MANAGEMENT'S NEW PARADIGMS - Knowledge Worker

I thought that, I would share with you an Article that I read on Management Paradigms.
Its from Peter F Drucker who is considered to be a Management Guru.
Its on the productivity on knowledge workers. Though simple, powerful thoughts.

The productivity of the knowledge worker is still abysmally low. It
has probably not improved in the past 100 or even 200 years - for the
simple reason that nobody has worked at improving the productivity.
All our work on productivity has been on the productivity of the manual worker.
This will require, above all, very much changed assumptions about
what constitutes management. One does not "manage" people, as
previously assumed. One leads them. The way one maximises their
performance is by capitalising on their strengths and their knowledge
rather than trying to force them into moulds. Knowledge workers cannot
be managed as subordinates; they are associates. This difference is more than cosmetic.
The very definition of a knowledge worker is one who knows more about
his or her job than anybody else in the organisation.
For example, the engineer servicing a customer does not know more
about the product than the engineering manager does. But she knows
more about the customer, and that may be more important than product
knowledge. The meteorologist on an air base is vastly inferior in rank
to the air base commander. But he is of no use unless he knows
infinitely more about weather forecasting than the air base commander
does. The mechanic servicing an airliner knows more about the
technical condition of the plane than the airport manager to whom he reports, and so on.

Two years @ Work

It was exactly two years ago, I along with a bunch of people joined HCL Technologies Ltd., Chennai as a fresher with lots of dreams and aspirations. We had a good one month training filled with loads of fun. After that we had to join the work arena. As in every case, my dreams where shattered completely. I dreamt always to get into Systems programming, but eventually I was put into a team which was predominantly involved in Web Development. I made up my heart to move ahead. Initially started as a .NET programmer and shifted myself into J2EE in 4 months time. Now my views and conception on application development has changed completelly. There are lots of challenges in this part of the court also. A lot to learn, I would say. From being a normal programmer/engineer, I feel that I have gained good recognition in my team both as an individual and also as a team member. From here, I would love to augment my architectural and management skills more in years to come. I've already started learning these two skills. My current role as an onsite coordinator has laid the perfect platform for this.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish my friends Kala, Padma, Nilavan, Senthil, Visu, Joyas, JayaBarathi and all others who joined along with me for sucesful completion of two years. Good Luck! My dear friends.
And off course Good Luck to myself.

Katril Varum Geethame...

In recent past the Tamil music industry has been really healthy and hot.
There has been a good healthy competition between Harris Jeyaraj, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Vidyasagar and Bharadwaj.
All these composers have been consistently giving good music to the tamil audience and they have almost created perfect market conditions.
A few years ago, it was almost like a monopoly. 80's and early 90's was predominantly ruled by Illayaraja and then it had been my Fav ARR.
But things now are no longer the same. These four music directors have been rocking the Tamil music.
ARR has started to concentrate more in international arena and Illayaraja has almost moved out of the industry.

Under these cicumstances, its really a score of Ilaayraja in a recent tamil Movie "Oru Naal Oru Kanavu" that has attracted me a lot.

Fazil teams with Illayaraja again for his latest movie "Oru Naal Oru Kanavu".
The combination of Fazil and Illayaraja has been always a big hit, right from Varusham Pathinaaru.
The songs in this movie are pretty good, though not Illayaraja’s best. It’s becoming apparent that Sonu Nigam is becoming Maestro's fav singer. All the songs are good though not exceptional.

But still, there is one exceptional master piece in this album also.
The song is "Katril Varum geethame ..."

The song is sung by Hariharan, Shreya Ghoshal, Bavatharani, Illayaraja and Sadhana Sargam.

I would rate this as the best song that I have heard in recent past.
It’s a melodious, soothing, divine and classic number. The moment I heard this song, I had a sense of peace in my heart. Bhavathirini, who has sung most part of the song, also has doen a great job. Another master piece from Illayaraja in the Lines of "Janani Janani ..." and "Amma endrazhaikuthu...".The lyrics for the song is also penned well.
Illayaraja again proves that he is the best in the industry with melodies.

Listen to it and let me know..........

You can listen ot it online at http://www.musicindiaonline.com/l/26/s/movie_name.7940/