Leadership crisis is looming nearly everywhere, that too from quite a long time now. The corporate sector is also witnessing it in a big way as well; be it a manager of any level, many requisite skills are hard to be found. On account of this, employees are sharing all sorts of sentiments like: getting poor mentoring from their seniors | condescending attitude from their managers | feeling of getting to nowhere | lack of control and even self responsibility, all of which cultivates a feeling to do away with the present way of life.
This feeling is palpable among so many people that you have number of movies, literature, advices and much more in the popular culture to feed these people with what they want someone to tell, to get that slight nudge, to take the step to liberation and start doing something of their own.
And they are doing it in an unprecedented manner. What were just signs to this have now themselves become an industry to nurture those stifled talents to make it big, on their own terms. The flourishing of organized events to bring out those budding ideas and give them a support, increasing VC presence, articles on every imaginable question sprouting in such minds covering impressive real estate in popular business magazines, videos on how to go about with your idea, et.al. Moreover, many of them are doing well. They get their team together, work on the idea they had, do things which they feel right (& the one’s adviced). But many a times the bug which initially hit themselves, comes against their way as well. Rather, the “Even I can do it” feeling would shore-up more in employees working in a start-up as they see an experiment unfolding in front of themselves.
This seriously makes you think that if everyone have their way to arrange for their own business considering the burgeoning industry which ensures you do that well (if you have that flair), who would actually work in an organizational setup, especially the real great minds who have all the more chances to do something good on their own who are a critical factor in any organization. ‘Who’ is a resounding word denoting an unknown noun which is becoming scarce.
So when the leadership is missing, so do the smart employees which is not a good thing to go with. We need to look at this situation closely as this is resulting in a choppy business climate ahead which no one wants.
If there is a true leader out there, things would be very different under that person. A leader (supposed to lead an organization of numerous people budding with skills, talents and aptitude), would steer the ship in a way which motivates each person to align themselves to the vision of the organization and make everyone prosper in that quest making sure that all the things which propels a person to seek that liberation are not getting even a thought by the happy workers. And those who are doing it, are making it big.
Violet Root 