Saturday 6 October 2012

Only leaders follow their drive!

**If not read, Please read the earlier post first

Most of the people think only leaders follow their drive. We will simply just do the work assigned to us.
It’s wondering for me that in organizations people talk about doing team work but they hardly understand about it. Our drive is our strength and organization should try to gain as much as possible on our strength. For me team work can be done by mixing people with different drive in such a way that they are able to complement each other. Organization expects only few people to perform like super human which is not natural at all. Super human exist only in storiesJ.
Did u ever think why nature has created us in numbers? Why just one is not sufficient?
Each one of us has limited perspective and when we follow our drive its little less because, we are more focused. A complex problem or project requires to be seen from different perspective. So it’s not one person we need team of People complementing each other’s drive.  
This one man army approach is putting lot of stress on one person. Another problem is that other team members don’t feel any attachment with the work. It is also stopping them to evolve on their skills. This is causing people to grow in the organization without proper skills and after few years they will go in survival mode, where the only option left to survive is manipulation.
Funny thing is that one hand organization expects us to act like “five man army” and other hand they expect us to act like “one man army” also. (Five man army …one of my favorite movie).
The best example is Sachin Tendulkar. Every one of us knows that what has happened to his performance when he was appointed as captain of Indian cricket team.
Solutions to most of the problem are hidden in nature we just need to start exploring.

4 comments:

  1. Reminds me a fav quote of Henry Ford...
    Coming together is a beginning.
    Keeping together is progress.
    Working together is success.

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    1. realy nice quote man ... its a pure experience and requires experience to understand.

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  2. Similar idea is here http://www.shyambhat.com/static/downloads/Be_the_driver.pdf

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    1. This is good ...you help me found at least one person who thinks same ... tnx

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