Tower Building With Smart Goal

Another interesting lecture of organization management that remind me memories of childhood activities I used to do that time. One of the favourite activities was building the tallest tower using wooden blocks amongst others but did not know that there was something related to management behind this also. Any external perturbation made the tower easily crumbled. Similar things happened in the class room also.

Prof. Mandi came in the class with the wooden blocks and asked “Who will build the tower”??

– Tower with the base of single block!! Here we got an idea that something interesting will happen again. Most of us raised their hand. Everybody was enthusiastic and energetic that time. Then he said Whoever will come has to pay Rs. 500 that is not refundable. One by one our enthusiasm wiped out. After all Rs. 500 is a big amount!! Finally a guy came forward and deposited Rs. 500 to class CR.. Dr. Mandi asked again to make a guess “How many blocks would he be able to use to build the tower”?? Everybody started throwing the numbers in the air 7,8,10,15.. I said 10 blocks!! The game began:

That guy used single block as base and started putting the blocks one over the other.. 1..2..3..4................16.. The count reached up to 16 and after putting 17th block tower tumbled. Something beyond the expectation happened.. something pedantic!!

Here I understood that never judge and intimidate any body just by the perception. Work done with proper planning and strategy always get accomplish. Mind with no disturbance work effectively.

Then,the second round of bidding for the position of worker, manager and CEO(Senior Management) started. Finally Three guys occupied the positions with respect to the amount paid. Higher position,Bigger amount!! They have also asked to perform the same task. CEO will give command to manager who in turn will give instruction to worker. Prof. Mandi asked the manager to make the worker blindfolded – Great Ruse in the task.. Then worker started building the tower as per the instruction given by the manager. 1..2..3..4..5..6..7.. and after putting 8^th block tower Collapsed. Bad performance.. Team of three failed against single person. Dr. Mandi asked the worker that what was going in his mind while performing the task. Worker said he was unable to understand the instructions given by manager because more than one instruction striking the same time that he could not interpreted.

Practically it happen in most of the organizations that unnecessarily borne havoc to workers and reduce their efficiency. If manager instructed him in a proper manner he could have performed better, better than that of single person. Here comes the concept of modern management.

Everybody strive for success in his/her professional as well as personal lives. But success is not that easy to accomplish. To be successful, first we need to have an aim in our life and after that we need to work hard to achieve those aims by setting up SMART Goals.

“Smart” here is an acronym and each letter defines the traits that should be kept in mind while setting up goals.

S – Specific, Simple, Strategic, Sustainable. 

M – Measurable,

A – Achievable, Ambitious.

R – Realistic, Rational. 

T – Time, Tangible.

In an Organization Goals should be set in a way that they are more than what it has achieved earlier but less than the potential. Goals achieved by you should be below what you have set as the target. In this way you will strive to give your best the next time and improve your productivity in the process. You will ultimately achieve what you aim for but in this way you will always think that there is still room for improvement which will eventually lead to increase in the potential of the organization.
The combination of realistic goal set and realistic goal achieved evaluate the performance. Better the these two factors, better will be the performance.