Learning

Client made an interesting statement that got me thinking, she said after all the intensive amount of work for the past few weeks, she learned many things including team work, methodology, etc, but most of it all, she learned about herself. I asked what was it, she said it is about her own limits, for stress, for managing ambiguity and her threshold for frustration. She did not know she could stretch herself so much until she did it during this project.

What an amazing statement, we often think the most learnings come from the subject matter at hand, the content and domain knowledge, and the "hard" stuff around this issue at hand. But it is the "soft" matter that truly inspire and inherently motivate people to push the envelop and defy their own limits. And companies either retain talent or lose them depend on if they provide these type of learning opportunities that allow employees to learn and excel.