Showing posts with label Quality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quality. Show all posts

Sunday, September 19, 2010

The Art Of Mind Management



Management has various facets. At gross level as we all know, it is about managing deliveries – Time, cost and quality. Volumes of books are available off the shelf on this topic which I do not intend to even remotely refer to or repeat.


Mind Management!!

What I really want to share is my thoughts on management of something at much subtler level - Mind Management!! This is for all those ‘On the job Managers’ and ‘Aspiring managers'. The first thing that we need to learn to tackle is not the delivery, team or client, but our own mind, and the mind of the team.

Yes!, this might seem a little off the track but this is a fact. And before you even step in as a manager, these are the ground areas which need to be worked up on. This is as basic as learning the alphabets before you join them together to make sense for others. Let us check out the following few queries

Mantras For Being A Successful Manager



Last week, I had a post on "Mind Management". In this post, I'll share my thoughts on few more subtle behavior aspects related to managing a team.

"Practice makes a man perfect". No one is born as a manager. It is only his perseverance, focus in the right direction along with a flair of management that makes him equipped every day. One of the golden rules to follow is
"Be assertive and be like a rock if you know you are righteous in what you say; at the same time accept any mistake immediately and be humble if a mistake has happened from you"
It is not easy to cultivate this in you unless this is natural to