Doing thins right

Doing things right – with precision

– Dr.Balasubramanian, Thought Leader and CEO, www.visionunlimited.in

Like integrity, sincerity and involvement – doing things right is a great quality. It comes only to a few. Doing things beautifully with aesthetic sense goes together with precision.

Take the example of a good speaker or presenter; he or she would plan the presentation or speech very well with a good preamble, energizer, adding different new thoughts, anecdotes, smart little stories, quotes, interesting little poems, right measure of humour with voice modulation and proper body language to inspire the listener. And he would stop when people start to think – he should have continued for a while. They add a great value and experience to the listener. It is nothing but ‘precision’.

On the contrary, there are a few whom you would have noticed that they do not plan much before the start of their speech and they keep jumping from one topic to another without any connectivity and that too with irritating body language, mannerism etc.

Let us take the example of a home maker who folds the washed clothes – one may see and wonder how she does it almost like ironing. We may also observe as to how they stack them back in the cup-boards.

To get a good tailor for us is a big boon. These days many tailors do not stitch with consistent quality and fitting. They always miss the specification mentioned by the customers and of course the date as well.

Passports issued in our country some 15 – 20 years back used to be hand-written and looking very shabby. Sometimes the letters may disappear and the passport holder may get into trouble with the authorities in the airport, whereas the ones being issued today are much better and well printed.

Have you seen some women making chapattis… they are never in a circular shape and most of them would be shapeless, torn etc. though these women must be making chapattis for years. If you comment on them, they would immediately ask : why unshaped chapattis won’t enter your throat or what? In fact, they will not accept and appreciate that the chapattis look nice when they are a perfect circle.

Let us now think of various Government documents being issued wrongly, especially the name, initial, sex, date of birth, father’s name wrong. In India, everyone knows that it is difficult to get them corrected without an extra cost and enormous time.

Will anyone get ready for a surgery if someone tells you that the Surgeon would perhaps do a fair job and there is no guarantee, if someone tells you that the aircraft you are going to board has an untrained pilot – will you get into the flight…? If someone declares that the Guru of a Mutt is ‘somewhat a bachelor’ – can we adore him?

Therefore, irrespective of the field or profession, let us admit that doing things right and having precision plays a major role.

Even a small hole in the ship can sink it sooner or later…isn’t it?