MONDAY MUSE (23 June 2008)
SPEED
Yesterday recorded two years since the passing away of Goa’s most doted poets,
Dr Manoharrai L Sardessai. He was a gifted communicator, not just as a writer,
but as a speaker as well. In oratory as well as in everyday speech, his words
would conjure up the finest of poetry, prose or philosophy. It would not be an
exaggeration to say that his quotes over a month could fill up a decent
quotation book.
Dr Manoharrai’s family, friends and colleagues were fortunate to be the
recipients of such fine gifts of wisdom on a daily basis. One such privileged
person is Mukesh Thaly who worked with him on the compilation of the Konkani
Encyclopedia. He has many interesting inspirations to recall. One such incident
was mentioned by him at a program, held on 2 July 2006, to pay homage to the
great poet.
The Himalayan task of putting together the entries for the Konkani Encyclopedia
was always running against time. The dedicated team was giving it its all.
Everyone was in full gear. The urgency was turning the working environment into
a pressure cooker. All that changed with a subtle quote by Dr Manoharrai, “Do
not sacrifice accuracy at the altar of speed!” The paradigms changed with the
clarification of the vision that the assignment demanded nothing less than
accuracy.
In a highly competitive world where things move at furious speed, it is
necessary to ensure that efficiency is not a victim to the test of deadlines.
Too often in the urgency to finish the task at hand, we ignore the fine details
and end up with a below par result. Surely it is not enough to do tasks in
time; we need to be better at doing them well as well.
Hey, don’t rush such that efficiency goes for a toss…
Pace yourself to BE BETTER and deny eventual loss!
- Pravin-da
23 June 2008, Goa, India.
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