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Mr P.V.S. Ravindra Verma, DGM (HR), Matrix Labs; Pendekanti Institute of Management, Hyderabad

P.V. Sivakumar

Mr P.V.S. Ravindra Verma , DGM (HR), Matrix Labs, addressing the BL Club at Pendekanti Institute of Management in Hyderabad on Saturday . —

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Hyderabad, Sept. 21

“Refocus your attention on what is right and what is working well, rather than what is not working,” is the advice of Mr P.V.S. Ravindra Varma of Matrix Laboratories Limited to management students.

How does this help? “It will point you to the positives and also allows you to strive for higher standards for achievable excellence and not impossible perfection,” he said while delivering a lecture, Perfection should be our Goal-Excellence will be Tolerated, organised by the Business Line Club here on Saturday.

In a presentation laced with audio-visuals and drawings on interesting examples, which got the students’ attention, Mr Varma asked, “Are you the sort of person who can get something 99 per cent right and then still worry a lot about the other one per cent? If you are, then you are really a perfectionist. You seek perfection when others around you would be delighted with 99 per cent achievement.”

Perfectionism is one of the root of procrastination, he told MBA students at the Pendekanti Institute of Management, part of Vasavi Engineering College.

Alluding further, Mr Varma, who is Deputy General Manager-Corporate Human Resources, at the drug major, said perfectionism is not making mistakes.

“From mistakes we learn the most about how to do things and how not to. Mistakes ultimately contribute to better performance.”

Delving on the impact of environment on performance, he said without the right environment “you slow your progress towards the results you want. It is like working out without the right equipment.”

Positive attitude

An institution or organisation with positive attitude and with self-disciplined people who innovate to optimise individual and organisational performance through manageable stress will have a strong culture, Mr Varma added.

Earlier, Mr M. Krishnamurthi, Vice-President, Vasavi Academy of Education, welcomed the fresh batch of MBA students and explained about the facilities and expertise of the institute at the orientation programme.

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