After you finish your studies, and school and college is way behind you, you realise that there is far more to life and success than just grades at exams. So you will find that those who were the top graders in college, sometimes do poorly in the work-world; and those who perhaps scraped through, are the ones who shine. Why should this be so?
Because in the real world of work, the great emphasis at the entry point and the lower rungs is on technical skills. As one goes higher up the ladder, one needs to go beyond technical skills – which are a ‘given’. You need to have a large dose of human skills – in addition. And then there are those very few, perhaps 15 per cent of the population in the company, who will have developed ‘conceptual skills’. This is the ability to look at the whole picture; to have a ‘helicopter view.’ To see how one decision will affect not just me, or my department, but the whole company and then perhaps the whole industry. These are the people who make it to the top – who are THC managers. They finally become Presidents and CEOs of companies. Of course there may be some exceptions. There are those who got there by guile, deceit, fraud or influence. By climbing on the backs of others, with spiked shoes. But these are still the exceptions!
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