Middle management – Diary of a mind

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What and who represents your company? What is the distinct feature that makes your organization stand at a different level higher than the rest?

Of course,your people,your staff and the management group that handles the pattern,behavior,exposure,growth and planning of your concern are the ones representing your firm.

The three level system consisting of the lower management,the middle management and the senior management form the base of any company to run in a successful way. It depends on the efficiency of the person in these levels and also on the co-ordination of the employees among themselves.

An organization having people of great caliber and potentials can be at a loss if the people in that talk do not possess the quality of working together as a team and always are head on with every other person for any issue arising .

“A company hiring certain hard-core professionals out of a belief that masters of certain specialized areas will provide their company with good solutions or find a way to market their products globally or can enhance the output of their production is nevertheless like having a dream “.

Every individual besides being a professional is a person possessing his own traits and behavioral pattern.This pattern should be compatible with the working methods of the system or should be advantageous to the company.If there has to be a change in the prevailing format other than the one running in the company, it will have certain frictions arising within the core,but not a collapse of the infrastructure.

Many organizations suddenly replace their hired top personnel out of a notion to accommodate the best talents available in the industry and still go around with losses in spite of having the best people with them.

“A degree of any specialized field will make one well versed with the nomenclature and thorough with the ideal ways of working that is explained in the books,but wont teach a person ,how to deal in certain situations of crisis which are unique and exceptional in every case irrespective of any country. The work experience ,the thought process , overall thinking and managing ability of the person shall endear to the perfect solution.”

Remember what we had learnt in school is the basic knowledge,life taught us the real ways of living. So the ones who used to sit in the last benches of the school are top businessmen of our times, for they know the real art of running a company and have not stuck to any predefined written methods. They may hire excellent people to represent their company on certain levels and to know the views and suggestions of the so-called intellectuals.But remember the wisest of all always listens to the people around him , but he does what his heart and mind proclaims.

For an organization to run smoothly with success by achieving the profits and earning a repute , it is essential to have a combination of people merging together and blending the top brains with the wise heads and the excellent performers.

One who cares for the organization as much as he does for his career,the individual having a real connection for the company for which he is working and who has the sense of thinking alive in him to bring about the best from his team and their efforts is the one who can take the organization to a different strata.

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What is needed is the sense of belonging , intelligence, dynamism in thoughts and behavior,ability to take and face risks,courage to accept challenges and the endurance to complete them along with a nature of a good human being,which when summed can be the face of the company!

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TARGET v/s GROWTH

The clock strikes 9 and its a chilled foggy morning with visibility reduced to 100 meters and a distinct alarm of the old timepiece on the wall rings!

A man in his early forties with a slight tinge of greyish hair around his ears,wearing a light grey suit with distinct handsome features walks across the silent corridor between the compactly made glass cubicles,where in the people have flocked and occupied their places.

He enters the conference hall on the same floor around the corner like a fresh gust of air!

There is a meeting called for the board of directors and the top management executives.

As everyone gets seated,the place looks filled with people of different characters,personalities and traits running an organization together.

Few look old,tired ,bored and messed up.Some have a facial expression of having a zeal and enthusiasm to accept any challenge given forth to them.One or two are complete expressionless about their presentability and reactions making them look like snobs and arrogant members.

As the meeting proceeds ,each goes on well with his presentation regarding his field of work,the targets given and the figures achieved.Comparing statistics ,mentioning and marking the growth alongwith the profit they have contributed as individuals to the organization.

Seeing the sales reports of the company ,the board isn’t happy nor satisfied with the results .

The real process starts now of blaming the executives and the main management of the organization for not dealing properly with the various factors and unheedingly ignoring and neglecting the basic facts.

The management team tries to explain its position that as all the employess on the middle management level are new,as the old ones left and few had been sacked due to certain discrepancies,so it would take sometime to stabilize the system and its functions.

The chairman ,an aged man is too buffed up with the situation.The CEO of the company,a middle aged man , known for his intellectual tactics too is tight lipped for any further commitment.

Suddenly in the middle of the conversation,the gentleman in grey suit,who had been silent after presenting his report gets up to speak.

Reopening the statistical reports,he points out ,”We haven’t achieved our quarterly targets doesn’t mean or imply that we won’t be able to achieve the yearly figures.The graph clearly shows the year on year growth of this quarter in the summary.If a significant growth has happened through the years and also during the present year when we had so many drastic changes in the system,it is ought to grow more in the next quarter till the completion of the financial year.”

There is a pindrop silence in the hall and a smile is seen on the face of the chairman.

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