Sachin Tendulkar who bid farewell to his ODI cricketing career recently has not just won titles like the Cricketing Maestro, Cricketing Legend, Master Blaster and many more for his worthy cricket skills, talents and achievements alone. He stands for much more than what the eye can see. He stands for humility, he stands for excellence, his focussed mind, his ability to take criticism and endure it with all modesty available on the planet. He has invested in his play and flawless skill-honing with brilliant organization skills that all management students and aspiring gurus can learn from. Adopt his principles of management at work to realise what was the real talent behind the bat! MBAupdates searches to extract some lessons to learn from someone who will never be seen in coloured clothes fighting hard for Team India.
Search Beyond Perfection
Despite being perfect and scoring as much as he did Sachin Tendulkar looked for perfection beyond his own limits. This was reflected in his strict regimented routine of net practice every morning. His discipline and hard work got him what he achieved in 23 years of his association with cricket. Similarly, managers should look beyond the normal trends to something beyond, something being the clichéd to discover products; prices and strategies that boost productivities ad help them achieve their goals. Try different methods to reach the same destination as the master blaster Sachin Tendulkar did.
Failure nor Success Erred Him
Sachin Tendulkar has played a very long innings, during which he earned tonnes of accolades for his performance on the field. However, he did not have a great time as a captain. Rather one would agree that his stint was criticized by many for the failures of the cricket team. Did this failure affect him? Maybe it did. But he did not let it reflect the same on his batting after he was relieved of the captaincy. There were numerous occasions when the armchair critics pointed fingers at him for not contributing when the team really needed. Every time he answered them by coming up with a brilliant knock that forced the same critics to sing praises for him.
Secondly, remaining grounded when one has succeeded requires traits that very few people possess. Tendulkar manages to do this with utmost finesse on and off the field.
Thus, the key is to stay grounded whether you are appreciated or criticized. It’s all about staying at your crease for a long time braving all odds and believing in yourself.
Focus On One Product
Each stroke of his was beyond perfection, each was a product that he perfected. But he focussed only on cricket. Amazing concentration levels. He never shifted focus. He did not let success get to working for his product, cricket! Yes time will definitely consume your patience, but alas if you get success like how Sachin Tendulkar got then would that not be worth it! Thus, do not put your hands in everything and do not try to be the jack of all trades, it only ruins your actual skill. Hear experts say … “his greatness is that he does the same thing that he has been doing for the last 25 years, but with greater passion every time he takes the field. He has never tried his hand at anything other than cricket. He feels most secure in his 2 1/2 square foot home called the batting crease,” clarifies R Suresh, CEO of the executive search firm Stanton Chase.
These are some of the star management principles that MBAupdates could gather form the cricketing career of the legend Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.
Tendulkar epitomises the mind-set of wanting to grow from scratch even after achieving the greatness threshold. He never tends to cool his heels. Companies and CEOs too must always think of starting from scratch and keep up the tempo even when they hit their targets.
