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.


Thursday, May 13, 2010

Positive is NOT passive

Passive in this context can either be considered (a)inactive, or (b)receiving, enduring, or submitting without resistance. This is a negative posture that will not produce results. There is a tendency to misunderstand a positive approach to mean passive. Here are the highlights of a positive approach that differentiates it from passive:
  • A positive approach is based on determination to resolve difficult situations, not shy away from them
  • A positive approach is marked with persistence, which is not laid back
  • A positive approach involves continuous improvement
  • A positive approach could involve elimination of unproductive resources/relationships
  • A positive approach drives business decisions from the mind, not the heart
  • A positive approach is to achieve financial goals for business

Being positive is to achieve success through productive collaboration

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