Week 2 - Management By Attention
After a grueling statistics session for the first half of the class, Dr. D did deliver what he had promised – his gift to all his students. Management By Attention or MBA, his baby, would definitely serve as a guide to every manager. While all statistical graphs showed anomaly, Dr. D and his team had to dig into voluminous data to see if they spot a pattern. Dr. D’s MBA was thus born!
Attention, Support, Feedback, Information Sharing, Nurturance, Emerging autonomies, Limit setting, Revalidation, Growth and Loyalty is a model that has withstood the test of time and millions of data; a model that can be applied to any context where there is a relationship between two people. Dr. D also made it easier to understand why relationships between couples/lovers sometimes fail. Let me apply the concept to explain the scenario. At the very beginning of a relationship, couples tend to be attentive to one another’s needs and will also be willing to take the extra step to keep the significant other happy. They would support one another (encourage, motivate, guide and also remove all the obstacles that hinders the growth in their better half’s path) and also give and receive feedback so that they can please and satisfy one another. After getting to know each other (information sharing) and caring (nurturing) for a while, these two people who had merged as one now emerge into two autonomous bodies. This gives way to misunderstandings, quarrels and other complications. There arises a need to set limits so that their relationship does not fall apart and constant revalidation is required to ensure that their relationship continues to grow into a loyal one.
Most couples who have strained marriages wake up when they realize that things are out of control. They try to fix it by setting limits and revalidating their boundaries or by even taking a few steps backward to nurture each other. But all care and restrictions will not be of any good till they realize that they need to provide attention to make their relationship work. Any workaround or initiation always starts with attention as the other steps will sequentially follow thereafter. Management By Attention is therefore a good model that can be put to use in any context. Guess everything makes sense now! Thanks, Dr. D, for having shared it with us :)
Attention, Support, Feedback, Information Sharing, Nurturance, Emerging autonomies, Limit setting, Revalidation, Growth and Loyalty is a model that has withstood the test of time and millions of data; a model that can be applied to any context where there is a relationship between two people. Dr. D also made it easier to understand why relationships between couples/lovers sometimes fail. Let me apply the concept to explain the scenario. At the very beginning of a relationship, couples tend to be attentive to one another’s needs and will also be willing to take the extra step to keep the significant other happy. They would support one another (encourage, motivate, guide and also remove all the obstacles that hinders the growth in their better half’s path) and also give and receive feedback so that they can please and satisfy one another. After getting to know each other (information sharing) and caring (nurturing) for a while, these two people who had merged as one now emerge into two autonomous bodies. This gives way to misunderstandings, quarrels and other complications. There arises a need to set limits so that their relationship does not fall apart and constant revalidation is required to ensure that their relationship continues to grow into a loyal one.
Most couples who have strained marriages wake up when they realize that things are out of control. They try to fix it by setting limits and revalidating their boundaries or by even taking a few steps backward to nurture each other. But all care and restrictions will not be of any good till they realize that they need to provide attention to make their relationship work. Any workaround or initiation always starts with attention as the other steps will sequentially follow thereafter. Management By Attention is therefore a good model that can be put to use in any context. Guess everything makes sense now! Thanks, Dr. D, for having shared it with us :)
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