But from kite flying, I learn some personnel management techniques from it.
When start flying a kite, you must observe the wind
speed & direction, just like when we want to manage people, we need observe how this person character, his/her strong and weak point and how is the environment this person to be place, so if everything is coordinate well, then the management of that person is easy, it is same as if we fly the kite follow the correct wind speed and direction, the kite will start flying into the sky.
Once the kite fly into certain height, you will realise, it can be just hang there without much control, so as same as if we trust enough to our subordinate and let them have freedom to climb into their suitable place, then they will perform well without the manager to control over them or give instruction to make them move.
But some how, if we just loose our hand to the string,
the kite will start flying higher or being swing around, then we might have problem to control the kite, so if this happen, we just need to slowly pull the string then let go a bit and pull again and let go , but repeat this, the kite will go back to steady condition. So if apply to personnel management, if we find our trusted subordinate start produce problem, we cannot just feel anger against them, they might just facing some problem or is our fault to give too much freedom, then they are flying too high until they just don't know how to handle the higher ground environment, so as a manager, we should start talk to the person and understand their situation and solve their problem together, then will just lie a kite start feeling there is a hands on the string to drive them to the correct path, and they will feel more comfortable instead of just hit here and there to find his own way out.
If we give up the uncontrol kite, definitely we will loose the kite as they will just fall to somewhere slowly and wait to dead. But we also cannot try to pull too hard to the uncontrol kite, as the string is nit strong enough for a tension condition, we shall just pull a bit and loose a bit, then it will slowly get back to the good condition and we will see the kite fly again and it might fly even higher as the kite find a good way to incline slowly.
So if you have problem to manage your people, just imaging they are the kite on your hand, just depends on how you overcome the problem through the string.
