Read a very good article in ET today, about the upsurge of a niche group of high performing and high maintenance young corporate executives. Extremely efficient, tech-savvy, practicing work life balance, seeking appreciation and recognition constantly. Its really heartening to know, we are gradually shifting towards a more holistic work culture and environment where laid back lifestyle is giving way to healthy competition.
While the article focused on the characteristic traits of such individuals and gave essential tips for their bosses on how to handle them, I would like to take this article one notch higher by discussing the challenges faced by such executives. While the challenges are manifold, lets deliberate on the first and foremost of them.
Resistance by Gen Y (Assuming this bunch is Gen Z) : Its basic human psychology. People resist change, be it any kind, good …bad…strange, whatever! They just find it hard to believe, that a week’s task can be done in 3 hours flat, provided you are willing to stretch yourself. And where is the fun in work, if you don’t stretch yourself. Only a person who has roamed in a parched desert can truly enjoy a chilled glass of water. That almost dead feeling in your body, when you hit the sack long after midnight, after a hard day of work is the most satisfying feeling in the whole world. Simply incomparable.
And this group of Gen Y, will always find some reason or the other to criticize you, however lame is the thing. When they don’t find any aspects of your work, to pull you down, they would resort to non-work categories. And its so tangent, sometimes it gets laughable! And laughing away their barbs, is the only solution to this. Some wise man has said, in some wise book, “If people are talking about you, that means, you are doing good in life.” J
Extracting the juice out of a day by including so many diverse activities comes easily to this group. Be it work or leisure, they have taken perfection to a new level altogether. With the focus of Arjuna, they march ahead towards their goal, which is not money, btw. Its something more spiritual, something really unattainable, if you go on to thrash out the actual meaning of the word. Taking your work to a level, that creates a benchmark. That’s actually the goal, maybe.
Was not planning to write something so serious on a Sunday, but yet again, I let the fingers do the talking, turning out to be an impulsive writer, after all! J
So Chetan Bhagat’s new book is out, “What young India wants?”. Its his first book in non-fiction genre, based on this essays. Looking forward to it. Was going through another article regarding the book launch. So many critics have castigated him on his broken grammar and what not! Arey baba, That’s how we talk, everyone cannot speak perfect Shakespearean English. Will it be believable, if I write, “My dear XYZ, the intention of this epistle is to….”, while “Hi XYZ, wanted to tell you through this letter….” Sounds so REAL!
Guys! Why can’t people just let him BE. Jealousy is ok, but up to a level.
He is hugely successful and popular because, he has managed to touch the pulse of the nation, of the youth, by coming up with stories that people can identify with, characters that have real shades of people in it, it can be anybody’s story! What is so wrong with it, if he goes on to make some millions out of it. Writing is hard work, after all! And you know what, his so called “Intellectual” critics are only upset ‘coz their books aren’t doing that well, may be. Abstract books don’t have a successful history after all, unless you are an Ayn Rand or Paulo Coelho.
Anyways that’s it for now!
Cheers! J
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