‘YES BOSS!’ – The term that we chant like a mantra in the corporate scene. “Boss is always right,” the old adage is true. It has been on since the advent of the golden era of Ramayan and Mahabharata. The same will continue too exists as new organisations would be born and those which are existing.

 

So then how should one manage the relationship with the boss because what matters most these days for this relationship is lot of butter and flatter and deals under the table with his grapevine! The statement gets validated and justified from the great epic Mahabharata’. Then should one use the long cut of offering services as the Pandavas did in the Kingdom of Virat.

 

We today could make a direct comparison between the ‘King and CEO’ and his advisors and ‘Praja, the employees’. In ancient time ‘Raja’ took the responsibility of the ‘Praja’, the ‘people’. Similarly, the CEO would be responsible for the employees working in the organisations but then who work within the closed circuits of the King could learn important ground rules from the history.

 

If we open up our thinking tanks then we would be able to recall the time of ‘Pandavas’ who had a period of exile for 14 years in which one year was incognito or ‘Agayatvasa’, wherein they were not suppose to reveal their identity. They chose Matsya kingdom and King Virat to offer their services too. Here there was a great advice given by their priest Dhoumya Muni, who trains them to understand how the services could be offered to the king.

 

 He gives them a few ground rules to be followed, which we as employees could follow when we belong or come into the innermost circle or (the  according to the LMX theory,  which is taught in the subject of organisation behavior ), which has in groups and out groups amidst the employees in the organization for  the ‘boss’.

 

Seek a prior permission to meet the boss through his secretary and don’t trust the boss fully. Avoid meeting him without prior permission however close you would be to him.

Place your self in the seat, which is not reserved for anybody (which you would come to know only through your good observational skills).

 

Avoid developing close contacts with the King’s wife or CEO’s wife or VIP visitors who have enmity or close relationship with the king (beware).

 

Always perform the minutest task given by the King, with his knowledge, with his prior approval. The King or the CEO would have his own grapevine to counter check your piece of advice and information.

 

Any behavior of deceit /fraud would undoubtedly lead to death (calamity /dismissal /resignation) of the employee.

 

Strictly obey the orders of the ‘King’ and do not go by the herd mentality. Think what is right for you and how the instruction, responsibility would and work would affect you, and how the instructions given by the King could be performed to the best of abilities.

Avoid talking to the people which the King / CEO does not like at least in front of him as you also need to understand that some people would be constantly needed to get the work done when the CEO would be away.

 

Strictly manage your emotions, extreme happiness, extreme sorrow and extreme enthusiasm, as then you would be able to balance your thoughts to give and take advice from him or others in the meeting.

 

Words of wisdom are more important and you would win and rule over the King’s or CEO’s heart if you speak only “right and the truth”

 

Only those who show courage, valour, wisdom and enthusiasm are endowed with wisdom and strength are fit to remain with King and his palace i.e. the CEO and the organisation.

 

Learning this simple ground rules would definitely help one to have a good interpersonal relationship and rapport with the boss and who may know that once a peer could be the boss tomorrow.

 

Here one could take note of a special person who has been always admired by the role and qualities played by our very own sage ‘Narada’, as described by Lord Krishna, which are not difficult to emulate and if any good habit is emulated then it improves the place where it’s been practiced: