Your Dharma as a Manager

O King, Be Formidable and Firm,
Like a Rock, and follow your Duty

(Yajur Veda)

The duty of Managers is not to be liked or loved. Their duty is to be effective.

You have to be effective for the organization, effective for all the stakeholders, including staff, company owners, bankers etc.

Yet most managers want to be liked and loved by their colleagues. It is a fatal mistake.

The Vedas say it quite clear as stated above.

Be Formidable and Firm as in Uncompromising on basic Principles. Or else you are lost forever. You lose sight of Principles and you are in un-chartered waters. People have gone to jail for straying. Don’t do it. It’s just not worth it.

Be like a Rock so that your integrity is uncompromised and unquestioned for ever.

Follow your duty to achieve (with integrity) what needs to be achieved.

Never compromise on being firm, or following your duty to what is your target.

Don’t let others under your care take short cuts too. Their idiocy will reflect on you.

That does not mean being inhuman. It means being a good, honest, hard working human being who doesn’t compromise on basic Principals.

Is there a choice ???