All my
life i have never been used to seeking appointments, I would just walk across
and knock on the door, get the work done. This is how it has been all my life
until something happened in the only happening place of my life that office is.
Oh yea! I moved teams. New team no doubt brings new things to our life. And
since i am the pessimist, let me help you take a look at what is wrong here.
This time the new thing i have got is the calendar culture.
Ah
well, what exactly is calendar culture, that’s nothing but blocking your
calendar for everything that can even be blocking your calendar so that you can
use the time to block others' calendar. So My calendar is blocked for Team
Meeting, Team lunch, Team Break, Metrics Review Meeting, Metrics Review Meeting,
Discussion Meeting, Cascade Meeting, Please all of you Stand up meeting, All of
you sit down Meeting and blah bla meeting and what not meeting, Not what
meeting, Sundry and all meeting, I should Write this piece meeting, and so on
and So forth meeting..
When
you have lived like you have lived for 27 full years, its tough that you change. Yea, I didn’t
change, continued to knock on the doors of the people trying to get the work
done. But alas, it did not work at all times. In my native language, they say-
"Laatho ke Bhut, haatho se nahi maante". Meaning one does not
understand the language other than the language he understands. So I had to
block calendars to get my work done. Alas I was still not getting my work done
making me wonder what I was missing here. So i had to go back to where this
culture started and plough at what possibly would be reasons for my failure.
So I opened up the calendars of these people and i would see
that the calendars are so over-filled with one or the other meeting. Next i
look at their
desks to check if they actually take part in all those meetings. In spite of
the calendars showing a big list of scheduled plans, some people are still at
desk. That’s when I realized not to trust the big blue bars on the calendar
that informed me that they are busy because of meeting. Busy is not always
equal to busy or meeting does not really prove that he or she is in a meeting.
The same logic applies to whoever whichever whatever crossing your mind right
now. (I hope you are not thinking about the writer now).
I don’t know who invented this calendar culture, but the
crux is to ‘block your time to get my work done’. As I said before, this did not
work and resulted in failure. Leave aside the fact that I fail in whatever I do,
I had to find a way to get the act done. Man is like rocket. Until you give him pressure, he is
going to sit like a saint. Going back to my roots was the best option – “Knock
the door”.
I set these rules for myself - Disturb people and keep
disturbing them till your work is done. To remember that work is more important
than work etiquette. Lastly the key, “follow
the calendar culture, but don’t rely on it”.
Courtesy- therecongul:)
Courtesy- therecongul:)
