There were two friends who worked for a marketing company. Both of them were hard working smart young guys. Their boss had lot of confidence on them and hence enjoyed working with both of them.
Like in any corporate company, both of them got to work with multiple positions and both of them got opportunities to work with new initiatives.
While all this is happening, John got promotion among both of them. So Pran decided to reach out to boss and asked him directly that both of us were working equally hard and why only John got promotion? Pran simply believes that John is among many ordinary team members.
Rather than answering his question directly, boss told him ‘go to the other side of the market and check if Mango fruit has come to market’.
Pran rushed to the market and came back with an answer yes. Boss then asked about the price, Pran went again to check the price. After return boss asked about what is the quantity of the supply, for which Pran has to return back to market. After 5-6 trips boss got all the answers he was looking for.
Now boss called John and asked him the same question.
John went to the market and came back with the analysis. ‘There are 4 tons of supply of mangoes in the market, there are three vendors selling them. There seems to be a tough competition between them. One of them is selling at competitive price but the quality is not so good. If you want to buy the fruits then we need to buy it from one particular vendor because though the price is high the quality of fruits is good. And since the market is expecting more fruits from other vendors the price is expected to fall down further”.
Pran got his answer.
This is what being proactive means!
Like in any corporate company, both of them got to work with multiple positions and both of them got opportunities to work with new initiatives.
While all this is happening, John got promotion among both of them. So Pran decided to reach out to boss and asked him directly that both of us were working equally hard and why only John got promotion? Pran simply believes that John is among many ordinary team members.
Rather than answering his question directly, boss told him ‘go to the other side of the market and check if Mango fruit has come to market’.
Pran rushed to the market and came back with an answer yes. Boss then asked about the price, Pran went again to check the price. After return boss asked about what is the quantity of the supply, for which Pran has to return back to market. After 5-6 trips boss got all the answers he was looking for.
Now boss called John and asked him the same question.
John went to the market and came back with the analysis. ‘There are 4 tons of supply of mangoes in the market, there are three vendors selling them. There seems to be a tough competition between them. One of them is selling at competitive price but the quality is not so good. If you want to buy the fruits then we need to buy it from one particular vendor because though the price is high the quality of fruits is good. And since the market is expecting more fruits from other vendors the price is expected to fall down further”.
Pran got his answer.
This is what being proactive means!
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