The P/PC Balance

While contemplating on the book of ultimate wisdom I halt musing over a very interesting term used by Stephen R. Covey - The "P/PC" balance.

In our day to day life experience we can very easily relate the P/PC thing. Now what is this P/PC?

P - production / productivity and PC - production capability. Applying a simple logic - if you got production capability you can produce something .. Say good result at your work. Take another example if your machine has got production capability it will produce good products. Now when the machine starts getting older the PC decreases. So you got to maintain the machine so that it keeps producing efficiently, so that it continues to possess its production capability.

 If you don't work on your PC, be it skills or health or any asset that makes you productive - you won't be as productive as you were or as productive as you expect yourself to be.

Likewise, concentrating too much on the P - production / result - isn't good, you need to keep looking for improving the PC. Whereas if you care only for PC / preparing to be better say by studying or practicing without any goal (product) it's not going to work either.

Stephen R. Covey tells a story about golden eggs to explain this. The story of not being greedy as known to many. He says that a poor farmer discovers that his favourite goose(PC) produces a golden egg(P). A real egg of gold. His goose produces one golden egg per day and he starts getting richer day by day since then. One day he becomes greedy and slices off the goose to get 'em (P) all and looses both. If u kill the PC... You get no more P. And if you concentrate only on the P(eggs) without feeding the goose(PC) it's not a right thing to expect a golden egg next day from a sick goose. So there is a need for a balance between the P and the PC.

Another example -  I write good quality of software (P) after the good training I had in the past but if I don't think about learning new technologies and their applications, new techniques etc., (basically not improvising the PC)... The P is not going to stay up for a long time. It's kind of a cycle I believe.

  Right now I'm looking forward as to how this P/PC balance can be achieved. When I have a good example of its accomplishment I'll share it someday. For now its important to be kept in mind that both needs to be taken care of - equally!