You and Your Potential
Each organization is managed by its employees at different levels. The productivity of the organisation depends upon the productivity of each of its employees. During recent times, organizations are being forced to contend with an increasingly diverse range of influential factors, which have implications for their efficiency and effectiveness (Marie McHugh, 1993)
These factors include
overwork, overtime, higher expectations and shortage of employees, etc. Such
factors are instrumental in creating a cumulative spiral of pressures among the
employees and render them susceptible to the adverse effects of stress caused
by such influences. The
real productivity of the individual has remained an unknown term. The success
stories of the individuals in different fields are the evidences that the
individuals have enormous potential within them. In general terms the individual
has 100% potential with him/her but is rarely known to him or anybody else
throughout his/her lifetime. He expects to derive 30-40% of the actual potential which he/she assumes to be 100% but at the end of it s/he derives only a limited part
(hardly 15-20%) of it. As a result of not knowing one’s potential, s/he is
unable to cope up with the stress caused by different external and internal
sources and succumb to pressure with low productivity.
This is true with
every human body. You hardly receive 15% to 20% of the potential you actually have,
whereas you expect that you should get 30% to 40% out of the potential you
have. We are hardly aware of the hidden 55% to 60 % of the power within us. The
whole life you live with your 15-20% potential, which you assume your 100% and
complain to have bad luck, or not as lucky as others. You hardly realise the importance of
potential unless you are in competition with others to acquire something
tangible. Without the potential, you
feel lost, sinking, hard to work, low at concentration and your body become
incapacitated by a little exertion or infection. Each of us has differently
developed potential inherited to us by our ancestors. The internal mechanism
guides your way for performance. Some day, you are charged up and handle any
task with ease and enthusiasm, another day you may take more time and energy to
complete the same task, yet another day you are in pensive mood and won’t like
to do anything.
Do you know why you have different state of mind on different
days? Is it directly proportional to your food, mood or environment? There are
certain indicators like, you feel great; you feel dull or feel beaten up. But
none of these indicators are measurable. You certainly can never say “I am
feeling just fifty percent great today” or “I am twenty percent down today”. Is
this thought provoking?
