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Is cellphone pushing decision making upward ?

28 May 2009

Imagine the good old days when there were no collphones. Maybe ten years back. If you were the boss and out of office would some one wait to take decisions ? Most probably not if the decision need to be taken immediately.


Consider what happens now. You get a call on your cell phone. You take the decisions. Or at least your junior consults you and your view infuuences the desisions. What is the net result ? Decision making is pushed upwards.


Over time maybe all decisions would be top driven. Is is healthy ? Are we creating a culture of incompetence in our hierarchies ? Ponder for a moment. Maybe .....

Lonely Lies the Head that Wears The Crown

12 July 2007


This is an old adage, which may be true generally but does it need to be true in your organization? As we grow up the organizational ladder does it need to be true that we get lonelier and lonelier? Actually it should not be. In fact if you are feeling so, then there is something seriously wrong with your team building or team adaptability. That does not mean you become pally with everyone around. You need to keep the organizational hierarchy intact and also work with a strong cohesive team.

How you do it generally depends on your style but what it does require is


  • Identifying potential candidates who can shoulder responsibility.

  • Grooming them to take on additional work

  • Give them power to execute, and be responsible for their actions.

  • Correct them if they make errors


In short, build up a system that demonstrates leadership at all levels.

New Job Jitters - Your First Day At A New Job

26 June 2007

Job changing is a common phenomenon now a days. Most persons do it quite often. It might be by changing organizations, changing to different locales within the same organization or in the smallest reference may be changing departments within the same location. Anyway when ever you change your place of work and consequently the regular group pf people you work with, this may be called a new job.

Ask anyone who has changed his job, right from the novice with a one job change to a veteran with several, all will agree that the first day at the new place of work is always somewhat jittery. It starts right from the time you probably get up and realize that today it is a new job. I have gone through a few smaller ones and one major one.

How did I go through it all? Simple ... by preparing for the new job. It is not easy. You are as apprehensive as the persons who are going to be your future colleagues and team mates. Both have a certain degree of uncertainty. So the best thing is to make the situation as comfortable for as possible for both. This means the following:


  • Do homework about the possible job content and standard expectations.

  • Be as presentable as possible and try to ease others as much as you put yourself at ease.

  • Listen, listen and listen still more. Prompt others to open up and do the talking. You have to learn as much as you can within the shortest possible time.

  • Do not try anything drastic in the first few days. Keep the systems as it is and be observant about what is going on. Every system may have been good in its own context but may have lost effectiveness as the surroundings and conditions change. Instead of unsettling it without a plan, what is required is to tweak it to the present relevance but gradually, or at least until you have understood all the qualifying conditions and their impact.

  • Be participative and involve others. Ask for suggestions and promote decision making at all levels. Do not allow decisions to be pushed up.


Very soon you ease into your new job, and become as confident as others in the demands the job puts on you.

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