The 2nd One

(Firstly i would like to apologize by saying that i made a mistake in my gmail accounts.I wrote three blogs in two different accounts.Now that i have realized my mistake i transferred them here.)

I write today about the second lecture of our ‘Principles of management’ class, which is taken by none other than our very own Prof T. Prasad. Surprisingly this is only the second lecture and he already seems so close enough to us. Its maybe because of the informal way he teaches us . Whatever the way is, the results are already showing. Students have started taking his teachings quite seriously.

The second lecture which we had, Prof Prasad told us about a new ‘concept’ called the ‘’Pygmalion Effect’’. It was more than anything a new way of thinking things while doing any business. According to its theory if one had the true passion , the determination and mainly the DESIRE to do something, it WOULD turn out to be true. It’s something which in the world of medicine is called by the doctor’s as the ‘placebo’ effect. Point being ,again , that it’s the mindset of the person , the way of thinking that makes a huge difference if a certain goal is to be achieved. (He taught us this point very effectively in the previous class in the Tower building exercise too). He also had shown a cartoon picture in his blog which showed a cat looking in the mirror, but only difference that instead of a cat the mirror showed a Lion. Meaning it matters what you think of yourself too. If you think you can’t do it whatever you do you won’t accomplish it. But if you think you can do it irrespective of however difficult the task, you will end up crossing your limits , no doubt.

After this he taught us another concept of the ‘x and y’ managers. According to this concept manager ‘x’ was a negative thinking manager and manager ‘y’ was a positive one. So, basically all the staff subordinates working under these managers were looked or judged by X and Y accordingly.

Situation 1: All the staff working under ‘x’ are lazy.

Conclusion: X THINKS that all his staff IS lazy

Situation 2: All the staff working under ‘x’ are good enough but

Conclusion: X still being a negative person thinks that his staff is lazy.

Inference here being that irrespective of what the situation is the staff under ‘x’ will never be fully utilized to their full potential. This is because of the negative thinking manager they have.

Situation 3: All the staff under manager ‘y’ is lazy

Conclusion: Y THINKS that all the staff under him is good enough, and encourages them more

Situation 4: All the staff under ‘y’ are good

 Conclusion: ‘y’ thinks that all his staff is good and pushes them hard to their full potential.

Now here the inference is that whatever be the situation the staff under ‘y’ will be pushed hard and however small or big their potential they will perform or atleast will be pushed to perform out of their limits.

 This is what happens with many people across the world . They might be hard working and sincere but because of their not so positive senior staff they end up underperforming.