If you get on with your boss and they leave the company, it’s probably a good idea to stay in touch. You never know, that life-changing WhatsApp might just arrive. Looking back on your career, have you ever gone to a new job because your old boss was there?
Because they called and said come along. It’s happened to me at least once: an old boss called, there was a very quick coffee and I suddenly realised that my life was about to change. I’ve sometimes wondered why I was so quick to say yes.
And I know I’m not alone in this. This week it was reported that yet another two more executives at Standard Bank are following their old boss, Kenny Fihla, to Absa. Much more important than that, Daily Maverick’s Craig Rayreportedthis morning on the intense speculation that the Springboks’ attacking coach, Tony Brown, might leave his job.
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All of this is based on one simple fact: It looks likely that the All Blacks are about to appoint Jamie Joseph as their new head coach. And as Craig writes, Joseph and Brown have worked together for many years in the past. As strange as it may seem from the outside, following a boss that you know to a new organisation must make sense.
Most of us want to work with people we align with. When you go and work for someone you’ve worked with for years, you know each other. You know what irritates them, they know how to get the best out of you.
And it can make your move to a new company virtually seamless. They show you where the coffee is, give you an email address and a parking space, and boom! Off you go and get productive.
That’s not the case when you come into a place and you don’t know your boss. You wonder if they mind if you take your coffee into their office, or if you really can put up your hand with a strange idea that you know is going to work. As a reporter, I’ve often seen someone moving into an organisation, whether in government or business, and wondered who will go with them.
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