Bagchi firmly believes that communities are the number one source of knowledge, and therefore meets the 45 Community Champions every quarter for half a day. "I represent a non-structural role, hence I'm welcome," he explains. The MindTree management provides the physical infrastructure, digital content management system to feed data, collaboration tools, "and then gets out of the way".
Bagchi gives two days to individual communities "for what they want me to do for them". He visits campuses so that they begin to think differently. "As you can see, these are input measures. In roles like these, input measurements are more critical in the first 12 months. In addition, I want to see substantial content creation with an internal blog".
It is important for an organisation to have distributed leadership so that some can focus on the structure and some on the non-structure. Some can focus on the hierarchy by belonging to it, and some on the hetroarchy by working with the invisible folks in the organisation. The distributed leadership must be emotionally secure - its members must have a higher sense of purpose that they are not creating fiefdom; they are creating a living organisation that is larger than the sum of its parts.
Image: MindTree Coromandel, Chennai. | Photograph, courtesy: MindTree Consulting Website
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