Ravi Pratap Singh

Do You ENJOY Or ENDURE Your Job?

Have you ever had colleagues or friends who consistently put in 12-15 hours of work a day for weeks on end and still not exhibit the faintest signs of mental or physical fatigue? On the other hand, you may also have come across people who behave like zombies after a couple of extra-long working days. The interesting part about this contrasting behaviour, you may have noticed, is that it has nothing to do with the age of the concerned person.

Then what's it that makes the former type of people behave like superheroes? Do these guys gulp down some magic potion with breakfast every morning? Do they suffer from a genetic disorder? Or are they just visitors from a different planet?

Fortunately, none of the above.

The answer is fairly simple. The "superheroes" ENJOY their jobs, while the latter ENDURE them!

Do YOU enjoy or endure your job???

E-Learning Industry: Ruled By Women!!!

    

This morning i woke up to a barrage of advertisements and articles in the newspapers on International Women's Day. Ofcourse, i didn't bother to give any of them a second glance (hope i am not sounding like an MCP!). But i guess the visual impact of the headlines was so powerful that when i walked out of the shower, captions like Woman Power, Celebrating Women, Tribute to Womanhood, Women on Top, were buzzing uncontrollbly in my head. And by the time i got into my car, the buzz had become a cacophony!

As i was driving to office, i began thinking about the giant strides women had taken across various spheres of life. Though they had some catching up to do with men in certain industries, today's women were giving their male coutnerparts a real run for their money in several sectors. My thoughts meandered from one industry to another and i was now beginning to immensely enjoy this "Women Versus Men" face-off. Finally my unusually hyper-analytical brain zoomed in on my own line of business - elearning. And boom... reality struck.

The e-learning industry is being RULED by women!!!

For the uninitiated, Instructional Designers (ID) form the backbone of the e-learning business. In movie-making parlance, their role would be similar to that of a script-writer and director rolled into one. Like there can be no movie without a script-writer/director, there can be no e-learning without an ID! In India, i can confidently say that over 85% of all IDs are women. Worldwide, this ratio may be marginally lower... but only marginally.

Another interesting fact that comes to mind is that a very high percentage of e-learning companies across the world have been set-up and run by women. Incredible, but true.

Any doubts then about the e-learning industry being ruled by women??? Never realised it till this morning... now i do.

More power to women!!! :)

Ideation Without Execution Is Delusion

Most of us have grand ideas about the things we need to do to improve our personal, professional, social, financial and spiritual status. Some of us also manage to go one step further and maintain a laundry list of these ideas with a time-bound plan of action for their implementation. But only a miniscule percentage of us actually get down to executing the ideas, and thereby, have a shot at success.

Unfortunately, execution alone does not guarantee success... FLAWLESS EXECUTION is more likely to help us achieve it.

Any wonder then, that success seems so elusive?

The secret to success, therefore, is not great ideas... but great ideas WITH great execution!

As Robin Sharma says, "Ideation without execution is mere delusion".