Analogy between Cricket captains and Managers

Analogy between Cricket captains and Managers

Well no gyan baji here. Just observation as I am a cricket enthusiast.

I have been following cricket and especially Indian cricket and their captains since 1996. I was in awe of Sachin Tendulkar smashing SriLanka and Australia in our very own India. I thought here is another batsman and making of a captain. But the time proved me wrong. Good batsman = Good captain.

When Indian cricket came under the scanner of match fixing, here was a new and young Indian captain who was expected to do well in crises. Similarly there is a manager category wherein they perform only under pressure. Some managers are born to back a sinking boat. Some managers a born to turnaround situations like Sourav Ganguly. Here was the manager who built team from scratch where the fear of match fixing was looming over India cricket. Identified talent and nurtured them, gave opportunities and time to blossom. Sourav Ganguly is one captain who shaped careers of Yuvi, Harbhajan, Zaheer, Sehwag to name a few.

Captainship is a baton that you forward one era to another.

Post Ganguly era, there came a shy person from Karnataka leading the ranks of the Captain India-Rahul Dravid-The wall. When he came the team was pretty much settled. You had Gambhir, Sehwag, Yuvraj, Zaheer, Harbhajan, VVS Laxman, Tendulkar which formed the core DNA of the team. He was not supposed to do tweaks here with the matured team. He was supposed continue the legacy what Sourav left. So here is the manager category who does not have to hire new people and form a team but just have to maintain the camaraderie. No cost cutting, no new rules to the game, no tweaking of policies, just have to maintain the discipline. Completely different skill set is required here compared to the earlier situation which Sourav Ganguly faced. Under him he showed perseverance by beating West Indies in West Indies, Australia in Australia, England in England. Though there were lows of early exit in 2007 world cup.

So here is an analogy between Cricket Captains and Managers in different situations of the phase.

 

Next blog is on MS Dhoni as a captain-Stay tuned.

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Review: The Mahabharata Secret by Chris Doyle

Review: The Mahabharata Secret by Chris Doyle

This is a very gripping read written deftly by the writer Chris Doyle. It’s about a scientist being part of the unknown secret community of 9, killed by the non-state actors of our neighboring country. This group (who carries illicit activities) hungers the secret of Mahabharata badly for their personal motives.

It talks about the secret saved and stored 2300 years ago by Asoka and Surasen courtier of Asoka the great. There have been many parvas written about Mahabharata and there is one which is not documented anywhere in the world. It is believed that this secret was used by the King of Magdha to kill Pandavas but the war ended before this secret was used.

Well back to the core story- Vijay cousin of Vikram Singh( Scientist killed who had the secret) leaves a trail of emails. Vijay deciphers these emails and that leads him to the secret and to his love during the journey.

Hope I have not revealed the secret and would urge to read this.

An Experience to Experience

                                            An Experience to Experience

J This is not an article about globetrotter reaching a destination.

But surely this is an (generic) employee’s   experience during notice period.  Does employee’s become too casual in approach once the resignation button is pressed? Does the responsibility vanish?  Is the interest lost?

Employer is more skeptical in earmarking responsibilities to the employee who has resigned.

Employers are keener on creating a backup or doling out the responsibility to other team members.

So what happens if the responsibility is taken from the employee (who has resigned) and given to other team member? Obviously employee interest, motivation to do the role, which impacts the deliverables!

In turn employer complains of the person not doing work to the mark, and eyebrows are raised toward employee of losing interest. Employer drills down to the point that the employee was a bad hire.

Well, this does not happen in all the cases, but in some farewell treats, gifts are just formalities?

Employer is really not happy about an employee and if there is not high dependency then should permit an early release.

There is an old maxim, "Love your job but don't love the company you work for, because you may not know when your company stops loving you". ... Steve Finnell

Does this hold true?

In turn employee, who is not so outspoken, once presses the resignation button, observed that the behavior changes completely. Starts speaking very upfront as he/she does not care about the present employer and this may create a bad belief in the mind of employer?

Even employee has to be extra cautious working in notice period. He/ She should not stray from routine line items.Has to be more mindful of the leaves, breaks, on time delivery of assignment, reaching office on time, leaving for the day as per schedule etc. . . .

Employee has to avoid working in a lackadaisical manner and stop calling “Notice period” as “Time pass”. They are equivalently responsible till the last working day as they were hitherto.

Employers have to aware as the employees create a brand image of the organization outside.

Attrition is part of the routine and both employer and employee have to part happily.

Note: This does not intend to any employer- it just a generic article. This article was written 2 years back- publishing it now :)

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Who moved my cheese?

                                  Who moved my cheese?

It is a great anecdote by author Spencer Johnson  !

It teaches you lesson of life & deal which changes happening around in personal or professional life.

It teaches you not to be complacent. Here Cheese is used a metaphor, you may correlate in your lives with personal achievements or professional success.

It is a story of 4 characters- Sniff & Scurry, Hem & Haw !

In the event of finding their cheese in a maze it thought them to fight with their fears and many other things, to find out other things..... I would recommend to read it  !

Overall a good read ....

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Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus

Reading this amazing book by John Gray " Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus".
Discovering a lot of things which I actually do unknowingly and end up with lot of confusion.
I have not completed this book yet, however will write more about this book post completion.
I suggest every married men and women should read this.

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