Management and employees are adversaries and both look at the customers as inconvenient. Management feels harried, employees feel unappreciated and nobody is happy.
As a result profits go down, which is cheered because corporations are evil and profits are wicked. Yet, middle class retirees are dependent on those profits to live out their retirements.
Although companies are bad, we want jobs and promotions. Employers complain about not being able to find adequate employees and applicants don’t know what employers are asking for. Making a lot of money is despicable, yet we all want to make more. And we try to make decisions based on exactly that dissonance.
How did we get here? More importantly, how do we get back to functionality?
By understanding the rules, human nature and reframing assumptions about all of the props and players.
- What if every employee was working for the betterment of the whole corporate team?
- What if management winning meant employees winning which meant customers winning?
- What if everyone involved couldn’t wait to come to work, because they wanted to make their best contribution?
- What if leadership training wasn’t a program, but a corporate culture?
- What if teambuilding was a natural byproduct of everyday business activity?
We are hardwired to want to contribute, to make the world a better place. And we are each given individual talents, perspectives and experiences to make those differences in our environments. Our work is our best chance of impacting our surroundings for the better. Incorporating each individual and their abilities to benefit the whole is the answer.
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