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Dear Colleagues,
For sometime now I’ve been seriously connecting with people trying to establish relationships.
Whenever I try to connect with fellow HR professionals of the other organizations, I’m sorry to say, but am being given an impression that they are too busy to entertain a call. In most places I find there is intense scrutiny and screening done by the receptionist on the phone and can hardly reach our fellow professionals.
I am not surprised, but am wondering as to how poor this strategy can be because you might just miss hiring a “Sachin” or a “Tiger Woods,” or “Mike Jordan.”
May be I am imagining, may be I might hurt the sentiments or some fellow professionals, but let me be explicit, imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Tara Ploughman, quotes, "The less confident you are in your motivation and the object of your devotion, the more serious you have to act."
A sense of relationship and co-partnership with people involves intelligent tolerance, open-mindedness, good-natured optimism, and an ability to laugh at oneself in the face of hardship.
Life really is not a bed of roses, in fact, its a tough battle between fittest and the fast, between just the hardworking and the hardworking plus smart, between fear and faith, between hope and hopelessness, between pessimism and optimism.
In between all this one must have a sense of humor to be a faithful, hopeful optimist in competitive times like the one’s we see each day.
All of us will need a sense of humor if we need to a live a life of harmony be it at work or back from work, with colleagues, friends, and relatives - with all of them.
Good humor must be genuine, not simulated. It should let your smiles come from the heart and they will become contagious. It should seep through your voices.
You may not see people whose laugh is with nothing in it but teeth. People without humor tend to forget their source, lose sight of their goal, and with no lubrication in their mental crankshafts, they must drop out of the race. Lincoln said, 'Good humor is the oxygen of the soul.' And someone paraphrased, 'The surly bird catches the germ.'
Working does not have to be dull and morbid as most make it to be. We are all funny creatures in so many ways, and when we rise above the daily bread and butter battle to look into our lives from above, it becomes apparent. We are all laughably insane, and
what a long, strange, wonderful trip it is.
I end this brief essay with a quote from none other than Mahatma Gandhi, who said, "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
I'm waiting to hear from the others as well on this aspect. Warm Regards,
Smita
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