Leadership thoughts - Shock absorbers
I believe my career thus far has taken the main street. That is to say that I have gone through several rich experiences over the course of my professional journey and there hasn't really been a short cut, barring perhaps the advantage bestowed by my education. But lets say given the starting point of post graduation the journey has been rather main stream. Full of its share of luck and setbacks. The setbacks have mostly been the "entry-ticket" kind, keeping me from getting my big breaks. But they haven't been of the kind where I had to recover from a situation when I was doing well or was on top so to say. In short, they have required of me persistence but not much resilience. Until recently that is, when certain organizational changes impacted my portfolio unit. In the aftermath of these sudden changes I was left re-drawing the frame conditions and stabilizing my unit. This led to an inevitable encounter with a "Senior" designated person in the company,...