Sachin Tendulkar and IBM …
“Sachin Tendulkar!” How many teams could really afford not to have a player like him? A cricketer by profession, he has made a big difference in the life of people on and off the field. People feel happy when he scores 100; get disappointed when he doesn’t perform. Why do people talk so much about him? Why do they want him to perform every time? Well the answer is simple: People Love him. He is a cricket icon. People feel proud to associate themselves in someway with him (e.g. He comes to play on the filed in front of my house, I know his brother’s uncle etc etc). Now let us consider “IBM!” Probably 10% of people who are familiar with this company would know its full form. But how does it matter? Customers feel proud to say that they do business with IBM. That is a sense of achievement for them.
Be it IBM or Sachin, the basic premises is that they are both big brands. They don’t have to blow their trumpets in front of anybody. Teams/Customers would walk onto them and they can always charge a premium for their brand. It’s difficult for anybody to take their positions.
Michel Clarke and Indian IT….
Now let’s take another player! Michel Clarke from Australian team. He is not a genius like Sachin, but he is an awesome prospective for
In that way Indian IT brand is similar to Michel Clarke. Couple of bad projects, the deal is over. That’s why we must try to perform best every time we work for a customer. We don’t want to give him any opportunity to think twice for next deal. We need to be aware of the fact that in the due course of our project, we are building a brand for our company. It is the responsibility of the company to make their employees aware of their own brand and instigate in them the habit of taking actions that will increase its brand value in front of the customers.
Now I believe the saying: ”I am Second, that’s why I am trying harder.” . That’s what we are doing, right???
3 comments:
If you ask Sachin or IBM about how much they try, you will also get a similar answer: "To keep my first position, I am also trying harder."
Bottom-line: there is neither any replacement nor any waiver for hard work--no matter in which place of the pyramid you are. Period.
PS: There were times when Sachin and IBM were not first and they were also trying hard.
PS: Sachin would not have got so much recognition, if he were born in Australia.
Almost all great personal achievements accomplished in diff fields (not neseccerity in sports only) are not results of natural gift. There is no evidence of any high-level consistent performance without experience or practice. It requires a lot of hard work. Nobody becomes great without work. Natural talent is an ability to do some specific activity especially well. The best people in any field are those who devote most time to do deliberate practice to improve performance beyond one's level of competence, involving high levels of repetition. Consistency is crucial, occasional practice does not work. Now the question is why certain people more able to continuously work towards improvement, than rest? Some individuals are much more motivated than others to engage in deliberate and persistent practice, and the crucial question that still needs to be answered is: why.
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