Working Away To Perfection . . !!

The golden saying  – “Work is Worship” pronounced by Sri Krishna at the battlefield during the encounter between two opposite forces, has become immortalized in the day to day living of human beings. The concept is also relevant to all times and space where human beings are engaged in their work from the most ordinary to the extra ordinary realms.  To worship work as pronounced by Krishna is to go beyond the approach of just performing one’s duty. Duty of course is the first call to begin with, what is required is a quest for excellence, quality reliability punctuality and perfection.

The quest for excellence springs out of self-motivation. Setting up standards and aiming at fulfilling these is a self-propelled process, which comes more out of an inner call than through stimulation. What behavioural scientists term as auto suggestion is the by-product of this inner call. Constant striving to reach up to these standards of excellence and untiring efforts to improve upon these standards is the beginning of the process to worship work quality is the art of living. Quality control is a post mortem corrective process, which is super imposed on the work generated from below. Quality consciousness is the spring bed from which the desire to produce companion in whatsoever one does so that it becomes a way of life.

Any amount of good work produced even with the greatest labour cannot stand the test of time in the absence of reliability of its standards as well as performance. The ever growing use of precision engineering and reliability in management techniques through quantification of even subjective variables such as dynamic leadership, motivation reliability standards, esteem value and value added content bear adequate testimony to reliability as a yardstick of successful work accomplishment.

Last but not, the least, punctuality is the most essential ingredient of a vibrant work culture. Speed and accuracy are not mutually exclusive. While precision and quality are the basis on which the work is justified, proper completion of such work, within stipulated time limit as “deadline” in professional parlance is the goal of work itself. So there we are 5pillars, which holds the edifice of perfection in work. This is probably what Lord Krishna enunciated when the outlined his doctrine of working away of perfection.