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Self Motivation

Published by Nainil Chheda on January 23, 2009 in Management and Organization. 0 Comments

I am a big fan of Peter Drucker (Management Guru). At age 13, his teacher once asked him “What do you want to be remembered for?”. He did not have an answer then. His teacher said, “I didn’t expect you to be able to answer it. But if you still can’t answer it by the time you’re fifty, you will have wasted your life.”

Since my high school I have believed that “The person with the most responsibility for an individual’s development is the person himself”. While in high-school my I had an attention span of a moth. I would seldom concentrate on what the teacher was teaching.

I believe everything which I have learned (till date) is a result of three things:

  1. Observation
  2. Self Motivation
  3. An Analytical Mind

What motivates me?

  1. Being Busy: I like it when I am busy;
  2. Empowerment: I like it when I am given the authority and the empowerment to do my job;
  3. Work Environment: I like it when there is an honest work environment;
  4. Variation: If I am given the same task/activity I feel bored. I need variation. After coming to eClinicalWorks I have already switched 5 main roles from being a “Trainer to Installer to Developer to Network Manager to being a Product Manager (Research)”;
  5. Recognition: I am motivated if I am recognized for my hard-work;
  6. Communication: I like it when there is a constant and consistent communication with and from the management;

All the above points induce me to renew myself, because it makes me see myself as a different person - the person I can become. Self-motivation can go only so far and it needs to be constantly reinforced by rewards from your colleagues and management.

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Failure Is Success Rounded Down

Published by Nainil Chheda on January 15, 2009 in Life. 0 Comments

It took me 6 rounds of job interview sessions and some real strong recommendation to receive my job at eClinicalWorks LLC. The good thing is that I received the job (i.e. success); the bad part is that I had to prove myself 6 times before being chosen for the job (i.e. failure).

Failure has many flavors:

  1. Failure to meet expectation 
  2. Failure to anticipate
  3. Failure to process and complete a task

Here is a quick recollection of the areas where I have failed :

  1. As a Student : In my 10th grade I failed in “English Language” as a subject. (Reason: Attention span of a moth)
  2. As a Coordinator : In my previous experience as a “Development Coordinator”, I was not able to perform my duties. (Reason: Half knowledge is dangerous)
  3. As a Project Manager : The most important aspect of being a Project Manager is constant follow-up. I have had incidences where I have missed following up on a project.
  4. As a Network Team Member : I have failed in making sure the team follows the best-practices for Internal Communication.
  5. As a Knowledge Manager : One of the responsibilities of a Knowledge Manager is efficient transfer of knowledge amongst various departments. I failed to do so.

Failure is directly proportional to the mistakes one makes. 

Here is what have I learned from my failed experiences / mistakes :

  1. Always admit your mistakes.
  2. Accept responsibilities and follow-up.
  3. Work to understand why it happened and what the factors were.
  4. Never give up (keep on trying until you succeed).
  5. Try not to make the same mistakes again.
  6. Effective communication is the key to success.
  7. Learn from the past and move on with life.
  8. Learn from the mistakes of others.

In life, to be honest, I have failed as much as I have succeeded. Despite the pain and the stress of the failure, there is always a learning curve which one must embrace. This is what we call experience.

“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde

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