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Q. Is there a rulebook for who makes for an efficient media network CEO. Sony has had a string of CFOs in the past, Disney-Star had a journalist, now Sony has a content person. According to you, who works best?
A: In a business landscape that is perpetually volatile, the days of one pony trick leader are over. A legacy mindset of fitting in a job description to a position is a sure recipe for failure. It is critical to link delivery of outcomes that is expected from a leader who constantly adjusts to a shifting landscape of an operating environment. It is preferable to look for talent base — an attitude of problem solving, future backwards mindset, assumptions-based action to solution-based action, perpetually in a learning mode and be a team player for mining collective wisdom and collective play without trampling individual uniqueness (one can’t expect Sehwag to play like Rahul Dravid;.. just to expand what I meant by last observation).I am neither an astrologer nor an expert on predicting any sector’s future. But I am convinced that an organisation can be a sunrise company in a sunset sector, or a sunset company in a sunrise sector. It’s true for an individual also.