Competition is forcing firms into learning mode like never before; and the Society outside the organization is 'manufacturing challenges' for the firms like never before. Every firm needs to become a 'learning organism', and not just an outfit with posters or orchestrated situations wherein posters or poster-boys depicting /doing jargon munching about "Change", "Learning organization", and "How to be a customer centric" etc. The list seems endless while hours are limited. "How to compress the new agenda in to an already 'punishing' schedule called 'work day'" is the moot question.
The legendary Raja Bhartrihari of Ujjaini who wrote an epic on 'Policy' states- "No mark is left by the drop of water that fell on the red hot iron (implying 'Tawa'- an iron sheet used for cooking bread in India), same drop on the lotus leaf takes the form of a pearl and when it falls in the 'mother pearl' it gets converted into a real pearl. Thus, generally people develop different traits (read 'attitude'); bad average or excellent; due to the company they keep."
Though Bhartrihari lived in another era, yet his observations are true in the times like NOW. You may have noticed, people join a firm. They learn the work. Through the work they acquire higher learning and wisdom. Some times they like to share the wisdom with those who made it possible for them. Therefore a firm is like a "Gurukul". Those who have synchronized themselves with this reality are experiencing desired growth.
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