Practical lesson of Managment

It's not a move, even the best move, that you must seek, but a realizable plan  (Eugene Znosko-Borovsky)

   For a little over a year and a half I worked as adjutant to the network Director in a important international mobile phone company. It was the peak of deployment, where the objectives of installation and commissioning of the air base stations (basic elements to provide mobile coverage) were very aggressive both in quantity and in compliance with the necessary speed, as this deployment could assume a great advantage from the standpoint competitive.

    I remember a particular day in which we were to meet separately with the leaders of each of the deploy areas for reviewing its objectives and resource management both financial and workload of each of the different companies working with us.

    Before the entry of each of them was the manager told me:

"He is so, has a concept of how it should work this way and therefore we must expose and reach this conclusion  this way"

   That day I learned a lesson managment practice hard to match in any MBA: communication skills combined with a strong knowledge of the people he worked with, and a very clear idea of ​​what he had to get to each of them: No there are only different ways of achieving the same goal, but the communication of the same objective should be different.

   That day I was clear about the difference between "ordering" and "managment" also helped me to see the difference in giving the message aseptic, realistic and to adapt it to convey the message to really get to each partner.

   The aim of the "game" he was playing with each was the same, but the approach was totally different.

   The World champion Emanunel Lasker (1868-1941) said he had to find the best play against a specific opponent, considering its features and style of play, which the best move objectively speaking (the truth "pure" )  is not always  the best practical option (the message conveyed and really assimilated by the receiver).

    In chess we consider these things every time you start a game from the first move we consider both our own style of play as the opponent, trying to find an opening and an approach that suits play our game and the same time you make your opponent to play uncomfortable

On the other hand, sometimes it is the case that in a certain position can find several options objectively valid and you have to choose ... there is usually no one that is clearly better than the other, then choose the option that think leads to play favorable positions or, if we know our opponent  we can look for options that are objectively worse for us, but letting to a game that suits worse to the style  of play of our opponents.

    The preparation of competitive chess (even at the amateur level) leads us to get used to the analysis not only of matter itself (message to convey, aim "aseptic"),  also to adapt that matter the opponent or, speaking in the business environment, to suit the different partners that we have in the project or specific meeting, reviewing how to modulate the messages to be transmitted and how to achieve the goal.