Well I work as a product marketing manager at IBM India Pvt
Ltd and was recently working on a brand new marketing project involving sales
plays. I was quite excited and things were going real good. I was all charged
up and the experience of the work itself was quite elevating – the doing your
thing, collaborating, synthesizing, creating; for the ultimate benefit of the
customer and fulfilling his deepest needs!
The very best ideas or thoughts occur to you in the loo! The
same happened today morning. I realized that when doing your work, you enjoy it
thoroughly - you are propelled to a state that I’ll term as ‘Project Dhonuk’.
That allure of creating something unique and involving all your skills and
added enthusiasm, effortless effort, working long hours without a hint of being tired and being full of passion and verve. A bit of a background will be necessary here. So why give it the
name ‘Project Dhonuk’? I use it as a metaphor for this creative state of
heightened enthusiasm at work! Dhonuk was my first startup – an online social
network for artists and art-lovers that runs at www.dhonuk.com
That phase of life when I started up Dhonuk was - I can
clearly remember - full of creative thoughts, innovative ideas, a zeal for
execution and heightened enthusiasm. Creativity was the keyword! The passion
easily flows, you are on a song – things go well and you build/create something
from ground up along with like-minded folks and you have this strong drive towards
completion. I am sure in your career or in
life you would have faced situations when you have gone into a state of effortless
work being full of passion, enthusiasm and heightened motivation which ultimately
led to positive outcomes. Think about those times!
By thinking about those instances we can induce that state of
‘Project Dhonuk’ to any work that we do – bring in elements of creative zeal
and positive outcomes (hints of NLP here?). The next time you aren’t really
satisfied with what you are doing at work, try to imagine ‘working on your
Project Dhonuk!’! That is when you will be able to bring into your seemingly insipid
work all these elements of enthusiasm, heightened creativity, the drive to thoroughly
execute and reach the goal. And believe me the outcomes will just be
mind-blowing – beyond your expectations! The enthusiasm and anticipation of
success itself will keep you completely motivated.
So are you working on your Project Dhonuk? Or what’s your ‘Project
Dhonuk’ today, this week or this month?
Hola Mr. Bagchi,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Paulina, I live in Ensenada B.C. Mexico, today I have been reading the Case study about Dhonuk, tomorrow I have to make a presentation about this case at my MBI Marketing Class, I must said that at the beginning it was not vey interesting for me because I do not know anything about India or the art of India, As I continue reading things got more clear. Right know I am in front of a big map looking for India, (would you like to search for Baja Mexico from where im writing from?) And I just finished reading and interview of you and found very interesting tips, I got here and just read your blog and Im amaze, because mostly when yo do homework you can talk about somebody you dont know or that problably its not here anymore, but Im amaze to read just what you, Mr. Bagchi, just wrote. I can really relate to that!! I have my Dhonuk moments when I work on wood or decorating things, right know at my current work things are not the best for the creative part of me, but I was totally challenge to ¨try to imagine ‘working on your Project Dhonuk!’¨
Thanks a lot!
It will be more interesting talking about your achievements tomorrow,
Saludos
Good to know you were able to relate to it. All the best for your classes!
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