Cloud Results. The Management Challenge

Cloud. Results. The management challenge.This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- .The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security.Top 10 Posts on Categories“Cloud people” is not really a term. Google it and you’ll find a front page of discovering a long-lost tribe in Peru. The closest business relationship to the term is “cloud computing” which means the computational power of the work is  processed on the Internet and not on company property.If you are a results person, you know what a cloud person is. A person that thinks in theory, always works with the big picture and tries to sell the grand design. But get down to cases? Deal with the minutia? Nope. Cloud people discount  all that stuff because it doesn’t fit the theory. It disrupts the big picture of everything fitting together.If you are a cloud person, you know what a results person is. A person that is always dealing with the temporary, the fix that needs to happen now, one that doesn’t try to move the work into a more cohesive strategy that makes sense for the entire corporation. Results people ignore the grand design â€" can’t you see we need to fix this problem and worry about the big picture later?Ideally, you’d want  both: the ability to think strategically while working through the details of what needs doing now so that it fits into the bigger picture. The reality, however, is that teams are rarely made up of the wonderful blend of strategy and tactics, of the work at hand fitting into the big picture.And that causes conflict on teams. It means managers pick one type of person for their team â€" one that matches their cloud or results style â€" and ignore the others. Whole departments get caught up in the cloud versus results paradi gm creating departmental conflicts that rival Armageddon.There are few things more frustrating at work than a results person listening all day to cloud people object to their work because it doesn’t fit with the grand plan. And there are few things more frustrating at work than a cloud person listening all day to results people pushing their position to solve problems while ignoring the fact the implemented solutions will make matters worse for the company. There is a reason States are collecting more taxes from the sale of liquor…Conflict is inherent in the work that we do. Get enough conflict inside a company and watch the company progress come to a screeching halt. The management challenge is to have teams be both cloud and results oriented. But managers don’t like to do that because they too often surround themselves with like-minded people â€" and job candidates get advice in their interviews  to make sure their style of work matches up with the manager, including my advi ce as well.But the best match is a team that can strive for the big picture vision while tactically solving problems to fit into the big picture. After all, our short-term actions, like it or not, evolve into our long-term strategy. We need to look at those short-term actions and decide if they fit into the longer view picture. If they do, great. If they don’t, you’ll probably end up trying to solve a bigger problem later.Is your team a cloud team? A results team? Or both?This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" .The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policiesThe content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers.Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are tradem arks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.Copyright 2020 LLC, all rights reserved.