PRODUCTIVITY NETWORKTerm Courtesy: Alon Novy, Founder, Scribblepost.com
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© Puneet Srivastava, November 2015, INDIA
Yesterday, I received a request from Alon Novy to register @ Scribblepost.com…
And I thought…
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Why may a writer need a Productivity Network?
And then…
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Alon said he may want to learn a writer’s perspective on productivity…
And that made me smile, because…
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How could I tell Alon that LUCK was not a subject educated people talked about, in public …
So…
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To compensate for the flaw, I thought, let me offer a story, instead...
Thus, once upon a time…
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…not too long ago, I too was a sane character and worked 9 to 6 everyday, 5 days a week…
Then…
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I worked on some ambitious projects in India that aimed to change things @ grassroots level forever…
And…
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We were backed by technology & tech-giants & we worked very hard…
Yet…
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Our efforts largely flopped & many of us were then jobless…
In the meantime…
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A different set of people eradicated Polio out of India…
Now the big irony…
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India is known for its IT expertise & also seen as an attractive financial market…
And yet…
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Our IT enabled Financial Inclusion & eGovernance projects failed…
While…
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Healthcare, a sector crumbled, constrained & criticized, achieved the unimaginable…
I wondered how & then, I recalled…
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Our daughter was born when India was fighting its war against Polio…
And…
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I saw they came door-to-door checking if every kid under 5 got their 2-drops…
They still continue to come, though…
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We couldn’t do such things in our projects and even if we did, couldn’t do for as long…
Of course…
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The rationalists will provide 20,000 reasons & excuses. They will write thick reports…
Yet…
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The truth stands that Polio fighters served through a Productivity Network…
While…
Clear Objective
Clear Communication
Clear Execution
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Our efforts were multi-directional…
Let’s talk a few more real-life examples…
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In 2010 our country drew criticism on the way we handled our readiness for the 19th Commonwealth Games…
Then…
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Only a few months later, same city gets all praises for a phenomenal Formula One success…
Similarly…
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Indian entrepreneurs often complain that they can’t build World Class companies in India…
Yet…
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Mumbai Dabbawalas achieve six-sigma everyday delivering 200K lunch boxes…
So, what are we getting to…
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The point is: without a Productivity Network few things can be a success in this world…
Then how come writer’s are an exception…
Clear Objective
Clear Communication
Clear Execution
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Well writers won’t be alone; musicians, painters, sculptors, etc. may also be the same…
To some extent scientists as well, because…
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There is science of things & there is art of things. One is iteration; the other is intuition…
So, don’t writer’s iterate …
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Well, we do, yet its intuition that must dominate. Our Bestsellers pass through us, they can’t be made…
Thus…
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We must wait and that waiting is our iteration…Yes, its crazy, yet that’s the only way…
Plus…
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Measure of our success is patience; what the world calls brewing, we must do within; mostly in silence…
Hence…
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In silence we must possess a clear objective; carry clear communication (with ourselves) & perform clear execution…
Till the time…
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… Immortality consumes us…
& so, we often devise methods to be able to do that; for example: to make that happen in me…
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I try to meditate…
Hence my meditation is my Productivity Network.
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Because for that which is in abstract, one must find their own unique way. Thus…
Mind, Thoughts, Meditation.
Clear Objective
Clear Communication
Clear Execution
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Thank you, Alon Novy for making this story pass through me…
Good Wishes for Scribblepost.com.