“A musician must make
music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at
peace with himself.”
- Abraham T Maslow
In his book
Psycho-Cybernetics, Maxwell Maltz writes that when the mind has a well
defined goal it not only knows what to focus on and where to direct its
energies, it actually gets programmed to do so. When people do not have well
defined goals for themselves and for the organizations they work for, energy
keeps getting dissipated as a target cannot be hit if not visible clearly.
The goals of an organization and of its departments (and
sometimes even the purposes too) may keep on changing with time. The employees
should always be kept aware of and enthused about the same. It is the
responsibility of the leader to never let people lose sight of the purpose,
which people identify themselves with and feel committed towards, while
fulfilling their own roles in harmony with the Big Plan.
If thousands of companies are making fortunes in computer
hardware, it does not mean that you too have to jump into it. Organizations that
want to repeat a success script just by seeing the final scene often fail to
even begin the story.
Goals are like magnets. Once defined precisely, they have the power to
attract all that is required to get themselves fulfilled, and have the
tendency to keep reminding you of your ‘north'-the direction you ought to
move- till you reach your them.
