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What if I were a company? What would I focus on? What would be my positioning?

I got this crazy idea while writing SOP of that dreadful TAS application form. Though I did not write it then, I think thats quite interesting idea.

Aim of a company is to satisfy its stakeholders - employees, customers, shareholders.There are some companies known for taking care of their employees but not necesserily no. 1 in their field. There are others who make excellent products for the customers but rank fairly low in employee satisfaction.And then there are others...who do neither of it but somehow are shareholders' darling. Each one is right in its own respect. Its just that they are focussing on different aspects.

Similarly, aim of a person is to satisfy stakeholders - friends, relatives, his work organization.But there is a difference. Company on its own is a non-entity but a person is probabely the biggest stakeholder in his own life.

Hence it always boils down to prioritising the stakeholders in our life.Depending on our priority we can choose to focus more on friendship, relations, professional life or self fulfilment.It obviously includes the balancing act that most of us try to achieve.

Though temporarily a particular stakeholder may get attention more or less than what it deserves, in the long run prioritising the stakeholders will always guide to a decent and satisfying life.

There are some other thoughts drifting in my mind on this topic..but will pen it later

zuerst

One month in the job and I feel like a non-entity lost in the corporate jungle. And I am not cribbing about my job. I guess most of PGP21s would feel the same after 1 month of job.Every thing is relative and this too is in comparison to life 3 months back at L.

No insti parties, no DC++, no night mess, no tennis at 1 a.m., no birthday bumps, no H9-H10 clashes, no IKMK and no Sameer Bhatt. Life now is more 'professional', more silent and instead more boring. Sometimes in the deafening silence of office I want to shout aloud...No this is not me. Probabely 1 month is not sufficient time to transform Fauji into Mr. Anshul. But I fear I will change. I will become one of them.The rat race will take toll on me. The child inside me will die. The PJs would vanish.

If it sounds too pessimistic let me change the tone. The crusade against 'maturity' has just begun. I cant escape it but I can surely delay it. So many of my dear friends will have to bear PJs for some more time.

Lets fight against maturity. Lets remain juvenile.