Be a Winner, Not a Wimp– Do not whine and whimper about ‘work-life’ balance.

The author introduces a concept here – the LFL (i.e. Leaders, Followers and Laggards)
rule of employee distribution. Every employee in an organisation falls in one of these
three categories.
Lead ers
Leaders are the scarcest of the lot. Barely five to seven percent of the people fall into
this category. The organisation depends on this set of people to lay out the vision and
direction. These people barely care about work life balance. They do what they have to
do, irrespective of the organisational rules. They never complain about trying to strike a
balance between work and family because they are equally passionate about both. If
they have to slog seventy five hours a week, they will. A survey on the work-life balance
of CEOs by Grant Thornton International Business Report published in the Economic
Times states that Indian CEOs work the longest hours amongst all the CEOs in the
world. Does it not automatically set expectation that they will have of their colleagues?
No organisation can motivate its leaders with work life balance initiatives. They do not
need any.
Fol lowe rs
This is the category where the maximum number of people fit in. They are the people
who are satisfied with following instructions from the leader. Leaders lead and the
followers follow them. The followers are happy with five day week, limited working
hours, family day initiatives, etc. No organisation can afford to ignore this lot because all
organisations run on this category. The leaders are the thinkers and the followers are
the doers. They implement what the leader asks them to do. A few of these also
graduate to a leadership status as they go ahead in life. And it is quite surprising that
the so called leaders and senior managers of various companies would fit in this
category.
Lagg ar ds

The author says that the Laggards are the useless junks in any organisation. But they
still manage to tag with the company because no one has figured out yet that they are
absolutely useless. About ten to thirteen percent of the employees in every organisation
would be in this category.
The Ferrari is not meant for everyone. It is neither for the average worker, not for the
followers, definitely not for the laggards. It is only for the Leaders. And as a matter of
fact it is for the best among the leaders.