Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Leader Follower paradigm

In this world, everyone is either a leader or follower or in some cases both. Means a leader may be follower for some other leader. Everyone posses both leader and follower instincts in their body and mind. Only the proportion of these instincts depicts their nature as a leader or a follower. This concept is pretty similar with the concept of Male and Female hormone in our body.

Usually leaders are few in numbers compared to followers and decide a path and follower (may be blindly) follows that path. This creates a famous tree kind of structure. Also a follower might have more than one leader (remember the multiple inheritance). Now the question is how the chain gets established? Means how a person who is of follower nature, decides which one person from the leaders community is actually his leader? I did some study, analysis and research in that and I believe its just a simple fact that if a person encounters another person which can do/perform or already performed few of the art which he/she couldn't or cannot, he/she accepts him/her as leader. For example, if a person is very much interested in playing soccer but could never became more than an average soccer player, meets a good above average soccer player in his team. He will surely get influenced and major chances are that he will accept him as his leader. If you will think in this line, you can easily validate several leader follower relationships around you with this concept.

So In case you are leading a team of individuals, first analyze every individual or group of individuals about their interests and passion and just try to demonstrate some good qualities in that fields in front of them which will ensure smooth formation of healthy leader-follower chain for you and your team. This is easy way to achieve "self evolved leadership" which is far better than "force imposed leadership" for a team.

At last, some followers are forcibly made leaders for a group of individual and software industry is good example of that :)

Friday, April 6, 2007

Well Played Greg....

Now when Greg Chappell has resigned, we should not just keep analysing all the negative aspects of his tenure as Indian coach. He was blunt but was professional and serious with his job. With his resignation too, he taught a final lesson of professionalism and responsibility to all Indian Players and BCCI. The way few Indian cricket stars behaved with him was strange. It was like he never played cricket. He was not an ordinary player. His over all records (career statistics http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/4558.html ) are if not better than Saurav, Sachin then not bad too. He was good player and captain.

Today I read in news paper that Sachin was not having good term with him because of his batting position. This again shows Sachin's selfishness and megalomaniac attitude. It is already proved fact that Chappell is a better strategist than Sachin (see Sachin's poor captaincy records) and as a coach had authority to decide the game plan but Sachin was reluctant to open the innings and when coach didnt agree, Sachin became his enemy. Sachin should always know he is not bigger than team. In past once he had expressed his displeasure when captain declared an inning and he was on 195. He was more interested in completing 200 than giving some extra time to Indian bowlers to bowled out the opposition. That shows his "commitments" towards the team. Hope with Chappell's resignation, senior non performing Indian players will learn the basics of commitment and responsibility and will follow the spirit to take back their names from team. One thing is sure that BCCI under politician Sharad Pawar wont do anything good for Indian team. So players need to take initiatives to clean up the system and image.

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Sorry DUDE, No one will listen to you

So at last, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar lost his patience and started blaming Chappell for his and team's poor show in WC 2007. The man who is famous to respond his critics with his bat and scores in cricket field is suddenly taking the path of creating sympathy for him among the Indian cricket lovers. This clearly indicates his inability to perform in field and his desperation to somehow be in Indian team for some more time. He says He is sad and disappointed because India is out of WC. I will say you *really* should be sad and disappointed dude else it will be height of shamelessness. People like Sachin has compelled the Indian Cricket to give importance to personalities over performances. After poor WC show, He is trying to harvest on his clear image for 17 long years in cricket.

Lets assume everything was not great with Chappell in WC, but simple question is, why didn't you do your duty to score runs? Take example of our great individualistic player Saurav Dada Ganguly. He never had good terms with Chappell but he scored few runs against Bangladesh and Bermuda. If you would have scored a simple 30+ (individualistic) score against Bangladesh, India would not have been out of WC. Lets also assume you were too disturbed and not in good mental shape because of coach-player strained relations, then for the benefit of team, why didn't you took your name back from the team and allowed someone else to play on your place. If you would have done that, you would have shown great courage and people would have appreciated that. You didnt do these things. That clearly indicates that now you are not good for international cricket and also somehow you want to be part of the Indian team. I sincerely believe, for you its time to GO. Sorry to say but this is a fact and that fact is clearly coming out from all the record books. There are few so called "cricket experts" here in India who are denying the fact that cricket in Sachin is totally finished and trying to create a hypothetical picture of Sachin playing in next WC. These guys are playing with emotions of Indian cricket fans. Indian cricket fans need to be beware of such kind of useless vocal elements and keep focusing only on performances not the personalities before extending their support. The problem with Indian cricket fan is that they are like a devoted wife of cricket personalities. Whenever a personality dies, they behave like a typical hindi movie widow who doesnt accept that she is widow and keeps wearing bangles and vermilion and takes years to realise that her husband is dead and she is widow. Please wake up and say strongly GOOD BYE SACHIN with all due respect.