Corporates can learn from Army strategy

To win the economic battle:

Ramani Kangaraarachchi

Sri Lanka can win the economic battle and gain prosperity by following the strategy used by the Army using small teams to win the battle against terrorists.

Rukman de Silva

Management Consultant and Corporate Trainer Rukmal de Silva said companies are fighting a battle everyday in an extremely competitive and aggressive environment for victory.

Through this program a strategy of the Sri Lanka Army in leveraging leadership behaviours of an eight man team is applied for the success of the corporate sector.

Speaking at a seminar on ‘Front line Leadership for the corporate sector he said even in the face of uncertainty, taking responsibility to create an enabling environment to achieve a shared purpose is leadership according to this strategy.

“The performance of the front line staff is vital to fulfil ever changing and increasing client needs while striving to deliver results with minimum resources and reduce inefficiencies,” he said.

There are number of advantages of deploying small units in the corporate sector. It will maximize resource allocation ,reduce manpower and cost as well.

It is easy to penetrate into other markets securing information when there is a small number in a group.

A higher ratio of success is definite to achieve by employing small numbers for a task.

He said it is necessary to empower these groups with a set of skills, equipment motivation and training in order to achieve excellence in the corporate sector.

A large number of participants from multi-national companies attended this seminar where military theories were applied into practical situations in the corporate sector as applicable to them.