Stepping up performance how?

The loser says, 'The worst is just around the corner' The winner says, 'The best is yet to come'

‘It is only he, who conquers his mind, conquers the world’ all of us read it, understand it and convey the great sermon to our followers, our friends or to our successors.

An old man used to watch stars in the evening with his five year old granddaughter, who grew automatically a habit of star gazing and she could recognize several celestial bodies after few days of time. After some weeks she amazed ‘grandpa, those stars are not in position where I had noticed earlier it seems that ‘our house is moving!’ what a natural and innocent discovery without any theory. What she had discovered herself was her own feeling and observations which may be remain in her memory for years to come in her life.

Will power can move mountains, it can work miracles. As a Chinese poet puts it beautifully

‘Reach the ninth heaven to embrace the moon,

Or five Oceans deep to capture a turtle, either is possible.

Return to merriment and triumphant songs,

Under this heaven, nothing is difficult,

Only if there is the will ascend.

The power of mind is stated to be almost omnipotent in human affairs

We are social animals. We like to live in a social structure with respect and dignity. We like to contribute and live with respect. We also like to give respect to others. By respecting people we establish a rapport with them, conveying a very significant, meaningful implication that people matter in the society. This also confirms our self-worth in the given situation. In return, the individual’s response to the situations quite often much greater than what is required to achieve a given objective. While trying to manage people many times we may face a situation of management of managers.

The basic challenges and concepts related to management of managers can be best seen through the illustration of Ford Motor Company of US which in early twenties commanded two-thirds of the automobile market. And after fifteen years, i.e. around the Second World War, Ford’s market share fell to 20 percent. The Company did not make profits during the fifteen year period. Poor performance of the Company was attributed to the absence of management, or what we may term, people management in the Company. Henry Ford’s style of managing was based on his belief that managing was his personal job; he never shared ownership or managing with anybody. His executives had to be his personal assistants, to execute the orders but never to manage.

Lord Beveridge said that the purpose of manager is to make common men to do uncommon things. The focus is to be on what one can do rather than what someone can’t do. When you engage with someone, connect with the objective of discovering their strengths, learn and appreciate that person closely and eventually, you will be surprised that your unearthing has made that person more awake of his own affirmative attributes. And what can be better than helping others discover the talents that they may have not realized they possess or the good things they are proficient of doing and thus, making it a win-win discovery for both.

Now that is what I call an ugly duckling. One day, a poor boy was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school and was feeling hungry. He decided to ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal, he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, ‘How much do I owe you?’ ‘You do not owe me anything,’ she replied. Years later, that young woman became critically ill and went to the big city specialists to get her rare disease tested. Dr. Arthur Ford was called in for the consultation that who recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. After a long struggle, she was cured. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, and then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something on the side of the bill caught her attention. The words read: ‘Paid in full with one glass of milk’ [www.truthorfiction.com]