E Management

Both are contradictory to each to other. Balance has the answer in it.

High Opportunity – Low equality
Cities have higher opportunities but low equality. You may see slum and high rises living together. Slum provides low cost jobs like maid, driver, helper, or shopkeeper. High rises have high end jobs like engineers, doctors, and experts. It has a downside of no emotional link between the two extremes.

Low Opportunity – High equality
Villages have high equality comparatively to cities. Income gap is not so high. They talk to each other and link with each other easily, but low opportunity slows down the speed of life.

Low Opportunity – Low equality
Terrorist hits area can be fit in this category. Power centricity varies from person to person and they also don’t have any opportunity to grow.

High opportunity – High Equality
Earlier US culture was good example of it. There both opportunity and equality were working together. Openness and transparency is high.

Both are important to finish any goal or project. Any weakness in tasks and resource management may fail the project. Let’s discuss four possible outcomes

1. Low tasks and Low resources: It means low productivity. In this situation, we don’t know what to do and how to do it.

2. Low tasks and High resources: It creates job losses in globe/country/society. Lack of tasks means whole world has reached at perfection level. There is no need for future development which won’t be case at this point at least. However, US/Europe is facing this situation because of work moved to low income areas. It is no more cost effective now. In country like India too, it is easy to find resources at cheap level however, it is difficult to find the ideas to give them right employment.

3. High tasks and Low resources: Companies try to optimise resource with tasks. Overtime and crisis management situation arises in this scenario. Delay in services and quality compromises happen in this situation. It happens. Getting right talented, motivated, and trained people to get right output is major concern in this scene.

4. High tasks and High resource: It is the success formulae. You have enough work and enough trained resources to feed it. You have to just manage the growth demand.

Business always struggle to optimise centralization or decentralization needs. Better utilization of resource needed to get maximum benefits. Here, I am noting down some benefits of centralization strategies
Centralization

Pro
1. Optimised use of resources – single resource can be allocated to multiple tasks. In downtime, it makes sense to centralise the activities.
2. Better control of budgets – Sites/locations demands their own shares based on their assumptions. In same company, single vendor can ask different prices at different locations. Centralization helps in getting control.
3. Standardization: It brings same rules and regulation across the sites. It becomes easier for auditor to audit on same norms.
4. Better processes: It helps in building robust processes.

Cons
1. Create power centres: It generally creates power centres. Without approval of centralised location, nothing can move
2. User touch: It misses the end user touch sometimes which is biggest advantage of decentralization. Voice of customer sometimes goes missing.

I have seen many people suffering from this contradiction. They focus on friends and left family in trouble. They spend hours on phone and keep family waiting. In India, Alcohal is a meeting points for friends. People forget family for it.

Opposite side is also there. People focus on family so much that they miss so much learning from social interaction. Friends are great social learning platform. Student preparing for compitative exams just work harder and harder to fulfill family expectations.

I feel balance has answer of this issue. We need to understand both are important in life. And both have their meanings. Leaving one side will create vaccum of other. Student focusing on study may find lost in social world. When he joins college, he felt left out.

On other hand, people focusing on friends, may loose their family. Family may suffer with pain of your bad company. Even if you are in good company like spirtual teams, family will miss your love and precious time. IF you are suffering form this problem, try to make balance between these two.

I have one friend who is too spiritual. He has spirtual goals in life. His son always keep compliaining about his commitment to him. He can simply solve this problem by giving balance to his family and self needs.