{"id":93799,"date":"2019-10-12T04:09:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T11:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93799"},"modified":"2019-10-12T04:09:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T11:09:46","slug":"basil-the-craftsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/12\/basil-the-craftsman\/","title":{"rendered":"BASIL- THE CRAFTSMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A Carpenter capable of making a beautiful set of furniture using his Tools of the Trade according to the Design is an efficient Carpenter. The Carpenter is, therefore, an efficient Carpenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The\nDesigner who articulated imaginary scenarios and built options and finally\nproduce a Design with a Bill of Quantity is an Effective Designer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rarely\nwe come across one individual versatile in possessing the skills of <strong>Effectiveness\nand Efficiency.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My famous Management Guru, Prof. Peter Drucker said: <strong>Efficiency<\/strong>\u00a0is doing things right;\u00a0<strong>effectiveness<\/strong>\u00a0is doing the right things.\u201d What is the difference between being\u00a0<strong>effective and<\/strong>\u00a0being\u00a0<strong>efficient<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Basil Rajapakse is a hands-on and Effective and Efficient Performer.\u00a0 As Drucker said,  The end aim of a Manager, is the delivery of results\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Basil\nis right in front.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He\nDelivers. The ultimate measurement of achievement of a Performer.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE A Carpenter capable of making a beautiful set of furniture using his Tools of the Trade according to the Design is an efficient Carpenter. The Carpenter is, therefore, an efficient Carpenter. The Designer who articulated imaginary scenarios and built options and finally produce a Design with a Bill of Quantity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}