“If you are not the part of the solution, you are the part of the problem.”
Winning entry for the Article Writing Contest at NICMAR, Pune| September 2008
The world consists of three kinds of people; a very small percentage of realists, a fairly large percentage of optimists and a very generous dose of pessimists. The optimists should be the ones giving this world the right direction but most go to the extreme of becoming daydreamers. In this great mix, we realise that more often than not, we come face to face with the third type of people. While the way to success is by pushing each other higher, the world is fraught with the risk of being pulled down by the pessimists. Any interaction being two human beings is bound to run into a problematic situation. It could be a small misunderstanding or a major fight. When we scale up this situation to a large organisation, the problems multiply too. It is this sort of an environment where the need for an optimist is felt most and is denied the most. It is human nature to stand on the sidelines and point out d