One of an influential leaders at the client place recently retired. In a lot of ways, my career progression has been partly due to him...his vision of utilizing my organization in a strategic way to get accomplishments with lower costs kinds of propelled me to the top with the opportunities being utilized.
I have always been in awe of him, his judgement of character with just a meeting over coffee and talk of totally offbeat topics....a very well read man, mathematically sound, witty and passionate about cars and Diane Lane.
The one thing that will never let me forget Mr. Peter Rubenacker is the quote I last heard from him during his retirement celebration - "Gentlemen, one piece of wisdom I would like to share before we part - always remember, life is not what is in the office but what we do here (in the office) is for the life outside it". Well said!
Imagine how much of life we waste slogging for the organization and how much we continue to do outside too...I mean having a dinner with family and the moment we get a call, we drop everything, step out and complete the conversation. Have we ever thought of saying - "Is this urgent? Can you call me later or I can call you as I am busy right now?". In India, many people consider this talk as a sign of incompetence, especially if that call was from your boss. And true enough, the biggest concern in India is work-life balance!!
How can one who lives in a culture-rich heritage, forget to devote ample attention to that very fact and slog for an organization just cause they they give a salary? Is an IT professional's life in India equivalent to that of emergency services? Is the salary high that the same person has to work 24x7?
Here we are in a path where we have forgotten my hobbies, lost the track of time that will make us miss the growth of our children just cause our lifestyles dictate the need of money? Is it worth it?
Time to make a change and learn to work around the problem by remembering where the life is!!
I have always been in awe of him, his judgement of character with just a meeting over coffee and talk of totally offbeat topics....a very well read man, mathematically sound, witty and passionate about cars and Diane Lane.
The one thing that will never let me forget Mr. Peter Rubenacker is the quote I last heard from him during his retirement celebration - "Gentlemen, one piece of wisdom I would like to share before we part - always remember, life is not what is in the office but what we do here (in the office) is for the life outside it". Well said!
Imagine how much of life we waste slogging for the organization and how much we continue to do outside too...I mean having a dinner with family and the moment we get a call, we drop everything, step out and complete the conversation. Have we ever thought of saying - "Is this urgent? Can you call me later or I can call you as I am busy right now?". In India, many people consider this talk as a sign of incompetence, especially if that call was from your boss. And true enough, the biggest concern in India is work-life balance!!
How can one who lives in a culture-rich heritage, forget to devote ample attention to that very fact and slog for an organization just cause they they give a salary? Is an IT professional's life in India equivalent to that of emergency services? Is the salary high that the same person has to work 24x7?
Here we are in a path where we have forgotten my hobbies, lost the track of time that will make us miss the growth of our children just cause our lifestyles dictate the need of money? Is it worth it?
Time to make a change and learn to work around the problem by remembering where the life is!!