I want a team of superheroes!

I remember one of my mentors once telling me that I should "Hire a team of Superstars", I remember this first and foremost because it's one of the few areas that I still disagree on, and it's primarily because of my personal belief that instead of getting a bunch of superheroes, "I should be enabling normal people to achieve abnormal results".

Superstars like comic book heroes are more likely (gross generalisation alert!) to have deep personality flaws that prevents them from becoming good team players, look at the classics, Batman? Socio-path! Superman? Goody Two shoes Boyscout! Thor? Arrogance!

The "normal hero" typically has insight into their weaknesses, knows their limitations and their boundaries and is more likely to team with others who are stronger in areas that they are not and inherently trust others (though sometimes they can be overly dependant) to do what they can not, rather than thinking that they can save a universe single handed without anyone helping them.

The key is how to enable the normal hero to perform superman feats.


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The only constant in life is change

1 month ago I and my team got outsourced to a Managed Services Provider, I have to admit it came as a bit of a shock, since I did not see it coming, but one of the common threads that came up was that my Executive Staff were not conformable dealing with the overhead that new technologies were placing on them and wanted to focus on their core competency of running a business.

The great thing about IT is that there's always something new to learn and the bad thing about IT is that there's always something new to learn. And this constant chop and change puts pressures on everyone involved.

Even though my team and I got outsourced unexpectedly there is a huge plus to this and that is that we have greater career progression opportunities in a company that sells our skills as a service, we immediately move from a cost to a profit center and we are become part of a organisation that places a higher degree of value on our knowledge as a mean to making extra revenue.

Me? Well I'm looking forward to the wider future opportunities this will bring!