At lunch, we were discussing about Dhoni persisting with Piyush Chawla and leaving out Ashwin saying he is more stable character. Similarly read the criticisms of Kamran Akmal and why five Pakistan captains have carried him so far. It may be too simplistic to think that these are simply captains’s choices alone, but still.
I think the question is how far do you support someone with the hope that he will rectify his mistakes, find his form and ride this blip? How do you know that by giving someone a chance to not let him down is actually putting him a bad position of having to perform something he cannot at the moment? How do you know if your ultimate support for someone who is underperforming is not bordering on cronyism? Sometimes letting someone down may be good for both the parties, but it is a hard thing to do.
The reason these resonated so much with me is, once I had persisted with a team mate thinking he will improve, by trying to mentor until customer asked to remove him from the team at which point it felt worst for him. It was a life-long lesson – that if I had acted decisively before, I could have avoided the larger pain for everyone. I know it is an argument like the one Jack Welch would make about how firing someone is actually good for him, but most of us have become set in our ways and if mistakes repeat, it cannot magically turn the other way round – that is just wishful thinking.
I think the question is how far do you support someone with the hope that he will rectify his mistakes, find his form and ride this blip? How do you know that by giving someone a chance to not let him down is actually putting him a bad position of having to perform something he cannot at the moment? How do you know if your ultimate support for someone who is underperforming is not bordering on cronyism? Sometimes letting someone down may be good for both the parties, but it is a hard thing to do.
The reason these resonated so much with me is, once I had persisted with a team mate thinking he will improve, by trying to mentor until customer asked to remove him from the team at which point it felt worst for him. It was a life-long lesson – that if I had acted decisively before, I could have avoided the larger pain for everyone. I know it is an argument like the one Jack Welch would make about how firing someone is actually good for him, but most of us have become set in our ways and if mistakes repeat, it cannot magically turn the other way round – that is just wishful thinking.
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