Managing People

Managing people, it's not easy task.....really it's not. I don't have much understanding of management but whatever i had felt is that people management is a quite arduous task and requires a specific skill-set....some times back i had an impression that being a manager means playing with excel sheets,filling the columns with vibrant colors and remain busy in one or other meetings.Now when i am watching things more closely i feel being manager doesn't means just doing all this....apart from all this a task which measure you as a manager is the ability to handle people i.e. the way you make your employees feel good,satisfied,engaged.....give them the room to express their feelings and understand the same.
Well in this competitive environment everyone wants to grow...wants to move ahead in the ladder and of course want to have higher salary packages....keeping all this in mind everyone is working, and when the aspirations of individuals are so high its quite cumbersome to deal with each of them.....and thus comes the role of an manager to identity the potential of each and every individual show them the right direction...appraise them if they are worth it.
Sometimes i think when we as an employees have so much of issues and have someone to yell upon but think for a moment of these managers who are sitting at the top ,feeling lonely,listening to everyone..calming down everyone,sometimes with false promises..sometimes with tall claims.....showing castles in the air.....they know the truth..they are aware of the surroundings...but still they behave in the other manner because this is what there job is all about...to manage people..by any means. Now i think I've written much on management stuff....and there is always other side of the story too.

Management is an art - Peter Drucker