Deserve before desire

"Deserve before you desire..." I saw this line on a PPT somewhere, later was told that it was by a Sr Executive with huge Indian business house....

Anyway, not here to discuss the source... Focus on the message now. Does anyone believe in this anymore?

In the last 10 years there seems to be a huge increase in "I want it all and I want it now" attitude.

Not everyone has the capabilities to "earn" the buying power for "IWA & IWIN". So, take risks!!! In career, rush thru to the next level of designation without delivering output over a consistent period of time. So at some point we have a many Leaders who lack the in-depth understanding / exposure to the demands of the role, not really reached the skills, experience, emotional maturity & control required to fulfill the requirements... Overall degradation of output / ineffciencies.

In investments, everyone expects more fools to follow after them... Obviously the "investments" themselves (public listed companies) have a pressure of meeting the "growth" targets. So, short term decisions with the street as the only important stakeholder is a norm? Higher revenues / short term "bookings" at the cost of not fulfilling the promises? How many care about building operational efficiencies and delivering value to the customer who has PAID ALREADY? Unless a customer has further "billings" potential, it's a done deal - history. Gotta find new markets, kill the competion, close the deals; revenue recognition. Sell, sell, sell, promise, promise, promise... deliver? ooops. "we will fix it soon - buy the upgrade". More ineffciency added to the world!

Maybe the need of the hour is to discourage "desires" that one has not earned but gurantee a level of living for minimum efforts to prevent social unrest (sounds like communism? don't mean it that way); and reward "efficiency" (not just growth) with "luxaries" in life.... Make it very exclusive!

Turn the concept of government around for a second.... instead of "of the people, by the people, for the people", treat it as a espcialized service which exists to "govern" well. Choose the experts, make them responsible for rewarding "excellence" in governance... Fallout of this is, allow entiites to run the world using competence a yardstick and not number of "supporters" they garnered! Democracy / socialism and meritocracy don't go hand in hand! But that's another subject?