A set of positive statements that should really form the basis for a professional’s code of ethics and develop into tenets that help you become a super achiever in life.
3. I WILL COME BACK IN FIVE MINUTES / IN A DAY OR A WEEK OR WHATEVER
This holds a whole lot of importance in the context of India and with regard to the large sense of timelessness that we seem to live in – a concept that is unique to this ancient land and even its modern people. Consider this – we use the same term for both yesterday and tomorrow – Kal – and the timeline seems to glide from one to the other and back in the most effortless manner. Two poles-apart incidents come to mind here – On a business trip to Washington DC back in 2001, I came across a ‘Men at Work’ sign on a busy road. Along with this sign was another that stated the date when the Public Work had started and the one when it would be completed. Coming from India, it was a pleasantly strange experience for me.
Imagine something like that happening in India even in 2011. Can we ever forget the nightmarish construction, mismanagement and botch up that went about in the organization of the recently held Commonwealth Games in India’s Capital City! One day, I found my boss’s French wife in a terribly pesky mood. On scratching the surface I found out that the poor soul had been held at ransom by the woodworks force working in her apartment. The supervisor had been promising to her, with a big smile and a booming voice, that the simple repair work would be finished tomorrow and then most definitely day after tomorrow.
But she kept waiting for Godot and tomorrow never came till the Chief Engineer withheld the money asked for by the Supervisor. Only then did the team miraculously reappear, all hale and hearty to finish the work in a few days time. Sound familiar??? However, now we should be tuning ourselves differently, oiling our mental clocks and resetting our reminders, alarms and electronic beeps. Being denizens of the fifth largest economy in the world and key players in shaping the globalizing businesses, we must be in step with how the world clock moves.
Hence, when you give a timeline for a task or a response to a query or feedback, please respect it. You and I know that the Indian Standard timed response of five minutes for everything usually means NEVER and is not only pathetic but bad publicity for all Indians in general.
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There are 10 awesome statements + 1 bonus!
This is the 3rd! You get one everyday!
- For the full text visit
http://www.eclathospitality.com/expertspeak/2014/11/29/what-you-should-be-saying-to-get-ahead-by-l-aruna-dhir
About The Author
An experienced Corporate Communications, Marketing Communications and Public Relations professional with 20+ years of experience in the Diplomatic and Hospitality industry
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3. I WILL COME BACK IN FIVE MINUTES / IN A DAY OR A WEEK OR WHATEVER
This holds a whole lot of importance in the context of India and with regard to the large sense of timelessness that we seem to live in – a concept that is unique to this ancient land and even its modern people. Consider this – we use the same term for both yesterday and tomorrow – Kal – and the timeline seems to glide from one to the other and back in the most effortless manner. Two poles-apart incidents come to mind here – On a business trip to Washington DC back in 2001, I came across a ‘Men at Work’ sign on a busy road. Along with this sign was another that stated the date when the Public Work had started and the one when it would be completed. Coming from India, it was a pleasantly strange experience for me.
Imagine something like that happening in India even in 2011. Can we ever forget the nightmarish construction, mismanagement and botch up that went about in the organization of the recently held Commonwealth Games in India’s Capital City! One day, I found my boss’s French wife in a terribly pesky mood. On scratching the surface I found out that the poor soul had been held at ransom by the woodworks force working in her apartment. The supervisor had been promising to her, with a big smile and a booming voice, that the simple repair work would be finished tomorrow and then most definitely day after tomorrow.
But she kept waiting for Godot and tomorrow never came till the Chief Engineer withheld the money asked for by the Supervisor. Only then did the team miraculously reappear, all hale and hearty to finish the work in a few days time. Sound familiar??? However, now we should be tuning ourselves differently, oiling our mental clocks and resetting our reminders, alarms and electronic beeps. Being denizens of the fifth largest economy in the world and key players in shaping the globalizing businesses, we must be in step with how the world clock moves.
Hence, when you give a timeline for a task or a response to a query or feedback, please respect it. You and I know that the Indian Standard timed response of five minutes for everything usually means NEVER and is not only pathetic but bad publicity for all Indians in general.
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There are 10 awesome statements + 1 bonus!
This is the 3rd! You get one everyday!
- For the full text visit
http://www.eclathospitality.com/expertspeak/2014/11/29/what-you-should-be-saying-to-get-ahead-by-l-aruna-dhir
About The Author
An experienced Corporate Communications, Marketing Communications and Public Relations professional with 20+ years of experience in the Diplomatic and Hospitality industry
Linkedin Profile http://in.linkedin.com/in/arunadhir
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