“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.