01 Oct 2008
09:10 pm IST

Management Guru Peter Drucker once said, “Efficiency is doing things is right, effectiveness is doing right things.”

Look at nature. Everything that it creates is self diagnostic and self healing. Look at human bodies. Scientists have still not been able to unveil the magic of this physical being, leave alone their futile attempts to understand the soul behind it.

When a colleague or a neighbour asks us how we feel today we usually answer with a ‘fine, thank you.’ We must feel well and in good health to answer pleasantly on a warm and beautiful sunny morning. Absence of ease is dis-ease. When we are under the weather we can imagine an irritable morning. Physical wellbeing determines our mental well being. On days when we feel low, our efficiency and effectiveness reaches a trough. Somehow our body heals itself. Medicines aid in accelerated restoration of normal health. It is magical that the body nurses itself back to health even without medicines at times. When this battery called body is discharged appreciably it cannot replenish its energy levels. Therefore it is essential for everyone to maintain his health through disciplined practices that suit him. Otherwise, there will come a time for him, when it will be too late to be effective.

Energy inefficiency in many parts of the world including United States has reached a level where it may soon become too late to take remedial action. According to American Physical Society in its latest report notes the following:

a) Improving energy efficiency is a relatively easy and inexpensive way to significantly reduce the nation’s demand for imported oil and its greenhouse gas emissions without causing any loss of comfort or convenience.

b) Numerous technologies exist today to increase the efficiency of U.S. vehicles and buildings in ways that could save individual consumers money. But without federal policies to overcome market barriers, the U.S. is unlikely to capitalize on these technologies.

c) Far greater increases in energy efficiency are available in the future, but realizing these potential gains will require a larger and better focused federal research and development program on energy efficiency than exists today.

“Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage,” said Jawaharlal Nehru.

Our mind is our supreme tool, a gift given by nature. Let us make the most of it. We achieve everything we need with our own minds. Let us look no further.

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Be the change,
Krish Murali Eswar
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. Gandhiji."