MY TASK IS MY BOSS

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MY TASK IS MY BOSS

Nature and variety of bosses keep changing from time to time and as long as there is one, there is one in a thousandth chance, that you will be a satisfied subordinate. The goals and targets would be pushed down your throat and you will keep gasping for breath, till the time you achieve it and start feeling euphoric about it. As soon as the euphoria starts, you are fixed for another target cycle and its back to square one. This would keep nagging you for the rest of your professional life, unless you make amends. The passion of becoming an engineer or any other professional is lost even before it has started. As long as human beings dictate results, the stress and strain will remain the way it has been for decades, if not centuries.

The only way to live differently is treat your task as your Boss. There are tonnes and tonnes of professionals outside of the employer- employee relationship, who either work on their own or own and lead their enterprises, do independent research or work solo in professions like medicine, chartered accountancy or law and last but not the least, the practising artists. The work for most of them emanates out of passion and are externally tied to it, money more often than not, becomes incidental. The insatiable energy to accomplish the task is the killer. Effort, cost calculation, salary, return on investment, evaluation has finally been evolved into a formula of hours, costs and targets. It has given some preliminary level of accomplishment and hence it has become the order of the day. Unfortunately even for the boss, the task is not his boss, the package is!

Hoodwinking is a trait to be perfected while you are in a job of this nature. Otherwise, you will not be declared successful, even after delivering all across. They don’t want you to elevate yourself and the enterprise beyond the lowest benchmarked target. Either you are on this target or you are nowhere. Loss means crime. There is no life beyond the quarter. COVID-19 could has made you shelf life even less. How do explain Demis Hassabis’s DeepMind incurring a loss of around one billion dollars in last three years. This is the best AI company in the world. Google is bearing with DeepMind because the task is the boss. DeepMind is the best AI company in the world, it will solve intelligence.

How does a surgeon keen perfecting himself? Any targets, goals from the expertise point of view. What is to be improved in you does not have any target? The best of the lawyers, who gives them the target? The Nani Palkhivalas and the Ram Jethmalanis. The moral of the story is that only your task can be your boss. That can be the only guiding principle. Ending with targets and goals is missing the trees for the woods. Targets and goals cannot be an end in themselves. Unfortunately, a regular employee is not taught to think beyond all this. Only a person with a disruptive mindset would be comfortable in an age of uncertainty, the Disruptive Age and that seems to be here to stay. How else do you find a person equally comfortable being penniless as also with $70.5 billion as it stands today. He is Elon Musk.

IF YOU TREAT YOUR TASK AS YOUR BOSS, HUMANS CAN AT BEST BE INCIDENTAL.

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