I was contemplating what should be the theme for my next blog and when I looked around, the one thing that stood out over the last 2 months of lockdown within my organization was quick adoption of technology as per the new normal, greater collaboration & brilliant teamwork and high engagement levels across locations
Over the last 10-12 years in my career, I am grateful to have got the opportunity and experience in building high performance teams from grounds-up at Infosys followed by SingPost and more recently in my current tenure at Mr Cooper. I know how critical it is to bring together diverse set of individuals who have the right attitude, passion, different levels of expertise across technology/domain, varying levels of expectations but eager to work towards a common goal aligning with the core values and fabric of the organization. These individuals join at various points in time during this journey and if everyone is clearly communicated about the final goal, it can do wonders to the organization as well as end customers
Here's my humble attempt as always to highlight the process of building a high performance work ethic team working towards a common goal, through few interesting number sequence and patterns
Example 1:
Let's start with number 1 which is a perfect square (1 ^ 2)
Now let's get 6 to join 1 - 16 - which is also a perfect square (4 ^ 2)
Next 9 to on-board the journey (9 is a perfect square) - 196 is one of the resulting number - which is also a perfect square (14 ^ 2)
Now we welcome number 2 to the team (lowest even prime) - 1296 - which is again a perfect square (36 ^ 2)
Depending on the new requirements you ramp-up on few skillsets and on-board 9 again resulting in 12996 - which is again a perfect square (114 ^ 2)
Example 2:
Start with number 1 again since it is a perfect square (1 ^ 2)
6 is next on-board to make it 16 - a perfect square (4 ^ 2)
Next 9 again but with a different outcome than in example 1 - 169 - which is 13 ^ 2
Let's on-board 3 post this - 1369 which is 37 ^ 2
Next a brand new team member with a new skillset (a perfect cube this time!) - 8 - 13689 which is 117 ^ 2
What you would notice in these two examples, is that each number represents a new team member in a corporate world set-up, coming on board at various points in time, to join your team with different expectations, characteristics (skillset) and diversity (odd or even or prime numbers) but the core fabric and final goal, which in this case the resultant number being a square, is kept intact!
That's what organizations should strive for - Keep the core values, fabric, work ethic and culture intact while building a team of diversely talented team members and as time goes by everyone will align towards a common goal, if given that clarity at the boarding point and carry others along on the way
Over the last 10-12 years in my career, I am grateful to have got the opportunity and experience in building high performance teams from grounds-up at Infosys followed by SingPost and more recently in my current tenure at Mr Cooper. I know how critical it is to bring together diverse set of individuals who have the right attitude, passion, different levels of expertise across technology/domain, varying levels of expectations but eager to work towards a common goal aligning with the core values and fabric of the organization. These individuals join at various points in time during this journey and if everyone is clearly communicated about the final goal, it can do wonders to the organization as well as end customers
Here's my humble attempt as always to highlight the process of building a high performance work ethic team working towards a common goal, through few interesting number sequence and patterns
Example 1:
Let's start with number 1 which is a perfect square (1 ^ 2)
Now let's get 6 to join 1 - 16 - which is also a perfect square (4 ^ 2)
Next 9 to on-board the journey (9 is a perfect square) - 196 is one of the resulting number - which is also a perfect square (14 ^ 2)
Now we welcome number 2 to the team (lowest even prime) - 1296 - which is again a perfect square (36 ^ 2)
Depending on the new requirements you ramp-up on few skillsets and on-board 9 again resulting in 12996 - which is again a perfect square (114 ^ 2)
Example 2:
Start with number 1 again since it is a perfect square (1 ^ 2)
6 is next on-board to make it 16 - a perfect square (4 ^ 2)
Next 9 again but with a different outcome than in example 1 - 169 - which is 13 ^ 2
Let's on-board 3 post this - 1369 which is 37 ^ 2
Next a brand new team member with a new skillset (a perfect cube this time!) - 8 - 13689 which is 117 ^ 2
What you would notice in these two examples, is that each number represents a new team member in a corporate world set-up, coming on board at various points in time, to join your team with different expectations, characteristics (skillset) and diversity (odd or even or prime numbers) but the core fabric and final goal, which in this case the resultant number being a square, is kept intact!
That's what organizations should strive for - Keep the core values, fabric, work ethic and culture intact while building a team of diversely talented team members and as time goes by everyone will align towards a common goal, if given that clarity at the boarding point and carry others along on the way
