Greetings to you this Monday Morning!!
I am sure most of you would agree that learning to ride a bicycle was avery exciting activity as children. Some of my earliest memories areassociated with this activity. I remember my elder cousin sisters helpingme. First they got me a small bicycle with "supporting" wheels."Supporting" wheels are wheels that are attached to the center of the mainwheel at an angle such that they will touch the ground if the bicycletilts to one side. The wheels supported me if required. Eventually I was comfortable riding that bike with supporting wheels until one of my sisters got them removed. I was scared to ride the bicycle without the supporting wheels, but she reassured me that she would hold on to thebicycle from behind and not let me fall. After some persuasion, I finally agreed and off we went. She ran alongside holding on to the seat of the bicycle, balancing me whenever I needed. I was soon enjoying this and a few rounds into this activity she just let go of the seat. I realized her absence immediately and it was quite unsettling. The result also was obvious. I went a few meters and "bang", I was lying flat on the ground with the cycle over me. I sure was upset. My sister let go of me when I was banking on her. She had let me down and Iwas annoyed with her.
It was only with time and age that I understood the importance of what she did. She let go of me not because she wanted me to fall but because she wanted me to ride. From a dependent and hesitant cyclist, she wanted me to become independent and skillful at riding the bicycle. She knew that Ihad to be on my own some time and she trained me for that.At most stages in life we take on one of the roles in the combination of amentor-mentee, a senior-junior, a supervisor-subordinate or a teacher-student. If you happen to be the senior remember that it is partof your responsibility to let go of your junior at the right time for his good and if you happen to be the junior, remember that someone you were banking on has let go of you NOT to make you fall but to make you ride; independently and skillfully.
Have a great week!!!
Monday, March 21, 2005
Monday, March 14, 2005
Every soldier is important...
Greetings to you this Monday Morning!!
My colleagues and I are definitely not in the army but we are at war -which can be termed as - "A War for Talent", and that is what the current IT industry is all about. The business of recruiting can be made very exciting by perceiving it as a war and not simply as a job.Last weekend I participated in a "battle", i.e. "mega" recruitment event - and I call it "mega" only because of the scale at which the preparations happened. We rented an entire college in Mumbai, leased out a large Volvo bus for 50 "soldiers", managed our risk by traveling in different vehicles and on different days and before doing all this, carefully planned thecomplete execution of the "battle".Like in any battle, the "army" was divided into "units" that were assigned specific responsibilities and each unit, headed by a "unit leader"consisted of "soldiers" who knew where exactly they were to be positioned and what exactly each of them was supposed to do. Each one of them may not have known the details of the whole "battle", but each soldier'scontribution was extremely important. A blunder by any one of them was very likely to affect the overall success of the "battle".
You could actually be in the army, or you may be part of a softwareproject delivery team. You could be a teacher in a school or a salesperson in some company. If you look at your business as a war to be won,you would be occupying the position of a "General", a "unit leader" or probably a "soldier".A General may plan his battle brilliantly but its success depends as much on the execution by the soldier in the battlefield as on the planning by the General.
Remember that we all have a part to play in a larger objective and Every Soldier is Important.
Have a great week!!!
My colleagues and I are definitely not in the army but we are at war -which can be termed as - "A War for Talent", and that is what the current IT industry is all about. The business of recruiting can be made very exciting by perceiving it as a war and not simply as a job.Last weekend I participated in a "battle", i.e. "mega" recruitment event - and I call it "mega" only because of the scale at which the preparations happened. We rented an entire college in Mumbai, leased out a large Volvo bus for 50 "soldiers", managed our risk by traveling in different vehicles and on different days and before doing all this, carefully planned thecomplete execution of the "battle".Like in any battle, the "army" was divided into "units" that were assigned specific responsibilities and each unit, headed by a "unit leader"consisted of "soldiers" who knew where exactly they were to be positioned and what exactly each of them was supposed to do. Each one of them may not have known the details of the whole "battle", but each soldier'scontribution was extremely important. A blunder by any one of them was very likely to affect the overall success of the "battle".
You could actually be in the army, or you may be part of a softwareproject delivery team. You could be a teacher in a school or a salesperson in some company. If you look at your business as a war to be won,you would be occupying the position of a "General", a "unit leader" or probably a "soldier".A General may plan his battle brilliantly but its success depends as much on the execution by the soldier in the battlefield as on the planning by the General.
Remember that we all have a part to play in a larger objective and Every Soldier is Important.
Have a great week!!!
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