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I always try to draw parallel between Cricket and Corporate. Here are my opinions.
What is "Form" in cricket? It's completely notional, having no physical relevance in real life. It's just a psychological pressure that a cricketer forces himself into just out of peer experience. It comes when you know "somebody else" can take care of the game even if your individual performance is bad. Mind you! it doesn't have any significance in an Individual game(like Tennis) where you pay every time you make a mistake. Players like Fedrer, Sampras play over long period of time and they don't seem to complain about their "Form". They know they are out of the game once their game goes down.
In Corporate, why don't we ever talk about "Form". On a lighter side: "I don't have form today, so I can't code/design now" Sounds ridiculous, right??? In Corporate, the law is so simple: fetch or fire. Fetch me some work or get fired!!!
Both Corporate and Cricket constitute of team and their performance is heavily driven by every individual in the team. Yet, Cricketers like Tendulkar manage to have some luxury and the reason being their "past performance". It's just mockery of such team events.
The Cricket biggies should undersatnd that this is a game which is no different from Soccer where players are adored when play well and thrown to the gutter when they don't.
Learning: At the end of the day Individual Contribution matters a lot for the team. My favourite player, Sachin better understand that and start acting on it.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Indian Cricket - a Middle Class Family Approach
On Indian Cricket context, The feeling of complacency hardly happens. It could be true for Australians, but definitely not for the Indians.Overconfidence without confidence is an oxymoron.
I bet Indians never show any sign of confidence on final matches be it with Australia or Bangladesh. Indians take a typical "middle-class family" approach( Well my intention is not to dis-respect the middle-class-family approach).The approach speaks something like :" Take minimal risk irrespective of the magnitude of achievements at the end of the day". Winning a match like final, requires a lot of positive attitude, risk taking ability and self-belief. Indians don't have that self-belief. They know they can't chase something as big as 434. So they prefer to settle for a "respectable" score(a middle class family approach where you are happy though you don't win).
What Robin Sharma says in "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari", if you want to achieve something big, then you must dream big. Big is boundless, well it could be something like chasing 434 or getting a salary of 1 crore or being the CEO of a company etc etc. You define the bound for yourself. Unles you dream, you can never ever think of acting. Action is bound to follow because of the passion you generate through your dream.
-Bijay
I bet Indians never show any sign of confidence on final matches be it with Australia or Bangladesh. Indians take a typical "middle-class family" approach( Well my intention is not to dis-respect the middle-class-family approach).The approach speaks something like :" Take minimal risk irrespective of the magnitude of achievements at the end of the day". Winning a match like final, requires a lot of positive attitude, risk taking ability and self-belief. Indians don't have that self-belief. They know they can't chase something as big as 434. So they prefer to settle for a "respectable" score(a middle class family approach where you are happy though you don't win).
What Robin Sharma says in "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari", if you want to achieve something big, then you must dream big. Big is boundless, well it could be something like chasing 434 or getting a salary of 1 crore or being the CEO of a company etc etc. You define the bound for yourself. Unles you dream, you can never ever think of acting. Action is bound to follow because of the passion you generate through your dream.
-Bijay
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