Patenting Banana Juice

Sundays are my most productive days. Unlike other days of the week when I find so much conflict in prioritising the work I need to do, on Sundays, I become very creative, productive and hyperactive, as I do so many things, which I liked to do. I cook, write, read, play crossword and sudoku, listen, code, draw sketches, complete pending office work, tinker with gadgets, fb, tweet, watch movies, do what not.

Today, I want to pour out my heart. ‘Banana Juice’ is not a recipe that I would like to register and patent.

There is a broad community of people who are spread across several walks of life. They are collectively united in their attitude towards work and its delivery.

Coming to the point, you would have come across people on several occasions, who need to be initiated into doing anything, big or small. Have to be prompted a hundred times to begin, even started with the ignition key, then dragged to move forward, and pushed from behind to do every job. Exhaustive guidelines, continuous follow up, pampering and coaxing are inevitable to get them to do the work. Such people can be termed Peeled-Banana. They will need support from someone to peel the Banana for them to eat. They are mostly in the category of executives, who don’t believe in self-help.

Some need further hand-holding in the literal sense of the phrase, to get them to work. They need their right environment, including the air, temperature, chat-company, systems, stationery, surplus time, assistance, know-how, and in addition, all the above termed for peeled-bananas. They are termed as Mashed-Bananas. This community is slightly more sophisticated than the peeled-bananas, as mostly they are found amongst the supervisory and first rung of managers.

Further, with age and out of longer tenures in the organisation, some people go beyond anybody’s imagination in what they demand as the right work culture and environment. Besides all the earlier quoted methods, these need cuddling, cajoling, and 90% completion of the tasks. Then, if the task is considered appropriate to their rapport development in the workplace, they participate in the execution of such work. Such people are the ones, who are busy making slides for presentations and brag a world about their skillsets and contribution, upon completion of such work. A mountain out of a mole hill. But to achieve this at least 90% needs initiation is inescapable. I would like to call them Banana Juice.

Do we now need a recipe for them. You may start identifying them right away. Once identified, my suggestion to you is to ignore them thoroughly and thus, without another effort, make them insignificant. Stop making Banana Juice to these Banana People.