DailyPost 874
EVASIVE ILLUSION
How many times have you said that you don’t have the knowledge, skills and the competencies to do a job closely related to your core domain and practice? How many times you were not ready to take an additional responsibility in your own domain or a little scaling of duties? If the answer is no every single time, you are suffering from what can termed as evasive illusion. In the far changing business and professional landscape with disruption at it’s underbelly, you are fast moving towards an impending disaster.
Elusive Illusion is a mindset wherein skills and competencies are etched in stone and the professional cannot be scaled either vertically or horizontally. As a straight corollary, it means that any scaling has to be premeditated and executed in skilling before any upgrade of systems and operations. It thus has an impact also on scaling any operations for efficiency. It means given the current scenario, no improvements can be made.
In an age where disruptive technologies are defining the world, the most important requirement for any enterprise or professional to stay afloat is to be dynamic and real time and the capability to do at least basic levels of envisioning . While a miniscule group is maxing it globally and sometimes in India too, the vast majority has decided to be the toiling masses. This is the mindset of elusive illusion, when every single gaping opportunity is seen a chance to get fixated into the shell further. The agility and dynamism which is talked about in every quarter, does not seem to have any takers.
The crux of the problem is the incapability of the professional to take the plunge into self learning and self skilling. Standardised skilling will slowly get out of disuse. We have to decide how to move ahead in the ever changing professional landscape, learn and deliver. As most of these changes would be happening for the first time, there wouldn’t be many to guide. Does our professional educational system prepare our professionals for this urgently required behavioral and learning trait?
AFFLICTED BY EVASIVE ILLUSION, REAL SUCCESS WOULD ALWAYS BE ELUSIVE.
Sanjay Sahay