Whats with March and our Indian cricket team?

It has been quite some time since my last post. Was kept busy by the financial year closing rush. This thing happens every year, and we all talk about planning and scheduling!

Anyways...the Cricket world cup has started now and India have already lost their opening match against Bangladesh. It seems like the old ghost has visited us again. Our team seems to have cultivated a habit to dig themselves into a nice, cozy hole and then to try with all their might to get out of it. Why couldn't these guys just maul Bangladesh, as they were predicted to do!!?? If we had played to even half our potential, we could had won by a handsome margin. But, then it would had robbed us of the 'digging ourselves out of this friggin hole' struggle that we like so much.

I think this habit is more widespread and prevalent in Industries too. The industries plan to make some 'X' products every year, but only when March dawns do they realize that they have only made "X-2" products, or the planned revenue for the year was $X and now they realize that it adds up to only $X-2, and that there is a shortfall by some months. Then starts all the crazy mayhem. The management bashes up the operations people. The operations people ram the suppliers to supply. Everyone on overtime, working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, trying to make amends for their unproductive 11 months , aka, 'digging ourselves out of this friggin hole' and spending twice than what was required, all under March year ending rush!

Voila!! A pattern emerges and we find that this habit of a man-made rush is an intrinsic attribute of our modus operandi. So, I too have to rush back to office now. Some of the parts that were supposed to come haven't been delivered yet. Happy March rushing!