Professionalism?????
Professionalism is one elusive lesson from the corporate world that has often unhinged me with its implications. Every organisation stresses it and swears by it in its business dealings. To gain an insight into the mystery, I carefully observed its adherents - professionals. These are the observations I came up with. Professionals never look sideways. For them, the neighbour next-door or the colleague in the adjacent cubicle is an absent figure. Only those who fall before their gaze are acknowledged with a beautifully carved smile; a smile that likens to a wreathe of flowers on a coffin. If you mistake this smile as an invitation to friendship, then you have not read 'so far and no further' in the fading of the smile. It is even interesting to watch their learned reactions. You can notice them retracting into a safe zone of no opinions. They are haunted, as it were, by an unseen media presence. They speak neither for nor against anything; they go by the book. The book discourag...