With due respect, the various management styles ARE being taught in Indian B-schools. And if not, it takes a couple of good read to know them atleast theoretically.
The point I am trying to make is a little different. I have seen a lot of articles with "sensational" headlines like "What they dont teach in IIMs" with absolutely misleading content! I write a few articles myself and I know the pressures of "writing just about something" but expect it to be a tad better from a fellow IIMer.
Instead of wishing you the ubiquitous "very best", let me wish you the more practical "enough time" for your next article.
This story attributed to Japanese is incorrect. This story was originally about GM. The Company on hearing the complaint sent its engineeer who was an American (definitely not Japanese) who found the solution. Infact he first studied the time to get the ice cream and then worked out the problem was vapour. Even this could not be verified. It may just a story.
We attribute all good things to Japanese. I definitely do not find any original ideas from Japan. They are good at application of innvation and commercialising it. No two opinions on that.
They just do not think about future. If they do they would not destroy natural resources as they do and would care atleast bit to protect the envoiroment.
Their management theories did not work out in the lng run. Show me a Peter F drucker from Japan.
The story is true but the reference to the company is not.Alas its not japanese company which faced this problem in fact it was an american compnay (GM).
Great to read article...and good for a discussion panel on management styles. But to each his own.
Both styles have neagtives & positives... depends on how you use them. Some issues are better implemented quickly with a topline of discussion and some are better if there are more detailed discussion. The key is for the leaders to know how to blend both to gain maximum mileage in meeting their corporate goals.
But the biggest thing that they don't teach in B-Schools is - How to lead and get a buy-in from collegues, every time a i see a brilliant MBA from a top B-Schools - I see individual brilliance, intelligence and very little humility and that last is what pains me.
There is one basic law to being a leader - go down to the floor/to the grassroots , work with your team together - all pitch in to reach the goal...and let them realize why you are a manager/director/VP/CEO, by communicating, discussing, deciding on the larger picture, making them feel a sense of responsibility to one another...as they see these skills, they will automatically select you as their leader.
But you try and say - "And so i have decreed"....you suck!!!
I expected much better insight from a person who has been in industry for 30 years. A copy paste from an old fwd and some old gyan , does not do justice to the question raised in the title .Please refrain from publishing such tomfoolery of an article in future.
