Properties of Magnet in Management

One must think what principles does magnet exhibits that can be borrowed in management. Even I was bewildered for a moment when Prof T. Prasad brought in magnet in our class and ask the basic significance of magnet i.e. why magnet attracts?  

Students started guessing the answer which was ended when someone from us said the alignment property. Professor was seeking this answer which makes this stone as a magnet.

 

So how this magnet and its property are helpful to managers? Well, if we use a managerial prism to find out this answer then you will strike the chord with many managerial aspects. Yes, it is the Manager who has to have magnet like properties to attract the work from its team. 

Best managers are known for the work they fetch it out from its team. It is not necessary that every manager is blessed with excellent team members. Perhaps, managers have less liberty to creep about its team. An efficiency and quality of a manager is reflected in how he/she is able to use its given resources in best possible way.

So here is the magnet principle which comes to a rescue for a manger who is pondering to derive the best out of its team. Like a magnet, manager starts aligning the human forces so that it incepts the cohesiveness among its team. Manager merely on this innate power can bring together people and power. 

E.g. M.S Dhoni did not creep when he was given the first assignment as a captain to represent India for T20 world cup. In absence of excellent members in a team, what MSD achieved there was a sheer example of magnet principle. He was instrumental in building a team by pulling out their positive forces in order to be invincible in that tournament. 

Therefore the gist here is that, no team is perfect, if it would have been perfect, then there were no requirement of managers. It is the managers who has to carry forward all the latent forces within team facing in different direction and then to realign these forces in a single direction so that the ultimate purpose of an organization is served.