When do we need to MOVE?

Dr. Gopalakrishnan succeeds Mr. Ratan Tata as Chairman of Tata Sons Ltd.,the holding company for many of the Tata blue chips like Tata Steel,TataMotors, Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Voltas etc.

Possibly he is the firstNon - Tata person to head the Tata Empire. Read this article by Dr. G- it is really interesting.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!! Move from one job to another, but only for the right reasons. It's yet another day at office. As I logged on to the marketing and
advertising sites for the latest updates,as usual, I found the headlines dominated by "who's"
moving from one company to another after a short stint, and I wondered, why are so many people leaving one job for another? Is it passé now to work with just one company for a sufficiently long period? Whenever I ask this question to people who leave a company, the answers I get are:

"Oh, I am getting a 200% hike in salary"; "Well I am jumping three levels in my designation";
"Well they are going to send me abroad in six months".

Then, I look around at all the people who are considered successful today and who have reached
the top - be it a media agency, an advertising agency or a company. I find that most of these
people are the ones who stuck to the company, ground their heels and worked their way to the top. And, as I look around for people who change their jobs constantly, I find they have stagnated at some level, in obscurity. In this absolute ruthless, dynamic and competitive environment, there are still no - short cuts to success or to making money. The only thing that continues to pay, as earlier is loyalty and hard work. Yes, it pays!

Sometimes, immediately, sometimes after a lot of time. But, it does pay. Does this mean that
one should stick to an organization and wait for the golden moment? Of course not. After, a long
stint, there always comes a time for moving in most organisations, but it is important to move
for the right reasons, rather than the superficial ones, like money, designation or oversees
trip. Remember, no company recruits for charity. More often than not, when you are offered an
unseemly hike in salary or designation that is disproportionate to what the company offers it
current employees, there is always an unseemly bait attached. The result? You will, in the long
term have reached the same level or may be lower levels than what you would have in your current company.

A lot of people leave their organisations because they are "unhappy". What is this so called
unhappiness? I have been working for donkey years and there has never been a day when I am not unhappy about something in my work environment - boss, rude colleagues, fussy clients etc.
Unhappiness in a work place, to a large extent, is transient. If you look hard enough, there is
always something to be unhappy about. But, more importantly, do I come to work to be "happy" in the truest sense? If I think hard, the answer is "No". Happiness is something you find with
family, friends, may be a close circle of colleagues who have become friends.

What you come to work for is to earn, build a reputation, satisfy your ambitions, be appreciated
for your work ethics, face challenges and get the job done. So, the next time you are tempeted to move on, as yourself why are you moving and what are you moving into? Some questions are:

• Am I ready and capable of handling the new responsibility? If yes, whatcould be the possible reasons my current company has not offered me thesame responsibility?
• Who are the people who currently handle this responsibility in the current and new company? Am I good as the best among them?
• As the new job offer has a different profile, why have I not given the current company, the option to offer me this profile?
• Why is the new company offering the new job? Do they want me for myskills, or is that ulterior motive?

An honest answer to these willeventually decide whether you go in your career to the top of the pile in the long term (at the cost of short - term blips) or to become another average employee who gets lost with the time in wilderness.

"DESERVE BEFORE YOU DESIRE"- Dr. Gopalakrishnan, Chairman TATA Sons.

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Today I met one person as part of my routine business activity. When he was in his mother's womb as a foetus, she contracted a special type of measles. This affected the foetus also and so he was born deaf. Both the ears were affected to about 80%. As a baby he did not turn his head when any sound was created around him. Crying was the only mode of communication. All the people around him lost their hope except his mom. She believed very strongly that one day her son would be able to hear the words spoken by her.

She continued to speak to him just as how a mother would speak to a normal baby. She made him to observe her lip movements and slowly and steadily he started speaking some of the words. At the age of six he started listening and speaking. Then he was given a hearing aid machine and he started going to school.

He used to sit in the first row and started listening to sound more so by observing the mouth of the teacher and the hearing aid also helped him to improve his listening skill.He completed his post graduation in Bio Tech and is now a Manager in a very reputed pharma company. He still wears a small hearing aid in his ear which has got no wires.

The way he speaks today and the way he listens to what others speak is really great. He is now a very good listener and speaker in the true sense. He is more abled then the average people like us.Had his mother lost hope in him and stopped speaking to him then he would not have become what he is now. It is her sincere, firm and positive belief that has brought him all the success he achieved in his life. This is the power of positive thinking.

One question which came to my mind after speaking to him was ----

• Am I a good listener ?
• Is Veera really a good listener ?