Firstly, stop taking things for granted. In an office generally people wait to be told to do a job. Sometimes when a part of work is given to be done by someone else, no initiative is taken to see that the part is completed by the person. In fact the lethargy of one, becomes an excuse for delay. Showing helplessness is a good cover-up for inefficiency especially in bureaucratic environment like government and semi-government offices. Even law enforcing agencies suffer from the same malady. Thus people not having the sense of responsibility create a chain reaction. Solution is each one should push two persons or departments. The first one is the person before him to give his part of job completed, the other is next person to continue further part of the work. So let each person be a mover of lethargic elements to action for bringing progress.

The second important step is using commonsense in analyzing situations. Persons at work desk tend to get stuck at obstacles. The right step would be use ones's commonsense to overcome the obstacle or even go a step further and ask help from higher level. This trend should be created in an office by guiding and training people and empowering them to act rather than getting stuck and stopping.

The last but the most important requirement is the use of time sense. Right from reaching on time to completing a task in time we Indians show lack of time sense. Sense of time is the first quality we use while setting afoot on the foreign soil. The lack of this quality in our own country is the first stepping stone to our failure. Due to absence of time sense, simple jobs that can be done in a few minutes is stretched to hours, a small conversation is stretched to a long chat. Communication on phone goes on even longer.. Thus due to such stretching exercises the day gets over soon. We should perform to achieve at the end of the day rather than just ending the day. 

To sum up, we need a radical change in our attitude and performance culture. We need our EQ in place to use the IQ we have. The awareness should guide us to take charge of situations and above all the will to be different in our performance to be “ winners” instead of coming out “ losers”. Our commitment is the key, knowledge is power and “will” shows the way and motivates to use skill and ingenuity for achievement. Let's conquer the cancer of failure before it kills our progress and compels to migrate to alien pastures while grass is already lush and green here itself.