“We” For “V”ictory!
It is said that “Success has many fathers and failure is orphan”, but the philosophy of my boss is something different. For him it is, “Success has many fathers but failure has even grandfathers”. It is so correct, when we work in teams, faults and failures must never be put in the bucket of any single person. As it is rightly said, “Deal with the cause and not the effect”; I believe every problem can throw open a new improvement area in the way we work, if it is analyzed correctly. It is obvious to think that there would be a problem of accountability when you say “WE” instead of “You/I”. But I am not denying that people should not be responsible towards realizing their shortcomings. What I have learnt is that the improvement can be seen at an individual level but the responsibility of ensuring that it gets done and giving the required support to achieve it lies with the entire team. The readiness to see mistakes as opportunities must get into everyone’s belief systems. Only then a s...