Management lessons- Mumbai locals

Born and brought up in Mumbai, I always had quite an experience with the local trains, however, I never took it in the sense that the trains also teach us everything daily.

I realized this when I shifted to Bhayander, half a dozen months back and started my MBA course as well, a month here and there.

The first day was simply amazing and scary, amazing in the sense that I didn’t go to office that day and scary as I wasn’t allowed to go to in a way as boarding the Virar train is something next to impossible for a first timer.

After a few weeks here and there, I now think that I am quite settled.

Especially in this lines of the Mumbai locals I feel I have learnt a lot

Here are my key lessons learnt

Time Management

In case you are late for a train which starts from your resident station, you are late for a day by a huge amount…….it’s not that simple that you would get to board the next few trains.

Same happens if you don’t follow deadlines on a project, you lose the reputation.

Understanding Groups

It is very important to understand the groupism in these virar locals where they won’t let you inside in case you are not a known face even if there’s space inside, they block the entry and you can’t do anything about it.

Same is the case when you are assigned to a new team or a project that’s not ready to accept you and you don’t know what to do or how to reason out

Getting into the comfort zone

Once you get somewhat safely inside a train, in a few seconds you get into your comfort zone and don’t bother if you need to move further inside to give someone else space who might be leaning to death outside, you start behaving like the group.

Even in the case of a job you do the same, in the first few months you really slog it out but then you get into your comfort zone and are least bothered, this is when you stop thinking.

Job and frustration

If you see the man standing in the aisle of the 3-seater on either side, you would realize that he is the calmest man on earth…though he is not getting to sit and he is standing out there in frustration, he would always give and keep your bags on the rack without cribbing.

In the same way, sometimes in our job we might be quite frustrated and lost but we should never allow that to get onto us, it should not affect our family and friends or show on our face

The Opportunity

Whenever you are standing in a local train besides the seat there is no guarantee which person would get up and whether you would get a seat or not and if yes then when….that’s something very dicy

Same thing happens in your team when you don’t know when your team member would leave and you might get a opportunity or when your quitting might give him an opportunity

Control your temper

It is very easy to lose your temper in these crowded local trains, you get n number of reasons to do that, but as we all know that this sometimes leads to a big issue out of a very small one.

Same is the case in our personal life as well, we give some trivial matters/people so much importance that it becomes a matter of life or detah.

=====MUMBAI LOCALS ROCK !!!!=====