Monday, July 7, 2008

Talk and Walk

All talk without walk is meaningless. IBM recently had a set of Ads with the tag line Doing it. In one particular one a lady, presumably a high executive is showing their innovation stations and says lots of things. In another one a lot of people are supposed to be "ideating" on the floor but haven't ideated about how they will innovate. At the end the tagline comes saying about stopping talk and start doing. IBM claims to show you how to do it. (no pun intended).
It brings up a very important point. Many people across cultures, jobs and races talk more and work less. This is detrimental to our progress as a civilisation and ultimately manking. We need to be helping each other to become better as a manking. I had read this book called "The Sigma Protocol" by Robert Ludlum (grab it. a good one). The villain makes a very valid point at one place (although i didn't like his solution's implementation!). The tragedy of mankind is that experts in each field have a great learning curve and often when they really become the experts their body is old. So they have very few years to actually give quality work. (Very true. Most nobel prizes are given to scientists for their work done at young ages in their old ages!). This is a global problem.
The only solution for this is to maximise the little time we do have and thus increase the global quality work output.
So help others. Share all that you know (US can start with sharing military and nuclear technology with India ;-) for example). This will help all of us get strong.
So stop talking and start doing.

1 comment:

Dom said...

A paradigm... that's got to be the culture of DRDO !!