Showing posts with label how to improve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to improve. Show all posts

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Performance guideline

"Ultimately every performance for an audience is made with a intention that the audience should like it. If an audience does not like a performance, then the performance is not a good public performance".

This was said by I.

However I know that there are people who will disagree. 

Imagine a test Match (Cricket) where a batsman bats all day in a painfully slow manner - which bores the crowd to death, but ensures his team has a good score on board and hence a good chance to win.

I have to agree that its not just the masses who can judge a good performance. If that is the case everything will be a herd mentality and originality/creativity will be lost.

For every Dabaang, or Ready is not the best film made but it works. Then there are films like Laashak which critics love but it is not a hit.

The revised statement here is thus that "while a performer is free to perform the way he/she wants, the ultimate aim of the performance is to win (game / critics approval) in the bigger picture and also gain popularity of the masses (if possible) while doing do. 

This conversation would not have been possible with out the fabulous Veena performance I heard one night (sarcastic) which was so note worthy (that it actually played one note for two hours), that it  made me go to sleep. May be that raaga was Raaga nirdra.

That apart I feel that every performer can perform the way he/she likes in private. But in a public performance, it is a public performance - shouldn't they like it.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

The 10 Winning Habits. Winning is not a incident. It is an Habit.

To win is considered the prime motive of any activity. No one ever plays to lose assuming that the activity/game is played normally, but is there a way to be a good winner and be respected for it.
While there may not be a perfect answer for the same, there are a few helpful pointers.

  1.  A good regular winner is a good communicator. He/She doesnt take other people lightly and sets his/her priorities clearly with others.
  2.  A winner sticks around a grinds even on a bad day with hope that things will get better. A winner will not let down his guard when the results start to show he will go for the kill. a winner does not wait for preparations to be over, he knows the basics and he adds inputs to it as the work progress.
  3.  This proactive ability of the winner makes sure that the winner will make be ahead of the curve.
  4.  Winners know to keep their mouth shut when they make a mistake and still succeed. 
  5. Winners know that winning is a result of the team/people who support them they acknowledge these people and cherish these bonds.
  6.  Winners are always into building there winning teams as winners understand that in the long run winning is all about developing winning teams the ones which win together or fail together.

There are ten things/aspects which a winner needs to take care of in case he/she wants to win regularly these are

  1. Innovation - new ideas and adaptations as per the situation
  2.  coordination 
  3. Involvement and engagement of external partners - involving and engaging customers,suppliers, partners,vendors, shareholders etc. 
  4.  Culture and grooming. For self and support system.
  5.  Gratification 
  6. Clarity of thought
  7. Accountability
  8. Motivation 
  9. Capabilities.
  10. Leadership.

Winning is as all winners find it a lot of hard work, heart ache and a thankless job. But its a great feeling.