Inertia

When I joined my current organization, I was amazed to see the average service age of the officers which was more than 25 years. As I have mentioned in my earlier mail as well, here the long service award starts at 20 years unlike 3 years of my previous IT company. And I thought....People are lazy enough or may be incompetent that's why they didn't ever try to move on.
But now my thinking is changing...Actually recently I got a call from a company. I was glad and I said yes for the interview and went through the HR round. But then I started thinking...why should I leave this company...I explore various reasons:
1. People say, ' One leaves his boss not his company'...But I have got most amazing boss i can ever imagine for.
2. Place/Location: My home can never be closer to where I am currently.
3. Working Culture: Hmmmmm...though it's an old organization and I get bored with the slow moving pace of work or rather bureaucratic approach, but I love the people over here. I can approach any one any time here.
4. Compensation: Though I could have 25% increment easily, but then counting on Cost of living and travel time and various other consideration, even this was not convincing.
5. Housing and Food: This is something I am not happy in my current condition, but i do not see any guarentee of this getting better in the new place.
So what is my decision? INERTIA....let's get along and stay some more time...
Right...beginging towards LSA (Long Service Award....completing an year in next 3 months)..
:)

Being Focussed

These days I am getting confused with the word 'Multitasking'....I am a part of 5 different task forces which have been made for different HR Process improvements, apart from working as a line HR for 3 completely different business units...So where is the focus? People can debate, management may come up with several case studies to show multitasking is the best way to harness one's potential...but to tell u frankly, my personal experience says, beyond a certain limit it's wastage of one's potential...U keep on moving here and there, attending several meetings, getting feed backs, collating them and then asking for extension of time line...In between your core work goes for a toss...Also coordinating with several stakeholders is always difficult specially when you are working in a democratic organization where we value every opinion. So again I am coming back to the question "where is the focus?"

I am debating about this because having focused approach has always been my key strength. Whatever achievements I have so far in my life, it's because of focused and dedicated approach.

Though as one moves up the hierarchy ladder, he has to widen his horizon, but he should not loose his focus...

So how am i dealing with this multitasking...simple, prioritizing my work and diving my effort accordingly...sounds theoretical, but that's how I am dealing with this as of now.

:)