Joining the Dots and following your gut
Coffee cubicle cabin series The Big picture - Joining the dots In 2013 when I was expecting the next big promotion in my career as an investment banker - I was given an offer to move from individual contributor to a people manager role. The glitch was - the new role would have no number crunching, no comparables no financial modelling - instead focus on more admin , business inception & management and relationship building. As usual I followed my gut and said a yes . It meant being completely away from the core Investment Banker role. Most of my colleagues told me it was a bad decision. But I had made a choice based on my gut feeling and was feeling good about it. I worked on the role for 18 months - where I worked on everything from starting a team, creating and managing roles, getting system started, co- ordinating with our London bankers, assigning work . Kind of what a Mom does for the house. The only difference was my team was of 60 people. It used to be crazy long hours at