Quite often I come across professionals holding on to an old belief about people management. I don't necessarily agree to their point though I can imagine why they think that way.
so, in order to be a good leader one has to mould themselves to a better person, very true but this doesn't fit well with the changes people adapt to, while claiming to become better.. what I find unacceptable really is the attitude change while dealing with reportees, not necessarily you have to be rude just to project yourself as a firm personality. my take here is that you can still be a 'normal' dude in the floor, without compromising on expectations and deliverables and yet hold high when it comes to authoritativeness. In fact to me, being rude to reportees and possessing silly desire to show off as being in-charge is just a ego problem, that need fixing! its surprising to find many people in this era, who still believe that inducing fear is probably an easier way to get work done.
In contrary, I do understand why people had to adapt these measures to reinstate discipline and productivity in their group. It is human to error and so to misjudge the boundaries and fall prey to the unwarranted management hell.
may be its something for the both the parties, be sensible in what you do and maintain a simple and healthy relation with your boss, as well as peers.
couple of scenarios from my past that got me thinking -
when I was a junior member in a team, I had a mentor who was probably 6 months ahead of me at that point of time but totally bossed over anyone and everyone when given a chance. her professional competency was just about average so she used her bossing skills to stay on top of her juniors. not quite literally.. haha.. anyhoo, the senior manager who was aware of the happenings still decided to select her for a more senior role.. I was completely pissed off.. it was straight away setting a wrong example to all the juniors in that project and encouraged her to go completely off the line.. why would he do this? probably because there wasn't another competitor who could dominate as good as her. Hence being dominative was considered as a skill to possess. Its because of such occurrences we are often misguided. Its really not that hard if you think straight - treat your peers as how you would want your manager to treat you! as simple as that
a positive example, I worked quite briefly in a start up and I absolutely cherished these days one of the best experiences in my career come from here.. my boss was an absolute genius .. a true inspiration. Anyway, we were like a team of 4 devs including him who worked hard on two week scrums. therefore had tight schedules and deadlines to meet.. we all sat in a big room, in one corner we had a 40 inch TV connected to xbox 360. every now and then, we would go around and play a FIFA match.. neither did we get hooked into xbox nor we ran out of breath while coding.. there was sort of balance which seemed ideal for a software development environment.. no body was told about office timing.. a sense of responsibility just floated in the air and people were very conscious about their expectations. this is exactly what I would like to practise . be cool but be responsible.. gives you an opportunity to focus your energy on more valuable things to deal with.
...and this doesn't change according to people.. lets start off being optimistic first.. if the other person is not influenced by that.. then he is in the wrong place to begin with!
so, in order to be a good leader one has to mould themselves to a better person, very true but this doesn't fit well with the changes people adapt to, while claiming to become better.. what I find unacceptable really is the attitude change while dealing with reportees, not necessarily you have to be rude just to project yourself as a firm personality. my take here is that you can still be a 'normal' dude in the floor, without compromising on expectations and deliverables and yet hold high when it comes to authoritativeness. In fact to me, being rude to reportees and possessing silly desire to show off as being in-charge is just a ego problem, that need fixing! its surprising to find many people in this era, who still believe that inducing fear is probably an easier way to get work done.
In contrary, I do understand why people had to adapt these measures to reinstate discipline and productivity in their group. It is human to error and so to misjudge the boundaries and fall prey to the unwarranted management hell.
may be its something for the both the parties, be sensible in what you do and maintain a simple and healthy relation with your boss, as well as peers.
couple of scenarios from my past that got me thinking -
when I was a junior member in a team, I had a mentor who was probably 6 months ahead of me at that point of time but totally bossed over anyone and everyone when given a chance. her professional competency was just about average so she used her bossing skills to stay on top of her juniors. not quite literally.. haha.. anyhoo, the senior manager who was aware of the happenings still decided to select her for a more senior role.. I was completely pissed off.. it was straight away setting a wrong example to all the juniors in that project and encouraged her to go completely off the line.. why would he do this? probably because there wasn't another competitor who could dominate as good as her. Hence being dominative was considered as a skill to possess. Its because of such occurrences we are often misguided. Its really not that hard if you think straight - treat your peers as how you would want your manager to treat you! as simple as that
a positive example, I worked quite briefly in a start up and I absolutely cherished these days one of the best experiences in my career come from here.. my boss was an absolute genius .. a true inspiration. Anyway, we were like a team of 4 devs including him who worked hard on two week scrums. therefore had tight schedules and deadlines to meet.. we all sat in a big room, in one corner we had a 40 inch TV connected to xbox 360. every now and then, we would go around and play a FIFA match.. neither did we get hooked into xbox nor we ran out of breath while coding.. there was sort of balance which seemed ideal for a software development environment.. no body was told about office timing.. a sense of responsibility just floated in the air and people were very conscious about their expectations. this is exactly what I would like to practise . be cool but be responsible.. gives you an opportunity to focus your energy on more valuable things to deal with.
...and this doesn't change according to people.. lets start off being optimistic first.. if the other person is not influenced by that.. then he is in the wrong place to begin with!
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