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A Drop of Organization in a Sea of Chaos

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Written by Tarek Refaat

Monday, 23 June 2008

The definition of the word – Organization; and I do not mean by organization as the set of people who work together at a company but I mean by it the fact of having an organized method of life. Organization originates from the verb organizing which means arranging.

We are living in a world and nation that lacks not just the organization of mind, but perfects the art of demolishing any sort of organization. We are unable to work with a process - from my experience in my jobs which part of them was putting workflows and processes people are supposed to follow, but for some reason instead of someone coming up to you to negotiate, suggest or even discuss your process they just go on trying to find ways to overcome it, work around it, destroy it and many other wonderful ideas.

People tell you I want the points from 1 to 10 done by end of today for example , while you’re working your way, someone comes along drop one and move to 5! It’s urgent! Then while you are in 5, the same person comes again! Still at 5!!! Move to 10! No ,no , no move back to 8, finish it make sure its ok and go to 7!

Of course by that time half the day has ended and you’re expected to stay extra hours! It’s YOUR JOB! Its YOUR TASK! By the end of the day you’re called since the person who told you to do these tasks is leaving! Where’s 1 to 10? if you’d come up with 3 you are miraculous in the eyes of a normal person however some people succeed! Very few though!

The entire world is moving to globalization and creating systems to make things easier while we insist and fight on being smart, or we believe this is smartness. The art of management has turned into the art of messing up your staff’s brains! And by the way Back-stabbing is art of the day, since dawn of man backstabbing was with a knife until knives became too old fashioned, you can now kill a man and keep him alive! Genius you see? You keep him alive everyday remembering how much you hurt him in his job, at the club or anything else that comes along!

Mmm…doesn’t all of this fall under organization, a person can not organize his life because everything around him/her tends to ruin everything he tries to do, however some are successful not much but very, very few! I came across one person who has these very organized habits and thoughts which is actually amazing he’s a person I know that defines how many pages he will be reading within the coming month!

But again not all of us have the same exact ability we can reach different levels though. But we need to redefine Organization in our nation, as the Trial to make things organized and we need to re-build the culture of people on that matter.

Sadly we live with a drop of organization in a Sea of Chaos. I hope we will find a safe harbor.

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