How do you achieve success? Everyone is eager to know the formula for success. If the formula is known everyone will attain success. There are number of formulae for success. Here is one of the formulae for success which is a three pillar approach where you need to bank on hard work, smart work and network to scale greater heights of success.
Hard work is all about the ability to put in efforts and energies quantitatively. That means, putting efforts with less emphasis on planning and focus. It pays off sometimes. Smart work is all about qualitative efforts and energies with greater emphasis on planning and focus. Look at a small story that differentiates smart work from hard work.
Two persons by name, Ken and Ben were asked to chop the tree and the timeframe fixed was an hour. Ken took the axe and began chopping the tree at the trunk. However, Ben took some time for sharpening the axe and chopped the tree within 45 minutes while Ken was still chopping at the trunk. When we look at the both it becomes clear that Ken adopted hard work while Ben believed in smart work.
To elaborate further, hard work emphasizes on efficiency and smart work on effectiveness. Hard workers do the things right and smart workers execute right things. Both hard work and smart work are essential and its application is contextual.
The third pillar for your success is network which we often neglect. Sometimes who you know is more important than what you know. People may have lot of potential but if they don’t have right contacts they may not excel in their lives. Therefore, network helps you keep in the right place at the right time. Mere having network alone will not sustain forever. Ultimately it is your talents, abilities and both hard work and smart work will keep you going great forever in your life.
Students should learn to maintain alumni links and join associations and clubs of their area of interest. One fine day you will find a friend of yours who reached higher position handholding you and taking you to the tipping point.
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Hello Sir, I recently started reading your blog entires...and i really thank you for sharing such beautiful thoughts.
Coming to the success pillar which you have just explained, I strongly believe in this formula.
I have a similar example at my work place. Mr. X & Mr. Y had joined as a SoftEng in a team at the same time and started working, after two years they got promoted to Sr.SoftEng. After one yr working as a Sr.SEs, they both got a choice to be made to take up a more challenging work in the same team. It is a choice for the first person to choose among two and the second person is left with the second choice.
First choice was challenging and has more customer interaction where as the second choice was equally challenging but requires to interact the entire local team of 40 people.
So Mr X opted to take Fist and then Mr Y left with the second.
Both have got a couple of freshers assigned to them whom they can use in doing the new jobs.
Both have put equal hard work in doing these new jobs...where as Mr. Y understood, that the next higher role he will reach only through delegation. So he started delegating the work to the freshers he has got. Where as Mr. X does not believe in delegating, as he could not trust his sub-ordinate who are freshers. So he continued to do the entire work by himself in his own way with out delegating.
And as Mr. Y's job includes the total team interaction with 40 ppl he could establish good relation ship with everyone and he has build a good network.
Mr.Y promoted to Lead role sooner than Mr.X.
hello everyone. this is a very good article. yes both hardwork and smartwork are very important for reaching the success.
excellent topic
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