Last week, I got a call from senior trainer,
Sagar Dalvi who is not just my friend and mentor... he is a muse who is
restless until he can share his thinking. He was telling me what is quite
common but not commonly known. Full of excitement, he said, ‘Success is not the
guarantee of competency’!
What a simple
yet lofty truth. While success can spur the process of empowering competency,
it can also be a flash in the pan, with no assurance of competence building. On
the other hand, lack of success does not confirm the lack of ability. It just
means that performance did not match the potential.
It is
pertinent to note that competence increases the probability of success. Hence,
we must focus on capacity building rather than insist on success. Interestingly,
one of the contributing factors in competence creation is the lessons that come
with failure. And eventually success is about the journey and not a few
milestones. And such journeys are stories of credible competence!
Focus on competence, instead of insisting on a win
Success means very little... if it’s a sometime spin!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
Goa, India.
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