Magnet for Magnificent Minds

To many organizations create policy but then in enacting that policy forget the original value and purpose of that policy, which invariably had to do with something regarding its people.  If the organization is draconian then the policy is about controlling those people and if the policy is innovative it is about valuing the contribution of people.

Naturally my inclination is to view people as people.  Above is a collection of people highly valuable to beBee and though I have added my text to this photograph, the actual value resides in this group especially if the light that shines in that organization is bringing great people to that organization.   Organizations can get blindsided by a few bad apples and create policy that binds the 99% good to ensure the liability of the bad 1% is covered - and this is what organizations tend to do, they create an organization culture that focus on problems, and become experts at problems.  At beBee I do think the expertise keeps focused on opportunities, and to me this is what the above group shot of beBeepeeps is showing me.

There is a phrase I use on the odd occasion that is important value to me.  The phrase is

"Magnet for Magnificent Minds"

This is a personal purpose for me, it is a central criteria I have (let us say it is my personal compass) where I want to be associated or linked or a part of organizations that is a magnet for magnificent minds.  Sometimes that magnet is driven by what is hot, so when Google became a star power, it naturally attracted magnificent minds, but it also had an intentional policy to look for the best and attract the best - and that policy nurtured an environment where these people will love working.  As Steve Jobs said why hire top talent and then get in their way.

There is only ONE Steve Jobs, what I like about this 4 minute video is that it highlights one of the values that lead to creating a magnet for magnificent minds.  This is also why I like sticking around at beBee because I know behind the scenes the real deal is the living organization.  Most organizations are dead like dead cheese.  This idea of American organizations likened to dead cheese is from Clotaire Rapaille who wrote Culture Code. 

A few organizations are made of living cheese - because cheese is not meant to be dead when we eat it - yet we consume tonnes and tones of processed cheese, which is cheese that is processed to be dead by the time we eat it.  The point here is not the cheese or the quality of cheese but what makes a living organization.  I know when I have walked into a very rare but thriving living organization, the mind is different, the way the mind connects as body is different and there is no VP of Culture trying to create dead cheese.  No one ever thinks that even dead cheese used to have a culture. 

The writer I pay attention to is Arie De Geus who wrote about the "LIVING COMPANY".  Here we are in 2017 and we still operate in organizations that are not close to becoming a "living company" but again, an organization that is a magnet for magnificent minds does to lead to this rare form of organization.  So it is that I celebrate the photograph above, because in each of these people is that unrealized gift - a gift that only great leadership brings forth and that is surprisingly ignored by so many organizations. 

I have never been inside the halls of beBee in Madrid so I do not know whether it has the capacity to become a Living Company, but the photograph does show me the appreciation and unity of its talent - and that this group of creative and technically gifted people represent the transformations to come.  So long as beBee has the power to attract magnificent minds either on the visible end where I am, or the inner beginning which is where these talented people work, I will continue to support beBee and its development.

So this is my appreciation for the talent shown in the picture above and for the talent at beBee not in this particular picture but who are profiled in other pictures.  For me to be able to utilize the beBee platform for my own learning journey is as a result of the ingenuity and purpose of the team at beBee whether they be administrative, technical or creative.  Everyone counts but what counts so much more to me is where an organization becomes a magnet for magnificent minds.  Not as a marketing slogan but as actual living breathing humanity, people who care about their work, who get to create the future and who I offer my sincerest thank you to. 

My dearest appreciation to all people who work at beBee and make tomorrow possible and possible even greater.  For sure Javier likes the term "impossible possible" but I am cool with the words talented human beings.  Life is not a slogan or a marketing strategy it is a being.