Promise not to promise...

It is kind of disaster to promise. Everybody in daily life asks you promise or to answer to their questions. Since you have not read all book you do not have all answers. But, people are really waiting for your answer. What to do?

Of course, you should not lie and if you said I try to solve it, I will think about it. Then, everybody thinks aha great now I have shared my responsibility and now ball is on the opposite site. Yeah, great but, will this bring any results?

It actually depends... If person really overloaded one, and people who have positions most of the time are over over over loaded. Then, there is not much chance that they will deliver the results that you are expect from them.

Here works two alternatives, you put as much pressure as you can and get your result. You get another choice which is just forget about it, go outside and have a nice day :)

Tired? Bored? Sick??

YEAH!!! I am already at the edge of all these nice world... But let us stop and look back... So what???

Yeah, we have strived to get here for years and now we feel that this place is not ours? Strange is not it?

Escape? Where? Should look for alternatives? Got!!! But, who guarantees that this alternative would be worst one?

Nice questions... Still looking for answers :)

How to go???

Our life is a way to go. We can run it, walk and/or jump. But, most important is to know where to go. After solving this issue, we will face another. How to go???

Despite the fact that this question may sound very basic, in nature it is the most complex issue that modern business face. Let me use a sample to illustrate the situation.

When you are travelling from certain point to another you may reach your target by guidance or you may reach it by asking to people. Another choice is trying to reach this distance by just trying on yourself even may be asking sometimes. Even these two samples are very similar the basic attitude in modern business is just reaching the point that you want and need with the help of consultants.

Despite the fact that this way looks as an easy one it is not easy to understand who sells what and how competent they are. Here, you may use again consultants to evalute consultants :))))) Strange is not it??? Even if the answer is yes, that is how our rational world is working...

Why to work???

Strange... Do I need to work??? If yes, then why??? Question everything, does not really mean just, asking question. It means try to understand the reasons behind decisions and behavior.

In this perspective, trying to answer to the question I will go back to Maslow's hierarchy. Even, it is too classic. We get security, socialize and realize our ambitions.

Then, comes the question when to leave/quit the job and start the new one. Back to Maslow, when you will loose all attributes of the hierarchy. Or may be when you feel that this hierarchy disappears.

But, in reality perception of danger in human is too different from the hierarchy. Small interview makes me clear that people may quit their job just because you said something wrong. But, then where to put Maslow's concept.

Even, if I am not psychological professional I get understand that it is important to divide decisions taken under the emotional pressure or let us say irrational decisions and rational ones. Rational ones are those which you take only after evaluation and deep analysis of situation. Irrational you take just because someone was too bad to you. Or you just fed up with the situation. Solution here is, just taking a vacation.

Same as in boxing, you get time out just to analyse situation. Get you focus back and then return to the fight.

Unfortunately, most people see work environment as an arena. Some shows their beauty, others power etc. It is even strange that people do not want (now I consider management as a part of society and refer to them as to people)to understand that in a company we have common goal. That goal is not to eliminate someone, it is the company targets which will guarantee our job security.

Yes, I get my reply nobody cares about us, management just gets their money and bonuses. But, where is sustainable growth. In modern world, it is impossible to do something and then to hide it. Somewhere, someone will bring this issue up and somebody will lose her reputation.

That is the point. Understand why you are working? How you own targets are related to the company targets? Understand can you change you targets if they are against of company? If not where you can go? And then, just do it...

Things that you can...

Modern companies or let us say modern companies in emerging world is thinking of how to control and have more control. This control approach creates a real complexity over the management system and as it is obvious we behave rationally in the irrational way. But, trying to control we just kill our business. Create complexity and as result revenues go down and nobody can understand where is the problem...

Problem is with us... We carry it on our back from year to year. We feed it it, we grow it and then find out that we have an enemy which we call our problem. And our problem is complexity which comes from the truth...It is really simple we just do not believe in each other. It is possible to say we just do not believe that we can give somebody certain task and s/he will not cheat us...

Yeah, this lead us to hire people whom we know, who are referenced... People who have been graduated from the same school, country, region, etc as we are. But, we are still unsure... Some people hire even their relatives and then get the same result on cheating.

What we can do... Strange but very simple... Do not expect too much... Explain as simple as you can... Trust to person as much as you can... Share your benefit with people as much as you can...

And we believe if you would make as well as you can you will solve your problems!!!

In search of excellence: how to bind competitive advantages of academia with industry

Since for more than 5 years I am sitting in position of the splits. I am doing academic and industry work, or let me put it correctly, trying to do these both works. I had always questions and discussions about what is the ideal way of combining these two areas. Some people already may object that it is impossible...They will be right! But there are people who is doing something like this, then it is possible for people who understands origins of the industry and academy...

I think it is a bit early for me to say something about it and hence, I would like to present you an interesting view that I have found at HBR Academia vs. Industry: The Difference Is in the Punctuation Marks. According to it authors the most important is to understand the punctuation marks.

For me, it is most important to put it into the right places in the life to form an adequate story :)

My regards...

The way to solve problems :)

Sounds strange it is really hard to provide universal receipt for every situation... But, recently coming across the I Want You to Apologize article at HBR I reminded myself the old truth. The solution of problem comes from the recognition of it. If person can not see or easy understand that there is a problem s/he will never cope with it. Ignoring does not mean solving problem, we have to find our emotional power to accept problem, think about it, avoid future mistakes...

As author Peter says, sometimes all that we need is to say I am sorry, I did not intend to it. What can I do to correct it? That is the key to the solution. It is hard to accept but seems that we were looking for a key in a different place. That is normal as a human being we do not want to push ourselves into the hard situations and being irrational rationals pointing and emphasizing the easiest solution...and at the end this easy solution does not provide any return :) We just waste our energy, emotions, nerves and other resources.

Should we rethink every step? Let's being more rational :)