The Blocks of Management...

Everyone of us has either heard this story or read it in our childhood.
More importantly, everyone of us remembers the moral of this story.

'Slow and Steady wins the race.'

A New Story: In a Principles of Organization Management lecture by Dr. Mandi was given a task: To build a single block tower using the given blocks.

Team 1 : Consisting of 3 people in which one will be blind folded,the other will help him without touching him nor the blocks,and the third will just observe and come into the picture only when required. (Craft Management)

Team 2: One open-eyed person to build the tower. (Modern Management)

The rest were asked to bet on how tall the tower would be. The bet was high on the open eyed person, for obvious reasons. But wait. The final result was 27-22 in the favor of Team 1.

Learning: 

• In an organisation, the blindfolded person is the worker, the person guiding the worker is the manager and the third person overlooking the whole affair is the CEO. The story shows us how a good management can increase the productivity of the workers and subsequently the organisation as a whole.
• Proper and effective communication between the various levels of an organisation is very necessary,.
• Proper division of labor can improve the productivity many fold.

Parameter	Craft Management	Modern Management
Workforce	Single person doing an entire work.	Multiple persons working on separate modules.
Skills	Increase	Decrease
Productivity	Low	High
Satisfaction	More	Less
Innovation	Less since a single person is responsible for possible failures.	More as employees have insulation from risks because of the presence of upper management

Moral:

Hire the best. Pay them well. Communicate frequently. They will knock your socks off.

I hope this story also stays in your mind for as long as the first one has.

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