Business & Talent Strategy

How come you have the best consultants in the world working on your business strategy and mediocre ones implementing it ? There is something incredibly wrong here, you put the best brain to create a super product and let mediocre talent ruin it, I am sure you have thought through the last detail of the strategy while you go out with that hot product. The talent question begs the best answer in the world but we repeatedly give mediocre ones.

Why are your best brains not working on creating your talent strategy, we hear the chant 'people are our greatest assets' over and over, and we see ourselves failing on doing the best for the talent strategy over and over. The best brains are reserved for numbers and not people.

If we want a differentiated business strategy, we have to start with the people who are going to implement it. We have to create business differentiation through our talent strategy. We have to make talent strategy as relevant as our business strategy, give it the same time in the board room as the business strategy, give it the same analytical and multidimensional approach as we give to our business strategy, put our best people behind it to create the superlative, non replicable competitive edge.

Otherwise the best business strategy will remain the best business strategy of the boardroom.

What can an Year teach you

What can an year teach you, well a lot, if you do not get your ego into it.

It can teach you to listen once again, it can teach you the value of customer centricity, it teaches you to be humble ( in punjabi they say, ' hor vee neevan ho fakira'),it teaches you to take relationships deeper, it teaches you trust and mistrust, it teaches you to believe in luck and serendipity, it teaches you to be patient, it teaches you love once again, it teaches you pain, it teaches you disappointment, it teaches  you self belief, it teaches you to be your own person, it teaches you righteousness, it teaches you to master your game, it teaches you to be in the game; you got to learn to play it all over, it teaches you that bread is sweeter when earned with your two hands and your mind power, it teaches you the joy of creation and putting your signatures on your pieces, it teaches you confidence, it teaches you courage, it puts you back in touch with you, it teaches you to look I the eye of the world and stare back, it teaches you to be scared and bold at the same time, it teaches you anguish and frustration, it teaches you dependence and independent in he same breath, it teaches you depth and sincerity, it teaches you to be honest with yourself, it teaches you the value of time and money lest you forgot it, it teaches you that everything is transient yet everlasting.

An year teaches you many things provided you are ready to listen and hungry. An year can teach you the value of nothing and everything, an year teaches you to be grateful, it teaches you that the life boats ate useless if you want to swim in the ocean but are necessary to carry because they keep you at peace, an year teaches you to take things lightly and move on, an year teaches you to be yourself no matter what. An year teaches you to relish it. And what it has given you, it teaches you to understand others as you have never done before, it teaches you the reason for being in the team and yet standing alone, it teaches you to be smart and assertive, it teaches you that angst is useless and patience is priceless, it teaches you that you are here for a certain time and time is fair to all, it teaches you to be on the lookout for opportunity and fall, it teaches you to be devoted yet a rock.
 

An year can teach you that it can go very fast while seeming to be very long,  it can teach you to bring yourself to closure, it can teach you to open yourself to things you never thought are possible. It can teach you that emotions rule humans and business is personal at the end of the day whatever one may say.