Leadership
and organizational development: The best companies attract the best talents
Sir Ronald Cohen (1) says that the best company should
attract talents; as Sir Newton showed that the bodies of mass appeal by the
action of gravity to smaller (in practice both attract, large companies to talents,
big celestial bodies to small them). The metaphor of gravity helps explain the
relationship between the two concepts.
Sir Isaac Newton (2) created the foundations of
classical mechanics. Gravity causes
the acceleration experienced by a physical body in the vicinity of a celestial
body. It is also called gravitational
interaction or gravitation and was presented in 1687 in the book Principia
Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis Principia. Newton says: "I deduced that
the forces which keep the planets in their orbits must be inversely related to
the square of their distances from the centers on rotating, and therefore
compared the strength to keep the Moon in its orbit the force of gravity on the
surface of the Earth, I found a very close answer .. "
The equation is as follows:
Where F is the force between the masses, G is the
gravitational constant (6.674 × 10-11 N • (m / kg) 2); m1 and m2 are the masses
of interacting objects; r is the distance between the centers of mass (There is
a more complex expression but this is enough to illustrate the metaphor)
A point mass attracts every single object point mass
by a force that is aligned with the line that intersects both points. This
force is directly proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely
proportional to the square of the distance between them. The following diagram
illustrates this interaction.
Ronald Cohen in an interview from the Stanford
Graduate School said that top organizations to attract talent , they must rise
goals and create opportunities for things to help improve society. Call
"force of attractiveness” to the intensity with which the organization
becomes can attract talents. To understand your vision is recommended to read
"Revolutionizing Philanthropy: Impact Investing".
It is elementary and wise principle, but how it
relates to the law of gravity? For an organization to achieve great goals and attract
the best professionals and a body with mass exerts a greater attraction on
small bodies (high gravity) certain conditions are required.
In relation to the "masses", the more
similar and the like are the principles and goals of the organization and
talents, there may be a more intensive approach and finally the talent joins
the organization where they have the opportunity for development and can
demonstrate and apply their skills and competencies. Ethics can be one of them.
The distance r equals the discrepancy or conflict
between the principles, values and
goals of both the organization and talented people. In this case it appears
that the greater the mass (m1> m2) discrepancy or distance r is reduced.
An important detail. Unlike Newton's law that is
invariable, at least in our present cosmic circumstances, the law of the
attractiveness (between organization and talent) can change. You can increase
the mass or distance. If talent, which is consistent and loyal to his
principles, discovers that the
organization contradicts its principles and does not meet their expectations,
feels more distant to her, and can abandon it (the force of attraction weakens).
In an organization with the characteristics of Cohen
to maintain constant or increasing force F, there must be an organizer capable of creating
and maintaining these conditions. We
could say that besides being a leader, must act as a demiurge (3) the creative soul, the
architect or universal soul that is the guiding principle of pre-existing
elements.
An example of leadership is also noted in the release
and attention to reviewers. Unlike executives, greedy and addicted to money,
such as in Wall Street, Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn waived his annual bonus ($
14 million in shares) to distribute to their employees. (For things how are you
was chosen as the best CEO in 2014 and is one of the most valued by their
workers) it does not matter if the only time he does, but gave a lesson in
leadership so far unpublished. And a talent want to work with him, certainly.
Notes
1) Isaac Newton
(Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, 25 December 4 January 1642jul./
1643greg.-Kensington, London,. March 20 1727greg jul./ March 31) was a
physicist, philosopher, theologian, inventor, English alchemist and
mathematician. He is the author of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica,
better known as the Principia, describing the law of universal gravitation and
laid the foundations of classical mechanics by laws that bear his name.
2) Sir Ronald
Cohen Mourad (born August 1, 1945) is a British businessman of Egyptian origin
and political figure. He is president of president of The Portland Trust and
Bridges Ventures. It is known as "the father of British venture
capital" and "the father of social investment."
3) The Demiurge (Greek:
Δημιουργός, demiurges), in Gnostic philosophy, is the entity without
necessarily being creative is driving the universe. It is also considered a
demigod creator of the world and author of the universe in the idealistic
philosophy of Plato and the mysticism of the Neoplatonists. Therefore, demiurge
literally means "master craftsman supreme, doer", although
emphasizing the Greek would mean "creator".
References
Isaac Newton
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia
Mathematica
Ronald Mourad Cohen
Sir Ronald Cohen: Imapct investing in the future
