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, July 10, 2011

The importance of goals

goalOne of the most important aspects of a leader is to set clear goals for their organization and themselves, and set the tone for that to cascade through the organization. Goals are the ultimate result we want to achieve. These goals must be few to be manageable. Every action we take must be evaluated and modified/refined to ensure that it helps us achieve one of our goals. In doing so, our goals will be truly used as guiding lights - as they must be. Each goal could have interim concrete milestones - annual/quarterly/monthly/weekly. The frequency of these depend on how one is willing to check their progress. I am a proponent of just using weekly milestones. Just like goals, milestones are not tasks, but they are the results of tasks.
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