“A musician must make
music, accountant must make/validate or check accounting entries, painter must
paint and a poet must write verses, if he is to be ultimately at peace with
himself. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call
self-actualization. It refers to man’s
desire for self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually
in what he is potentially: to become everything that one is capable of
becoming. . . .” (Extracts from Abraham H. Maslow’s hierarchy of need)
Being a manager or
being managed is a contradiction having multiple meanings in opposite
directions. Every one of us lies within this contradiction and often neglects
the view point of those on other side.
The question arises;
whom, we can call a better manager?
Obviously that can
manage things properly and can get work done by others effectively etc. A
manager is being managed by another manager (whichever name called e.g.
Director, GM etc.) and another manager is being managed by some other manager
i.e. CEO, Chairman etc. and so on. It means a manager is being managed at the
same time except he is an entrepreneur/owner.
Would you belief if I say
“a better manager is a person who manages all the people around in upward or
downward hierarchy and an ineffective manager is a person who is being managed
by his/her peers, boss and subordinates”
Here I want to clear a
doubt that managing boss/seniors does not mean that take a control or
overreact, but it means managing by art of subordination. And being managed by boss
does not lead to ineffectiveness until one cannot handle his/her work/job.
When we talk about
management it includes management of work, people and processes/Technology (or man,
money and machines). If we take a deep look we would find that actually there
is only one factor having pervasive effect on all managements and that is “Managing people”. So managing people
ultimately leads to managing work and processes. One can say that an era now
came where technology manages people; yes it is a separate topic and a food for
thoughts.
It will create a win-win situation for all
where top to bottom employees were peers and respectful to others no one is
inferior or superior as a human.
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