Have you ever asked yourself “Why are you doing, what you are doing”. Why you want to be a doctor, engineer, socialist, actor, teacher or some other. Why you want to do M.Tech after B.Tech, or PhD after M.Tech, or MBA. Give it a thought and I bet, you will find it the most difficult question to answer. Real world is completely different from what we could imagine. “Some useful thought to do something different is always obscure by invisible forces”. But then also we pull our socks up and never get dis-hearted because we have some goals, some mission, some vision. Oops, so many things to achieve.
I always wonder what all these vision, mission, objective and goal makes a difference. They are all different names to same flavor. Prof. B.D.Chaudhary clarified this by putting all these words on a time scale.
Goal………..Objective………….Mission…………Vision
If I was asked to describe what GOAL means to me. Then I would preferably say “Genetic Observant and Talent”. Who sets goal for us? Is it our parents, family, friends, colleagues or mentors. Or its our talent which internally force us to set goals ourself. We all are society peoples. Several invisible and visible forces tend to divert us and help in the progress of community.
Goal setting or any work you do, according to management peoples, needs SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threads) analysis. But do we really do SWOT analysis. Very rarely.
Two very important points:
1. We set our goals based on the competition around us
2. We set our goals after analyzing the threads it can bring
February 12th, 2010 at 4:21 PM
Quite a thought provoking post sir.I guess we often do make a SWOT analysis, though not formally knowing the term, but an analysis of the opportunities and threads is always there at the back of our minds.And this analysis is done keeping in mind the competition around us.