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You must have wondered at some point of time, why God gave us two parents. Do children who have a single parent have a normal upbringing? Or does such imbalance affects them. Traditionally father’s role was about discipline and mother’s role was about nurturing but it is not unusual to find role reversals these days. A manager as a mother nurtures his subordinates, is very patient with them and encourages them to share their problems and ambitions. A manager as a father disciplines and at times uses negative motivation (challenging the subordinate by saying you cannot do it). Assuming that an average human being needs both carrot and stick, the manager as a mother provides the incentive of carrot and the manager as a father provides the fear of stick. The proportion of carrot and stick required varies from person to person depending upon his self-motivation, education and maturity levels. It is a matter of debate whether a manager can play the role of both the parents or the imme...

I have created a Creativity-Managerial scale (continuum). I personally believe that highly creative people (at one extreme of the scale) generally tend to be very emotional, sensitive, (and often moody) and are unsuitable for managerial jobs.  On the other end of the scale are unemotional, not so sensitive, un-moody and uncreative people who are suited for managerial especially sales and high pressure top management jobs. All human beings are located somewhere in the middle of the scale. But each human being has a combination of creative and managerial instincts. Students who love languages may have creative bent of mind and students who love mathematics are likely to have managerial bent of mind. (Image Source  http://www.facebook.com/50Fiftydz ) But then we have a basic personality and an acquired personality. A person who is basically creative can develop managerial skills while a person who is basically managerial can develop creative instincts with eff...