Me Manager?
Dear Friends,
I have been struggling to find
answers for a quite long about some of the questions arising in my own mind and
thought of sharing those with larger audience along with my views about those
questions.
At some stage of life, each one
of us starts reflecting on him/herself and in the process start churning out
lot of thought provoking questions and start seeking answers within or outside.
While all of us are in the rush
of climbing up the stairs in both personal and professional world, we become
happy as we climb up the ladder and as we start getting materialistic gains
along with lot of exciting, challenging and stressful opportunities. Depending
upon each person varying attention is paid to all those areas in striking a
right balance.
In this context, ability to deal with
human beings is not only important but becomes most relevant both on personal
and professional front. In this struggle
some people fail miserably while some perform exceedingly well. In one of my
recent experiences a young man after his marriage was unable to coupe up with
expectations of his family, screwed self-image, consequently lost his job, now
in distress and on the verge of getting divorced. Yet another person at an age
of 45 years, having about 20 years of professional experience committed suicide
unable to manage the growing pressure from profession and family.
Most of the world famous leaders of present
and past have reiterated and written a lot about dealing with human resources
and concluded that “Dealing with Human resources as one of the top most quality
for Managers /Leaders for a sure and sustained success”.
In my view as and when, each one of us start dealing
with people either at personal or at professional level, and is
able to influence their decisions, he/she by default is deemed to be a Manager
/ leader. Normally we take and deliver the responsibility of family including
Parents, wife, husband, children, brother, sisters etc. (as the case may be) and in profession we may
deal and impact teams directly or indirectly, impact our peers knowingly or
unknowingly and also interact with lot of stake holders in the form of internal
and external customers impacting intentionally or unintentionally. This
entrusts lot of responsibility individually with each one of us as a Manager or
a Leader and many a times, we may be seen as next to GOD as we impact many
others lives as well. While this may sound out of context but if we pause for a
while and think a little deeper Leadership entrusts lot of responsibility and
people look upon to him/ her and expect justice.
To illustrate, many of us thank
our parents for their right parenting and proper guidance at right time which
made us to come to this level, at the same time some of us are not as happy as we
could not get the desired level of parenting / guidance and probably could have
done much better. Similarly some of us are very happy to work with some of the exceptionally
good managers /bosses and cherish all those moments and always want to work in
the same environment while some us may not be able to get such a good boss and
may not be able to do well at work leading to demotivation, frustration and inculcating
negative thoughts. Thus going by a very powerful and old proverb “AS YOU SOW SO SHALL YOU
REAP” before we expect justice from GOD, we must deliver justice in our own
area of influence.
Thus each one of us as a manager /
leader need to take this seriously and ensure that me as a Manager or a leader
needs not only learn the subject of
human dealing very well but also understand the intricacies involved in
order to deliver justice. Being Unbiased,
transparent and fairness are three
pillars of justice, which go a long way in dealing with Human resources and all of us need to work on ourselves as how I score
on these dimensions. A serious
Introspection?
GOOD LUCK.
Regards, IK PANDIT
