An extra mile there and a mile short here…
By Rajesh Setty on Tue 01 Apr 2008, 9:07 AM – 4 Comments
When you are in the Corporate world, one of the common things that you hear is that you HAVE to “walk the extra mile”. That is a good advice and there is no harm in following that. There is only one problem though. If you don’t design this well, your “extra mile” will be treated as a part of your “standard offering” and you are always forced to walk ANOTHER extra mile.
Meanwhile, walking these “extra miles” on the professional front is leaving you no time to work on yourself and you are constantly “a mile short” on the personal front.
If you want to walk the “extra mile” personally or professionally, you need “extra capacity” and you get that by working on yourself – not on tasks but just on lifting yourself up.
The more you shy away from “working on yourself”, the harder it will be to walk those “extra miles”
All the best
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Rajesh Setty on April 3rd, 2008
Thanks Subba for your comments. It was good to see you in-person at the last event. Please keep in touch.
Best,
Raj
Manit on April 13th, 2008
Ohh but i am an Businessmen then ?
Thought Garage » Notable Thoughts : Weekend Edition on April 13th, 2008
[…] An extra mile there and a mile short here… When you are in the Corporate world, one of the common things that you hear is that you HAVE to “walk the extra mile”. That is a good advice and there is no harm in following that. There is only one problem though. If you don’t design this well, your “extra mile” will be treated as a part of your “standard offering” and you are always forced to walk ANOTHER extra mile. Meanwhile, walking these “extra miles” on the professional front is leaving you no time to work on yourself and you are constantly “a mile short” on the personal front. […]
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Subba Reddy on April 1st, 2008
Very well said Rajesh, Thank you . The words “Capacity building” “Capacity to execute” in many of your blogs gives me a name phrase in quantitative terms what I am trying achieve year over year. I believe we may do N number of things to improve effectiveness of our actions, the sum of all those actions boils down to these Capacity words.