Behind the Scenes at Global-Roam

My twelve year journey with this company – seeing it grow its customer base, and product range, from nothing to be quite substantial – has been one of great learning for me.

Of my greatest areas of learning has been with respect to others within in the company.  I have struggled, at times, due to my lack of prior experience and preparation.

For some time I’ve been pondering the apparent paradoxes across a variety of books and other materials I’ve read – with respect to the concept of Strengths and Weaknesses.

Where I have read this, it has been with respect to an individual’s own strengths and weaknesses – however I believe that the pointers that I’ve learnt are also applicable at an organisational level (where a strength is more commonly termed “competitive advantage”).

After quite a bit of reflection, it currently* seems that to be truly strong, an individual (or a company) needs to have the right combination of all three of the following factors:

* I say “currently”, as it seems that the learning journey I am on almost guarantees that my view will become even more nuanced in future.

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This week I was interested to read an article in the AFR titled “Picking leaders the brainy way”.  For internal staff, the PDFed article is in eLibrary.

This was of particular interest to me, as I know that this is a challenge that we have struggled with over the past 10 years.   Hence, we’re keen to improve at it, as much as we can (and, by extension, if you can help us do so, we’d like to hear from you).

Note that this is not to say that we have a bad bunch of employees currently – just that we’ve had to do a bit of “getting the right people on the bus” in the past, and probably will have to do more in future.

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