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Hello!

Life has been pretty fast the last few months. Loads of new
experiences, some good, some bad, meeting a lot of new people, some
good, some bad, has taught me a few basic lessons in humility and has
brought so much more clarity in how I see organizations and the impack
recruitment has on them, sometimes good, sometimes... :) not so good.

I met a gentleman who spoke of how improper leadership/authority can
wreck an organization/things and make the best of employees rethink
their wisdom, wisdom of having made a decision to take up the job/
candidate that might have been the most suitable to them and their
interests. He gave a couple of short examples that relate so well to
reality. I would like to narrate them here. The funniest part about
all this was that the person is a non-native english speaker and has
an accent and grammar that cannot be replicated in reality! This is in
addition to his excellent sense of quick humour and wit.

The first example was about leadership. "You hire Schumacher,
Raikonnen, Coulthard, and all the best 20 formula one drivers in the
world. You put them all in a bus, and ask *me* to drive them a hundred
miles is half an hour... what do I do? I crash the bus, and all of
them die with me. Whose mistake? The drivers? No. Mine? Certainly not.
The mistake is of the person that hired me to drive the bus, with the
best drivers in the world were sitting behind me, expecting me to do a
job as good they could. A bad manager is like a bad driver taking
Schumi and the gang places."

Unfortunately this text box does not feature any html editing
features, else I would have loved highlighting sections of what I was
told. I believe all who read this find it true. It is by far the best
example I have heard that makes sense and analogises the context
sensibly. I came across an incident around the same time I heard this
wise example where a Management person from my ex-employer got fired.
I could truly realise the kind of harm that person was inflicting upon
an organization which has/had immensely talented people.

The other example that I wanted to narrate was the same persons way of
explaining how authority should be given to subordinate team members,
and what authority can mean to an immature mind. He first cited an
instance where an engineer in his team was assigned the task of
tracking the progress his team was making, which he mistook as the
role of a lead. He said, "Authority is like a knife, I give it to you,
and you can use it to kill me. You can cut your wrist and kill
yourself, willingly or by mistake. You can go around the office and
stab everyone.... or you could use it to cut an apple and share with
your team. It just depends on how much a mind can take and understand
that determines how authority would be used, and identifying that, is
a part of recruitment, and the hiring manager's job"

It's bed time for me. I am cutting it short. Let discuss this if
anyone is interested.

Goodnight!
Vijay