Background

Since the days of my management education in graduate school (many many years ago), more so after I had a class on Business Ethics, I started to think about business and personal mangement from a different perspective. While staying focussed on the goals, it is very important to have one very fundamental value as the basis to drive the day to day approach to management. If this fundamental value is the same for personal and professional management, one's life becomes very consistent. This fundamental value in my opinion is positive energy. In a world where it is easy to get sucked into very simple negative habits like "talking behind someone" to very disastrous negative engagements like terrorism, it is important to realize that it is very possible to learn and master the skills to stay positive and reap success. This blog is my small effort to impart these techniques to acquire, sustain and weave in positive approaches into our lives. I will focus more on professional management techniques for the corporate world, however, I will also discuss personal management techniques to break up the monotony.


Sunday, February 01, 2009

Understand the strengths of others


A personal journal of positives (as indicated in my previous blog) reinforces a "can-do" attitude in us. But, this is sufficient as long as we are individual contributors. As a manager, we need to get things done using our teams. For this to work effectively, we need to take the time to understand the positives/strengths of each member of our team. Then, we need to focus on how we can appropriately provide proper assignments to each team member that mostly utilizes their strengths. This way we will be setting them and ourselves to succeed. Ideally, we should have identified the strengths of each team member at the time of hiring them and we should have made sure that the team is diverse enough to meet the goals.
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