PMP/IIT/IIM/Stanford
may produce bad manager or engineer
If you are not driven by values
or not courageous to do something great or not innovative or not helpful to the
people or society; having degree is just like having one more paper in your
hand.
How holding a certificate
looks?
Let me tell you one small story
which I realized and created after I started writing this blog…
There is big forest with different types of wild animals and few tigers
are the leaders of the forest.
One day suddenly there was one announcement from the Parrot,
announcement is like this: “This is tiger certification program announcement;
people who haven't certified as tiger from the institute F-Tiger, may please
apply for the certification and practice using the syllabus of the institution.
Important note is; whoever gets certified will be treated as leaders of the
forest”.
Hearing this news, real tigers started wondering – why do we need
certification when we are born tigers?! Scared of losing the forest leadership;
they decided not to ignore this certification.
So, they informed other tigers as well, all of them went to the
certification center. There was so much crowd over there - many tigers, leopard,
foxes, wolfs, cows and so on. All were standing in a queue to pay fee and
collect the course materials.
Funniest thing was that, the certification center was headed by management
who are all foxes!!!
So, these real tigers started working day and night for the exam. On
the day of examination; the real tigers along with other animals appeared for
the exam.
They had theory and practical exams, and went home. While returning,
the real tiger group was not happy as they felt they didn't do well in the
exam.
Finally result day came…!
Tiger Certification management (Group of Foxes) came out and announced,
F-tiger certified candidates are: 3 Foxes, 1 Wolf and 1 Tiger.
So, guidelines were passed as- “from now on; only certified people will
be the leaders of the forest”. The real tigers who failed in the exam felt bad
and surrendered. Still they were wondering about the results.
The exam was more on Foxes and its activities, how come the Wolf and another
Tiger cleared this exam? Reason was; that tiger and wolf went missing in the
forest in childhood, and they grew up with the group of Foxes. So, they were
habituated with all fox activities and life styles.
See this is how our current
certification system instills fear, fakes and makes Foxes as Tigers and vice
versa.
Our college education is sufficient
to provide all aspects of the professional requirements. Those who are done with
that, it's more than enough. Of course, there is a self-learning to enhance
further.
Whereas this certification is
like Fox groups creating fear and stealing money from masses. Pathetic thing is
real tigers can't pass these stupid exams.
Sorry folks of PMP or ISTQB or
CSTE or IIM or IIT or any, this is the truth and you too know about it.
Many of you are aware of this
certification fever is going on in corporate sectors. As PMP gives good
manager, ISTQB gives good quality engineer, IIT or Stanford give good Engineer,
IIM/MBA gives good management administrator and so on.
If you think or believe that
certification gives quality people? What about the below story
One of my friend scored 100% in
ISTQB, it doesn't mean, he is a greatest QE on the earth. He was fortunate
enough to get questions from the sample question paper he referred. Similarly,
PMP or Stanford or IIT or IIM or ISTQB or Any…
Since I'm software quality engineer
(QE), let me take my own field of certification: For one person to become a
good quality engineer, he or she must be very creative, should have test to
break attitude, should have logical thinking and investigative nature, should have
burning desire in finding bugs and give quality, also capable to see one thing
in different dimensions that results in many test scenarios. And he/she should never
feel that testing is completed, that means; they should always think and act in
different ways to break the application.
Similarly, PMP/IIM will never provide
a great manager. If they really do that? then, my classmate who is a topper in
college, he will score 100% in PMP/IIM. Whereas he is very weak in people
management, communication and so on. If you consider only PMP/IIM gives? Give him
a manager post! If you see only certificates, you are hiring one BOOK.
Let me give one real time example
of the real manager or leader I witnessed.
I was constructing a farm building,
and decided to hire the same person who constructed our home.
His name is Obanna, not Obama,
it's OBANNA, he stays next to my
village involved in building construction. He is a Mestri (Mestri in Kannada
means lead in English) has around 4 to 5 teams working for him, each team
varied in size: 10, 15, 20 so on. Construction happens in different
geographical locations (villages or towns nearby). He manages all the teams
through phone call (virtual management) and he will be physically present at
one location. Workers under him are not stable, not professional,
uncontrollable, uneducated, and have NO Loan/EMI’s 😊 but Obanna has a great
skill in dealing with them, all the things happen as expected and as planned.
How?
Reasons I have seen in him are:
1. He is aware of kinds of works and his estimations are clear on
the teams.
2. He is aware of who is doing what or who can do what and how to
get connected with them.
3. He knows - when to speak and when to act and when to be silent.
4. He is humorous and challenging too.
5. He had worked in many projects before he took leadership (not by
certificates)
6. He maintains the balance between house owners/constructor’s and
his team members.
7. Without big education (studied till 4th standard in Kannada
medium), he knew about; what is estimation, planning, team building, team
outing, talent recognition, work and life balance, planning and so on.
I told him you are the real great
manager I have ever seen, as you don’t even know what are workshops, management
course, self-help guide and so on. Obanna
just laughed at me for my words.
What I observed in OBANNA is shown
in the below image; i.e. he is a leader not a boss.
Have you ever noticed that trees
and flowers growing in bushes and wild are more beautiful and stronger than the
garden grown? Same is here, some of the certified people just look like cropped
garden plants, they look like robots. You know how robots function; they can’t
think, they can’t be creative, they can’t be dynamic, they are just work based
on algorithms and its instructions.
Life is dynamic, it's like a
running river, every second it changes, that is its nature. No certification
will help you in corporate to grow company to the higher level. Start
identifying people who are creative, skilled and talented from the masses.
Real leaders or experts come from
masses, their creativity is not certified by institutions. Of course,
institutions try copying them and produce content (copies/slave) in later
stages. Example: IIM
Ahmedabad doing case study on Bollywood blockbuster 'Baahubali' movie which was
directed by S. S. Rajamouli, what is S.S Rajamouli’s education and which
certifications he has…
Take few examples:
A. R. Rahman in music, Raja Ravi
Varma in Arts/Painting, Lata Mangeshkar in playback singing, Sachin Tendulkar
in Cricket, Diego Maradona in Football, Rabindranath Tagore in Literature, what
is their academic score in related subjects/skills, did they pursue any
certification before they become popular in that field?
Let's see these people’s qualification:
Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Barack
Obama, Indira Gandhi, Narendra Modi, what is the score of these people in political
science subject. Do you think that certification helped them to achieve success?
Never. If someone thinks so, I don't know what to say to them.
Many corporate employees, out of fear,
are running behind PMP, ISTQB, CSTE and many more certifications. These
certification companies encash this fear. If certification is the measurement
then CEO or business owners should have 100’s of certificates. But most of the
successful leaders are college dropouts!!!
List of entrepreneurs who dropped out of college:
· Michael Dell, Dell
founder, dropped out at 19
· Steve Jobs, Apple
founder, dropped out at 19
· Julian Assange,
Wikileaks founder, dropped out at 19
· Bill Gates,
Microsoft founder, dropped out at 20
· Evan Williams,
Twitter co-founder, dropped out at 20
· Mark Zuckerberg,
Facebook founder, dropped out at 20
· Larry Ellison, Oracle
founder, dropped out at 20
· Jan Koum, WhatsApp founder, dropped out at 21
· Travis Kalanick, Uber
founder, dropped out at 21
· John Mackey, Whole
Foods founder, dropped out at 22
To hire real tiger or real
creative or real leader. As per many CEO’s and great leader suggestion;
“don’t look for institutions or certifications, look only for skills”.
If someone is looking into Caste/State/Language/Education/Certificates
while hiring, soon or later that organization will vanish.
Employers – here is your choice:
1. Which chef food is good, to run your restaurant successfully? hire
the real cook instead of certified chef.
2. Improve the manger hiring process, like for employees you ask
manager reference, get team members reference for the manager from previously
managed companies, conduct some checks on how he or she was managing. Later
take a call on hiring them. If you hire based on certification then better hire
one book or robot, it may be equivalent to it.
3. Don’t make everyone as Tech head or Manager, just because they have
worked for many years in the organization. In that case you need to give
preference to the walls and doors of the office, they too stay longer with
office.
4. Remember, while hiring – watch CEO’s type of behaviors in hiring
employees, ownership attitude, and commitment. They are the only possibility to
take company to the next level, Learn from Google, Facebook and Microsoft.
a.For Identifying leaders
watch: Leadership (must
watch !!!) - TD Jakes - Complete
b.For unbiased hiring of
Google watch: Google’s 4
rules and How We Hire
c. The Most Successful People
Explain Why a College
Degree is USELESS
5. Is manager real or not? You should identify them
by the employee survey (who got highest rating). Not by the PMP/IIM MBA.
6. Is engineer real or not? You should identify them
by their innovation which will generate revenue (not a non-sense innovations).
Not by degrees of Sanford or IIT or any. That is the reason I say Sanford, PMP,
IIM, and IIT may produce bad manager or engineer.
7. Please don’t give leadership positions in
corporate; just because they returned from America or they have American
citizenship. If donkey stays 10 years in America it may also get citizenship.
What is the use? Its having all its core nature. That’s why Benjamin Franklin said
as: “Some People Die At 25 And Aren't Buried Until 75”
From which school or which certification these
people have - Albert Einstein, Aryabhata, Archimedes, Thomas Alva Edison, Isaac
Newton. School or college can produce disciplinary or machine type of people,
creativity is born outside of the school. Height of stupidity is to find
creativity in school or college or certifications.
Tell me what you will do, with the below people:
1. PMP/IIM certified manager receives least rating in employee survey.
2. Java/Python certified person not able to fix a bug or understand the code or logic.
3. ISTQB/CSTE certified person not able to find the bugs in application or a product.
4. Sales/Marketing certified person not able to sell or market the products.
5.
Certified musician or art person not able give good art or music to the world.
6.
Certified chef not able to cook a real delicious food.
Creativity comes not by certification, many institutions have tried and failed. Reason is the certifications will teach mainly on earlier successful scenarios. Life is dynamic, it changes its routes, ways and dimensions in every single minute. Only creative people get along with it and get success. Not certified people.
If you guide someone to take one route, and if
s/he gets blocked in that route, s/he will ask for help, whereas creative
person find the alternative routes and reach the destination.
Author: GCV (Vishnuvardhana GC)
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