Disaster Area: Leading through vision!

One of the first things that we learnt during the company induction is the stages of leadership.

Learning the ropes

Leading through example

Leading through others

Leading through vision

While this blog itself is proof that I'm in stage 2 (just like in my career), there is a particular post which shows that I'm developing properties of stage 3 as well.

This post is here to show that I'm making small waves in stage 4 also. Yes you got that right, Leading through vision, in the disaster zone.

Here go some small incidences that prompt me to make this statement:

So I got myself a website. That is, I purchased a domain name and some web-space from DJ. The intention was that I would be putting up my family tree on the net. So, the root of the website still points to this blog. However, eventually I did get around to installing some family tree software on the website. Hey, what do you know, barely 2 days within my getting the family tree started, something happened, that I've not heard happen to anyone at all. DJ's web space provider went down! So, I thought that it must be some temporary problem, but eventually it became clear that my site was not coming up anytime soon. As it turns out, one of the main stake-holders of the provider had gone underground with all the money, and the rest of the company was about to declare bankruptcy or something like that.. Of course, DJ did make alternate arrangements faster than humanly possible and he gets full credit for that... After all, its not his fault that he took me on as a customer.

So I thought that only my computer behaves wierd. However, one day, even Sridhar was naratting that his computer was behaving completely wierd, in a way he has never seen it behave before... Apparently his shell used to exit everytime he did a "cd". Now does that rock, or what!

Ok, I know this is over the top, but DJ actually blamed the Tsunami on me, in a joke one day... Now that is definitely over the top. I disclaim it completely. It wasn't my fault.

Now, if only my career was progressing as fast... 8-|