Meditating Manager

5th S of 5S for Meditating Manager is  'Samvedana' ! It means 'Being Sensitive'! 'Samvedana'  is living by keeping all your senses alive! Making your mind alert, attentive to every small thing happening around! Are you sensitive to your surrounding? Are your senses alive? Is your mind breathing fresh air every moment? When I am saying 'your surrounding' then it is not restricted to your home or your work place. Surrounding is everything and everybody who is around you! It could be your family, your colleague and even non-living things like your instruments and material. We have increased pace of our lives- unnecessary though- to such an extent that we have become ignorant about our surrounding. We have become self-centered, selfish to that extent that we are least bothered about our surrounding. You might have seen managers who are very particular about cleanliness at their home but throwing used paper napkins or water bottles on the r...

Sahakarya  means cooperation in Sanskrit language! This is another universal law- If you do ‘good’ to others, ‘good’ will happen to you! If you help others then you will receive help in your critical time! It is not a matter of belief; it’s a matter of experience! Universe functions in this way! Whatever goes around comes around. It is that simple! But, it is seen that many managers miss out on this important virtue. What stops us from practicing cooperation? More than cooperation, competition plays on manager’s mind. An average manager looks at work as a F1 race. His/ Her definition of success is being ahead of others! Definition of success is beating everyone else in the race. An average manager thinks only about him or her survival. However, a meditating manager- who is practicing  Sakakarya  (i.e. Cooperation) - thinks about surviving together, not only about surviving together but also about growing together. An average manager misinterpret...

Sanvaad  means communication in Sanskrit language. A lot has been discussed and written on this virtue. Yes, instead of naming it as a skill, it is more of a virtue! What to communicate; when to  communicate  & How to  communicate  are important questions every manager should ask himself/herself before initiating any conversation. When this equation of What, When & How goes wrong, we end up with mess. Miscommunication is more of ‘Missed Communication’- either content is missed or context is missed or timing is missed or approach is missed! The biggest problem with communication is that we talk a lot but we seldom communicate. Frequently, we end up assuming things. ‘I guess he has understood!’, ‘I hope she will understand!’, ‘I know what he is going to say!’, ‘Do I need to tell you these basic things?’- are the assumptions which create barriers in the effective communication. Clarity in communication, ensuring t...

Sayyam (Patience) 2 nd S of 5 S for Meditating Manager Sayyam  is a sanskrit word for ‘practicing patience’! To a great extent, it’s linked to  Shanti  (i.e. Mental Peace). Without practicing  Sayyam ,  Shanti  is achievable. Ironically,  Sayyam  is the most discussed but less practiced virtue in the corporate world. Frequently, Patience is being misinterpreted as ‘No Action’ in the corporate world. In today’s world, each & every manager wants to win and wants to win immediately! Each & every manager wants to prove himself or herself, quickly! An urge of I want everything right now, right here is creating impatience and resulting into tremendous stress on today’s managers! This urge is so strong that thousands of books on ‘Law of Attraction’ are being sold every day, every moment! Young managers are attempting law of attraction- a universal law- to achieve their life’s goals. However, they forge...

Shanti (Peace) 1 st S of 5 S for Meditating Manager Let’s discuss first ‘S’ of 5S! First ‘S’ in ‘5S for meditating managers’ is  Shanti . It simply means ‘Mental Peace’. The main reason for less productivity or low performance of most of the managers is lack of mental peace. What kills mental peace? Is it restlessness, anxiety, insecurities! If yes then where do these things come from? If we dig into ourselves then we’ll realize that it comes from our unrealistic expectations- from self and others; it comes from lack of visibility of future and it comes from our fears & worries! Let’s make an attempt to understand it! We end up worrying about something which is imaginary in nature, something which has not happened yet! Our mind plays these tricks with us. It creates virtual world around us which projects possible failures, disappointments, loses and it manifests into tensions and stress in real life. You must be recollecting a strory from our child...