Business is obsessed with growth.
Growth, whether in sale, market share, product line, profit etc. is always celebrated.
A healthy company aims for balanced growth. In fact, the growth in business process performance and human capability must go hand in hand with growth in business. Companies have to make systematic efforts to grow, in the process and people dimension as in sales.
For a business to grow, performance must be driven by processes and not by firefighting (Jugaad). Process performance must grow to ensure scalability and quality. A company cannot decide to improve processes after the sales growth happens. The two must grow concurrently.
Developing people is a continuous process. It includes recruitment, formal training and on the job training. HR plays a lion’s role in developing this part of the organization. In the absence of a robust “people process”, an organization’s growth can hit the glass ceiling.
Excellent companies always aim for well- rounded growth.
The reality of growth…
Childhood the golden period is identified mainly with growth milestones. Height and weight parameters occupy a large portion of one’s thoughts. All children must have at some point asked this question, “When will I become a grown up?’ The hurry to go into a different phase of life can be better understood if we understand that growth is something all not only dream about but hanker after. Seems easy does it not, until one actually realizes that growth is a tedious process that is dependent on many consistent efforts including habits.
Organizational growth is not a shot in the dark. It is not the doing of a 1000 things over a short time but the doing of a few things over 1000 times. It is also pertinent to note that growth is never an overnight happening; in fact growth is advancement on a daily basis and therefore a gradual culmination of habitual positive actions. Image a lush green garden bursting with colourful flower blooms. Obviously the garden did not bloom in a jiffy; it took continuous targeted efforts of a gardener to get that stupendous result. The gardener had to factor in a lot of conditions like watering, sunlight, soil etc. The gardener also had to make "care" a habit!
Habits are habits because they involve a daily implementation of thought and actions. Growth stories of individuals highlight some common traits; inputs that gave the determined outputs. Though multi- tasking has been touted as a positive skill, one must not forget that all tasks need to be tackled in a logical order in order to avoid chaos, duplication and mix ups. Multitasking, many a times overwhelms an individual; it may get a lot of things done, but do all tasks get the requisite attention? Inadequate attention could become a hindrance to growth in the long run.
A plant mostly branches out making space for a multitude of leaves to position themselves in a manner best suited for photosynthesis. Could this be the plant’s mechanism of delegating work? Imagine if the main stem took it exclusively upon itself to produce food for the plant? Most probably it would be a nutrient deficient plant, stunted and limited. This is one lesson that we must learn, because growth is a wholesome process and not just shooting off in one direction. Growth needs patience. Growth needs to come neither too soon, nor too late and most importantly growth needs to be a joyous process.
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