Monday 8 September 2014

EFFICIENCY OR AFFECTION

Management looks for efficiency hence it is focused on seeing the miniscule fault which has the potential to create great disaster.   For eg;- A Mechanical engineer if he makes one small mistake in manufacturing  an automobile-  it can cost many people their life.
In this scenario  the engineer will be judged by his efficieny not the  affectionate dealings he has with others.
Running this world has two principles:
Efficiency and Affection.
Only affection and no efficiency leads  to breaking up of the entire system.  Efficiency but no affection
For whose sake is one doing the management? And for whom will we manufacture all the sofisticated gadgets, if they fail to enhance our relationship.
Arjuna in the beginning of the Gita raised a very valid question to Krishna.   He said “My dear Lord what is use of all the wealth?
With whom do I enjoy?  All  the wealth will be tainted with the blood of our own realatives.”  Arjuna was referring to both sides. From his own side Abhimanyu, Ghatotkacha and others would be killed and  on the other side Bhisma, Drona and Duryodhana would be killed. He was ready to terminate the wrong doer for efficiency,but was unable to tolerate the  imminent separation from the loved ones.
Life demands us to balance  both, some times efficiency and at other times affection.
It can never agree with one principle,  When only one principle is practiced it creates Dharma glani.  
Why were the panadavas were exceptionally good?
They had the ability and courage to deal with both efficiency and affection
They also had the ability to  deal with challenges involved in both situations.
It is always easier to compromise with efficiency when our people are involved.
To establish the efficiency principle we are willing to throw away our relationship. But the biggest challenges are when our own people are involved and efficiecy has to be established.
People like Dhrithrasthra will certainly fail, because  he had unlimited affection but  was not working on the efficiency principle.
He lost  the facility to be affectionate towards his  sons because he did not the principle of efficient management with his sons.
On other hand when Tajmahal was built  it became  the seventh wonder of the world.  But at what cost?  Efficiency was there but where was the affection for those who worked to build it?
It did not invoke divinity but it invoked death of many....
Modern civilization has big, beautiful, and mind blowing monuments but it also has broken hearts, restless minds and contaminated intelligence.  Why?
Too much efficiency and very little affection.

1 comment:

  1. Perfect examples. The topic is relavant to everyone, thanks for sharing.

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