Self-Management and World Development

Abstract

Self-management can be considered as an instrument for world development. Charity begins at home; likewise, management begins with self. Similarly, world development begins with self-management and self-development. In modern management, the primary or even an exclusive emphasis is laid on the management of externals like men, machine, material, money, market, method, organisation, environment, etc. But as eastern spiritual thinkers have repeatedly pointed out, right management of the internal self is the key to the successful management of the outer life and environment. Someone who cannot manage his own-self cannot effectively manage others or anything in the outer life. So self-management is the key to life management and ultimately world development. Man is the primary input to the management process. Man is not merely a mass of flesh, blood and bones. He is a mental creature in a physical frame. A worker as a man is a pack of feelings, emotions, sentiments, likes and dislikes priorities and preferences. He has his physique, his vital mind, heart, spirit and soul. Knowledge emerges from the inner being. Hence, the inner being of the man has to be suitably developed in order to make him creative and responsive. Thus, it becomes necessary to understand and know the management of self.