8th March 2012
You May be Fast, But Are You Fast Enough?
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young
Curious to know why Dinosaurs became an extinct species?
I read somewhere that the reflex mechanism in Dinosaurs was very slow. If a Dinosaur is bitten by a snake in the leg, it will take three to four months by the time the information reaches the brain! We all know that the brain should send commands to secrete hormones and chemicals to fight against poison and bacterial infection.
This is what happens if we are not fast enough to take corrective actions to improve our life. Supposing you come to know that recession is around the corner and you have to take steps to insulate you from the consequences of recession, the speed with which you act will decide your survival.
Even if you have the rarest of the rare skills, you should know when the skill will become redundant. Take the simple skill like stenography. There was a time when every manager in an organization will be given a stenographer to help him to type the various correspondences and there was a very big demand for qualified stenographers. But today every executive types his own notes.
You have to change very fast. But there are five factors which will stop you from acting. You want to know what those factors are? Wait!
N C Sridharan
www.thetimefoundation.com
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