By the time you read this, you will probably make a mistake of `misapplication' of the hypothetical scenarios, and I sincerely hope not.
But when I opened my mail box today, waiting for me was a message from an agency, advertising a position they thought might be of interest to me. They probably sent it to several others. But the one small lesson to gain from their action is that they did make an effort to communicate their intention.
You see, information is power! And I am not talking about spiritual information through dreams or psychic manipulations - which are unreliable. In business, communication has to be physically done.
Which is probably why in our world today, `physical communication' is at the top of the list of the most successful organisations. And is Carlos Slim Helu, the world's reachest man worth $73bn, not into telecommunications?
Wonderful Weirdo wrote that "constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating". If that holds true, not talking at all is an unforgivable sin from a leader, indeed from anyone, who expects response when he has said nothing.
Leadership that does not know how to commuicate is potentially dead - and business communication must be in physical, not spiritual.
During one of my field runs, I visited a client for an appointment, only to find everyone having fun at a hastily arranged fairwell party for a retiring member of the organisation.
After a quick chat, my client invited me to join the party. Two days later, she called me.
"How do you ensure that a `target' notices your interest in them without necessarily pre-warning them?" She asked me.
"What sort of interest do you mean?" I asked her.
She explained that since she was informed that a member of her team was leaving due to ill-health, she had been considering a potential replacement without alerting him. Now, she had to make a decision but thought that the staff in question has a major fault.
"Do you mind letting me in on this major fault?" I asked.
She told me that the man hardly notices people around him. I asked if he has any problems with his sight or was just plain daft.
She said "Ahh, Benson. That man is not daft at all, far from it."
I said the chances are the man actually notices his environment much more than anyone can imagine, otherwise, he would be daft, and won't even deserve to be there.
She pondered this and said she would have a chat with him. A week later, she called me back to say she confirmed the man for the position the previous friday - immediately after the `chat'.
I said "ooops!..what happened? How did you make up your mind?"
"The man is sound, extra-ordinarily sound if I must be honest. I suppose I judged him wrongly because of complaints from others."
Intuition can be a powerful tool for decision making, but leaders are advised to rely on it only when it has consistently guided them aright.
People see what they want to see. Yet, among the lot, they can further prioritise them for recognition and even storage. This is why academics defined perception as "how we organise our sensory organs, in order to give meaning to our environment."
The evaluation of what makes a `good leader' and what makes a `great leader' maybe ongoing among scholars.
But, it has since been accepted that good leadership has something to do with its quality, whereas great leadership has to do with how leaders handle adversity. It would be naive of anything to think that the journey will be smooth-sailing.
A man maybe working on the computer, yet his spectrum is in full swing, so that nothing, and no one could go unnoticed.
But the question is, why must people expect you to notice them when they know they need your attention?
Criticising just for fun, without communicating is the bane of leadership. If you need it done, let them know and if you need him, let him know.
If you are an employer, don't just wait to be noticed, do the noticing and, more importantly, you must do that in the `physical' please.
Like the employer, the unemployed have a list of potential employing firms, and business scholars, though making effort to recognise the impact of spirituality on organisational members, do not yet recognise spiritual communication.
Excessive spiritualisation of the environment, creates problem for society, and for business, the employee and the employer.
Serious employers go on a head-hunt over their employable targets - and they do so by physically contacting them and making their intentions known.
That's aceptable business practice!
* Twitter: @bensonagoha.
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