wave hits the ground in the meanwhile, but nevertheless the 'thing' continues to expand and grow battling all the teething and non-teething troubles.
After some decades the 'thing' has really grown into a huge proportion and it does a lot of work and has lot of people working for it. And then one day the original founder who has long gone away, died perhaps gets to see the entire 'thing' and he looks at all the glitter and vast expanses of land, people and geographies his vision has been able to cover; his heart is glad except for one stabbing pain...
The vision is lost...
IIT, TCS, UN, Toyota: I leave you to guess which 'things' fit into this example, and which are contrary to it...
The quote of the weekend was stated by Harshit whistle gossiping away on my roof on a drizzly night:
If you can't measure it you can't improve it
Generally when any new thing is started, it is started with a vision. A vision to radically transform something, or to take new strides in some direction. A lot of enthusiasm is build around it and most of the people find that this is really the answer to all the woes.
Then gradually over the years the 'thing' expand. New members are added, old members leave; some new cultural wave hits the ground in the meanwhile, but nevertheless the 'thing' continues to expand and grow battling all the teething and non-teething troubles.
After some decades the 'thing' has really grown into a huge proportion and it does a lot of work and has lot of people working for it. And then one day the original founder who has long gone away, died perhaps gets to see the entire 'thing' and he looks at all the glitter and vast expanses of land, people and geographies his vision has been able to cover; his heart is glad except for one stabbing pain...
The vision is lost...
IIT, TCS, UN, Toyota: I leave you to guess which 'things' fit into this example, and which are contrary to it...
The quote of the weekend was stated by Harshit whistle gossiping away on my roof on a drizzly night:
If you can't measure it you can't improve it
love the quote.
ReplyDeleteI m bit confused!
ReplyDeleteWhen you say the thing has expanded then how can be the vision is lost??
TCS can fit for sure..
@ Devil: The entire point is that even while things grow, the real purpose with which they were started is lost somewhere in the middle: but no one realizes it, and the organization keeps growing!
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