a story about How the systematic approach help navigating through multi subsidiary company. it is a story about change management and excellence promoting in resisting corporate culture.

1. By:
Abdurahman
Alsum

2. Imagine,
You've been selected by your tribe to face one of their biggest fears. You are a guy of
confidence .

3. And you've got introduced to it :
huge hairy beast with 5 arms, 3 heads and dozen of eyes .. Scary huh

4. And from behind of hill, they yell ... "Tame it ... Tame it ... Tame it"
What? Me ? Him ? Here? Now?
This is exactly what happen to you when you are hired in a large company with multi
subsidiaries and all of them are independent with their own boards and their own culture
It is exactly what happen when you are hired to a company that works in number of
different commodities and sells to absolutely different markets
Everyone has different issues, different challenges and different economy
And guess what? nobody likes you HQ spoiled boy.
And still your HQ tribe yelling at you from distance " tame the beast … tame the beast"

5. OK guys I will I will I will but I need :
I need some kind of authorities
No no no they are independent companies
I need some budget
No no no we are HQ we don't have revenue
I need people
What people, overhead.... No freaking way
I NEED SOME HELP
well we issue official memos if you want !

6. And you will be lucky if that memo didn't make him smash you on the spot
" Who is this guy the HQ is sending to solve our problems?
We will not accept more responsibilities
He wants something? He should do it himself ." beast heads saying to each other

7. Every head has his own headache, every arm is scratching different itch and every eye is
looking to different direction.
Although the heads are connected to the same body , they are some how competitive.
And your HQ tribe yelling from behind the hill: "TAME IT" .

8. So, what shall we do? Note this down :
Here are the 3 rules and the only 3 rules you need :
1) show sympathy genuinely , help hands scratching iechs : hands are middle
management. They are extremely important to you . they are surrounded by so much
KPIs and very little help.

9. 2) help eyes to focus on one single point . one simple goal with a systematic roadmap
. easy to follow and easy to measure .

10. 3) comb the beast hair. Show your HQ tribe how cute the beast is. Promote their
little efforts

11. and walk hand on hand with beast to your HQ tribe. Don't lead him and don't push him
just walk with him.

12. and it turns that the beast is not a beast. they are people from our tribe but with
heavy burdens of accountabilities and lack of guidance.
the tribe got together for the victory dance . a victory on our lack of
communication and lack of mutual understanding.
thank you !