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Sunday, May 09, 2004

The half-life of a professional by Subroto Bagchi

PROFESSIONAL careers and the radioactive nature of nuclear fuel have interesting similarities. Consider the very nature of nuclear fuel. Its value is at its peak when in an enriched state. Then it goes into a state called 'half-life' and begins to lose energy. After attaining this state, the decay of the nuclear fuel becomes exponential. Thus, at its half-life, much of its utility is over and it becomes what is known as 'spent fuel'. At that state, it is an environmental liabilityOur professional careers are like enriched uranium. The tragedy, however, is that when we reach our half-life state, most of us do not notice the fact. Other people come to learn of it before we do. The interesting aspect of all this is that the time to reach half-life in every career is shrinkingIn the half-life state, nuclear fuel starts losing energy. Man can reengineer himself to avoid being spent fuel.The process of re-energising must happen much before a person hits the peak. Subrot Bagchi concludes the article by saying,"There is usually a gap between knowing and doing; let's call it the 'know-do' gap. As the world around us is becoming more complex and demanding, the know-do latency is shrinking. As a professional, I need to be cognizant of this and make sure my radioactivity is never past its half-life. The danger is, when it does get past, I will be the last to know." A very nice article- very relevant to progress in today's professional life.

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