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...