It’s not your fault! Or is it? Is there something deeper going on?
Constantly you’re challenged to change the layout of your day only to face change and change again; and we’re not talking lost nickels, dimes and quarters under the front seat of your car.
Trust has evolved into workplace extinction.
Nobody enjoys having their name connected to dysfunction and failure therefore change becomes the only tool offered in a business world where tight last second decisions can become the empty handed reason why failure was painted onto the picture.
If so much change has destroyed a once valuable level of trust; why then do decision makers rip from their belts newer brands, attacks and visions? My radio mentor Andrew Ashwood reminded us daily that he wasn’t paid to like people but lead the company signing his check to break through walls that gifted his bosses with achievable success.
Might it be the employee at fault and not the leader?
Seth Godin of Tribes fame writes, “Faith is the unstated component in the work of a leader which makes it underrated. Faith leads to hope, hope overcomes fear. Faith is the dividing line between humans and most other species. We have faith the sun will rise tomorrow.”
Brace yourself…with so much pressure from upper levels of management; having faith in the work you perform hourly consumes so much energy that some circles have begun calling the eight hour American workday a new religion.
Compare the two!
Godin explains, “Without faith the leap never works. Religion supports the status quo and encourages us to fit in not stand out.”
How many company meetings vow to pull you into newer methods of delivery that now require missionary service between the departments?
This isn’t a new millennium or a post recession reaction to locating instant gratification; Godin reveals in the 1960’s IBM perked up their masses by enforcing workplace protocols, dress codes and precise methods of presenting ideas like that of a religion.
With faith shouldn’t there be trust? Trust has evolved into workplace extinction. Success of any type must be fed a full stream of communication.
Godin continues, “Faith at work needs to be amplified. It makes things easier for your peers to encourage their employees to embrace for the constant need for change.”
Woolworth’s once held its employees to it highest standards because being different made them competitive. Country clubs hold down a major set of rules that must be obeyed.
Godin warns employees, “Challenge a decision makers workplace religion and you’re taking on their faith.”
Suddenly your eyes open almost popping the sight machines out of their sockets when you stand back and view how the average person accepts the message; from sporting company colors and clothes to wearing badges and electronic keycards with their pictures to motivating the owner of the cubical next to you to continue believing in the reasons why there are so many demands compared to one or two years ago.
Godin points at Apple when explain how Steve Jobs has managed to lead millions to a brilliant display of computers at work while masterminding a plan to incorporate play things too like the Ipod. Phil Knight of Nike is no different.
Faith is what humans were born to do. Having faith creates action then reaction. Leaders are compensated for the people they deliver therefore risks are taken to maintain a presence. Having faith can be well worth it but doesn’t the journey truly begin with trust?
Trust has evolved into workplace extinction. Until today… Now you know what to look for when everything at work seems like it’s completely out of place and horribly out of tune. How many coworkers are truly seeking the very thing decision makers are determined to conquer? With so much preaching is anything sinking in?
Take notes! Visually watch and compare. Be a leader in the way that you can help spin bad times around by becoming part of a solution rather than developing circles that aim to challenge change.
Godin wraps things up, “Change is made by people, by leaders who are proud to be called heretics because their faith is never in question.”
Where do you sit on the path of rediscovery?
I will always believe in you first…
arroecollins@clearchannel.com
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