The Manager of the Future should ponder “instruction rather than education” quoting a renown philosophy from the previous century whom I base my writings. Going to a renown Business School and get the highest grades will not be enough at all, trying to orient all the Managerial thought process to just a flat analytic or following pure and cold rational data is not enough nowadays.
It has proved to be a wrong method and it has proved to be not enough, facts and figures are everywhere.
How can you be a successful Manager (CEO) with a very poor Self-Management? Self-Culture and Self-knowledgement is the key and axis to be cogitated and appraised. Self-Management and Self-Culture are a traveling, a reaching, a finding and a winning: Learn how to organize your mind as soon as possible, in that way you will be able to organize your desk. Then make a rational assessment of your overall current situation and act.
Remember that every action generates a force of energy that returns to us the same way: we harvest what we sow, how can a manager be successful if cannot resist stealing money from the company or the state if a politician? Among other examples.
In the other hand, the best Strategy is Moderation upon expectations, focused on the present at any cost is the best tactic according to the experience of many other famous CEO’s. Do not let your mind wander around the past and the future.
Swami Guru Devanand Saraswati Ji Maharaj a renown Yogi master from the last 20th century and whose methods and approaches to go within ourselves are proving day by day, to be the most effective way to go beyond Education or mere intellectual development in all spheres of your life.
This renowned and famous personage who spent part of his life in the Americas, says in one of his famous book: Born to Win, for example, nowadays there are more professionals than ever! However, paradoxically as it might seem, there are more social problems, more delinquency, more frauds and for crying out loud a worldwide economical down turn now, a big threat for the overall and sustained development of the world as we know it.
The Manager of the future should combine inner and outer progress, creating a balance between them, things cannot be solved taking pills, drinking a lot of coffee, intoxicating your body with drugs and ignoring important universal laws above all.
Last but not least, being a Manager or the president of any corporation or country it’s a temporal thing, they all go and never stay. When youth is gone, where is lust and its play? Where is the lake when its waters have dried up? Where are the kinsfolk when riches are gone?
When staring this trip to your own inner reality, just by reading this or that book, is not enough. Intellectual lucubrations are useless when dealing these subjects: practicing is the key because again quoting SGDSJM: in life Seeing is believing but in Philosophy: Practicing is believing, start your training as soon as possible and after that you can spread what you have experienced through out your organization or company with an efficient corporate culture strategy.
I always think new, best and profitable trends are and will strictly be related to our "inner-organizational-culture" rather than just using traditional approaches. Is the fact many universities are adapting some kind of eastern philosophical approach already, in spite of the time it took to be officially included. These kind of things were definitely discarded due to "scientific validity" not so long ago). I remember when I was university student 16 years ago and I first started my yoga classes and MYM formal initiation; after i saw how super great i felt and how relieved i was from all that stress burning me i simply wanted to share it thinking of others. I used to deliver some lectures but I could see my professors face beaming with some sort of doubt and semi hilarious gesture and some psychologists and doctors professors saying those things cause "self-alienation" due to the fact of being quiet without "doing" anything.
Example number one, the famous Harvard Business School has integrated yoga for stress relief and relaxation promotion to their MBA program. Carolyn Gould who is the person in charge of the HBS faculty's gym named Shad Hall is convinced we are living such a fast pace life rhythm nowadays and we all really need some kind of Yoga in away not just Harvard.
University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business created a Yoga club which was founded by two students who were practicing Yoga for many years, therefore they needed a place to practice but also to teach it, it is now really common watching those students stretching their bodies after a Macroeconomics or Strategic Management classes, this club's popularity has grown really fast that is being recognized by authorities as one of the best yoga school, it reported that thousands of students are being enrolled.
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management also included to their two years MBA program yoga classes which has reported to have at the moment more than 370 subscribers, the founder of this club Priti Mody is convinced that: "Yoga is something consistent that lets me calm down." and quoting what she said in a report brought by Businessweek in 2008: "Business school is a unique experience. There are so many things you juggle at the same time. You're surrounded by highly motivated people and want to do everything, [so] you learn to find balance in schedule to be happy."
Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers Yoga classes through their health center and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management there is a week where in the middle of each semester that allow students to experiment other possibilities, there is a formal subject named "Yoga for Stress Management."