Patience: Indispensable!

An essential virtue for human beings, patience has an important place in our lives and one of the most critical has been patience in profession. The neck-breaking speed of changes and growth, higher and higher career ambitions and the fire in the belly to deliver the best has led to “Impatient professionalism”. We have started measuring professionals by the speed by which they deliver their tasks; we have created our own standards for it. With the speedy expectations and then due to the unmet expectations, speedy conclusions are made which obviously have very high chances of being wrong. A co-worker not responding to my phone-call with the frequency I expect, a co-worker not delivering at the time I thought he/she should, or a co-worker not writing mails to satisfy my expected “mail-contents” is branded as unprofessional and dumb, and is sometimes named a wrong person at a wrong place. Impatiently I start look for a quick-fix solution to ma...