Comments on: Great People Decisions

By: David D'Souza

David D'Souza — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:23:18 +0000

I think leadership roles are going to be severely stress tested in the forseeable future. WEB 2.0 is pushing social technology into the social-emotional domain and managers who were used to leading by authority are going to have to change and learn how to lead by collaboration. You can argue, that for some leaders the “intoxicating power of authority” is not easily exchanged with the “humbling counseling of collaboration” …now you’ve got a problem on your hands…because some of this stuff might not be related to which school you went to, or which company you work at .. it might have to do more with your mental-psychological-emotional bandwidth and stretchability (if ever there is a word like that, if not I just made it up!)

All knowledge, markets and intelligence are already networks.
Always have been, always will be.
From your brain synapse to global web communities, the unit of measure is the network. Whats different is we now have the tools to make them work for us.
Its tantamount to the invention of the telescope, X-ray or MRI.

How many people in leadership roles really get that ?
really ?

By: Vijay Kumar K

Vijay Kumar K — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:21:46 +0000

Hello Abhi,

So, you had hit the grapevine this time, ain’t you? As you said, Employers have a great difficulty in filling up the right position with the right kind of a person, at the same time we should not neglect the difficulties the employees’ face when they have more than one employer willing to take them. At the least, the employers have enough information and man power to judge a particular candidate. But, when it comes to the employees they have more grayed out areas to handle with. Like, How’s the work culture going to be? Who is my manager and what are his core values? What is the company’s expectation (Believe me, most of the times most of us turn out to be doing completely different things than what we’ve been informed during the time of our interview)? The list would go on.

So, here you go. What do you suggest for the candidate? What the candidate should look out for? On what factors one should accept an offer?

Hope you will find time answer me.

Thanks.

BTW, am planning to read your new novel – Married But Available (the acronym we use for MBA).