Deadline

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‘Deadline’ – damn this word is hot and so cool! You know there is a strange pleasure or shall I say masochism in meeting any deadline by slogging. But what to do when there is ample time to meet the deadline? You can still get that ecstasy of meeting the deadline, don’t start your work weeks before, rather start working in the 11th hour and meet the deadline. The ability to turn anything and everything into crisis is not what everyone can do, it requires special skills. It is something like you want to win a battle but if there is no battle then what to do? Yeah start a battle, and then win it, simple eh?

So, all this slogging and crisis management will have its climax in that ‘special room’, where the wallpaper of your laptop is for everyone to see on the white board. This is why my wallpaper is of the street opposite the local library, smart move, what you say? In this room you can also subject yourself to projectiles of those high sounding ‘words’. Well it is funny to hear those words, and I always admire how they can always pull you out of any tight situation.
For example-

Question - Isn’t it the same thing which you did last quarter?
Answer - No, not really, last time it was top-down approach and this time we are going to do it bottom-up
cute

Now see this one –

Question – Isn’t it expensive to go for this solution?
Answer- Well the cost upfront is definitely more than market price but the 'Total Cost of Ownership' will come out to be far less


I can think of one more
Question – We have already paid so much for the initial solution and this new cost on the top of it?
Answer – You have got the value for the price you paid last time, and the price you are paying now, is for unlocking the potential of what you paid earlier.

Now see the power of sentences like this

This solution is in line with your ‘strategic’ growth while all the time working with ‘tactical’ plan to integrate the dynamic nature of market, having a collaborative approach with all the stakeholders, and consensus with the other functional departments to come out with a process which reflects the true value of the solution in modeling the enterprise.

Everyone will run for coffee and you have just won the battle!!