Building the Dream Team: Sweet Dreams Turning into Nightmares

• Main Author: Mason, Cordelia
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/23460/1/TC32.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/23460/
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

The one-on-one session was approaching the third hour and Jenny was feeling a bit weary.She was into her third month in Action Think Tank (ATT) and what she expected to be a smooth-sailing onboarding into the role of the Director of Research was far off tangent.“It is important for you to take your role seriously as you have agreed to take on the responsibility of a director. While, you may feel the pressure to agree with the CEO, there is this personal accountability, as the director, to be fair across the board. Leadership is always about making the right decision.”The advice from Dr Quek, a researcher at ATT struck at the core of Jenny’s conscience.This was her first role as a director and although she was initially reluctant to take on the post, the CEO and the Director of Administration, a pleasant and convincing lady, managed to make her change her decision to follow her husband to relocate to Bangkok.A week-end marriage, as it was often called, seemed to be an acceptable arrangement. Her career progress would not be thwarted. Besides, the children would continue to have access to high-quality education in a premier international private school in Kuala Lumpur.