People
are not robots and they are not like pets. They are thinking objects.
They have emotions, desires and thoughts. Everybody is born on this
earth with some special capability and some special interests. An
individual likes to do few things as per his/her talent. I strongly
believe that people should be given a chance to explore their talent and
interests and choose employment according to their taste. Managers and
leaders should treat employees as fellow mate. Employees should be given
freedom to experiment and grow. People should have a choice to express
themselves and tell not only what they like but also what they dislike.
I
believe that freedom and choice are important to manage people. People
live to earn respect. More respectable the work environment, more the
employees will be productive at work place. Society needs to manage herd
mentality of people to choose employment as per demand. When computers
came to India, everybody wanted to see his/her children as computer
engineer. By trying to focus on living and not interests & talents,
people killed the interests of their children. Also Society failed to
provide enough employment opportunity in different areas of interests so
that people can choose employment as per their own talents and
interests. This mismatch of demand and supply needs to be somehow
managed. How ? I don't know.
I
started my life as an average student in school fighting for grades.
Later I joined Indian Institute of technology, Kanpur and fought for
grades again. Once I joined job, I again fought for things that are
important for the world. After doing all this, my perception for life
changed considerably. Today I am focused on achieving what I like. I
want to create beautiful products that can be used by millions of
people. Products should be low priced and help people to do some
specific tasks. I have a vision to create an organization which can keep
doing this innovation continuously. I would love to create an
organization which can survive for thousands of years and maintain the
same level of integrity and passion. Employees should be empowered to
achieve their goals and learn by experiment. I want to create an
organization which allows its employees to fail. There should not be
fear among employees. I want to create value for shareholders in the
long run. My business goal is not to exploit system and employees to
create wealth.
IT suffers from the problem of uneducated managers. People who have good experience, good workers, but are just not trained in management. Nobody bothers to train them... So we have IT managers following practices long condoned and we end up having high attrition, disgruntled employees, under performance and other issues.
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