Leading the Transformation

It is one of the most frequent thought people get in their mind about a Manager that s/he possess more power than his/her sub-ordinates. How true is that? I'd say not at all. In fact I'd say Sub-ordinates possess more power than their manager. A genuine question comes, how? Okay now listen, what are the responsibilities of Manager, to get the work done, to keep the sub-ordinates happy, content and motivated, OR just to control their activities. Many managers would think they have got authority to control the activities of sub-ordinates and in turn they have got more power, and as soon as this thought came in his/her mind he has chose the path of self destruction. Let us think from the perspective, you are a Manager and you need to get a work done from one of your employees but unfortunately that employee couldn't care less about that and he refused to do the task. What options you have? - Recommend HR to fire the employee, - Threaten him about appraisal or - You’d try to pe...

Its been a long time since I have not been in touch with this place.... either I was very busy or I had no subject to ponder upon...I'd like to believe the first one :-) Anyway let's start with this one.... At many times, leaders have the misconception that their job is to manage people or supervise people. They miss the fact that machines can be managed, people can't. Recently, I learnt one of the best management concepts I could learn ever and that was "Control Vs Influence". The first thought which comes to our mind when we think about leadership is that leaders have more control. We tend to think that people, above in the hierarchy, have more control than the people lower in the hierarchy. However, what I learnt and found true, was far different from this. When we talk about 'control', we tend to forget that there is nothing in the world we can control but the self. If you see the Circle of Control, you'll realize it always remains constant, becaus...