First of all, P/PC stands for Production/ Production capability. P/PC balance is very important in maintaining good relationship with human, finance, and physical (such as health, our environment, the things that we owned. )These are three of the most important kinds of assets of P/PC balance.
To understand P/PC balance in more details, I would like to explain it in a story, which i believed everyone had heard of it, which is the story of between the farmer and the goose. Once upon a time, the farmer owned a goose who could lay golden eggs, and thus, every morning he would go to the farm and collect the eggs. When time goes by, the farmer became wealthier and wealthier by selling off the golden eggs he collected every day. However, one morning, he didn't see any golden egg was laid by the goose. Due to the greediness and impatient, he decided to kill the goose, however, with disappointment, there wasn't any golden egg in the stomach. Consequences, after that event, the greedy farmer became poor again because he lost a goose that can bring him wealth.
In this story, Production (P) can be defined as golden eggs or you can said products/ outcome that we desire to get at the end of the day. Meanwhile, Production Capability (PC) can be defined as the welfare or health of the goose that produce the golden eggs or you can said human/ material' s capability or maintenance. What we learnt from the story is nowadays, more people more focus on getting the results that they wanted, and forgot the important part, which is focus on maintaining the welfare of the things that produce the results. We have to maintain P/PC balance in three different aspect, which is physical, finance and human. Examples of each asset are explained as below:
Physical - Examples of physical assets are computer, machine, our body, our environment , etc In this case, by using the machine (PC) to operate in the factory (e.g ice cream factory) to produce the products ( e.g. ice cream: P) that we wanted. Therefore, to maintain the P/PC balance, which mean that to get the ice cream, we need to always check and maintain the machine is in good condition from time to time to ensure the desire product is produced.
Finance- of course to make money. In this case, money is P, the results that we wanted to get. However, first of all, we need to know how to make money by acquiring the knowledge, which is PC. By making the money blindly with the PC balance is not effective.
Human- The relationship among the human being. E.g. the couple were too busy making money and forgot about maintaining their relationship , which led to lack of communication and couldn't work as one to achieve things that they can't even achieve with 100% of one person. By not maintaining the PC, and focus on P, will not have any effect or progress.
As in organization/ a business, one should not just focus on the profit from business, which is P, but one should also have to satisfy the customer and treat the employees like treating the customer because they are the one who bring out the P that you wanted. By this way, one can increase 500 percent more effective , if one focus on P/PC balance, not just P ( the results).
However, there are cases, who focus on PC too much, such as one endlessly going to school, never producing, living on other people's golden eggs- the eternal student syndrome, which is not effective as well.
Therefore, the P/PC balance is the very essence of effectiveness. Its validated in every arena of life. We can work with it or against it, but it's there. Its the definition and paradigm of effectiveness upon which the seven habits that i will discuss later.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
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