The Peninsular Boss

The Peninsular Boss

Let me ask you this... if all the working professionals in the world have been given a choice to work with the boss of their choice, how would it be? what do you think will happen.

Well imagine this big land of people, with all the working professionals on one side and their respective bosses on the other. People have been instructed to move around and stand in the same line as the boss they would like to choose and work with.

If you take a aerial view of this event you will almost see a game of human 'Solitaire'. People lining up one behind the other, where the boss himself is choosing to move, under the boss of his choice, huge line on one, little smaller in the other and maybe some of them would choose to pass and go back to the 'deck' waiting for their turn to be part of the line whom they want to work with, boy they might not be able to choose whom to work with but they sure do know whom not to work with :-)

However, I would not want you to look at this event but just rewind your mental thought process and go to that point where people started moving to be part of a particular line. What do you think their prime thoughts were, the moments between the time they were asked to move and the time they moved?

I'm able to see all those people run their entire life experience and reminisce the best instances of all those faces that they saw as their boss, who managed them or maybe still managing them. 

What would these instances be which made them take the decision? If I have to go a little more deeper what did these instances contain?... For me its "emotions".

No matter how unemotional a person can be, at that time, I believe the factors of growth, career, money, future all that came out of emotional impulse from that person.

Now.. wait I'm not here to talk about emotion as a human functionality and how it affects judgement in human beings. But I would want you to focus on the logical flow that specific emotion has created which reached a point of decision for that person.

Being born in a peninsula I guess I had this notion that anything that has a 3 way connection to a entity can be  a peninsula :-). My theory... there are 3 such 'ocean' of factors that draws us 'ships' to the coasts of this 'peninsular' boss that we want to work with.

Ocean 1 - Engage

The boss who knows your true potential and utilises you to the fullest extent of tapping all your interests. He/she will ensure that they have enough task list which will keep you enganged all the time. You may relate to this happening to you now, and may say "whats the big deal, Im buried with work anyway". But I'm drawing your attention to this peninsular boss, who would give you the tasks but you will not know the extent that you are already managing. 

Your work may be transactional, you may be doing mundane things, post man's job, absolutely no time for a breather but in that process you would have come to know the links in the chain and slowly without your knowledge in the pretext of giving "additional responsibilties" you would be handling the responsibilities that they would have been handling, the movement of end-end of that chain. 

You would have learnt how the machine works as you pass through the gears and linking the chains making an entire gigantic process. From then on, any task/project/structure becomes a machine to you and all of you have to do is link them, gear them and create a self-managed overhaul process. 

During this entire journey you would have received your training, you would have handled the unknown, you would now start visioning your next steps, plan, prepare, implement and complete. The best part, at every single stage it would be your signature on the final structure.

Ocean 2 - Nurture

Your working knowledge, your grasping powers, your analytical thoughts, your strengths, your weaknesses all that would have come out during the engagement phase. The peninsular boss maintains his own performance diary, he has made notes (mentally or on a desktop .txt file who cares) all through out and all he/she have to do now is ensure that you are re-charged on all those areas. 

There are so many times when you are attending boring trainings, seminars on topics that are alien to you or endless meetings which are gibberish, but if you would notice the peninsular boss would ask you how it went and spend sometime with you to understand what you have learnt, who you have met, how was the atmosphere and provide you with ideas which you can put back into your work and with every such instance habituate you into putting anything back into your work. 

You will be ready for thinking differently, acting on higher plane which would help the boss place you by his side so that he can create the visibility, the boss ideas will be yours and you would know exactly what to do with them as you know the entire machinery now. 

The process of growth would become automatic, you would be known around the place and what you do. You have been familiarised in the industry... you would have been... nurtured.

Ocean 3 - Enhance

Its time to let go of the hold on your seat as you already have the handle bars straight and you are pedalling away, the road doesn't scare you anymore, you are flying the machine alone and the boss just needs to be on the ground provide you with directions and let you know of the climate.

You get to venture into your own roads or fly into the yonder, by just knowing that there is a line connected and you can always trace back. You have no fear of falling and you know if you do its your own doing. The boss would give you new roads to travel, enhance you to the bike or the car, give you the lats and longs and you would just know where the wind is or how the wind is... to reach there. 

You will be doing things only which interests you and you would get into interesting work even without you asking for it. You remember a song that you heard when you were a child, you might remember a entire movie, but can you tell me one lesson from your 5th grade now. Where your interest is, you would automatically retain it. The enhancement of your interests will be in the peninsular boss's best interest :-)

Even if I had to categroise, in my mind, the enthusiastic natured would fall into Ocean 1, the analytical, cautioned natured will fall into Ocean 2, the mature, independent groups fall into ocean 3 and by groups I mean it could be the boss or employees. Even if one of the above attribute has created an equation between the employee and the boss they would remain inseparable for a long time. These attributes would go to the extent of both groups making all efforts to take care of any kind of factor, may it be in their personal or professional life, not affect this equation and the surroundings would conspire, would crumble for them to stay that way. Retention has been mechanised :-)

So look out for this peninsular boss create the equation. Rest assured, your satisfaction levels on the job will always be recharged, 100%.