Sunday, April 19, 2015

Often neglected but extremely powerful skill

One of the most important characteristics, which any company implicitly looks for is - how to break down the problem/situation/scenarios into ever simpler smaller pieces.  
 
This particular characteristics manifests itself into other forms such as - ability to ask good questions, being curious, ability to visualise future state, ability to  plan or build, problem solving etc. 

The scenarios to show how important this is or can be applied are unlimited. One of these could be - while acquiring a firm, amongst other things, the first line of questioning can simply be asking the questions as to what is it that company does and keep going in deeper into each customer and supplier  user case. 

A more familiar example is while interviewing a candidate. Again simply start by asking what he is doing currently  and just keep digging deeper into it. For example if the candidate was a project manager, start by understanding part of life-cycle candidate handled. Breaking it down, did she conceptualise and planned the project. If not conceptualise, how was it handed over, in what state did the candidate take over etc.  

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