Management..

.@google's best managers empower their teams and avoid micromanaging: http://t.co/vtFcRC4c0i pic.twitter.com/CJyDfdVSLZ

— Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) November 26, 2013

The Right People Jim Collins

“The specifics can vary, even within companies, but our research delivered six important traits that identify ‘the right people’”, Jim Collins, Author of Good to Great and Built to Last (as quoted in BusinessWeek, May 25, 2009.)

1. The right people fit the company’s core values:

 People ask: “How do we get people to share our core values?” The answer: Hire people already predisposed to them – and keep them.

2. The right people understand that they do not have “jobs” – they have responsibilities:
 The right people can complete the statement, “I am the one person ultimately responsible for…”

3. The right people don’t need to be tightly managed:

When you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you may have made a hiring mistake. You need not spend a lot of time “motivating” or “managing” the right people. It’s in their DNA to be productively neurotic, self-motivated, self-disciplined and self obsessed. Teach them , Yes . Guide them , Yes . Manage them , No


4. The right people fulfil their commitments:

In a culture of discipline, people view commitments as sacred – they do what they say they’ll do,period. They have a 100% hit rate .Equally, this means that they take great care in saying what they will do, careful never to over commit or to promise what they cannot deliver.

5. The right people are passionate about the company and its work:

Nothing great happens without passion. The right people display remarkable intensity.

6. The right people display window-and-mirror maturity:

When things go well, the right people point out the window, giving credit to factors other than themselves; they shine a light on others who contributed. Yet when things go awry, they do not blame circumstances or other people; they look in the mirror and say: “I’m responsible.”


Oh this is crap..

The right people
1. Has the skill set
2. Is passionate about the job/loves the job
   and hence will be  Self driven (need no motivation) and takes ownership (need no managing)
4. Fits in culturally

Another point of view from Linkedin CEO..

1. Dreams big
2. Gets shit done
3. Have fun

#Quotes

"Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must."

#Happy Moments

 Just watched a bharatanayam recital at kalamandalam by a team from Kalakshetra. MindBlown!  The amazing ambience of koothambalam , the ever energizing palakkadan kattu , incredible music and orchestra and a  really stupendous show ... rekindled the longing for a tamilnadu bullet trip ...(Tanjaore,Madhura,Kancheepuram  ....here I come)

I havent seen a photo of her with a better smile :)