Employee Math: When Two Plus Two is More than Four

A technical person would argue that 2+2 is always 4, never less or never more. This person would point to mathematics or physics. Perhaps, it would be an argument of common sense and logic. In human psychology, though, there’s a different kind of math, where two plus two might equal 10, 30 or more. When you build a team with the right kind of people, you capture extraordinary gains.

Let me explain. In this mathematical sense, every person is an individual. In an organization, each person is trained in a particular discipline and often works as an individual contributor, perhaps a programmer, engineer, writer, accountant, sculptor, or scientist. These men and women bury their heads into their work and do great things and solve big problems. They tend to be introverts. Often, they pay a lot of attention to details and accuracy. They are analytical and focused on delivering a clear outcome.

Most other organizations have a second sort of person. These people tend to be outspoken, extroverted and even gregarious. They are the ones that love attention and speaking to the crowd. They might not focus on 100% accuracy and detail, but rather the big vision. They are positive and optimistic. They take partial information and extrapolate and create a goal. These are people who can build great teams where everyone trusts each other. The group has shared aspirations, goals, and trust. By building a team, the whole proves itself greater than the sum of the parts. You could say, when you do this sort of math that two plus two equals ten.

I find myself wondering if people are born or made. I think it has something to do with the mentors they have. Technology probably plays a role so we’ll see new things with the digital native generation that grew up with mobile phones and video games. It may be good or bad. I’m concerned that the digital divide has stunted the people skills of some.

And of course, nobody is 100% one thing or another. People grow and change. They rise to an occasion that calls them to something new.

It’s clear that organizations need both kinds of people. The technical people tend to shine in their chosen line of discipline. The others tend to shine in leadership roles and sales roles, anywhere they need to deal with a lot of people, with charm, wit and charisma. One creates a vision and the other handles the details.

It reminds me of a well-known story in Mahabharata from India. Here’s the short version: Krishna and Arjuna were walking toward a village together, talking about what makes a great role model. He wanted to know why Karna was considered a role model rather than him. Krishna decided to teach him a lesson. He transformed the the two mountains, one at each side of the path, into piles gold. He told Arjuna to distribute the two mountains of gold amongst the nearby villagers—every bit of it. After two days and nights of handing out gold, the mountains hadn’t diminished in the slightest. Finally, Arjuna gave up and admitted defeat. Krishna called Karna and set him the same task. Karna called two villagers and said “These two mountains of gold are yours to do with as your please.” The job was done. Arjuna was the detail guy and Karna was the person who saw the big picture and the way around the insurmountable problem.

Often, these two types of people don’t get along very well because they see things differently. Neither is wrong, but each has a different perspective.

Have you seen the right mix of people overcome big problems? How do you build extraordinary teams? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

Originally published at Smartgladiator.com on Feb 28, 2018.

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Puga Sankara is the Founder, CEO of Smart Gladiator LLC. Smart Gladiator designs, builds, and delivers market-leading mobile technology for retailers, distributors, and 3PL service providers. So far, Smart Gladiator LoadProof has been used to ship, receive, and scan more than 100 million boxes. SG LoadProof is a patent pending Centralized Enterprise Photo/Video Document System on Cloud for Supply Chain. SG LP is built on the fact that photos & videos are vital docs as important as POs/SOs/Legal Contracts/Fulfillment Orders that reside in ERP/WMS/TMS systems, that serve as compelling, conclusive, unequivocal proof of crucial, critical, vital operations executed in Supply Chain within/across orgs when fulfilling customer orders as well as meeting contractual obligations between orgs as merchandise is transferred between different parties that partake in Supply Chain functions & operations. And these photos/videos data should not be stored in someone’s Smartphone or Email Inbox or in their personal/work Computer, but should be stored in a Centralized Enterprise system, where such data can be pushed into super-fast, stored securely, accessible to all stake holders (CFO/Sales Reps/Customer Support/AR/AP) in an org, as well as facilitates super-fast retrieval/sharing. LP is an Enterprise System of record for Photo/Video docs & is as important as an ERP which is an enterprise system of record for POs, SOs, Legal Contracts between parties etc. that have huge legal ramifications, also as important as a WMS (Warehouse Management System) that hold indispensable shipment & fulfillment data on orders. Like how Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat etc. have evolved into social media platforms/systems that enable individuals to showcase their beauty/pretty clothes/lovely cosmetics/hep coolness etc., LoadProof is an Enterprise system that holds similar photos/videos, but for a different reason, not for show off, but to serve as compelling, conclusive, unequivocal & indisputable system of record and proof that can be presented even in the court of law, when there is a dispute between parties while they execute many facets of the Supply Chain functions & operations. SG LoadProof is also an Enterprise System of Record for Photos, videos and any other digital documents for your Supply Chain Network. A system of record (SOR) or source system of record (SSoR) is a data management term for an information storage system (commonly implemented on a computer system running a database management system) that is the authoritative data source for a given data element or piece of information. The need to identify systems of record can become acute in organizations where management information systems have been built by taking output data from multiple source systems, re-processing this data, and then re-presenting the result for new business use. In these cases, multiple information systems may disagree about the same piece of information. These disagreements may stem from semantic differences, differences in opinion, use of different sources, and differences in the timing of the extract, transform, and load processes that create the data they report against, or may simply be the result of bugs. The integrity and validity of any data set is open to question when there is no traceable connection to a good source, such as a known System of Record. Where the integrity of the data is vital, if there is an agreed system of record, the data element must either be linked to, or extracted directly from it. In other cases, the provenance and estimated data quality should be documented. The “system of record” approach is a good fit for environments where both: 1. there is a single authority over all data consumers, and 2. all consumers have similar needs Here, LoadProof is the System of Record for pictures and videos for all the entities in Supply chain who uses pictures and videos to track using any Supply Chain System infrastructure. 1. LoadProof provides accurate, thorough, complete, and latest information in pictures and videos related to any entity in the Supply chain that is tracked. 2. LoadProof is the single authority on pictures and videos related to any entity in the Supply Chain that is tracked 3. LoadProof doesn’t let any external system to copy the records being stored in it, which eliminates the data being duplicated in multiple places to preserve the data integrity and credibility. 4. LoadProof has a secured login procedure which lets only users with select level access to view the data and modify the records which helps in maintaining LoadProof is becoming the Industry Standard System for Photo & Video Docs for Supply Chain Smart Gladiator is located in ATDC - Advanced Tech Dev Center (tech Incubator) in Georgia Institute of Tech. Click for a demo - https://loadproof.com/apply Puga is a supply chain technology professional with more than 25 years of experience in deploying capabilities in the logistics and supply chain domain. His prior roles involved managing complicated mission-critical programs driving revenue numbers, rolling out a multitude of capabilities involving more than a dozen systems, and managing a team of 30 to 50 personnel across multiple disciplines and departments in large corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He has deployed WMS for more than 30 distribution centers in his role as a senior manager with Manhattan Associates. He has also performed process analysis walk-throughs for more than 50 distribution centers for WMS process design and performance analysis review, optimizing processes for better productivity and visibility through the supply chain. Size of these DCs varied from 150,000 to 1.2 million SQFT. Puga Sankara has an MBA from Georgia Tech. He can be reached at puga@smartgladiator.com or visit the company at www.smartgladiator.com. Also follow him at www.pugasankara.com. [Read More]
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