Doing What You Were Meant To Do
Fortune Magazine published and article about Ram Charan, management consulting guru. The reporter says Ram is peaceful and happy and obviously doing what he was meant to do, though he travels every day and has no home. How much more can any of us ask?
Ram Charan Could Lead Proposals
Proposal work is hard and not too gratifying for the proud. We often toil long hours under great pressure and must submit our work for criticism from less than ideally qualified critics. Yet, we can’t afford to take much credit and discourage our SMEs.
When we win, credit goes to the executives and sometimes the technical professionals. When we lose, folks wonder whether we’ve lost our touch.
However, a specific kind of person is attracted and retained in this profession. We all recognize each other as cut from the same piece of cloth. Others puzzle over why we stay in these pressure cookers, what do we get out of it?
Somehow there is a satisfaction to knowing where to dig for the right questions to ask, even when they aren’t particularly appreciated by the questioned. However, we know these are the questions the selection panel will ask. So, we are obligated to be the thorn, or risk losing to a team more willing to answer the hard questions.
Proposal professionals carry a quiet sense of accomplishment when we hear the echo of our questions being repeated by those with whom we’ve worked. Often our fingerprints are all over an organization in a way many executives can only envy. And sometimes that is just enough.
. . . . Supporting Good People Doing Great Things
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