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, August 21, 2011

Trust your lieutenants

As an upper level leader of an organization, our role is more strategic in nature. This separates us by one or more levels from our organizational members who do the day to day work. Our effectiveness in such a separated leadership role primarily hinges on our ability to bring the right lieutenants. We must spend adequate time in identifying and on-boarding these qualified lieutenants. Once they are on board, we need to trust their abilities and give them the opportunity, and needed support to succeed. We could establish an internal review process, but we must support their decisions (100%) in the larger organizational and public setting.
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