September 3, 2008

A SUCESSFULORGANSATION IS A TEAM:
A SUCCESSFUL GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS
WHO REALLY CARE

A true definition includes everyone involved in the process of creating, manufacturing, selling and delivering a product or service to the ultimate consumer.

You TEAM includes your employees, suppliers and customers.

Leaders who define their team in this fashion are more successful in reaching their organisational goals as well as their own personal goals.

Treating people as teammates means sharing information and resources. It means hurting when they hurt and helping them to stop hurting. It means celebrating when things go well and commiserating when they don’t. Teammates really care about each other. Effective leaders show their teammates that they care.

Treat Your TEAM As Insiders, Not Outsiders. 

August 7, 2008

LEARN TO USE TEAMS WHEN YOU NEED
THE “BIG PICTURE”.

The FIVE Blind men and the Elephant story is well known. Each blind man touched a different part of the elephant; he described accurately what he was touching. Individually, however, none of the blind men described the total elephant. Collectively their description added up to an elephant. Once again, the broad perspective of the Team provided a more accurate assessment.

During the Bay of Pigs Crisis, former US President (late) J F Kennedy relied on only a few people for advice. They provided a narrow assessment based on limited perspective. The Bay of Pigs was a disaster that almost ruined the Kennedy’s Presidency.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK brought together a TEAM of best minds available. They succeeded. It was a broader assessment based on overall perspective. He became a Hero.

The same man, two different crisis situations, two different courses of action. The Team Assessment succeeded.

TEAMS Work. Use Them. 

August 6, 2008

TEAMS ARE LIKE FAMILY. THEY DON’T LIKE
EACH OTHER ALL THE TIME, BUT
THEY MUST STILL WORK TOGETHER
IF THEY WANT TO STAY TOGETHER.

“T.E.A.M = Together Everyone Achieve More.”

Each member of the Team must be achieving  personal Goals, if it is to be successful.

In Western Philosophy, the Individual Goal supersedes the Team Goal. (In America, the STAR is honoured, rather than Team.)
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In Eastern Philosophy, the team goal is the only goal. )In Japan, “The Nail that is sticking up gets hammered down.”)

Today, the Western philosophy is moving East and the Eastern philosophy is moving West.

Now the West acknowledge the importance of individual success within the Team. We must not forget, however, to acknowledge the success of the Team as a whole. We must also recognize the success of those who helped the “stars” to be successful.

O.J Simpson never took credit for himself. He always gives credit to the Team. He went the extra mile to acknowledge the Front-line people who helped him achieve his success. Then they went extra mile to continue helping him be successful. The Team won because individuals within the Team won.

TEAMS Only Do Well When Individuals In The Team Do Well. 

POSTINGS COMPLETED SO FAR:

The postings on the following subjects have been archived at the FREE Online Learning Page: Attitude, Change, Communication, Customers, Excellence, Future, Hiring, Image, Leadership, Listening, Management, Power, Profit, Relationship & Success 

Thirukkural is the masterpiece of Tamil literature with the highest and purest expressions of human thought.  It is written in the form of couplets expounding various aspects of life.    It contains 1330 couplets, divided into 133 chapters of 10 couplets each.

Book III - Nature of Love

I Chapter - ON SECRET MARRIAGE

3.1.6. The Abandonment of Reserve (Decorum Defied)

3rd September 08 - Kural #: 1137

Her sea-like lust seeks not Madal !
Serene is woman's self control..

Meaning:
There is nothing so noble as the womanly nature that would not ride the palmyra horse, though plunged a sea of lust.  

* Palmyra Horse or 'Madal' is a torture expressive of the burning passion of the lover to the beloved. (The lover's body is laid on a rough pricking bed made of palmyra wood and he is carried along the street with songs of love pangs. The parents of the lovers first reproach them and then consent to their marriage.)

7th August 08 - Kural #: 1136

Madal I ride at midnight for
My eyes sleep not seeing this fair.

Meaning:
Mine eyes will not close in sleep on your mistress's account; even at midnight will I think of mounting the *palmyra horse. 

6th August 08 - Kural #: 1135

The maid that slender armlets wears, like flowers entwined,
Has brought me 'horse of palm,' and pangs of eventide!

Meaning:
She with the small garland-like bracelets has given me the *palmyra horse and the sorrow that is endured at night.  

4th August 08 - Kural #: 1134

Rushing flood of love sweeps away
The raft of shame and firmness, aye.

Meaning:
The raft of modesty and firmness (considered a quality of manliness), is, alas, carried-off by the strong current of lust. 

3rd August 08 - Kural #: 1133

Once I was modest and manly
My love has now *Madal only.

Meaning:
Modesty and manliness were once my own; now, my own is the *palmyra horse that is ridden by the lustful.

2nd August 08 - Kural #: 1132

My body and my soul, that can no more endure,
Will lay reserve aside, and mount the '*horse of palm'.

Meaning:
Having got rid of shame, the suffering body and soul save themselves on the *palmyra horse.

1st August 08 - Kural #: 1131

Pangs of passion find no recourse
Except riding *`palmyra horse'.

Meaning:
To those who after enjoyment of sexual pleasure suffer (for want of more), there is no help so efficient as the *palmyra horse.  

POSTINGS COMPLETED SO FAR:

The postings on the following subject have been archived at the FREE Online Learning Page: Beauty's Dart, Recognition of the Signs (of Mutual Love), Rejoicing in the Embrace, The Praise of her Beauty & Declaration of Love's special Excellence