Ten days

just flew by and I am back to where I started. Well last week was VERY interesting meeting up with many PESIT friends with Satya getting engaged. Two night-outs in Teju's place, the dinner at the MTR and later meeting up after Kumar takes an entrance into Bangalore, All in all....Last week was like a time machine.....

change of topic

Now, Ive been thinking and also discussed with one of my uncles abt one thing :-

Whom would a company actually need? A Homegrown manager(who knows all the practises of the organization) versus a manager, usually, from some other field.

I asked this question to one of my uncles, as I drove in the morning crowded madness of Bangalore city.

He seems to favor the latter.

Because, with their experience they tend to bring a change which might work out real good, for the company itself.A homegrown manager would have been totally tailored to think in one direction. He gave me some proofs abt how changing the work related responsibilities helped a un-motivated organization to suddenly perform real good.So now, even I am of the belief that having ONLY homegrown managers is not the right thing to do.

Well, even , Nortel had hired a soldier??!!! as the CEO.This was sometime 2 years ago.

Why? This is what they had to say :-

No, aside from convenience, why pick Owens? His public appearances since taking over Nortel in April 2004 may not have wowed the Street, but in military and Pentagon circles--where he has spent most of his life--he is recognized as a superior strategist with a keen intellect, high social IQ and a deep interest in communications technology. He has spent roughly 2,000 days in a submarine, many of them beneath the polar ice cap patrolling for Soviet subs. He commanded one of the U.S. navy's largest fighting fleets and has advised secretaries of defence. He has challenged the military establishment and positioned himself as one of the U.S. military's leading thinkers on the future of war.

But this Bill Owens guy didnt do well as a CEO. Whatever!

So my advice is if you have a Computer Background, you can become the CEO of Lijjat Paapad. You will use your bloody computer brain there, and do a great job there.