Have been seeing this for a long time now. The generation that is coming fears something. They are not confident. I am talking about some 99% of the people. They fear something. They are not ready to express what is right. They are not ready to tell the world that the thing that is happening is not right. They are not ready to challenge !!!!!
When I joined my first job in 2001, we were a bunch of MTs taken. Why were we taken? To challenge the status quo. Young blood with young ideas, amazing amount of enthusiasm, burning desire to do something and a high amount of confidence. We were taken in the organization as a breakthrough step and were supposed to bring about a Huge change in the organization and take it ahead with a greater speed.
The organization was not prepared for our arrival. As I understand GE prepared its organization in order to use the might of the MTs -- to drive the organizations growth in an exponential manner. But here it was not prepared. What happened then ???? We all faced challenges of our own. Things were not right. we were not being used properly and the whole thing started becoming a waste. But the irony of the situation is that none of us stood up and told the management what was going on wrong. That means there was a lack of feeling for the benefit of the organization, we were all more concerned about ourselves only. What happened Slowly and Slowly everyone moved out of the organization.
The company hired a fresh bunch of MTs but then same thing happened and thus they discontinued hiring MTs. Same things is being repeated today. Companies don't have the set objective for the MTs. Either they have the objective but that is neither communicated to the employees nor to the newly joining MTs
Whose fault was it? The organizations -- That they did not take the right people or they did not manage us in a right manner. Ours -- As we were not able to bring about a change. We did not even bring about to the notice of the management that what was happening was wrong. ???????
- Some say HIRE for Passion
- Some say HIRE for Enthusiasm -- Tom Pete
- Some say HIRE for Attitude
Had heard long time back -- I can hire the hand and the mind but how can I hire the heart. Also heard that I would pay anything to someone who does this thing in a manner I would do it, at least with that much Passion.
Hence they say that HIRE for the heart which can be translated into Passion / Enthusiasm / Attitude which can also be termed as Conviction and Grit in working. Passion intersecting with work is rare to find. But if you have the attitude and the Enthusiasm then you may work with Passion for all the assignments gives to you. Covey gives a concept of PROACTIVENESS. That is what you do when you have these three (which are basically saying the same thing in different ways) Yes that is also in sync with this.
But do we HIRE for subdue-ness? Do we want people who are less confident, are less capable and thus are less Ravana? Don't we normally hire such people as we have our own fear. We have our own job insecurity. We ourselves are not Ravana (people manager or leader) hence cannot breed Ravanas (managers or leaders)
But in this aren't we sacrificing the growth of the organization? Aren't we changing the whole objective of having MTs. Aren't we compromising and managing with MEDIOCRITY.
Was this the attitude shown by the most successful people in the world? Was this done by all the successful school drop outs ? I bet that if this is what was done by them then they would have been somewhere and somebody. But to make a difference what needs to be done is to have the ability to manage Smart People.
Lets try challenging things and not sit in our comfort zones.
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