In this E-age of seamless connection, there is a supposedly close linkage between performance, learning and enjoyment. Unfortunately, in real practice, there is no gracious connection whatsoever between the big three factors.

Firstly, the moving goal-post of performance or known as 'key performance index'(KPI). Can real performance be mathematically calculated by an index that doesn't stay put.

Secondly, the learning process in a workplace which has nothing to do with any social and philosophical notion of enjoyment. To almost every worker and employee who's tie down to a 9-to-5, including the overtime loggers, it is more like the principle of utilitarianis' at work. We had to do a certain task because we are required by law and by the invisible contractual obligation to get it done.

The brownian conflict between all these three antagonistic factors invariably creates a dichotomy of discord- a clash of civilisation effect and a domino impact that implicate everyone else -and everything- along the way.

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Jeong Chun phuoc
jeongphu@yahoo.com