GROUP ACTIVITY

 

Group activity succeeds only when the outcome is more than the sum of their parts.

Success eludes the group when the achievement is less than the sum of their parts.

It may also be borne in mind, the smartest teams are not composed of the smartest individuals.

It is not collective intelligence that matters. It is the prosocial skills of the members of the team that wins the race. It means you need to have people who excel at collaborating with others. It helps the team members to bring out the best in one another. 

Here, they recognise one another's strengths, develop strategies for leveraging them. They motivate one another to align their efforts in pursuit of a common aim.

Having the best pieces that are at loggerheads, is nothing but self centredness or narcissm. It gets you nowhere.

When you employ the best glue, everything falls into place.

BEST TEAMS

 

The best teams aren't the ones with the best thinkers. They're the teams that unearth and use the best thinking from everyone.

It requires leadership practices, team processes and systems that harness the capabilities and contributions of all the members of the team

Maximizing group intelligence is much more than enlisting individual experts. It is much more than bringing people together to solve a problem.

PERFECT SAUCE

 

CHANNELISE FRUSTRATION INTO PERFORMANCE

The perfect sauce to reach your goal, to attain success and to banish innumerable failures to dust.

YOUNG WORLD

                                             

                                                       YOUNG WORLD FROM THE HINDU

                                   

One day Evana came to me. She requested me to subscribe to YOUNG WORLD from The Hindu. I said I would do that if she would read that.She was firm. She said she woxuld read. 

I asked her how she came to know of YOUNG WORLD. She replied she had seen  that in the hands of Sreya while  travelling in the school bus.

I rang up Suresh, the Advocate cum our newspaper Agent. It happened last Tuesday. Suresh said Hindu supplies as per prior orders only. He said it comes on Fridays @ 20 Rupees per copy. I replied it was ok. But he said he would try to deliver that from the succeeding Friday itself. I conveyed it to Evana. She was thrilled. But when Friday dawned she came to me and complained YOUNG WORLD hadn't arrived. I replied it might come from next Friday onwards

The surprise was YOUNG WORLD of 16th Jan26 arrived with the newspaper of 19thMonday

I can see Evana happily delving into what she really wanted after she woke up in the morning.

Yes, in these days of social media and TV it's very difficult to wean children away from them.

Just as letting them have a go at them, it'll be good if we could put them on to reading as well.

What they gain from reading will have no parallels

BOUNCING BACK

 

Resilience is a form of growth.

Progress is not only reflected in the peaks you reach - it's also visible in the valleys you cross.

Making progress isn't always about moving forward. 

Sometimes it's about bouncing back

Adam Grant

Hidden Potential

The interesting part about this is, I had found out this much earlier through my life. My failures taught me this. I can honestly say I was self taught. Not something I learned from classrooms or pulpits or discourses.

I have often wondered why these things never originated from such exalted forums.

GRAB

In jest.

How do you grab?

Medical College Hospital in the late 70s and early 80s.

Cardiology, Medicine,Surgery, ENT or Ortho -  OPs

There is a large crowd of patients around each OPs.

You somehow have to consult the doctor. No way. You'll be pushing and nudging. No progress. It takes two to three hours to finally  grab a prescription 

KSRTC buses. The moment it stops, a large disorderly crowd mills around struggling to board and grab standing room. The lucky gets in just as the conductor gives the double bell. The bus gathers speed and throws a few down.

Bombay suburban trains. An unbelievable sight. The train enters the station. The crowd pushes in to grab a place to stand just as the unfortunate are heckled as they disembark. Some are pickpocketed.

Sanghumugham beach. The fishing boat returns with the catch. See how people push to grab the fish 

Now think of places where people assemble. They are exhorted to grab whatever is on offer.

Look at everyone crowding up to grab. Imagine the elders  or those not in perfect health doing that.

Malayali knows only one thing.

Push people around, move up, stretch a hand and scoop up or grab what he wants before anyone else gets a hand to it

BINU SAMUEL THOMAS

 

"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me". 2 Corinthians 12:9. Also love this quote from the late great Bruce Lee: 'Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.'

Binu Samuel Thomas