INTRODUCTION
This presentation is a collection of various professional articles and lectures that I have been giving to my clients and managerial staff over the last five years. The views expressed are related to my four decades of involvement in managing and administering a variety of business organizations in four different countries.
I was not born as a manager but became a manager of people and places through my experiences of different businesses and the realities of various workplaces. I am indebted to the people I interacted with because I refined and modified my thinking from their encounters, problems, failures and successes.
Over the years I discovered that business management had an apparent complexity but it also had an apparent simplicity. It is complex as far as organizing, coordinating, commanding and controlling are concerned. It becomes simple if we as managerial personnel begin to realize that the target keeps moving, events and people do not always conform long enough to be planned and controlled. Therefore, it is vital that our business leaders involve themselves in continual experimentation with new and workable approaches to solve the old and new problems.
I was once told that I will grow and learn to be a successful manager by careful observation, proper practising, clear thinking and rethinking, effective experimenting and continually questioning, so I began to follow the maxim: “Try it, fix it, do it.”
After reading my views people should carefully observe their own business realities and then take a step to either change or review the strategies that they are already using. If your managerial style works without my ideas then good luck to you. - Ram Lakhan Prasad.