Use Influence

Just try and use authoritarian ways of managing people at work and see what reaction you get.
Today, unlike the past, the "do-what-I-say-or-else" approach will not work.Try it - you could be surprised with the result.

That doesn't mean to say that you can't get people to do what you want. It's just that you have to use less force and more influencing.

"Remember the fable by Aesop in which the North wind and the sun had a contest to see who could get a traveler to take off his coat first. The wind blew with all his might but the traveler just held his coat tighter. The sun then shone with all his might until the traveler grew too warm and had to take it off.The sun used influence not force.

Blogs are making big bucks today and influencing in a very subtle manner - want examples see

GigaOm,AlwaysOn-Network,Drudge Report,HuffingtonPost,engadget,textually.org,TechCrunch etc. Blogs are growing and growing and growing only and have become real easy & cheap to maintain too.This blog itself is quite old and is getting some traffic too - even if it is one visitor in a lifetime - that visitor will take action after reading the stories and seeing websites mentioned here.

That is all for now.Till next time.