Baron-Cohen's research finds that in a small-but significant number of people this strength comes coupled with a blind spot for what other people are feeling and thinking, and for reading so cial situations. For that reason, while people with superior systems understanding are organizational assets, they are not necessarily effective leaders if they lack the requisite emotional intelligence.
An executive at one bank explained to me how the bank has created a career ladder for those with this talent set that allows them to progress in status and salary on the basis of their solo tal ents as brilliant systems analysts rather than by climbing the lead ership ranks. That way the bank can keep this talented crew and have them advance in their career, while recruiting leaders from a different pool. Those leaders can then consult their systems exper tise as needed.
THE WELL-FOCUSED TEAM
At an international organization people were hired solely for their technical expertise, without regard for their personal or interper sonal abilities-including teamwork. Perhaps predictably, a one hundred-member team there had a breakdown, with lots of friction and constant missed deadlines.
"The head of the team never had the chance to stop and reflect with someone," I was told by the leadership coach who was brought in to help. "He didn't have a single friend he could talk to openly. When I gave him the opportunity for reflection, we started with ris dreams, then his problems.
"When we stepped back to look at his team he realized he'd been seeing everything through a single small lens-how they were constantly disappointing him-but hadn't been thinking about why people were behaving the way they were. He had no perspective-taking; he couldn't see things from the team members' point of view."
Baron-Cohen's research finds that in a small-but significant number of people this strength comes coupled with a blind spot for what other people are feeling and thinking, and for reading so cial situations. For that reason, while people with superior systems understanding are organizational assets, they are not necessarily effective leaders if they lack the requisite emotional intelligence.
An executive at one bank explained to me how the bank has created a career ladder for those with this talent set that allows them to progress in status and salary on the basis of their solo tal ents as brilliant systems analysts rather than by climbing the lead ership ranks. That way the bank can keep this talented crew and have them advance in their career, while recruiting leaders from a different pool. Those leaders can then consult their systems exper tise as needed.
THE WELL-FOCUSED TEAM
At an international organization people were hired solely for their technical expertise, without regard for their personal or interper sonal abilities-including teamwork. Perhaps predictably, a one hundred-member team there had a breakdown, with lots of friction and constant missed deadlines.
"The head of the team never had the chance to stop and reflect with someone," I was told by the leadership coach who was brought in to help. "He didn't have a single friend he could talk to openly. When I gave him the opportunity for reflection, we started with ris dreams, then his problems.
"When we stepped back to look at his team he realized he'd been seeing everything through a single small lens-how they were constantly disappointing him-but hadn't been thinking about why people were behaving the way they were. He had no perspective-taking; he couldn't see things from the team members' point of view."
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