1. Mutual Admiration Society: Strive to form a mutual admiration society. Well, co-operation is better than conflict between departments. And all good managers want to ignite conflict, because ruling becomes simple when seeds of division are sowed. However, the point to note is that normally, mutually admiration groups exist at the top, because it's easier at the top.
2. Good cop. Bad cop: A successful manager needs to perfect the art. In any situation, there should be two approaches. A stricter approach to deal with the scenario, the ideal case of a bad cop, and then a more kinder and easier approach, after the arm twisting has been done. The classic good cop. This enables an efficient manager to extract maximum outcome from the reportees.
3. Charan padukas are critical for power. It's hard to reach to the top in your place of work or at home, until you have support of someone at the top. Gaining support is critical for success and once you acquire that, your energy should be invested in furthering the cause of the benefactor.
4. When carrots fail, sticks prevail. Fear is more important in maintaining order and discipline. Positive reinforcements have limited role, but fear goes a long way.
5. Everything is fair in love and war. When it comes to conquering market shares or climbing high on the corporate ladder, it's more critical to know the weaknesses of the competitors. Once the weakness is discovered, spare no effort to destroy the person.
Most importantly, sharing war-spoils prior to war helps in long term allegiance of the members of the adversary team.
