Your Friendly Philosopher & Guide

Excuse me if you find my blog a little serious today. Just that I am a bit pissed off with few people, whom I thought were intelligent. I learnt that looks are INDEED deceptive, and you never could make out how much brains a person has just by looking at the size of the head!

So my gyaan starts here…

There are only two kinds of people who work for a corporate company. The one who are very good team members and another who are good leaders. An ideal manager/employer would understand this quality of an employee in microseconds, and a dumb manager would never have come across this concept at all.

Leaders succeed in isolation, and team members succeed in groups. If you put a leader in a team and ask him to work as a team member, he surely will be a big mishap. If Thomas Alva Edison were to be put with some 10 other scientists to invent the bulb or electricity, till today we would have never witnessed sources of light other than Sun and the Moon.

How to identify them

Team members are good at their communication skills; they exist with less ego and pride, and make many friends and compromise on issues without much of hue and cry. Leaders are exactly the opposite. They keep themselves aloof most of the time, they rarely talk and are engrossed in themselves, have very few friends, have hell lot of ego and pride, and they NEVER COMPROMISE!

How to get things done from them

Crack a joke, take them to group lunch, give them hell lot of hopes of a better future, yell at them, give deadlines, ask them meet the targets, gift them once in a while, pat them. These things will keep any team member happy and gay.

For leaders you better keep a safe distance. Smile at them occasionally - that would suffice. Leaders always hate their boss’s existence, they set their own deadlines, they meet their own targets, and they hate the ugly diplomatic pat on their back. One thing they dislike the most is to take orders.

How to motivate them

Team members - Give them salted peanuts every year and they will be good to you forever.
Leaders – Don’t disturb, leave them alone! They get what they want, and do what they will. They are self-motivated most of the times.

Tips for bosses

There are 2 choices for any boss.

1) You want to grow or
2) You want the company grow

If your choice is 1, you better recruit team members to have lesser problems in your life. And if your choice is 2, you better recruit leaders but then you will have to spend some sleepless nights too. The choice is yours!