All work and some play keeps Jinu so damn happy!

Life has been awesome so far! Attention deficit from one end is being taken care of by loads of other friends! Really, friends are the most important, irreplaceable things of my (anyone's) life! I can kill my friends if I feel like it and they will not as much as utter a word. Wish other important people were like my friends too! sigh! :( But never mind, life's beautiful still! 

My best friend's going to start living in with his girl friend, another good friend got an interview call from Harvard (yayyy!!) and I will get a new hire to work with me!!! I am looking forward to a drinking night tonight with some friends and some awesome music! 

There is so much I learn here everyday, obviously the hard way, since we are just a start-up. I can see first hand that the most important lesson to build a strong organization is to hire the right people. Yes, if you hire level A people, you will get A+ work, if you hire B level employees you get C level work and if you hire C level employees, then you do not get any work. And if you are so dumb that you hired below C level employees, then honestly, you wont last longer than a year. You would have come so far away and you would be so lost that even hiring the entire Harvard pass outs for that year cannot bring you up. Also, hiring the right people is when you hire either of the 2: (1.)  People who take immense ownership. Who will mould themselves as required just so that they are able to deliver. Even if they are not big shot management graduates or do not carry 10 years of learning behind them, as long as they take the project as a personal mission, the organization will look up. Else hire (2.) Extremely focused, career oriented individuals who see the organization's success as a plus on their resume, who will be ruthlessly clever to make it work and who will sweat it out. 

And if you have a decent mix of the As and Bs - you will work wonders with whatever your concept is. But there are other things as well. The ideator should never feel like the boss with his core set of guys. He should feel like a team, not even the team-lead. There are always a bunch who do the mundane but extremely important tasks - developers, marketing guys etc. Bossism is at its best while working with these guys. But thats the catch. Though they might not be ideating, they must still feel they are a part of the big guys gang - not just employees. Because they are the ones who will do and redo work for you. They are the ones who will immensely multi task to cater to your ever increasing demands of technology and will keep the quick buck flowing. The bosses might need to do some micro management to ensure work happens, but all in all, acknowledgment and rewards must be given to these guys first. After all, the management does not deserve a pat on its back for at least the first 2 - 3 years. Walls erected does not mean anything after all! 

Meanwhile, contingencies must be looked at. An employee suddenly quits for some reason, or has a medical urgency that leaves vacuum in the management circle is something that can be extremely difficult to cope up with. Believing that your first set of guys will stick on for 2 years is almost as good as entering into denial mode and saying you will live forever! There are so many other things like being systematic and organized, proper delegation of authority, time-off and small drinking nights of bonding etc that can work wonders while you are still to lay the foundation. 

Phew! That was quite a bit of gyaan in there for someone as new me in this corporate world! I wonder how much more and how rapidly am I going to learn! After all can't wait to be the CEO and straight jump in to become a paint scrapper!