Short Term!

'When did I start work on this project? Seems like a long time back. How long back was it? Hmmm. .wait...hold on! I started work on it in early October. That's just a month back. That's not long back! ....or… is it not?'

I have gone through this chain of thoughts on a number of occasions over last few months.

I wonder 'what's different?' Short term isn't really feeling like short term.

There is a lot of action in my job, for sure. I'm doing work on

• designing & driving programs, &
• creating frameworks and setting up teams.

Number of variables and stake holders I am working with are high.

Maybe it is a phase- I am learning tricks of trade here and/or I am working on creating a number of atleast 1 year agendas.

But still October can't feel so long back!

I sense 'performance every quarter' focus prevalent in most publicly listed companies is at play here. Every quarter we must show a green performance.

Over a period of time every quarter starts feeling like a mini year.

But then the challenge also is to balance this reality with need for a longer term view needed for most people initiatives.

I'll make an assumption here.  Least count required to make an impact in most people initiatives is atleast one year.

Keeping our eye on one year horizon while meeting quarter performance numbers is important.

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Sourav