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.


Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Result oriented with grace

By its very nature, a managerial assignment comes with challenges involving people. Every manager has a fair amount of control over who they get on their team, but, they have little control over who they have to interact with on other teams. There are times when hurdles will surface that hamper perfect results. An effective manager must focus on addressing the issues with creative solutions, while still keeping the productive team members and outside resources happy. Pointing fingers and venting frustration on people will only worsen the situation. Identifying the cause of the hurdle must only be looked at after a solution has been put in place to deliver the result. Cause analysis is to prevent the problem from recurring and any possible corrective action. Idukkan Varungaal Naguga Adhanai Aduthoorvadhu Agudhu Oppadhill is yet another couplet from Thirukkural which means address your troubles with a smile. There is no other way to conquer them. Being an enforcer in a professional setting does not necessitate being unfriendly. Friendly bosses can definitely have high expectations from their teams.
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