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16/07/2014
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Samba- 2014: To a Management
Student.
Dreams have been built up….waited
for few more moments…but collapsed when unachievable margins were set and
incremented continuously. They were capable of accomplishing the task….but
result was a huge tragedy and still unbelievable….what happened to team Brazil?
Who was wrong? Naymar?The Coach?The
Players?The team?Or what else? All were wrong in a sense. In the sense of
Management Principles and Thoughts many things went wrong…many people went
wrong…many concepts and assumptions went wrong.
Let’s start from Naymar. Icon of the team, brilliant player, on top of
performance records, inspiring, result oriented, trusted and a good finisher.
Any soccer fan will accept him as a hero of the time. I too.
Did this dream status placed him in
a Dream World? I think No. He was still hardworking, busy in finding and adding
more meaning, records and better history to the game…..but forgot to stop (at
least restrict or warn) the world from concentrating only on him.
The unprecedented expectations and
iconization may turn a person to be
self-assuming. Naymar, enjoyed it and never expected a fall, that too all of a
sudden. Quiet natural but it’s true, incidents won’t take your permission to
occur. Unfortunately the incident was too hard. Then what? A man collapsed…his
team collapsed…a big dream collapsed…and continued the same!!
Naymar got large number of
sympathizers… but even his presence in the gallery didn’t save Brazil in the
next match (I mean the losers’ final). The
story warns you and me to be away from self-placement in the height and
to be conscious when others do it. Because the result of our team, dream and
project will be a deep fall, once we become unable to play the role, for which
chances are many. One threat in the form of competitor, team mate or the
environment that could raise a huge hurdle will stop our journey…and that of
the team. If you really keep a passion to the game (or any task), humbly share
the grace, that will certainly reduce your risk and burden.
Its very nice to read that the
Brazilian coach was highly proud of Naymar. Any Guru or Trainer should be like
that but the same must not make the rest irrelevant. Since the Coach is unable
to predict the dynamic game there should be alternative players with same
energy, confidence, authority and respect. I find Scolari
the responsible one for the last two matches the team met with. It was a
natural result of conferring responsibility and authority without delegation of
them. It re-announces that ‘machines won’t work like masters’.
The players(except Naymar) were
finding comfort Zones under the shade of one among them. The tree disappeared
and the shade became a false story. The chaos made them perplexed. Big roles
were given…but in the last moment….what to do? How to do? No answer at all.
Crown sought. But thorns awarded! Quiet natural result. It advices all budding
Managers not to shift their role and responsibilities to shining stars. It will
make them permanently unable to shoulder assignments and will be thrown out
from the picture in close future.
Then the fans and media that
influences the emotions of even foot-ball intellectuals have played a wrong
role with immature gestures. They were confining the whole strength of team
Brazil into one man. It was irresponsible and finally laid a trap net for the
celebrated hero and his team.
There is a strong advice to a
potential manager to assess the external environment without bias and
prejudices. It also suggests the business analysts to be practical rather than
following emotions and passion too, both having short life unlike business
entities. It is notable from such learning from Samba- 2014 that both the
internal and external forces have equal responsibilities to keep B- ventures
united and effective to accomplish the dreams and expectations of its stake
holders and well- wishers.
The tournament teaches n number of
lessons. It is interesting to examine how Germany and Argentina became
finalists, and former the winners without a celebrity star in the squad. Game
and sport from the side of different teams were different but they have well
communicated the spirit in a range of magnitude. It is highly interesting for
an observer to analyze the manner in
which the teams took part in the event.
Some teams spoiled all expectations
and passion of their fans. Some others did no justice to the spirit of the
game. Few players emerged up sensing the need of the time. Few teams emerged up
beating threats and using opportunities. Few weak squads have beaten much
talked about super teams. All such comments have been viewed read many times in
one month.
Now I request all Management
students to substitute the world-cup tournament with an organization.
Substitute every match with a specific task and do the same in the case of each
player, team and the game, that is do the responsibility of analyzing the event
in a management perspective and then find out your favorite player, team, match
and game. Do remember that profession and emotion do not go together. Good Luck!
