Townhall meeting at office

hi,

Yesterday attended the town hall meet in my new company.

There is a very nice concept of management meeting the employees and get to talk to them, clearing there doubts if any and at the same time conveying what upper management have been busy doing this month.

I have already attended on town hall last month and pretty liked the idea but Yesterday's was an important one as our CEO is in India for a couple of days and he addressed the employees in this town hall. He wanted to talk about various things that he and his team have been doing for the last few months and was explaining the clintele and the business model. He had also invited some old timers from the company and they shared their experiences with the company and the CEO in person. The way this company was started and reached to this level.

You always get to know new things when listening to such learned and experienced people. Ceo was mostly talking about accountability and was relating each and every answer to the questions he was asked to it. There was one speaker who was talking about the drastic environmental change and pressure an employe faces while moving from a typical service based company to a product development company. He himself had been thru this stage some time back. He brought up a new idea that every such employee has to go thru a process of Learn, Unlearn and Relearn. First a person learns the culture of his first organisation and then when he moves on he has to unlearn those things and relearn what is required by the new organisation. He put forward a beautiful thought by someone "Knowledge is obstacle to knowledge".

One of the speakers (Prabhu) very boldly shared his thinking that why do we always talk about our successes and not failures. Its good to be excited about successes but we have to keep in mind our failures all the time as one learns from his failures more than successes. One of the speakers mentioned the classic example of Thomas Elva Edison. He failed 999 times before inventing the bulb and when some one asked him what he has to say about this, he said "I know 999 ways not to make a bulb".

There were more speakers who brought really innovative ideas and shared some really touchy as well as leaning experiences but its not possible to mention each one of them here but it was really nice to hear our top management and they wdirection the organisation is heading to. The employees at the grassroot level like me gets the real motivation by what their management and most importantly their CEO thinks about them and his vision for the organisation.