Every kid is a banker

Dipen is in Class V now; just migrated this July. He belongs to the single-kid category like many of his generation. While he has the advantage of being the singly pampered kid of his doting housewife mother and a slightly well-off banker father, he has the distinct pressure of being on top of each activity he indulges in. Besides, he is also expected to be smart and street smart depending on the scenario in which he is or his parents are with him. He has to be something extra for being a point of discussion in every discussion which his parents have amongst their acquaintances.

Though still young and having touched double digits in age, Dipen has been delivering to his best (we can compare him with our employees). He delves in guitar, swimming and tennis besides pursuing his academics at schools and perusing tuition classes at home. (Can we not compare this to our cross-sell activities and core area(s) of working).

The entire schedule of activities changes when he has to take 15 days leave from to attend his thread ceremony (something close to facing an unwarranted problem or a technical glitch in our work lives). While he had just joined the new class, nothing much had started (striking close to the April phenomenon of reduced work and lower achievements); but while he went on leave, many-a-lessons were covered and huge assignments handed over (Murphy’s law acting overtime as is the case with most of us). The resultant of the same is that he is not able to cope up with all the homework and has reduced playtime. He has already spoken a couple of lies to his mother with regards to the progress (something similar to excuses made by us for bad performances).

However there is a silver lining to the entire episode. While Dipen being a genuinely hard-working and not a dishonest kid genuinely feels that he was wrong in lying to his mother, he has started confessing many things to his father. His father, who was not the best guide or talking partner till now, has suddenly turned his best pal (similar to our organisation where seniors guide and counsel the performing employees who due to some reason miss out on performance temporarily).

How close modern day kids are to a banker…



Abridged from a true story; name has been changed from the actual one.