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 03, 2009

View everyone as positive people


Negative thoughts surface in us when we read more negative intent/outcomes in other's actions. If we tuned our mind to read every action of other's as driven by some positive motive, we will not get frustrated with thoughts that they are out to get us. At a very minimum, this will keep us happy and focused on doing our job well. This is very important to stop any cascaded repercussions as well. If our immediate feeling to one of other's actions is unhappiness, then, it would help us to analyze what positive reasons would they have done that for, and what positive outcomes that could provide for us. As soon we find some points for these questions (and we will, if we think), the same situation could make us happy. In the corporate world, everybody has a job to do and passionate professionals always try to do their best. This could be aggressive/abrasive at times, but, it would be best for us to not take any of it personal. If we are smart and passionate, then, our laurels will speak for us.

I cannot thank my mother-in-law enough for being my valued role model practicing this everyday.
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