CORPORATE DILEMMA ANSWERED?
In this 11 minute Masterclass on Succession Planning, watch an eminent Kiwi cricketing coach, Stephen Fleming lay bare his professional soul and deliver a near perfect presentation on CORPORATE COMMUNICATION.
The Defending Champions of one of the world’s richest sporting leagues, five-time winners Chennai Super Kings choose to announce a new leader on the eve of their curtain raising opening IPL game! With millions watching, they unveil plans with unusual sense of ‘sang froid’ – or ‘cold blood’ as translated in French!
At MANTRA, my organisation of more than 3 decades, we have a famous Leadership Model called ‘3B’ – ‘BELIEVE, BEHAVE, BECOME!’
This multi billion dollar franchise is founded on one word that drives my learning facilitation beliefs – FAITH!
TRUST and CONFIDENCE in a WIN-WIN ATTITUDE has enabled the patriarchal founder, N Srinivasan to entrust it all to EXISTENCE! He chose VB Chandrasekhar who chose MS Dhoni who created unparalleled TRUST around him through his SELF CONFIDENCE! They pick up a former New Zealand batting star Fleming, who along with CEO Kasi Viswanathan form an ecosystem based on nurturing Talent through Self Awareness and Role Clarity!
Which self respecting coach would dare admit to the global media about an avoidable missed opportunity when the supremo captain MSD misread and gambled with Succession without consulting even the coach a couple of years ago? The failed experiment only clarified the way forward with greater faith binding on all of them now.
Ironic for the debate in a political sense, is that the nation is on the cusp of a massive national election midway through this tournament. While one of the contentious issues in this regional capital, Chennai is the nationalist nature of Indian Leadership, consider this irony. Srinivasan from Chennai puts all his faith on a Ranchi lad from East India, Dhoni! Now he chooses a Maharashtrian lad from Western India, Ruturaj Gaikwad! While Dhoni is an all-time legend of cricket globally, Ruturaj is not even considered the best in any arena yet! The unshakable FAITH and backing is more about LEADERSHIP as an ATTITUDE rather than performance skills as a player!
We always believe SUCCESS as well as SUCCESOR and SUCCESSION is a matter of FAITH over FEAR!
MOVE OVER, MSD! RUTURAJ IS HERE TO TAKE YOUR EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP LEGACY FORWARD!
As a Vedantic Master, Swami Tejomayananda said, about taking over the organisation at the Deliverance of his Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda: “I am not in HIS shoes, I am At HIS FEET!”
Can imagine the humility of the likable new leader, Ruturaj as he walks out to toss a coin at the beginning of a new innings against a wizened old Pro, Faf Du Plessis leading the Royal Challengers, Bengaluru. Irony? Faf used to play for CSK under MSD who will be playing too!
THAT IS PROFESSIONAL SPORT TO LEARN CORPORATE ETHOS FROM!