Foundation to career !!

A person who love machine, should become an Engineer; a person who love food start a hotel; a person who love human being, should become a Saint or a Manager !!

Do you agree with me that ability to love human being is a competency of a managerial role?

Today I am going to attempt a story of appreciation!!

One young academically excellent person went for an interview for a managerial role. His final interview was going on the company director.

By looking at this young man’s CV, the director understood that the candidate has obtain great achievement in academics from school to his post graduate research. The director asked the young – Have you obtain any scholarship in school? Youth answered (smooth voice) none. Director – Was it your father who paid your school fee? Youth answered (slowly) My father passed away when I was one year old and my mother who paid all my education fees. Director (sharp voice) – Where is she working? Youth (light voice) My mother worked as a cloth cleaner.

Director requested the youth to show his hands; youth showed his pair of hands and it smooth and perfect.

The director said – I have a request for you; when you go back home today, clean your mother’s hand and see me tomorrow morning.

Youth felt he had a good chance to get this job. He went home and request his mother to let him clean her hands. Mother felt strange and a mixed feeling, she showed her hand to son.

Youth washed his mother hands and his tear fell as he did. Youth noticed that his mother hands were so wrinkled and there were so many bruises. While cleaning his mother was shivering as some of the bruises were so painful. He realised that the wrinkles and bruises on her hand is the cost for his academic success.

After finishing the cleaning of his mother’s hand. He cleans the cloths for that day.

Next day morning youth went to director’s office.

Director noticed the tears in youth’s eyes and asked – Can you tell me what have you done and learned yesterday in your home?

Youth – I cleaned my mother’s hand and also finished cleaning all remaining clothes.

Director – Please tell me your feelings.

Youth said – No.1 I know what is appreciation, without my mother, there wouldn’t be success in me.

No.2 - By working together and helping my mother. I now realize how difficult to get something done.

No.3 – I have to appreciate the importance of value of family relationship.

Director said, This is what I was looking for my to be manager. He said I was looking for person who appreciate others help, a person who knows suffering of others to get things done and a person who would not put money as his only goal in life. You are hired.

Later on, Youth become a high performing manager and his subordinates respected him. He produce great performance and helped the company to grow further.

This is the story which all of the parent and would be parents here take it and look back- How are we treating our child. In this modern and competitive world, we are doing each and every thing for our children to concentrate on his/ her academics. We ensure good cloths, food, car, name it whatever before they think. Send them to school in car, not in public bus. No work at home; servants take care. Not allowing them to understand practical difficulties of life.

It is the time we have think and see are we really loving them or are we destroying them to face the real world when they grow up.