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.


Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Focus on strengths


SWOT analysis is a great tool to understand more about ourselves as a whole and plan out a strategy that will be best for us. This does narrow down the categories for thought to 4. But, there are line items under each of the categories. It then requires a lot of discipline to connect the S to the O and overcome W while mitigating the Ts.

I firmly believe that the human mind works best if it can focus on fewer items. So, I suggest the undivided constant focus on S (STRENGTHs). If everyone is constantly thinking about what they can do best, they will identify the fitting opportunities as they come up. Then, as they start to pursue the opportunities, they can identify the threats and plan for them. Constant focus on strengths also puts the mind at a "can do" attitude all the time. It also fosters original thought that can spur innovation.
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