5Qs: Ingredients to make you and your Organisation successful

Every one - organisations to people - want to be successful, in this rapidly changing world. Success means different to different people. However, bigger part of the society, including organisations and people generally, do measure success in the term of monetary advancements? So what organisations and people have to look at continuously to make advancement in the set direction of success are Soft and Hard Resources. It is not only availability of these two ingredients which make someone successful or otherwise, but the proper mix of these two is of paramount importance. Of late, it has been seen that soft part is gaining utmost importance.

The world today is primarily facing two challenges - understanding & making sense of the changes around us at both individual and organisation level, and setting direction & making progress in an increasingly unpredicted world; rather on positive tone, daily unfolding world.

It would not be of prudence here to talk about the Hard Resources like material, machine, capital etc, as the whole world has understood its limited role in the success - whether an organisation, for that matter even an individual. There are many examples of successful people and organisations that have underrated importance of hard resources in continuous success. Best example is of Ford.

To make sense of fast changing world and fast acclimatization & accommodation at the end of organisations and people will help in achieving success. There are following 5-Qs which therefore need to pay attention to:

·        Intelligence Quotient

·        Emotional Quotient

·        Resilience Quotient

·        Political Quotient

·        Moral Quotient

 I will deal with each quotient, one-by-one in my next blogs. So look for it