Media Type

Talk

Publication Date

9-8-2017

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Several years ago, there was book called, What they Don't Teach you at Harvard Business School. The tile of Mr. Sirajuddin's book could simply be: What they don't teach you in Business School and Management Schools. Period. There are some lessons that you learn from a very personal and professional experience, which is accumulated overtime. It is reflected, digested, accumulated and then it is shared. The beauty of this book is that you will find these anecdotes to be a subset of the generalized obser vations about of management. I will not go into strateaies, structures, processes of human resource management, which are taught in business schools. Instead, 1 will read certain articles from this book that fascinated me and I thought I would share these with you. The first and most important point he makes is about insecure managers. To Begin with, I agree that there are many insecure managers. I would tend to disagree that this is the result of environment, because in the same environment, you will find managers like Mr. Sirajuddin who inspire, motivate and rally their troops. We have to reward and recognize the managers, trainers and motivators of the younger people. So, I think bad managers might not be the result of environment. Sadly, there are also people who are so clumsy, so revenaeful and petty-minded that we cannot understand how they became managers. You have to call a spade and space. From his article I learned that insecure managers are present not only in the public sector but the private sector as well. There is another article that opened my eyes. It is on the subject of sifarish in the corporate sector. In our society, we don't consider this cancer of sifarish as something wrong. Even people who don't take money for sifarisn, which would be corruption, consider it a normal duty to ring up their friends or relatives in order to gain a job or promotion for a candidate. To me that is nepotism and favoritism.

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