Management Lesson | Saala Khadoos

Saala Khadoos - is an inspirational movie based on women boxing. The script is written based on the women boxing championship which won the international event. The movie is an story of a coach who identifies the talent, coaches, trains, motivates and inspires to be the boxing champion. The movie is an attempt to showcase that women can become champion and shine internationally. Although the acting, story play and music is excellent, which makes one to sit and watch probably one can estimate the sequences in the movie.

The movie as usual highlights the corruption, sexual harassment by the sports association of India. With all these hurdles there are true patriots who love the country and inspire many. A big standing ovation to all these little unknown heroes who inspire many of us.

Both Madhavan and  Ritika Singh have given their best performances.

The key lessons from the movie are

1.  Take Criticism as a challenge and show that Yes I CAN.

2.   Visualize the success and believe

3.   An right coach can identify an good Talent

4.   Believe in mentor & Coach

5.   Dedicate and hardwork is must to achieve success

6.  Gratitude makes you humble.

7.  When you are successful, there are many relations! 

Bottom-line

Continuous efforts - not strength or intelligence- is the key to unlocking our potential.

Book Review | First, Break All the Rules

Book Title: First, Break All the Rules

Author: Marcus Buckingham

Employee engagement surveys provides the key pulse about the employees perception to the organisations. Every organisation believes that its the employees that are the key resources which enables the organisation to achieve its vision. The book is a product of 25 years of research by the Gallup Organization, of which Buckingham and Coffman are a part where in the research is summarized in seven chapters. The books ignites the mind to enable greater managerial skills to identify, retain and develop talents.

The key summary are

1. Measurement is important

In the employee engagement survey typically has 12 Questions; understanding Q12 with employee is very important. Q1 and Q2 help an employee to understand basic work expectations & offerings. Q3 to Q6 address the self-esteem and individual performance and recognition. Q7 to Q10 describes right fit for the job and Q11 & Q12 indicates career progression

2. Wisdom is required

Hiring needs to be based on talent, skill and abilities and not simply on experience. While developing someone, it should be based on right role rather than position in organisation chart.

3. Select Right Talent:

identify the Striving Talent, thinking talent and relating talent. Use these talents to motivate.

4. Define the deliverable:

Allow the person to find his own route to achieve the deliverable. Assign the deliverable based on persons strength aligned to organisation strategy & objectives.

5. Focus on Strengths:

Great managers have the ability to describe in details, the unique talent of their people and use the three dimensions of thinking such Striving, Thinking and Relating to build relationship. The best manager treat each person as he would like to be treated. Great managers spend their majority of time with their best and productive people. Excellent teams are built on individual excellence.

6. Right Fit

Great managers scrutinize roles and people to yield right fits. Great managers provide feedback through dialogues.

7. Interview skills:

The purpose of interview to identify the strength and behaviour to match the job.

Bottom-line:

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

Book Review | The Wit and Wisdom of Peter F. Drucker

Book Title : The Wit and Wisdom of Peter F. Drucker
Author: Will Foret 

The wit and wisdom of peter F Drucker is just like a ready recokner, where in the author  has taken the key learnings of his books and summarized. I found the following points key from the book

# Focus on your strengths and cultivate a deep understanding of yourself. The fundamental thought behind it is basic; focus on your qualities and develop a profound comprehension of yourself. 

# Management by Objective requires every levels of mangers to recognize their objectives for all assigned tasks they are in charge of. 

# Administration inadequacy due to absence of framework; over staffing;mal-association & breakdown of data. 

# Problems are due to - Really non exclusive; genuinely remarkable; generic and new bland issue# entrepreneurial propensities are Non concocted here, quality, premimum value, creaming and maximize as opposed to streamline

# organisations work best when it is decentralized

# Contradictions gives choices, animates the creative energy, and offers assistance with breaking out of assumptions

# Effectiveness over renowed master

# Employees are resources 

# Focus on client; the essential capacity of business is to serve the client and the essential objective of your business is to create clients.

# Non benefits give satisfaction

Management lessons from AIRLIFT

I remember I was studying in eight standard during the gulf war. During the start of the movie I recollected how my dad and my neighbor would grab their attention at 7:30pm to radio to know about the situation during the gulf war. I recollected while watching the movie, many of our know people would visit our neighbor who had airlifted safely during the war and thank god, people didn't had whatsup so they could show sympathy and empathy to the family, which had everything but did had penny while landing, clothes to wear only memories.

Airlift is an excellent movie on the refuge crises that happened during the Kuwait war. The story and picturisation is wonderful. The movie show cases about the helpless by the governments and leadership of one man to move Indians to India. The complete movie is just awesome and I found the following are the key inspirational lessons that can be drawn

1. War or Conflicts only bring misery.


2. United we stand and divided we fall


3. Every conflict gives an opportunity to showcase leadership skills


4. Negotiation skills are very important


5. Choices are inevitable


6. Hurdles - Internal / External needs to be challenged


7. Communication is important - however unless you put the feelings and pains of other, you cannot make it effective.


8. Leadership is all about being humble, caring, showing path, walking the path and leading the path.