Journey to Excel

Half the journey is officially over. We have completed 3 of the 6 terms of EPGP. But in reality we have covered more than half the course considering the learning we have had. Quite interestingly, more than half still remains. Because we have “miles to go before we sleep”.
Someone has very correctly said that every situation in life is a management situation. Excelling in life is not a war that is over within a stipulated time but a continuous battle. So one has to ensure excellence by choice and not by chance. Most of us generally learn through experience – mostly cognitive in nature… a few of us choose to practice prior to confronting the best teacher in the world – experience; yet there are a handful few who choose to undergo this gruelling session of EPGP for excelling over the excels. The academic part is merely a paltry percentage of the whole platter.
If someone asks me what is the biggest gain at IIM Indore, I would be attributing the same to the learning of “Art of Balancing”. Balancing your studies with your office, your leaves with your classes, your boss with your professor, your family with your off campus assignments and your exams with your appraisal leading to promotion. It is inevitable that many will succumb eventually and will do compromise on one front for the other, but believe me if you have your goal fixed, nothing in this world is impossible for human beings for they are the most adaptable and elastic lot among all.
Talking about goals, I used to believe that people in a group may diverge in opinion but they converge in the goal (at least in premier organisations). But seeing what’s going on around I find that goals have become very individualistic in nature. Everyone has a goal in mind but that’s for fulfilling his personal needs. “Hazaron Khwahishen Aisi ki har kwhahish kam nikle” – this perhaps fully explains the current state of most organisation goals.
We can only expect of a better tomorrow… a tomorrow where “the mind is without fear and head held high”, where excelling doesn’t mean cannibalizing, where competition is ‘healthy’ in the truest sense and where there is a common single goal to strive for.