When I was young, I was not a very smart kid. I could not concentrate enough to read a lot and my inability to memorize heaps and heaps of notes prevented from scoring well in exams. My scores, my teacher's remarks about me, the way I was perceived in my family only validated that I was an 'average' kid- not very creative, not very intellectual. And then 9th standard happened and my English teacher saw something in me that nobody, including myself, had seen in me. She encouraged me to participate in class discussions, read and write more, be active in extra-curricular activities. And the rest, as they say, was history. It took someone to believe in me, someone who had high expectations of me, to enable me to change the way I looked at myself, my self-concept and self-esteem.
Enter corporate world. Imagine if all managers had such high expectations of their subordinates, wouldn't it be great for the organisation's performance? Won't it impact the motivation of these employees to be more productive and develop themselves further? Well, that's what J. Sterling Livingston recommends in his path-breaking article- Pygmalion in Management.
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