Few days back, I met a manager in one of the casual meetings and he was discussing his CEO’s working style.
Key points that emerged were:
He shares information immediately with all concerned. He does not wait for any formal occasion or meeting and does not wait for sending an e-mail to share information, however small it may be. His sole agenda is to ensure information is passed onto respective stakeholders so that things keep moving smoothly.
He does a lot of informal meetings and chat sessions with his team members. His meetings are short and most of the time happen in cubicles of team members. No pre-scheduling of meeting times, and no blocking of meeting rooms. In case any data is to be seen, it happens at team member's PC only. No time wasted on presentations or excel sheets.
His favorite one liner is - pick up the phone and talk. I guess it is a simple but an effective thing to move things in any organization.
Another one liner which he is famous for – emails can wait but resolutions cannot. Rightly said, move things and not emails.
I was astonished to hear about the working style of this CEO. In this age of Internet, PowerPoint, Excel and Voice Mail, he still believes in keeping things simple.
All the above qualities are seen as virtues these days and it seems so difficult to follow these simple but yet effective ways of resolution.
Sounds interesting, right?
by thethoughtfultrain , on July 24, 2009 10:22 PM
Keeping things simple, thats how I like it too. Meetings veetings is a long drawn out pain in the neck! MS Office was created to make life simple not to clutter it more than it is - why don't these honchos realize that? I wish there were more of the CEOs and believers like the one you wrote about!
by Adesh Sidhu , on July 24, 2009 10:27 PM
@TTT - Even I am wonder why we cannot have more such CEOs.
by le embrouille blogueur , on July 24, 2009 11:15 PM
Amazong qualities .....very very hard to find or retain !!
by A journey called Life , on July 25, 2009 8:30 AM
lovely! its pure joy working with ppl like this, who are hands on and know how to connect with the grass roots. they know how to strike that all important balance of keeping things informal but yet getting things done
by Adesh Sidhu , on July 25, 2009 8:46 AM
@LEB - yes, indeed amazing qualities.
@AJCL - True..should be fun to work with such kind of people.
by Ramesh , on July 25, 2009 11:12 AM
Super guy it sounds like. Such people can make a huge difference to the organisation and very often the difference between success and failure.
by Sid 'Ravan' Kabe , on July 25, 2009 12:39 PM
seriously awesome virtues...might try yo implement some. Not only for CEO but they sud b implemented by all...
by Whats In A Name , on July 25, 2009 2:25 PM
Ah,
so interesting and true!!!
People on the upper ladder become more and more elusive to get hold to!!! Wished people become more simplistic and straight forward in their approach!!
by shilpa , on July 26, 2009 4:05 AM
I think you really got impressed by him well sounds great first time in your blog you have interesting blog
by rads , on July 26, 2009 8:54 PM
I love this person...that's how I'd love a meeting to be too..otherwise its all a waste of time with no conclusion drawn finally...