Friday, 15 May 2009

The manager

I don't have good management skills, but i got a small story in my mind.

There will be a small team, who will get an assignment to vanish a big hill.The hill will contain lot of big stones.By just listening to the requirement, team members will start thinking that
  • This is impossible
  • Client may be gone mad
But manager wont put any dead lines to members and says to remove each stone per day by one person.Members will feel like removing a stone per day is not a big task and will start working on that.After 30 days when they review their work, they removed half of the hill. With their experience, now they can remove two stones a day. so with in next 15 days they will finish the complete task.

Initially members are not confident on them, but manager have.And for the surprise manager asked 50 days from clients to finish this task.He made it done by members in just 45 days.

This can be happen if manager knows the capabilities of the members and manager knows how to make a big tasks into simple tasks.

I want be like this kind of manager in my life.Don't be afraid by seeing big tasks.Divide them in to small tasks and finish it fast.

Divide and Finish . Definitely its a good idea.