Continual Improvement

There is always scope of Improvement, not only at workplace, but in all spheres of life. Continual Improvement differs from the Continuous Improvement in the way that in case of Continual, improvement takes place from the previously achieved status. i.e. it is like cumulative curve. Now at workplace as all organisations strive for improvement, what employees want or do? It is seen that employees can be distinctly classified into three major categories;

firstly; which want improvement

secondly; which want the way things are

lastly; the ones which want improvement but are clueless about what to do

there can be further sub-categories and things can more complex depending on how the office politics play role

Life is like Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and in life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:

"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

"What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and do not change the quality of Life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided. So, don't let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead."