Liderlere sektör tecrübesi gerekir mi?

İşe alım sürecinde, kuruluşlar daima seçecekleri adaylarda yetkinliklerinin yanı sıra, sektör tecrübesinin olup olmadığına da bakıyorlar. Sektör tecrübesi, eğitim ve yetkinliklerinin yanına eklenince ilgili başvuruyu en kuvvetli aday haline getirebiliyor. Bu durum, hem İnsan Kaynaklarının hem de İş biriminin ortak tercihi olarak doğal bir şekilde ortaya çıkıyor. Sonuç olarak sektör tecrübesi olan bir adayı istihdam etmek, ilk günlerdeki geçiş sürecini kolaylaştıracak ve adayın daha çabuk adapte olup hemen iş üretmesini temin edecektir.

Liderlik tüm organizasyonların büyümesi ve gelişmesi için temel etkenlerden biri olarak görülmektedir. Liderlik sadece çok üst kademelerde değil, organizasyonlardaki her seviyede vardır ve organizasyonların pozitif gelişimi için kişilerde liderlik de geliştirilmelidir.
"Gandossy" ve "Guarnieri" tarafından yapılan bir çalışmada şu sonuç ortaya çıkmıştır. CEO'lar nitelikli liderlik becerisinin eksikliğinin kuruluşların önündeki en önemli engel olarak gördüklerini belirtmişlerdir [1]. Bu durumda yıllardır süregelen, işe alım süreçlerinde adayın sektör tecrübesini ön planda tutma meselesi acaba isabetli bir karar değil mi? Sektör tecrübesi yerini liderlik özelliğine mi bırakmalı? Bir başka deyişle liderlerin sektör tecrübesine ihtiyacı var mı?

Harvard Üniversitesi öğretim üyelerinden Gautam Mukunda bu soruyu destekleyen bir çalışma yapmıştır [2]. Mukunda yaptığı çalışmada liderleri iki kategoriye ayırmıştır.
1) İçeridekiler
2) Dışarıdakiler

Bu çalışmada Mukunda dışarıdan gelenlerin en etkin olduklarını bulmuştur. İçeridekilerden seçilenler ilgili işi başarılı bir şekilde yerine getirecektir. Fakat bu başarı, diğer sektör tecrübeli veya içeriden gelen adaylardan  daha farklı olmayacaktır. Yani sektörden gelenler benzer başarılar sergilemektedirler.

Yapılan çalışmada en iyi liderlere örnek gösterilen "Steve Jobs" ve "Abraham Lincoln"'ün de dışarıdan gelen liderler olduğu söylenmektedir. Onları bu kadar başarılı kılan, dışarıdan olmaları ve içeridekilerden farklı düşünebilmeleri olmuştur. İçeriden olanlar gibi tek bir yönteme veya içeride bilinen doğrulara bağlı kalmamaları olmuştur.

Dışarıdan gelenler için zorlu durum şudur: Dışarıdan gelenler hem büyük bir ödül hem de risktir.

İçeridekiler oturmuş yapılarda etkin olabilirler. Fakat uç durumlarda ve ani değişimlerde dışarıdan gelenler daha rahat adapte olabiliyorlar. İçeriden gelenler ekstrem durumlarda genellikle normal durumlardaki gibi aynı kararları alırlar ve liderliklerinin bir etkisi yoktur. Dışarıdan gelenler ise daha farklı düşünecek ve risk alacaklardır.

Özetle ya büyük kazanma veya büyük kaybetme potansiyeli olan sektör dışından bir lider seçebilirsiniz, ya da içeriden standart bir başarı sergileyecek birini. Ama en kazançlısı sektör dışından bir lider seçip "büyük kazanma" potansiyelinin daha ağır basmasını temin etmek olacaktır.

Referanslar:

1- Gandossy and Guarnieri, Can you measure leadership, 2008

2- Gautam Mukunda, Great leaders don't need experience, 2012

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Do leaders need sector experience?

It is always a concern for the organizations to select competent candidate with the sector experience or not.   Definitely to meet with sector experienced candidates is preference of both HR and business. Such a placement will shorten induction period and enable the organization to move business as usual earlier. But on the other hand,  different sector experience might add value to the organization. Experience from another domain will enrich employee's contribution to the organization.

Leadership is the main leverage for the growth of an organization. Gandossy and Guarnieri state that "Many CEO cite the lack of qualified leadership talent as the most significant constraint on growth" [1]. Thus selecting candidates who demonstrate leadership with the different domain knowledge might be the most contributor for the growth.

Gautam Mukunda from Harvard Business School support this idea with his study [2]. He also adds another challenge to the idea with his study.

Mukunda categorize leaders into two groups.
1) Filtered Leaders or Insiders.
2) Unfiltered Leaders or Outsiders.

In the study Mukunda discovered that the outsiders were the most effective. Choosing an insider will do the job well but won't perform any different from any other top candidate with the sector experience. Outsiders perform the very best without lots of sector experience. The best leaders - Steve Jobs, Abraham Lincoln were outsiders or unfiltered leaders. Their ability to think differently and not stick to a certain way of doing things, made them so effective.

The challenge is, "outsiders are high risk but high reward".
Insiders can be effective in stable situation. But they can't adapt to extreme situation or sudden change where outsiders feel free to adapt. Insiders will usually make the same decisions in extreme situation. Their leadership doesn't have impact. Outsiders will think differently and take the risk.

Out of this study, it is clear that one can either choose a leader who is potential to win big or lose big, or choose the one that insider with standard outcome.




References:
1- Gandossy and Guarnieri, Can you measure leadership, 2008
2- Gautam Mukunda, Great leaders don't need experience, 2012

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How to run my Blogger in Hostgator domain

Let me briefly state the situation as follows. This article will summarize how to set up your purchased domain name from Hostgator instead of blogger domain.

1. You have a blog in blogger from Google.
2. You purchased a Domain Name registration from Hostgator. 
3. You want to call your blog with your domain name instead of blogger domain name.

Settings must be done in both blogger and your own domain provider which is Hostgator in this case.

Blogger side settings:

1. Go to blogger main page.
2. Select "Settings", "Basics", 
3. Click "Add a custom domain" will bring you following screen 
4. Click "Switch to advanced settings"
5. In the advanced settings screen write your purchased domain name in the available box (circulated)  and click "Save" button (circulated) as shown in the picture below.
6. After clicking save button you will have an error message from blogger as follows: We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. Error 12.
7. This is normal. No need to worry. Write down or better to copy three highlighted items in the picture below to a notepad. (not MS word) We will need them in the hosting side settings.

Hostgator side settings

Hostgator has set up your IP address and domain name ready. But it is surely not related with blogger. Now you will generate this linkage or make the integration between these two party.

Login to Hostgator CPanel and select "Advanced DNS zone editor" 

Please look for www.YourSelectedName.com record in the list. YourSelectedName stands for your purchased domain name.

If you have this record please edit and change as follows.

Name box: It should be entered as www. Your domain name will automatically be added. So at the end the box will contain www.YourSelectedName.com

CNAME box: It is filled with the first item copied and pasted in the notepad from blogger error screen (above)

Add a new record: 

This record will contain Short numbers and letters that have been copied into notepad. The second item in the error screen from blogger.Total Name box content will be your copied text.YourSelectedName.com.

TTL and Type boxes will be same as above 14400 and CNAME respectively.

Finally CNAME will have the long trails of letters and numbers from blogger error screen that we have previously copied to notepad.

Click add record.

Hostgator hosting side settings are completed. 

Logout from cpanel.

Finally Again Blogger settings:

Go to blogger.

Follow the steps above from 1 to 5 in the blogger side settings.

This time your settings will be saved with no error.

I hope it simply helps you to guide through your setting with Blogger and Hostgator for your domain name. Any other questions or comments please do not hesitate.

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Use your domain name instead of blogger's

This article will address the following questions on your mind (if you have)
How to set up your blog with your own domain name? How to set up your domain name with blogger?
There are lots of content management system (CMS) or platform to host your blog. But I will just continue to explain how to start blogging with Google blogspot. As the next step to configure your blogger for your domain name.

Google blogger is the most convenient, fast and easy set up blogging environment for those who already have Google accounts. But the blog name you selected will be represented as "SelectedName.blogspot.com". It will  be like a subscription in blogger. This is called sub-domain. A domain name under the blogger domain. This means you can reach your blog page as "http://SelectedName.blogspot.com".  Later on you may want to have your own domain name such as "www.SelectedName.com" instead of blogger sub-domain. Here are some suggestions for the bloggers who have the question of "How do I access my blog using my own domain name?"

Considering that you have a Google account and blog set up ready. If you don't have, you should obtain one. Easiest way is to have a gmail account, which will enable you to have a blogger with this account.
Login gmail. You will see the following black strip on the top of the screen.

Go to "More" and select "Blogger". From the blogger screen select "Settings", "Basics", and "Add a custom domain" will bring you following screen.

Here you can buy a domain name from Google partner domain name system (DNS) provider. All you have to do is to click "Check Availability" button to see if your "www.SelectedName.com" is available. Then follow the instructions. This is the cheapest and easiest way of registering your domain name. There are currently two DNS provider listed and selectable in the Google blogger site. But this service  doesn't include storage space. You are limited with Google's free storage capacity.
One may want to register some other hosting providers than these two. If you need a storage space, you should definitely go for same or different hosting providers for a storage space and other services. In this case you buy your domain name from a hosting provider and all you have to do is to link your blogger name with your own domain name.  Google has a support page for some hosting service providers. This support page explain in details how to do the configuration.
I will try to simplify the necessary settings of how to use your domain with blogger. No need to confuse with the meaning of A record or CNAME etc.

Settings must be done in both blogger and your own domain provider.
Blogger side settings:

1. Go to blogger main page.
2. Select "Settings", "Basics", 
3. Click "Add a custom domain" will bring you following screen 
4. Click "Switch to advanced settings"
5. In the advanced settings screen write your purchased domain name in the available box (circulated)  and click "Save" button (circulated) as shown in the picture below.
6. After clicking save button you will have an error message from blogger as follows: We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. Error 12.
7. This is normal. No need to worry. Write down or better to copy three highlighted items in the picture below to a notepad. (not MS word) We will need them in the hosting side settings.

I will explain hosting side settings with a non explained Hostgator example. Hostgator has took its place within top 10 hosting companies in 2012 and 2013 by all comparison compilations. According to some comparison site, Hostgator has a market increase trend. Hostgator case is not explained by Google support site. So I wanted to explain how to do the blogger settings in Hostgator. Please read my next post to complete settings. Any comments or questions are welcome.

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