Mutual Loyalty and respect between leader and follower

Loyalty goes both ways, up and down.

In army in snowy post or in thick off deserts as officer we remained in our tent enduring the cold/extreme weather and the deprivations from families .comforts and good food with our men . Our soldiers were aware of everything in our power to take care of them. It resulted that our troops are ready to march for us through gates of hell also.


The lesson in Corporate world

All too often company executives and managers expect loyalty from their employees without giving loyalty in return. They ask employees to make sacrifices “for the good of the company” and then think nothing of laying them off/penalizing them for small issues.

They accept large salaries while giving employees small or no raises.

They operate a top-down management style while forgetting some of the most valuable insights for improving company efficiency and profit come from the men and women in the trenches.

Many executives/manager s refuse to further employee education and/or training with the excuse they’ll spend all that time and money and the employees will take those new skills elsewhere.

Many executives/managers are unaware of poor middle managers who discourage and denigrate their subordinates or even bully them but without patting them when they deserve or do a good job . They forget to apply carrot and stick policy
And then management acts surprised when their company experiences a high turnover rate.

They need to remember the lesson of Indian Army: loyalty goes both ways, up and down.

That’s ’s not just the right way to do; it’s the profitable way.