Yes Boss !

Almost every person doing a job has atleast one member in his hate-list. No points for guessing, its obviously one's boss. But this is not always true. Very recently I had an opportunity to work under a person, though for a very brief period, for whom at the end of the day I myself only with words of praises for him. As a matter of fact, he wasn't my boss but his leadership just drew people on their own to follow his instructions. His knowledge about the subject was thorough, and his visions extremely clear. He persona oozed with confidence. People just paved the way themselves for him to lead. I want to share one of the experiences I had with him.
Well, the background first. We were in the early stages of commissioning a unit. One of the other plants of the company at a different location already had that unit in operation. He being familiar with operations of the unit was sent at our location to assist our process. Now its only his third day in our plant and every one is ready to trust him, and everyone is asking for his opinions. Well on his third day, while we were about to leave for home after work the 'superboss' ordered us to start one of the equipments of the unit. Now, there was many process parts of the equipments which were either not completed or were not checked if they worked properly. But we had orders from superboss. Nothing, He figured out a solution under given circumstances and started instructing us on how to go about it in a very organized manner. It was as if he's been here with us for a long time. Our bosses who've been here since the very starting and some even more experienced looked up to him. And indeed the equipment was started without any hiccup.

The thing I want to make note of is that a person with true knowledge and good leadership skills doesnt take much time to make people realize what his true worth is. Here, among all the people it was he who took the charge, when there was no need for him to do so. He was the center of co-ordination for this entire operation. From a foreign element at out unit he transformed himself to an integral part in no time. It was really a nice experience working under him. Working under a good leader always motivates you. One should consider oneself if he has a good leader to lead him in.

Its all about basics

Few days ago we were trying to commission a very high profile gas compressor. Its components costs a couple of times the amount a person would have earned after answering fifteen questions to BigB in kbc, leave alone the total cost of the equipment. Moreover, its costliest component is so delicate that a moment of silliness or a few seconds of inaction after emergency situations could render it useless and cause irreparable damage. Considering the potential losses a silly mistake could cause the task of the start-up should be entrusted to an experienced professional who is totally converse with the system. Hence specialized professionals were flown in from different places to ensure successful startup of the equipment and we did witness a successful startup. Being a part of this operation I very well understand the skill set required for such a highly specialized job and also the fact the how rare are the people possessing those. Now the thought which stirred my mind was, why is it that the people who possess such rare skills and are capable of doing such specialized jobs dont have a market value which can do justice to the talent they have??

Well, after a lot of thinking this is what I could finally settle on. Yes, it is true that these people possess rare skills and such people are very few in number but there are even fewer number of people who could employ there skills. Such rare skills are used in rare places only. A better way of understanding it would be : the supply after all has to be equal to the demand. And this is not just true for this case, it is applicable everywhere and that why the people refer to it as the "basics". If you can understand the basics, you can rule the world !