They may hardly be undergraduates, leave alone beinggraduates, they could well provide today's managers a lesson or two inmanagement, said Ahmedabad-based management guru Shailesh Thaker in his latestcase study.
Thaker has drawn about 20-odd parallels between cricketand management where he points out that though most cricketers have any formaltraining in management they apply all the rules of management to the game.
?Most sportsmen have not undergone any management trainingor been a member of any top-level management associations. Most of them areunder-graduates, who have never been part of universities. More surprisingly,they have never undergone any Intelligence Quotient test. Yet they demonstratea high level of refined intelligence and knowledge. If we try to understandthese things intensively, we will find that they demonstrate the lessons ofmanagement and manifest every aspect of management principles,? said Thaker inhis study, excerpts of which have been posted on his personal blog.
Thaker has listed out certain management skills that thesecricketers exhibit efficiently. ?Some of the vital principals on which we findcricketers exhibiting their management skills efficiently could be planning andstrategy meetings, skill-sharpening activities, placing the right man for theright job, appreciation and motivation, time management and decision making,?he added.
Talking about each of these points, Thaker added thatcricketers are wise enough to incorporate management principals without formaltraining.
?For instance, a player's strengths and weaknesses areidentified and dealt with accordingly. There will be different kinds oftreatment for different people. This is something that is sometimes absent evenin company boardrooms,? he said.
