Archive for the ‘Strategic Management’ Category
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Cricket being team game has lots of similarities to teams in professional environment and many situations can be lifted as it is from cricket field and directly applied in teams in offices. Today morning news gave details about how Umesh Yadav (fast bowler) was not able to bowl right length ...
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Many managers (am sure) would be spooked by the results that they get out of team in measurable time frame. Why collective person hours of team results in much lesser output? The task which is planned to be over in 1 week is still work in progress at end of ...
Monday, October 31st, 2011
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. - Agha Hasan Abedi
One can study optics, chemistry, and mechanics through a syllabus to become a professional technologist. The key attribute of the scientific process is that the outcome will be ...
Friday, October 21st, 2011
The above saying of Sanskrit means Contentment is the highest gain; good company1 is the highest course.
Stress is omnipresent in our lives, be at work, at home, even going for a movie on a weekend fearing in the mind about the traffic, parking and probable dents and road rage that ...
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Task that project managers and leaders dread doing – fire the employee(s). There can be umpteen reasons when this situations comes, however managers are found ducking, avoiding and be in denial about this. Frantic request are made to supervisor or HR manager to inform the person. This is one situation ...
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Favoritism is one common tread with runs through every one of us. It creates the microsystem within the work group which defines how the actual work is done. This is more specific to people involved, with role of the employee in the group defining the impact it carries varies. Every ...
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Projects which have every possible thing going for them at times fail. Failure to deliver within expected timelines or to deliver it with desired monetary margin can be classified as failure, with revoking of PO being the extreme case. Company / Business Unit places the almost perfect team to deliver ...
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Standard saying – People don’t leave company, they leave their managers. Used by HR Managers, and people in senior management to put the ounce of upcoming attrition on the immediate supervisor. Every organization put stringent parameters in place for governing attrition and in most cases it makes immediate supervisor responsible for ...
Monday, September 19th, 2011
If any difference that can be identified compared to – say manufacturing industry – IT is highly people centric and in conventional terms – asset of the organization – which contribute in producing profitable results for the company.
However, unlike machines which behaves in defined ways and deviations are known and ...
