Guiding Light

Guiding Light

FPJ BureauUpdated: Sunday, June 02, 2019, 04:12 AM IST
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IT IS NOT RIGHT AND WRONG.

IT IS ABOUT COMPATIBILITY You desire a 20alt39 x 16alt39 room and your architect thinks a 16alt39 x 16alt39 room is enough. One idea is not better than the other, but it is alt39 what you wantalt39 versus

alt39 what you getalt39. As an architect, it is alt39 what you want to givealt39 versus alt39 what your client wants to takealt39. It is not about right and wrong, good and bad, better and best; but its all about compatibility and synergy.

A square is as good as a circle. So, when there is a square peg in a square hole and a round peg in a round hole, there are no issues. The issue is only when we try to fit a square peg in a round hole. What a toothpick can do, a bulldozer cannot. Sometimes the best is not good enough.

A sunflower is beautiful, but in a rose garden, it will be treated as a weed.

Bring a man who has worked in a system- driven organisation into a developing organisation, and he will create a huge imbalance. Again, someone who is used to power, position and protocol can never feel comfortable in a flat organisational structure. Such people cause a lot of resignations and eventually they too will quit. There is no questioning the capability of these people; its just that a round peg wonalt39t fit in a square hole.

We look for qualifications, experience, brilliance, skills and attitudes, performance background, age, sex, etc., when we should actually be asking this question – ” Is he compatible with the prevailing culture of my organisation?” We look for looks, family and educational background, religion, community, when we should actually be asking this question, ” Will she be compatible with our family?” So what if he is working in an MNC, so what if he is highly educated, so what if he is 6alt39 2″, he wants a homemaker and you are highly career- oriented. All other factors fail on this one incompatibility. You are a connoisseur of good food and you get married to a woman who extends a Pizza Hut menu card every time you speak of dinner.

Individual brilliance is very different from collective brilliance.

True, the knight is more powerful than the pawn, but when you are playing the white pieces, isnalt39t the white pawn a greater asset to you than the black knight? With compatibility, 1 + 1 is 3. Without it, 1 + 1 is 0.

Source: FROZEN THOUGHTS email: info@ frozenthoughts. com The Voice Ra, formerly T. T Rangarajan and founder of ALMA MATER and FROZEN THOUGHTS has now divined the new path, Infinitheism.

THE VOICE RA