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The human body is best example to compare with the organization hierarchy and learn out of it. Each level is important in an organization and they have defined responsibility to do, changing responsibility will only result in undesired results. Wondering HOW ? Let me try to explain. To explain this, let me take an activity which all of us enjoy doing. “Eating”. BRAIN = TOP MANAGERS The Brain is the top management of any organization. It doesn’t do any activity but only instructs each organ to do particular work. It is able to evaluate options better between the right and wrong. When the food / drink is too hot, then the brain instructs to remove the food out of the mouth to avoid any burns. When in normal conditions, it instructs to chew the food. Mouth = MID-MANAGERS The mouth receives the food and breaks them into smaller food which would be easier for stomach to do its work. STOMACH = FRONT-LINE  MANAGERS / WORK EMPLOYEES T...

Everyone of us are striving  to grow in an organization, thus continuously and tirelessly working without understanding the contribution towards the organizational goal. Apologies for the harsh statement, but that's a true fact that most employees are tirelessly working today without having knowledge on the impact what their work would have towards achieving the organization vision / goals.  What are they working for ? Growing in the organization and climbing the ladder! Why ? Because it feels good to be called Vice President rather than Manager / Officer ! Right ?  But please be open to the fact that "Designations" are deceiving! Lets look at below example. Here, do not bring in your opinion, look from majority perspective :  There are four job openings you have received with the below posts, what is the immediate reaction and which job would majority of them get attracted ?  Shouldn't take much for you to answer this, Of course majori...

In the recent times organization have moved away from proper training period for new entrant to "on the job training". There are many reasons which can be attributed to this movement.  In today era where things are fast and furious, it's evident that the organization are also focused on faster result and therefore places the resource towards achieving the defined results, in which new entrant undergoing " On job Training (OJT) " is one of them.   A new entrant is one who is high on energy / enthusiasm but low on experience and knowledge. Therefore, they are the most absorbent category of employees, who absorb anything which is thrown at them. This is same as a child who is keen on learning and is very observant. Therefore, it is best comparison to deduct some observations out of this comparison and new process of OJT. Lets question the regular practice of teaching a kid : What happens when this process is not followed and start teaching kid w...

Most of the time it is not about time management, it is about energy management and how we utilize the energy towards achievement of the tasks towards the organizational goals. There are strategic and operational topics in our routine and the effective utilisation of energy is the key for smart achievement of these goals. According to "My Thoughts" i would equate energy with enthusiasm of an associate. And categorizing these two into 4 different boxes we could term associates into each of these categories : LOW Enthusiasm and LOW Energy: These are those associates who are nothing but 'SEAT WARMERS' of the organization (apologies on the word used, but that's a fact). They have absolutely no energy and no enthusiasm and therefore, are only seat warmers and are dangerous for the organization with respect to overheads and spreading of negativity in the organization. These associates are easily identifiable in terms o...