finished 'The Goal'

last week i finished this wonderful novel where the reconteur ellaborates the life of a plant manager , considering his professional and personal life (both in a mess), and how he manages to turnaround the face of his plant doing full justice to the personal needs of his family members. It kindles a thought to prioritize your life, agreed work, in todays fast pacing competition, is demanding, but we need to maintain a balance .I mean if you stay late one day in the office , try and compensate that by atleast going out with your family. Only when there is peace on all fronts of your life , will you be able to sustain and further excel in your professional life.
Besides 'The Goal' makes you think on those simple ,direct but sometime illusive methods of doing work

For some last few weeks , I myself am staying late in the office . There is a thought that sometime i feel that IT employees are exploited. These are well paid jobs, but there no denial to the fact that people start suffering from diseases in their young age. We see many of our peers staying late in the office and highly disturbing that they are praised my the managers for working late. What they don't realizis that besides putting themselves in danger, they unnecessarily put pressure on other employees to stay late , at times even when that is not required . In such situations when such employees become managers then they by default assume or expect everybody to stay late.
One genuine reason can be that project is actually demanding, then also why is the planning of that project not questioned. It is conspicuous that somewhere the time and resources required mismatches. The reason for such mismatches is perhaps our (indians) sticking to low end or mostly outsourced services. There is a need to shift from low cost jobs to high end , high quality products, and also to change our mentality TO WORK LATE