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Bikram Vohra
JournalismPakistan.com
April 13, 2014
Ask anyone scrabbling up the ladder of success and he will say, one thing I am is a professional. I love it when people say that because most of them wouldn’t recognize a professional if it slammed them in the face. But, it is so comforting. I am a pro. Talk to me about it and then tick the boxes and see how much gravel in the gut you have to actually be one.
My example is a wedding I once attended where the famous Ustad Bismillah Khan was playing the shehnai to an empty tent, everyone at the wedding too busy enjoying themselves to pay him any reverence. He played with full dedication for 90 minutes because that was the deal. You pay, I play. That’s professional.
Like do you lead from the front and go up that hill first or do you stand back and send in the troops hiding behind your rank, play it safe.
Professionals lead in every way. They take the responsibility for the consequences.
They support their team and they don’t serve them as sacrifices of convenience to save their mangy little hides. They grasp the nettle and make sure their team is secure.
Professionals learn as they earn, there is always another bridge to reach and no bridge is too far.
Pros have goals.
They do not squander their time or yours and they are not clock watchers.
They do not bad mouth the boss. If the company policy changes and they do not like it, they walk.
They do not get humiliated just to survive.
They would never let themselves get sidetracked, laterally promoted or sent to the farm.
Nobody is their judge except themselves and that is the toughest yardstick.
Ergo, they pursue excellence and capture it. No second best for them.
They take pride in everything they do.
They don’t do the dirty on their colleagues.
If they are asked for an honest opinion they give it.
Professionals walk the walk and talk the talk and put their money where their mouth is.
Most importantly, they play to an empty hall with the same passion as they would a full house.
(The writer is a Senior Editorial Advisor of Khaleej Times and the paper’s former Editor. He has also been the Editor of Gulf News, Gulf Today, Emirates Today and Bahrain Tribune)
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