"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."
-John Wooden
To wake up early in the morning, get the kettle (electric) boiling, put a tea bag and some powdered milk in it, and gulp it down before it can blend fully, then have off pat to switch the heater on and thank your stars that it’s a super-fast heater, only to be cursing technology and the salesman at the store you bought it from; that the 5 minute quick heater didn’t even heat the water enough to get the shivers of the cold Bengaluru morning out of your system. Then pull out a semi-ironed shirt or kurta out depending on your gender (Please don’t treat me as a stereotype here, I’m only stating facts), toast a slice of bread (which when Murphy’s law is applied, come out more brown than the temperature states) and then curse the same salesman who sold you the heater; also curse yourself a little, all the while heatedly asking yourself; ‘what were you thinking?’ when you went in for the offer, ‘buy a water heater, get 2% off on a toaster’. Then you grab your bag and hope your employee ID is still there in it after you just shoved it in there the previous evening in frustration when you had to leave the office 4 hours after your normal working time. Then forget to change your slippers from those rubber bathroom ones to the formal one’s and be relieved that you spent about 300 bucks extra for the extra stylish ones, so you don’t have to go back home and change them. Then you hustle to the main road to get and AUTO, and then the usual haggling, combating, cursing, and then you finally find that one good person who is willing to take you for only ’10 rupees extra’.
PHEW.........
Sounds like the morning drama of 90% of all employees in the office right?
So what why am I describing the morning scene of probably every single employee?
Coz for me the same routine day in and day out is worth every bit of the cursing, the skirmishing, the strain, the sheer annoyance, and the even more frustrated cursing!
The only thing I look forward to every gruelling second of that painful 45 minutes is the pEoPLe I’m looking forward to working within the organisation.
It’s called TeAm
And this space is a salute to the people in my team who despite everything else motivate me to get up in the morning and cross all hurdles to walk into the glass doors of the organization swipe my ID card and make it on time. Its the dedication, the effort and the motivation that is silently embedded in the “Hi’s and Hello’s”, the “kya haal chaal, kaise ho?”, in the ever ready “I will help you out, even if I’m busy with my work and I’m trying to meet a deadline” and many more things that they would do to get the job done.
I always had the perception that a great team is formed by a great leader, this perception had blossomed out of the very little worldly wisdom that I possessed.
Fortunately for me a, my world turned upside down when I was faced with the realities, as my wise friend keeps mumbling this all the bloody time, ‘you got to get the experience!!!!’
Any who, moving away from that slight deviation; in these 4 months that I worked I have learnt the importance of TEAM. My favourite story I love to brag around is how I got into a council in the organisation.
So it was like any other day when I being more inclined to extra-curricular activities decided to nominate myself for a council in what is called the EFCS council. Having joined the team only about a month ago I wasn’t too convinced that my existence in the organisation would even count.
So in the 24 hours that were allowed for canvassing I did little to get off my cosy chair and move about. The biggest fear I had was ‘How on earth are people going to cast their votes if they don’t know me’.
Then D day arrived and votes were cast and, the counts were carried out. Surprisingly as a new comer I was not only supported by my team but also along with all the (ragging in all humour), but there was a constant follow up on the events. I had my doubts about the elections (apologies to my team).
On the day of the results, I realised that a bunch of 80 odd people got me all the votes required to not get into one but both the councils that I had nominated for!
So now I’m writing this post to say “I Stand with my head held high, and I’m proud to say that my TEAM really rocks!!!”
Dedicated to the SUMMIT, OPICS, & my fellow MT’s. God Bless you all :)
