You need to be seen as ruthless and mean occasionally to put fear into others especially your junior. This applied to most managers who control many subordinate and staff. They feel its not right to be too close with their staff else it could lead to building of a emotional bond or that the staff will know more about his superior. My ex-boss is a staunch supporter of this philosophy. You cannot get too close to your staff, he use to tell me. If you crosses the line then there is no turning back. It could lead to dis-subordination, riot, chaos and all hell break lose. You either want them to follow your instruction with no question ask or you prefer them to not take you seriously. Either way its better if they don't like you and you get the work done else they like you and they might not get the work done at all.
On another camp there is the believe that if you treat the staff well, he/she might appreciate you and hence would tend to dedicate their life and work more for you. They respect you and hence work coherent and together with you to achieve the company goals.
However, if you ask me at this point of time, I can tell you immediately I am all for the former camp. Humans are very complex and unpredictable. Thus, you never get the same person with the same requirement and emotional feeling as the rest of your staff. Some have low requirement and can be satisfy easily while others are a bit hard. Hence, with most of the younger generation of youth today losing the basic manners, culture and respect to elders I feel strongly that using the hard option is the best way. Ruling with iron first has it plus point and benefit.
Just take a look around you. Its really sad to note that the younger generation isn't what it use to be. I can feel the gap and the distance of opinion, mentality and also experience wise. Youth nowadays just want to have fun and easy going all the time. They tackle women just like tackling football. Change gf just like changing shirts. Worst of all they now smoke and drink as if there is no tomorrow. If you really take a good look further then you will find that out of 10 women all the streets between the ages of 20-30, 8 of them are likely to be smoker. I myself had been taken by surprise with this statistic and most of the time when this nice curvy blonde turn around and places her cigarette into her mouth, I am kind of disappointed.
Are peers pressure or the society gone backwards in mortifying and glamorizing woman who smoke ? Is the feeling of high class and status too strong to be resisted. Forsaking health just so that you look good and feel good to be hanging around important people. Is that the way youth today are being brought up ? Where are we heading to. Point to ponder............!!!!
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