Be different..!!

Two guys graduated from same university and after a month together they started job in same organisation.

After 3 years the Manager promoted Rahul as a senior sales manager other one Jiten remained at same position of sales officer.

Jiten felt hurt, disgruntled and even felt jealous of Rahul. Since he needed job however, he continued working anyways.

After couple of months Jitens bitter feeling towards Rahul grew so much that he could not work with him anymore longer.

He wrote his resignation letter but before he handed over to his manager he complained the management not value hard working staff that they promoted only the ones they favored.

The manager was well aware that Jiten worked very hard for the company even harder than Rahul and thus he much deserved the promotion.

But something was missing in Jiten.

So to help Jiten the manager gave him a task.

“Can you go and find out if there anyone selling watermelon in town?”

Jiten returned and said, “Yes there is a watermelon seller!”

The manger asked,” How much is he selling price per Kg?”

Jiten drove back to town to find out and then return to inform the manager that the vendor was selling the melons for 13.50/Kg

The manager told Jiten, “Let’s give Rahul the same task and see his response.”

So in the presence of Jiten the manager said to Rahul, “Can you please go and find out if anyone is selling watermelons in town?”

Rahul instantly left and on his return he reported to manager “Sir there is only 1 person selling watermelons in whole town, the cost is Rs. 49 per watermelon and Rs. 32.50 for half a melon he sells them at Rs. 13.50 per Kg when sliced. He has 99 melons in his stocks and each one weighs about 7 Kgs. His farm can supply us melons for next 4 months at a rate of 102 melons per day with Rs 27 per melons inclusive of delivery charges."

"The melons are excellent in quality appearing fresh and red and tastes way better than the ones we sold last year. He also owns the slicing machine and he’s willing to slice for us free of cost. We need to strike a deal with him before 10 AM tomorrow. If we do make this deal we will surely beat last year’s profits of melons by Rs 223 contributing positively to our overall performance as it will add minimum of 3.78% to our current overall sales target. I have put all the information down in writing and is available on a spreadsheet. Please let me know if you need it as I can send it within 15 minutes.”

Jiten was dumbfounded; impressed by Rahul’s smartness and inspired by his commitment.

He realized the difference between himself and Rahul.

He decided not to resign but to learn from Rahul.

Moral of the story –

It’s not what we do how we do that makes us different and standout from others.

It’s not about doing things but about going the extra mile that brings us the reward.

It’s not merely hard work but smart work that gets us there.

It’s not about looking at others but looking at oneself that bring us excellence.

Next time you find anyone doing better than you don’t complain!

Put your act together. Do your homework thoroughly, walk the extra mile.

Success surely will be yours.